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November Riding

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:34:00 -0500

I never thought that I would get a weekend of riding in November but that was the case this past weekend. I put over 200 km of the Vulcan this past weekend and glad that I did not change the oil out last week as I had planed. I have to clean the bike one more time and then do the winterizing process and call it a season. I have been saying this since the beginning of October. I'm pushing the envelope this year.

It was sunny and that cleared the way for a ride

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:45:00 -0400

I don't normally consider 35 kilometers much of a ride but with the weather that we have been having and the onset of freezing temperatures, it may be all that I will get in for 2009. With a new motorcycle and no time left to ride, I am feeling a little cheated and the thoughts of covering my ride up for 5 or six months is causing me a great deal of grief.

I know that I have to accept that the 2009 riding season is drawing to a close and focus on the countdown to the 2010 riding season. I am truly looking forward to 2010 and with plans for a couple of long trips including one to Gros Morne and the other to the mainland, quite possibly Maine, it may be my best ride season yet. Winterizing my Vulcan is a little easier to swallow when I think about it in those terms. Soon the Winter of 2010 will be just a memory and I will be uncovering the Vulcan, hitting the start button and rumble my way out of the garage for my first ride of the new season.

I need to bite the bullet, get the Vulcan's oil changed, fuel stabilized, shined, covered and battery placed on the tender charge, I am officially done with 2009. Hmmmmmmmm, but what if !!!! :unsure:

Mervyn

MLR Online

Just give me some SUN

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:42:00 -0400

Time is running our for another motorcycle ride but if I get a sunny day, I will grab the opportunity and take my last ride of the season even if that means I have to wear a snowsuit. The weather has been terrible, rain for the better part of 3 weeks and it is finally starting to play havoc with my last ounce of patience. :lol:

Whatever the next two weeks provides will be the only window available to get that last ride of the season in and over with. After that, I have to call for my oil change appointment and then I am done no matter what the weather throws at me.

Well, if we get sun and 12 in Novermber, I will take her out again and pay for another oil change !!! lol

Mervyn

MLR Online