Yes sir, you probably stopped at the Koffee Kup Cafe there in Hico. Been stopping for years on the way to and from Kerrville Texas. It was one of my parents favorite stops and since they have both passed, I try to make a trip and stop there every so often for ol'times sake. PI Day seemed like the right day this year ...lol.
Thank you for the compliment on the rig as it's relatively new and yes, it's a DMC Adventure rig.
I'm planning on heading up your way in June and looking forward to meeting folks and making new friends.
C'ya on the road.
Took the wife to lunch in another little South MS town by way of the back roads. Ate at Sonic and came back by another back road route. Put about 100 miles on the Yamarex. Baby Girl is recovering from a cold and stayed home. New pup (Kozi) wanted to stay with the girl. Not a real road dog yet.
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High today was 79. First sun we've seen in a week. Beautiful.
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installed a side mirror on the car. that was one of my significant other request during our last long ride.
Not mine but a friend working on his rig in my shop. Got it back together and running again, he wanted to clean it up a bit particularly underneath...
Boy11 You are making me a bit jealous. Everyone should have a forklift to aid in the cleaning of our rigs and other maintenance tasks.
That old fork is one of the handiest tools I own. A real back saver!!
I looked longingly at my rig today in its bay in my garage. Five inches of fresh snow yesterday and the roads are a mess, holes, salt, ice, frigid temps. I'm patiently waiting for the real spring to come since I'm new to sidecars and need to practice before any substantial rides. I'm counting on getting to South Dakota in June, still need to sign up.
Nole, I guess you are making a mistake.
In the snow you learn faster riding a rig and get a feeling much better.
If you can get on ridable ground without passing through salt You will get a much steeper learning curve and become confident very fast.
My inaugural journey was on 25th December 1986 to Norway in the middle of a snow storm (delivery Saturday 13th¡3 times straight into the pasture on 145km= 90 mi, next day whacked off a roadside plock).
That journey was great fun and intensive living worth to repeat at any moment. (300mi per day riding in a sleigh with the long ski in the sidecar as dingy plus 5 hot meals per day)
In fact I would have needed much more time to get the feeling and butt sensor on dry roads!
So if you are able to avoid the salt then look for the small back country and gravel roads. You will not regret it!
Sven
Peter Pan, I appreciate very much your advice. I originally intended to ride in every kind of weather, and still do, but there were a few setbacks along the way. The main one was moving the sidecar from what you see in my avatar to my '99 Valkyrie. I'm still evaluating my work on the toe-in, etc. Since I had never wrenched on a sidecar I'm extra cautious. The bigger issue for me is the dreadful condition of my local roads here in the mountains. Snow plows have torn up previously decent roads (not their fault, they have to do the job). But...tomorrow the rain and snow should abate so I'll try to get out for at least a few local trips. Aside from all this, I've been involved in two high school musical productions as pianist so rehearsals have been going on for over a month, during the most horrendous winter weather. This concludes my best excuses. 🙂
Stay away from the swingarm bearings with that pressure washer.
Lonnie
Nole, very important what Lonnie says...stay far away from the electrics too...I had to rewire my whole first bike...and when doing so there was not any wrong cabled nor damaged wire. alll had happened due to crawling currents. When I opened the cable tree. the water was just poring out.
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Musicians like my brother... excuses... He didn't even come to my 25 th marriage anniversery.
No if you are in a steep and dangerous area as where I live, then better stay on the safe side...in the shack....but the cars are in deed more dangerous then the rigs.
I live in Costa Rica due to a car accident where I landed with a totaled car 6 m down of the highway. (the day before I gave my todays wife the first kiss, which turned out to be like a electric shock)
With a rig, I never would have had that trouble and would have been able to evade the truck easily (plus would have been able to jump off). While with a solo bike I possibly would have become part of the statistics....
So once the tracking is adjusted (use the rulers 4" high with distance to the leveled ground) take it calm and get used to it with the new setup.
Enjoy.
Sven
I will certainly need to re-measure everything after a few more trials just to be sure. I measured using the suggestions in some of the writings. I like the idea of adjusting a bit higher off the ground.
Its not too steep here but as I mentioned, roads are in post winter ragged condition so driving on the smaller secondary roads in particular can be interesting if not hazardous. At my stage in life I'm imagining that jumping off would not be advisable. I still do have to protect my nimble fingers (sorry about your musician brother, I would never miss such an event and didn't miss my niece's wedding last year even shortly after having cardiac surgery). Incidentally, pressure washing bearings or, near essential electrics is never a good idea.
That little electric pressure washer is a good one for washing vehicles Lonnie. But still one certainly needs to use some common sense. It only puts out half the pressure of the gas powered one.
Nole82, you will like the sidecar on the '99 Valkyrie. We put our Motorvation Formula II LTD on a'98 Valkyrie 3 years and 32,000 miles ago. Gas mileage sucks, but it really goes. See you in SD in June.
Tire change day... 13.500km on one set. the front tire is still good for reserve, but the s/c and back tire were shot. Added a second spare tire with knobby thread for "those" trips...
A few days ago I got a simple valve pulling tool and am amazed how much it eases the tire installation. I always felt like bending and squeezing the fingers, now just pull it through the hole, a little soapy water and plopp done.
Sven
