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Wet Ride

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    Posted by Hicky September 8, 2012 - Filed in Personal Journal - 794 views

    Theres nothing I enjoy more than a ride through the mountains of North Georgia and Western North Carolina, its really a beautiful ride. My Grandmothers old house is in Andrews, N.C. so thats usually the final destanation for a road trip. I allowed this past weekend it was time for a trip so here I went in spite of threating weather. It was a very nice ride up, spent a couple of days catching up on R&R, then it came time to get back home. When I got up on Monday it was coming a down pour, now Im not afraid of getting a little wet but this just wasnt going to happen! Finally after a couple of hours the skys started to run out of water so I set out on my journey home. It wasnt a bad ride just wet from the road and passing cars, still a good ride. It wasnt until the following day that I went to look at my bike,Wow! what a mess, my work was cut out for me for sure! My brother-in-law brought his bike over to my shop and we cleaned and chewed the fat together for a couple of hours, then he said Im finished. How can this be I thought, I barely had the front wheel and forks done! It took me another 8hrs. to finish cleaning and waxing to get it like I like it. Now theres a ride coming up today and I woke up to thunder, I just cant bring myself to want to get out. JUst wondered what everybody else thinks; Go on the ride or sit on the porch and watch it rain? The thoughts of another 10hrs cleaning is not what I look forward to doing, or maybe Im just to picky when it comes to keeping my baby clean!

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  • blurplebuzz Good post.glad to see you arrived at the same conclusion we did

    I recall riding my baby home the first nite I purchased herbrand spanking new,got rained on a bit coming ovr the ridgetop goin home. I just about blew a gasket, mentally speaking,yet after...  more
  • Jonesy1340 well Hicky..its been said to you now...so no point harshing it back up...on my last trip to the States..I didn't wash the bike i bought for 9000 miles...I washed it at a car spa the day i sold it...rain washed it but no soap went near it...clean don't...  more
  • Lucky Well Hicky I like to ride a clean bike too, but 10 hrs!!! That sounds a little much. I normally go in the garage and watch Monday night football or a NASCAR race I taped while riding on Sunday and can clean the entire bike in about an hour. Once in a...  more
  • Hicky Well I do go to extremes, shining each spoke and so forth, but I decided to make that a one time project for the winter, and spend more time on the road! by the way, thanks for this site it really is a dandy place to hang out! Lots of cool folks on here.