It was

 

a day to remember.

It really was.

I had some much needed maintenance

done on her Thursday 4/09/26

Rear running light was out.

Front brake pads needed replaced.

Belt needed  tightened.

Oil needed changed.

(Badly).

Its just kinda hard to 

"ride in confidence"

in those conditions.

Is for me anyway.

Met some 

pretty cool guys in the process.

Had a nice lil shop.

Pretty neat.

Felt right at home.

Way more than I do 

with the overwhelming 

majority of people

I come in contact with anymore.

A lot of people understand

that just don't come easy

for me these days,

(Comfort being w others)

especially right out of the gate

so that was really nice.

Friday 4/10/26 

she got washed and waxed.

I love the black instead of the chrome.

Didn't even wash her up

before putting her away for the season last year,

largely due to just being disgusted with

the amount of maintenance needed.

So she was disgusting.

Took all of an hour or so

to clean her up.

(There's still more to be done

 but we are operational now

and way better than we have been 

in two years now so...

yea us!)

So Saturday 4/11/26 

was just one of those days.

(Queue the Bizquit song lol)

I felt better than I had in a while

(ear infection)

I felt like I looked better

than I had in a while lol

the Bike definitely looked better

than she had in a while lol.

I don't have a lot of pictures of me.

But Saturday I wanted one.

So honey took it for me.

Me and the bike both 

looking and feeling a lot better

than we had in a while.

Bout to go do my 

lil 78 mile round trip,

go visit some friends,

eat some good Mexican grub,

come home.

There is a stretch of road 

on this "circuit" lol

that has 11 

90 degree turns in 13 miles.

So if you do the course both ways?

You get 22 

90 degree turns lol

in 26 miles 

having done the inverse

(going in the opposite direction)

of the original 11 

90 degree turns.

Not bad. 

Pretty fun really.

Gott watch for farmers this time of year.

But after crops are planted

and school is still in session?

Or harvested in the fall?

School still rollin?

All good.

I like 

"making sparks"

thats my thing.

Not long trips,

(although I've done 

some of that

just to show it could be done),

Not straight away speed,

Just lean over in the turn

till the wear pegs 

on the foot rest 

drag the pavement.

Thats it.

If it scrapes?

It counts lol.

It aint all crazy 

like the motogp guys lol.

It just kinda makes you think

you could have been one lol.

But on this particular course 

I was talking about?

I usually have to do it a few times

at the start of the season

to get "acclimated"

so to speak,

then we can cut loose a lil

see what we can do.

This past Saturday?

I drug pegs in 6 different corners.

Right out of the gate.

First day out

I don't think its ever happened 

with me before.

So yeah

for me anyway:

It was a day to remember.

It really was.

"The right bike, 

the right day, 

the right road, 

I just pretty much 

feel at one 

with the universe. 

When I feel like 

I don't fit anywhere 

or I'm lonely 

or I'm like all screwed up 

in the head, 

I get on my bike 

and go for a ride 

and it's like 

all of the sudden, 

I'm fixed".

~

Indian Larry

American motorcycle builder and artist, 

stunt rider, and biker. 

Ditto...