So, went for a ride yesterday morning. I'm already riding skittish from dumping Sheniqua last fall, and then I find that the local roads have yet to "relax" from winter, and she's practically jumping the little bumps every 30 feet...... and I knew something was not right with the front end, it was wobbly from the start.
Get to our destination and I look down and I see that the left front fork is gushing its fluid. The inner fork tube was pitted last year, and I knocked them down with a wet sand and it was fine, now that it's sat over winter they came back and ate up the fork seal. So Sheniqua is down until I reseal that fork tube.
I also found that in order for me to even think about trying the ton, I'd have to strap my car's gps system to the bike, speedo only goes to 85ish so that'd be the only way to tell.
My father, on the same day, rode his '10 Honda NT700V into a pothole, on a banked curve, bent both his rims and flattened his front tire, rode the darn thing home still. Just was not a good day for riding.
Need to find my riding pants again..... Probably going to take a few more rides to get back into the saddle. First day after fresh filters and oil for the season I was excited and took her for a quick ride around the block and everything was fine, but the long ride yesterday I was skittish but I'm confident that I'll get back to taking her through the corners at 65 again.
give it a go and report back to us, if you haven't crashed.
