Well got a great deal on a new (to me) bike, so picked it up.
It was down by one of my friends last year, and he didn’t have the nerve to ride the same bike again after being down so he got rid of it.
I wanted to make sure the there was no frame damage, so I ended up dropping it off at Computrack boston to make sure it was alright, and it checked out.
Having no truck to get it back… we improvised.
Oh and some crazy clouds on the way there, blue sky on the right extending to the horizon, meeting a wall of clouds, separated by one clean line, hard to see.
I’m thinking about naming the bike Murphy just because of Murphy’s law, that everything that can go wrong, will.
What went wrong…
The truck that I used to drop if off, died on me (alternator) at 11pm on Fri night, I was supposed to be in Boston, 10am next morning.
The alternator Advanced Auto gave me wasn’t the right one
The commercial account I had with AAP on state street, needed to be transfered to the one in Latham
The one time I was supposed to go pick it up, I set everything up, EXCEPT, making the appointment, which I remembered about at 5am.
The next time I was supposed to go pick it up, the trailed became unavaliable 10 hours before I was supposed to go.
Next morning I go with Code Blue to rental place to rent a Van, and apparantly his phone number is Black listed by rental companies so he can’t rent due to his driving violations.
I come back with somebody else to rent out the stow N go Dodge an hour late, which is suddenly no longer avaliable so I have to rent the chevy.
I was 3 hours late for work each day lol
I think I lost the title somewhere
The bike ripped apart the chevy minivan, note to self, the coat hangers are not good locations to secure the tie straps on.
We got lost in Mass… once
The insurance company put the bike on my brothers insurance, because they thought I was him for some reason.
We tore up the van getting it back out of it.
And there is more.
I know your brother well, and I know he does good work, but the capabilities of his shop could not tell me if there was a 0.3 or 0.4 degree misalignment in the frame.
I happen to have a factory spec of 0.3 and the drop wasnt severe enough to change it to .04 in which case it would have been recomended to straighten it out, which your brothers shop also dosn’t do, nor does any shop do within a few hundred miles.
Put it back together with the broken fairings for now, and do whatever I want while those are on, without care of ruining them. Ill make up my mind by next season, but it will be a full faired bike.
Jon was gonna put it back on the road, and he was gonna let me ride it, so i bought a brake lever for it. the only thing it really needed to be riding was the front brake lever and the sub frame to be tweaked back into place. Hows the subframe on it, i took the tail section off it and used a big bar to bend it back to where it needed to be best i could. The overall damage to the bike wasnt bad at all, i rode it back from phibbs after he had the accident.
