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| Blog ID: 1943 - Air Anyone? - 2008-08-27 | |
| Our son, Adam (20), had been pretty down lately, he had gotten his hours switched at work to Mon-Fri 5pm to 1:30am. He is not much of a night owl, and was feeling that he is missing his friends and fun stuff. My wife asked him if he wanted to take a road trip, and gave him two options. First option, 3 hours north to a town in the mountains, or 3 hours east to Pocatello to visit grandpa. He chose grandpa. We were glad he chose grandpa, but it was 3 hours across southern Idaho. For those of you that don't know southern Idaho, it is desert. We got a late start Saturday morning, just couldn't get that kid up! Finally left town at 11:00. My wife and I were on our Harley and Adam was on his GSXR. Our trip was pretty uneventful, we did get a chance to stop and look at the ______________. We had driven by it at least 50 times, and never took the time to stop. We had a wonderful time with dad and the wicked-step-mom. It was short, but as always, a needed visit. Sunday afternoon - time to go (we watched to much Olympics and spent to much time just talking to dad and w-s-m). It was 2:00, and we knew that the temperature was rising on the thermometer. It was forecasted to be 104 degrees today. Kisses and hugs, and then climb on the bikes and off we go. The interstate was pretty quiet as we left Pocatello, which is always quite nice. Well, we were about 45 minutes into the drive home, when I noticed that the front of my bike was making a loud clicking noise. I pulled off at the next exit, and my bike started shimmying and shaking. I wasn't quite sure if I was going to get the bike stopped. Yes, I did panic for a bit (basically because I had my wife on the back). After stopping, I realized that I had a flat front tire. The brake caliper had sheered off the end of my valve stem. I jumped on my son's bike to find a parts store. I picked up a valve stem and a can of canned air. Adam and I thought we could replace the valve stem and air up the tire. Well~replacing the valve stem went way to easy, so I knew something had to go wrong, and it did. The canned air was not enough pressure to air up the tire. We had now been on the side of the road for about 2 hours, with abut 200-250 cars driving by, and nobody stopping. We were weighing out all the possibilities, trying to decide what to do. Then, we noticed a nice gentleman walking up the off-ramp to ask us if we needed some help. Boy, were we happy to see him. He offered to us a compressor that he could go home and get to air up the tire. We took him up on his offer. We waited about an hour. Thank goodness my wife had packed some water and granola bars - it was really hot! About an hour later he returned with the compressor and a floor jack. We were able to get the tire aired, paid him for his gas, thanked him and off we were. Our initial plans were to take the scenic route home, following the Snake River, but since it was so late, we decided to take the interstate back. Thank goodness, no more problems home. As my wife told her co-workers (who are not bike riders), they were amazed that we didn't have a spare tire on us. Well, what a trip, but that is what makes them memorable, right? |
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| Blog ID: 1787 - New Adventure - 2008-06-25 | |
| Wow - it has been an adventure! I had been drooling over bikes on e-bay for about 3 months, and finally found a FLH in Texas. I think my wife was tired of listening to me wine over all the bikes for sale, and finally let me buy one. She knew that I had to much time on my hands, as I had just sold our retail accessory store (mainly dirtbike and snowmobile apparel), so she bought me a one way ticket to Texas to pick up the new bike. She told me to take my time coming back ( I think she wanted to get rid of me for a while)! What an awesome adventure I had, driving from Texas to Idaho ~ no schedules ~ no wife and kids ~ not a care in the world for the next 10 days. I was able to see some beautiful country, and stop and visit friends and family along the way. After I had been home for a few weeks, and was searching for the apparel that my wife and I needed for our new purchase, I noticed that I was missing the motorcycle business. That is when it occurred to me to find some motorcycle apparel, build a website, and start offering to other riders quality gear at a reasonable price. We have some great prices on mens motorcycle jackets and womens motorcycle jackets. I think I am going to enjoy my new adventure! |
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