The Blog of Blues

[sv-wolf]

Great news, blues.

Particularly glad to hear that you are still on course for the motorcycle instructor's job.

Good pic, too. Lovely to see you out and about.

Best wishes

Richard

[blues2cruise]

Yay! Glad to hear you're back in the saddle. Damn, that is one pretty little cruiser you have. And you're looking mighty fine yourself, Blues!

Hope you get the motorcycle job. Are you driving at work, or instructing, or are you now on chaotic desk duty?

I am on chaotic desk duty. This new company is so top heavy....there are so many managers and yet they can't get their act together.
I think that every manager should be sent away for a week for some kind of left hand getting to know the right hand training......the rest of all know how to do our jobs. We would function just fine without them.

I will ride to work tomorrow.

[blues2cruise]

Great news, blues.

Particularly glad to hear that you are still on course for the motorcycle instructor's job.

Good pic, too. Lovely to see you out and about.

Best wishes

Richard

Thank you. I had to pay in advance to secure my spot since only 4 can take the course. So...I coughed up $3500. to make sure I got in.

I'll ride in to work tomorrow.

[blues2cruise]

April 13, 2009

Did you know.....that the pillion seat of a V-Star is held on by one bolt and a strap? Doesn't seem very secure.
Tonight I decided the time was right to remove the rack and put back the pillion seat. I want to try taking a passenger one of these days...so I was hoping to get the seat on and find a guinea pig for me to practice with....

So....I unwound the saddlebag lace from the rack and then took off the rack....(It is not an easy chore to lace up those saddlebags and zip tie them so they stay in place)...I relaced the saddlebags....cut some felt for under the saddlebags to rest upon the fender so the paint stays nice....cleaned the dust off the fender....laid the bags over, placed the seat on....then could not loosen the big allen bolts that the strap would secure into. sigh....nothing ever goes smoothly, does it?

Those bolts would be the same bolts needed to secure the saddlebags.....when I had them laying over the rack, they were up high enough to avoid touching the pipes. I had punched some extra holes into the straps so they could be laced shorter thus sit higher...
However..now that the bags would have been resting atop the fender they hung too low, so I need to bolt them on.
But the bolts are too tight.....aarrggghhh.
So...it now sits seatless, rackless and bagless...until I can get someone with stronger hands to come over and help me.

I'll just use my top bag if I have to carry any cargo.

I also installed signal visors.....
How can something so simple be so difficult? I finally got it done...now I have more chrome to polish......maybe tomroow night.....a friend is coming over to use my computer and printer so I'm thinking while she is here, I will go and wash my bike. I have ridden it in the rain several times lately and it is looking a bit grimy.

Now let me see.....who can I hit up to come and help me......

[jstark47]

Now let me see.....who can I hit up to come and help me......

I've heard there are big strong guys in Coquitlam........

[dr_bar]

Now let me see.....who can I hit up to come and help me......

I've heard there are big strong guys in Coquitlam........

Well, if she waited for that guy in NJ, she'd still be waiting next spring, what with you riding through the countryside at 40MPH, (Oh I'm sightseeing... lol)

I think that wonderful woman you call your wife would be here and back have Blues' bike fixed make dinner clean windshields, buy a new outfit and still be back before you got out of your county...

[jstark47]

Now let me see.....who can I hit up to come and help me......

I've heard there are big strong guys in Coquitlam........

Well, if she waited for that guy in NJ, she'd still be waiting next spring, what with you riding through the countryside at 40MPH, (Oh I'm sightseeing... lol)

I tapped 100 mph going to work yesterday morning..... 'course that was on the V-strom, the speedo is optimistic, probably really 88-90mph.

Still, a lot faster than one can go towing a hay wagon or whatever the heck was following yer bike around........

[dr_bar]

Still, a lot faster than one can go towing a hay wagon or whatever the heck was following yer bike around........

"Hay wagon" only ever made it up to 108 MPH (175 KMPH) Going up the Coquihalla Highway in BC

The Coquihalla Highway climbs through the Great Bear Snow Shed, crests the summit of Coquihalla Pass (elevation 4,068 feet/1240 m), then crosses the top of the Thompson Plateau

[blues2cruise]

[MZ33]

Yeah, Blues, the pillion seat isn't held on by much, but then, it isn't much itself. We keep it on only for decoration, and on the off chance that we may need to go two-up in an emergency.

Of course, it would be wise to actually have practiced pillion before the emergency . . .