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RD is back!

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Well, it’s been a while (understatement) but I’m back at it.
The project took a hiatus during a period of under-employment and a move but now I’m settled again and it’s time to get this thing done!

The RD has moved … and now lives in my kitchen.  🙂

Current Needs:
Brakes
Tail light
Wiring (will probably build a new harness. big learning curve for me! yikes!)
License Plate holder
Gotta futz with the shifter
Exhaust gaskets
Shocks (black)
and because it’s a project, I’m sure other things will present themselves as I go along….

Tank and pipes are in the shed.

I started on the wiring the other day:
I think I’m actually getting the hang of this. (Famous last words, right?)

It’s more cleared out now. 🙂

I bought a soldering iron (finally!), solder, some shrink tubing and a circuit tester

and discovered that trailer wire is the same gauge as the bike wire, and a lot less pricey!
How cool is that?
(Hopefully, I’m not overlooking something obvious with this.)

Now I just have to figure out where all my wire tools went in the move….

hm.

we’re all mad here*

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You can tell by the amount of pithy sayings about motorcyclists that we are a little off-kilter from those who don’t ride. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night** will keep a motorcyclist from riding when they feel the call of the road.

It’s really not very cold today but as I started to get some gear on for a little toodle after work, I thought, “It’s a bit chilly. I should bundle up.”
So, bundle I did.
However, it’s hard to hide from all of the wind chill. But I didn’t care. It’s a lovely day and I was on my bike. Sure, it ‘feels like’ 47° out, but that’s almost 50° and that’s almost balmy. Never mind the cold air blowing down my coat like a TourMaster ram air intake, it was great to be out on the road.

So, bring it on, Winter!
You won’t dampen my motorcycle spirit!
I’ve ridden in Chicago snowstorms, I’m not afraid!

(that said, I prefer 80’s and sunny)

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* Said the Cheshire cat.
** Unabashedly grifted from the Postal Service creed.
Of course, they stole it from Herodotus.
It is true, there is nothing new under the sun. wink

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