Feb 14/17 Valentines Day 80+ and sunny.
15 & 16 Hot 17 Storm coming, 18 showers.
We thought we were heading up into the San Jacinto mountains for an overnight ride on the motorcycle when "stuff happens" occurred. Lucky for us Billy just happen to notice something stuck in our rear tire when he was getting the bike out of our trailer. A couple of metal pieces were embedded in the tire but it was not leaking ...... yet. We rode it on the back roads over to the Palm Springs Harley shop and asked for an emergency repair. Once the tire was off the service tech found that our rim had a couple broken spokes and some other issues. Bad news was we needed a tire and rim, and the rim was not in stock so we would have to leave the motorcycle for a few days. Oh, oh. Good news is we could have been on it riding and had a flat or accident or worse. There is always a bright side to every "stuff happens" situation. Thank you Guardian Angel for looking out for us. (I secretly think my Dad up above is watching out for us). Big smile :)
So while we were at it we decided to bite the bullet and get 2 new tires and 2 new wheel rims in a totally new style. 5 spoke chrome mag wheels with black tires, no more white walls, no more little spokes. Cleaning it will be a whole lot easier from now on. So Tuesday to Saturday we had no motorcycle, but that's ok we just relaxed at the RV Park and we had our bicycles and a Walmart about a block away. When we picked it up I told Billy that would be his Valentine present for the next 10 years!!!
P.S. we did learn a valuable tip from this. We had to get back and forth from the Harley dealership to the campground so we downloaded "UBER" and requested a ride. In 5 minutes we were picked up by a nice lady and clean car; at less than half the cost of a cab, for a 24 mile ride, no money exchanges hands, it has your credit card info and after we were dropped off we had a receipt in our email inbox. How slick is that! We did it again to pick up the bike. another great driver. Definitely never hesitate to use UBER in the future anywhere, anytime.
15 & 16 Hot 17 Storm coming, 18 showers.
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| our new wheels and tires |
So while we were at it we decided to bite the bullet and get 2 new tires and 2 new wheel rims in a totally new style. 5 spoke chrome mag wheels with black tires, no more white walls, no more little spokes. Cleaning it will be a whole lot easier from now on. So Tuesday to Saturday we had no motorcycle, but that's ok we just relaxed at the RV Park and we had our bicycles and a Walmart about a block away. When we picked it up I told Billy that would be his Valentine present for the next 10 years!!!
P.S. we did learn a valuable tip from this. We had to get back and forth from the Harley dealership to the campground so we downloaded "UBER" and requested a ride. In 5 minutes we were picked up by a nice lady and clean car; at less than half the cost of a cab, for a 24 mile ride, no money exchanges hands, it has your credit card info and after we were dropped off we had a receipt in our email inbox. How slick is that! We did it again to pick up the bike. another great driver. Definitely never hesitate to use UBER in the future anywhere, anytime.
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