Mornin Russ. How you doing after your trip

 

These are on my short list of parts. You can take a pencil eraser and clean the rotors after a few thousand miles of use and they go gold again. Gold is the color of the metal, not a coating.

 

Actually feeling a little beat up. 14 days on the road….

Yesterday, riding through the corn and cotton fields of the panhandle and North Texas with temps in the 104° to 107° range really zapped me. Then there were the left lane campers as we got closer to DFW that all of the sudden wanted to to speed up after we passed them. Then they wanted to play keep up in traffic. Had an old boy in a lifted Chevy 4x4 that was gonna show us after we passed him but the only thing that he was saw was the tail lights of the blue bike getting smaller and smaller as we were much more maneuverable in traffic. Some people.

 

Easy. They key stays in your cut. Then you can't ride without your cut.

Seriously though, I had my kid thinking I couldn't ride without my cut. I turned on the ignition and nothing happened. Then I told her to hand me my cut. When she did, like magic, the bike came to life.

 

I'm happy you're home safe and able to relax. What an awesome adventure! And yeah, some people... They should have been swallowed.

 

I had someone do that. Only time Black Betty has seen triple digits. Kinda figured you'd be feeling it now, muscles had time to adjust

 

I’ve ran them on the Road King once but went back to OEM because they created a lot of dust and I had to clean the WWWs a lot. I won’t have that issue on the blue bike.

 

Yup. As many guys have given me crap about riding too soon, it has helped me a lot. I'm walking better and hurting less overall, but I've had to limit the riding I can do. It's physically exhausting. 14 days on the road is hard for the best of us, so I'm sure you're all feeling it. But damn, what a ride!

 

The dust is actually from the rotors, not the pads themselves.

 

Then there was the guy in the Chrysler 300…..just another idiot that we lost in traffic. I actually chuckled at this guy because we were moving at a good clip and he wanted to run up behind us. I could see traffic up ahead because of our higher seating position and I waited until the last second to do a lane change pass on a group of cars with a blocker in the right lane that closed up after we maneuvered. Old boy in the 300 was stuck like Chuck (no offense Chuck) and had to slow his roll from 90 to probably 50 in a very short distance. Hahaha.