Subject: Re: Another successful rally in the history books - long
Author: andy hill
Date: Jul 2, 2003, 7:17 AM
Post ID: 1713614321
Dennis!
great to hear from you! paint YOUR eldo? man, it looks fantastic as is! i
will again attempt to go south for the Md. rally. it was hugely
dissapointing to have to abort this one. had been looking forward to it
since feb., ya know?
here's what happened this year. the weather up here has been wet all year,
and i still needed to re-roof the house, so taking a chance, i went on
vacation, beginning june 21. it rained in the a.m., and amazingly cleared
off by 2:00 p.m. went up on the roof and started removing 3 layers of
shingles. 3 days later, it was done, and still no rain! had some other
overdue stuff to finish up around here [large honey-do list], wrapped it all
up at 9:00 p.m. thurs. had not even been able to look at the bikes.
strapped the gear on the sport, 'cause kermit STILL needs a new
intermediate plate [gonna do THAT today-finally] and blasted off. an hour or
so into Pa., i dodged one pothole and clipped another. the luggage started
to slide off. a mile down the road is a truckstop/diner, so i went in there.
shure enough- 1 of the aerostich straps had broken. [rated for 1500lbs.,
too!!??]. sort of fixed it up. forgot to bring xtra bungies. ate breakfast.
fired up, went 100 yards to a new h.d. shop and purchased some "hog straps",
made for hauling harleys around in pickup trucks, i guess. really stout
straps!
bike would not fire. acted like dead batteries [yep, plural, as i found
out]. cleaned all the cables and grounds. no go. sigh... push it to the
shop. load test the batts. no good. tired. shot. n/r. wasted. junk. crap.
jump started the bike. let it idle while re-strapping the duffel [batteries
are under the pass. seat]. go home, more than a little dejected.
this was all caused by a lack of preperation. it could have been much
worse, i think. do i like the sport? yeah! do i like it better than the
eldo? nope. it's a great bike, but as you said about your lemans, Dennis,
it's different. great brakes and handling, eh? lousy bug/weather protection.
warp-speed cruising, if ya even use 5th gear.
oh, well- see ya in sept.!
andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Jones" <dbjo-@bylavalle.com>
To: <Loopfram-@topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 7:44 AM
Subject: Re: Another successful rally in the history books - long
| Yes, Andrew me boy, you should've. You know about the notorious |
| problems of those newfangled motorcicles. I was disappointed to hear that you wouldn't be making it when I arrived at the rally. Forget now whether Charlie or Ian told me that you had problems with the Sport. I haven't |
| you since I can't remember when. Get somethin' running will ya? I'll be |
| the Ohio Rally and the Maryland Rally for sure, and probably the Mid-Ohio Vintage weekend. Don't know what else. It was good to see Ian and |
| and Joe Kenney & Pat Galbreath again, and Ian's friend Ed, who had a nice black Eldo. Makes me think I ought to paint the old Eldo and get up to their level. Dennis Jones ----- Original Message ----- From: "andy hill" <alh-@adelphia.net> To: <Loopfram-@topica.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 12:05 AM Subject: Re: Another successful rally in the history books - long
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