What did you do on or to your other bike part 2

[rdprdp01]

Good thing it's frugal, since gas shot up to $ 4.29 a gal overnight.

I feel your pain. See the current gas prices in Northern California. If necessary, I will give up a few espressos to make sure the CB1100EX can keep rolling. David

[the Ferret]

Gads! That's hard to take.

[Gone in 60]

On Friday night, I brought my CB1100 home from Mom's, and came back yesterday evening on Superbird to stay overnight, watch her for today and make sure her cadre of friends are at the ready to take over monitoring her recovery for the week. If you think Northern California gas prices are high, try San Diego. I'm just glad Superbird is averaging 61 mpg.

By the way, Mom kicked me out at 11:00 this morning and demanded that I go enjoy the rest of the weekend. On the way home, her friend up the street called me... she's the ring leader, giving me the full rundown of who will be visiting Mom during the week. And, I'm sure each of them will be kicked out as well, as Mom insists she's fine.

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... And, on the way home from Mom's my good friend, who has been keeping my Enfield Interceptor in his garage since I started the Blood Bike job, demanded that I come over for dinner tonight, and to pay him the rental fee for bike storage.

I picked up the rental fee and put it in the fridge for dinner later.

[Cormanus]

Open with care, Gone! In my experience, putting things in top boxes gives them an almighty shake up!

[Ollie]

I feel your pain. See the current gas prices in Northern California. If necessary, I will give up a few espressos to make sure the CB1100EX can keep rolling. David

It's interesting that your mid grade is only 16 cents more than regular and premium 50 cents more than regular. Where I'm at in northern WV regular 87 is around $4.19, mid grade 89 is 45 cents more, and premium 91/93 is 90 cents more.

[Gone in 60]

Open with care, Gone! In my experience, putting things in top boxes gives them an almighty shake up!

Going to transport them in the refrigerated containers… just did some work on one of the work bikes, and it needs a road test. It’s a very stable platform for precious liquids.

[peterbaron]

Why transport them.?
Consume right there....

[Gone in 60]

Why transport them.?
Consume right there....

Yeah... but then I would be very drunk after six beers and would not be able to pay the rent to my friend. 

And, if a few beers is all the rent I need to pay to store a motorcycle in his garage, I'm not going to screw up that deal! 
If it were anything but an Enfield, he might not be so generous. He has quite a fondness for them. Back in the mid-90s, he and his brother went directly to the factory in India, bought two Bullet 500s and rode them home to England. It's a story that even rivals Itchy Boots' adventures.

[the Ferret]

Some stations went $5.19 a gal for regular here yesterday. I felt fortunate to fill up at a station that had it for $4.99

[Gone in 60]

Ol' Harlan was busy today. Made plenty of additions to Bike #2, that I'm making to each of the bikes in the fleet (five so far). 
Horn, along with wiring and a button - the police service PA speakers incorporate a horn along with everything else, so when they're removed, the bike does not have a horn, or a horn button.
Auxiliary brake LEDs with strobe-to-solid feature
Combination lights up front - solid and flashing - I love these, they can really part traffic
Battery charging pigtail
Quad Lock phone mount/charger
Insta 360 camera pole with power cable running to power

The plan was to finish her up and deliver to HQ (the boss' house for now), and swap her for Bike #5, which is fresh from the police auction and needs a lot of work. He said he had a potential new rider coming by who he'd interviewed by video call earlier and got a good feeling from, and asked if I'd stick around to see what I thought of him. I had a suspicion about what that meeting might lead to...

When I was invited over to his house after my initial interview, he offered to "go for a nice casual little ride". Sounded good to me, until I realized that the "casual ride" was an exam, with me getting on one of the police BMWs having never ridden one before, and thrust into Hollywood Freeway traffic while he and his son followed me, watching my every move as I split lanes through dense traffic. Just getting up and down his driveway, which I'm sure is steeper than 45 degrees, is challenging enough, and his street is up in the hills, twisting around blind corners and not wide enough for two cars to pass each other. We ended my demo ride at a restaurant for lunch, where it was determined that my riding skill was sufficient to join the team. 

When the new rider arrived, we chatted a bit, the boss explained the job, and then asked if he had time for "a nice casual ride". Hah... what comes around, they say. So now I was the evaluator, watching this guy's every move as we threaded our way through rush-hour traffic. He got the shorter end of the stick... at least my demo ride was on a weekend, not a Tuesday at peak commute time. He did quite well.

It's funny what happens when you're put on the spot at a moment's notice. This guy said he rides an FJR, is comfortable going long distances, and shrugged off the boss' comment "You'd be looking at 250-300 miles a day". When we all got on the bikes to start the test ride, he was in front of me in the driveway. He was struggling and motioned to me that the bike wouldn't start. I motioned back that the side stand was down and he was in gear. He made a gesture of embarrassment, kicked up the stand and started the bike. I thought to myself "Huh... I think I did the same thing on my test ride."