Drove the Sploder on it’s first road trip today. Not a big trip, only a couple hundred miles. <\/p>\n
But when you develop a relationship with a vehicle, when you lose it for a month odd, and you get it back… it’s like getting back on an old horse, one you know and knows you, and you fall into old patterns again. <\/p>\n
She feels fine. She has more power than I remember but then who knows how long the pulley was failing. The exhaust guys also had some kind of trouble, which I think should be a simple enough repair (assuming they will, I think they will) It manifests itself in a small noise under load. All in all, miles better than before, and I feel ready for another 200,000 miles. She’s outside my window now as I write this from my suite in Ohio. <\/p>\n
Yes, I do have an attachment to my vehicles. Even the van, now, has become one of the family and will be treated as such- so happens that the van will easily transport the motorcycle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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