I have a confession.

[Truck]

I did a bad thing last fall. I moved out of my old place onto a farm. Things got chaotic and time got away from me. So instead of properly winterizing my bike and placing the battery on a charger for the winter I just parked it in a barn and kinda forgot about it.

Well now summer is here and Noa's floods are over I've been having the itch to ride. I've been ordering stuff online that I want to put on, but have been dreading going out and looking the bike over. So today I got the guts to go out and see how she did. God she was filthy! I drop the key in to see if the electrics still work and to see if she would at least roll over for me. Surprisingly there was actually some good crank in the battery. I decided to go for broke, opened the petcock and gave her the choke. sputter-sputter fired then died. pushed in the choke, gave a few flicks of the throttle and.......

SHE FIRED RIGHT UP!!!! You just have to love the resiliency of the bikes, you just can't kill them!!!

[shinyribs]

 They are tough little suckers!

Congrats on moving out to the farm,too. That's gotta be a plus by itself, even if you ain't had time to ride.

 I wish I had to time to turn a wrench. I'd love to take a little ride in the evenings to unwind. I may be unloading everything for a song just to scrape enough coin together to buy a decent used XR650. At least I'd have a do-all bike that I could hop on at any moment. And not care if it sat outside overnight occasionally.

GL getting everything back on the road. Maybe I'll follow your lead

[Truck]

Maybe once I get everything straight I'll have to take a cruise out to Smith Mountain Lake and get you back in the proper frame of mind