Nonsense Post
Well, I thought I would get around to posting something on my blog, but don't have anything in particular to talk about. Winter started coming back a little bit this week and I'm having a hard time with wanting to ride a motorcycle again. I realize that usually in this area we don't get to ride until April, but I've been reading about riding a lot lately and the weather isn't the usual freezing cold that takes the desire out of my blood.
As far as what bike I'm going to be riding this season that's still in the air. I haven't gotten a yes or a no from the prospective buyer yet, so I can't commit on buying the zx11. I can't stop thinking about it a lot because I'm getting the itch to do a little tinkering with the bike that I'm gonna be riding before the season starts. I'm notorious for letting things go during the season so that I can get more seat time, so an early start with the little tinkering would be a good thing.
I walk by the zx6 and see the bubbled paint on the footpegs and I want to take them off and polish them up for hours and look at maybe setting them back a little bit to give the bike a little bit more aggressive riding position. I look at the scratched side of the bike and I want to take a buffer and some rubbing compound to it and try to remove most of the little ones and see just how much work it would be to make it look new. I've priced the broken inner fairing pieces and there really not that expensive. I think I could make the bike look good enough with just a little bit of elbow grease, but I don't wanna start attacking stuff until I know whether it's gonna stay mine or not.
I walk by the zx11 and I want to get the rear tire up in the air and flip over the axle so that it sits higher in the back. I also want to start looking at the sidestand to see if I can get it tightened up enough so that it doesn't interfere with the shifter linkage causing it to be hard to downshift. I got some bulbs for the instrument panel so that I can see them at night. I wanna take a good look at the oil pressure sending unit to see if I can keep the oil light and fuel lights from blinking sporadically on deceleration. I also want to get the rear tire changed out with one that the current owner had laying around( the one on there now is flat and down to the cords in the center of the tire). Basically I just want to get acquainted with the zx11 if it becomes mine so that I can feel pretty good riding it this season.
Work has started picking up which is actually pretty ironic seeing as how half of our work force is out on a combination of vacation and medical leaves. One guy is back in cuba with his sons, one guy had all his teeth pulled and will show up with dentures the next time that we see him, and one guy managed to drop his vehicle off a jackstand so that it landed on his leg a bit. We have a lot of little projects that we've been working on including new offices that take a lot of time away from production. I'm gonna try to get at least one thing a day done so that they don't all pile up on us.
Home is pretty good actually, though I wouldn't mind it if the yards would dry up so that we could do a little straightening up when the weather is above freezing. I want to go through some of our packrat belongings over the spring and summer to cut down the clutter around the house a little at a time. I want to try and get the shed moved back up on it's blocks and the doors fixed up a bit over the spring and summer. I might have to put a new floor in it to make it stable enough to stay up on the blocks, but it would still be cheaper than building a new one. I also want to get the bathroom floor fixed permanently...right now I have some plywood over the floor that got ruined with plumbing problems, but I would like to fix it up properly if money and time permit.
Hmmmm....I guess that's pretty much it for now.....guess I should get off the computer so that maybe I could get some of this stuff done instead of talking about it :)
As far as what bike I'm going to be riding this season that's still in the air. I haven't gotten a yes or a no from the prospective buyer yet, so I can't commit on buying the zx11. I can't stop thinking about it a lot because I'm getting the itch to do a little tinkering with the bike that I'm gonna be riding before the season starts. I'm notorious for letting things go during the season so that I can get more seat time, so an early start with the little tinkering would be a good thing.
I walk by the zx6 and see the bubbled paint on the footpegs and I want to take them off and polish them up for hours and look at maybe setting them back a little bit to give the bike a little bit more aggressive riding position. I look at the scratched side of the bike and I want to take a buffer and some rubbing compound to it and try to remove most of the little ones and see just how much work it would be to make it look new. I've priced the broken inner fairing pieces and there really not that expensive. I think I could make the bike look good enough with just a little bit of elbow grease, but I don't wanna start attacking stuff until I know whether it's gonna stay mine or not.
I walk by the zx11 and I want to get the rear tire up in the air and flip over the axle so that it sits higher in the back. I also want to start looking at the sidestand to see if I can get it tightened up enough so that it doesn't interfere with the shifter linkage causing it to be hard to downshift. I got some bulbs for the instrument panel so that I can see them at night. I wanna take a good look at the oil pressure sending unit to see if I can keep the oil light and fuel lights from blinking sporadically on deceleration. I also want to get the rear tire changed out with one that the current owner had laying around( the one on there now is flat and down to the cords in the center of the tire). Basically I just want to get acquainted with the zx11 if it becomes mine so that I can feel pretty good riding it this season.
Work has started picking up which is actually pretty ironic seeing as how half of our work force is out on a combination of vacation and medical leaves. One guy is back in cuba with his sons, one guy had all his teeth pulled and will show up with dentures the next time that we see him, and one guy managed to drop his vehicle off a jackstand so that it landed on his leg a bit. We have a lot of little projects that we've been working on including new offices that take a lot of time away from production. I'm gonna try to get at least one thing a day done so that they don't all pile up on us.
Home is pretty good actually, though I wouldn't mind it if the yards would dry up so that we could do a little straightening up when the weather is above freezing. I want to go through some of our packrat belongings over the spring and summer to cut down the clutter around the house a little at a time. I want to try and get the shed moved back up on it's blocks and the doors fixed up a bit over the spring and summer. I might have to put a new floor in it to make it stable enough to stay up on the blocks, but it would still be cheaper than building a new one. I also want to get the bathroom floor fixed permanently...right now I have some plywood over the floor that got ruined with plumbing problems, but I would like to fix it up properly if money and time permit.
Hmmmm....I guess that's pretty much it for now.....guess I should get off the computer so that maybe I could get some of this stuff done instead of talking about it :)
posted by Squidley63 at 6:27 PM
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