data.3news-bydate.train.rec.motorcycles.105060 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Norman Hamer)
Subject: Assorted Ranting
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Grr. Hate the bastard who picked the weather for today.
Went up to visit a friend overnight (about 45 minute ride).. rode up after
work, only minor drizzing for the last 5 minutes of the ride... rest of the
ride was very zen.
Got up this morning, needed to go home and get some disks & stuff to work
on her computers with, rainy as all hell. Soaked and cold by the time I got
home.
Since I didn't have another set of thermals which were dry, I said "to heck
with it" and drove my cage back up.
Lo and Behold, those funny blue clouds were up in the sky and this warm
yellow thing I haven't seen in quite awhile showed up when I was 10 minutes
into the trip.
And me in my cage. Oh JOY.
Happily, my right hand mirror finally showed up at the dealer (dropped the
bike when I first got it, put on an EMGO replacement mirror... hated it the
entire time that thing was on my bike because I couldn't see a DAMNED thing
through it, plus it's flat instead of convex like the stock mirrors, so you
get a NARROW ANGLE wobbly blur)... And I got a replacement windshield for my
fairing (dropped the original and chipped the front edge... cosmetic but
annoying)... so I spent half an hour happily unscrewing things and replacing
them this afternoon.
'Bout the only thing I still hate about the bike ('75 CB360T) is the damned
"2 D-Cell Flashlight" headlight.
Has anyone seen a good source for ~25 watt halogen passing lights? Since
the charging system on the CB360T can't handle continuous use of a 50W
halogen headlight, I was thinking about putting a couple passing lights
on... that would give me ~70w of lighting for the rare night riding I do,
but wouldn't drain the battery during "normal use" (chiefly day trips and
commuting to work and back)...