What are you doing today? Thread

[knappyfeet]

Went for a ride today with my son and his new Royal Enfield Himalayan.

Awesome bike and an incredible value in today's times



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[El Camexican]

They really modernized the look of that thing.

I anyone here didn’t already know, if you want to be cool in India, you ride a Royal Enfeild. It’s their equivalent of a Harley and there’s almost as many aftermarket accessories available for them. Got to ride one with what looked like a grain auger engine wedged into it. It had no brakes, but I seeing as grain augers don’t either I took the opportunity to try stopping it Flintstone style.

[Shep1970]

"Road trip" On the quest to find palm trees and sun- pic was from a pitstop last night, we woke this am to what we were looking for a few hundred miles more south!....
yay.
Have a great day.




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[ATC King]

"Road trip" On the quest to find palm trees and sun- pic was from a pitstop last night, we woke this am to what we were looking for a few hundred miles more south!....
yay.
Have a great day.

Is that JLG there so the sombrero tower meets handicap accessible requirements?

[Shep1970]

Oh that sombrero tower elevator is very sketchy, did it once a few yrs ago and then theres about an inch of bird crap everywhere up there.
We went to a Buc-ee"s store this am in FL lots of good stuff and had tiger butter fudge my favorite!!!! and got some sugar coated praileens (sp) Now testing out the resorts multiple bar mixed drinks, getting woozy so i'll stop writing now.....befor my spelling/grammar gets worse...

shep

[knappyfeet]

They really modernized the look of that thing.

I anyone here didn’t already know, if you want to be cool in India, you ride a Royal Enfeild. It’s their equivalent of a Harley and there’s almost as many aftermarket accessories available for them. Got to ride one with what looked like a grain auger engine wedged into it. It had no brakes, but I seeing as grain augers don’t either I took the opportunity to try stopping it Flintstone style.

I didn't know that....good to know.

So far 240 miles on the clock.

It comes with a 3 year factory warranty....looks like they stand behind their products.



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[ATC King]

You'd probably be hard pressed to find one of the earlier RE bikes still being ridden in the US, because once they went to unitized engine/trans construction, they really started to modernize and improve reliability.

I haven't rode any of the early Bullets, but I've seen them in person. The new ones still look the part but are totally modern machines. Decades ago they even had a diesel bike. I think it used an air cooled Robin engine.

Besides RE, Ural really progressed their bikes during the past 10-15 years, but good luck buying one of those right now, or ever; Russia. I've met a couple people on the newer ones and they didn't have anything but good to say about the bike, keeping in mind their performance limitations.

[ATC King]

I took a weekend motorcycle/camping trip and done a little wine tasting in Altus, at the wineries.

It turned out the step-father of the woman pouring the wine was Ed Hertfelder. We were riding enduro (dual sport) motorcycles, which is why she brought it up. I done one of the Ozark Fall Color Tours when RL Lemke was hosting them and the evening banquet was at the Wiederkehr, where the woman works.


I also managed to get by and tour the Subiaco Abbey, finally. It turned out to be the one day a week the monks have the brewery open. That was some blessed good beer. My friend bought some Monk Sauce, which is a habanero hot sauce they make there. https://www.countrymonks.biz/habanero-hot-sauce/

[knappyfeet]

I took a weekend motorcycle/camping trip and done a little wine tasting in Altus, at the wineries.

It turned out the step-father of the woman pouring the wine was Ed Hertfelder. We were riding enduro (dual sport) motorcycles, which is why she brought it up. I done one of the Ozark Fall Color Tours when RL Lemke was hosting them and the evening banquet was at the Wiederkehr, where the woman works.


I also managed to get by and tour the Subiaco Abbey, finally. It turned out to be the one day a week the monks have the brewery open. That was some blessed good beer. My friend bought some Monk Sauce, which is a habanero hot sauce they make there. https://www.countrymonks.biz/habanero-hot-sauce/

Sounds like a fun trip.

Put a new master cylinder in the Elco only to find out I need a new booster too.

I do everything backwards.

[ATC King]

It was a fun trip, but camping weather in Arkansas is about over for the summer except for people who like to sweat in their tent all night.

The are some cool, clear, mountain rivers and streams that are nice to camp next to during the summer though. Just about have to sit in them all day while drinking beer to stay cool and relaxed, if anyone is into that kind of nonsense.

[coolpool]

Sounds like a fun trip.

Put a new master cylinder in the Elco only to find out I need a new booster too.

I do everything backwards.

Knappy, if the booster won't hold vacuum it may just be the front seal and not the large diaphragm. I had a friend with a 78 Trans-Am that never had reliable brakes after a resto even with swapping boosters. I troubleshot it to the seal with a vacuum pump by sealing off the front of the booster. Sucked in good and held finally.

[Shep1970]

So, i tested covid positive on monday- felt not myself on sunday night so we all tested and two of four of us have it (the wife and my youngest are staying in a hotel since test)
My only symptom's were a slight headach and tingly feeling hair on the top of my scalp that lasted two days. I feel 99.9% healthy as of yesterday but still positive.
So.......i guess my question to you guy's is its going to be 70* and sunny today and supposed to be quarantining- is riding a motorcycle (grom) by myself and son fall into that category. ? plenty of fuel for all day.
Edit: i'll take no response as "get out and ride"
------side note kinda funny, well not really but----
The four of us are not vaccinated and wont be, and all of my other family members are (a bunch of them) and all/most of them have had covid really bad cases.
They are in shock that we are not bed ridden and in the hospital sick as hell (cuz were not vaccinated)

Guess thats it- heading outside to adjust the valves (past due) on the grom over 3500 miles so far.

shep

[El Camexican]

So, i tested covid positive on monday- felt not myself on sunday night so we all tested and two of four of us have it (the wife and my youngest are staying in a hotel since test)
My only symptom's were a slight headach and tingly feeling hair on the top of my scalp that lasted two days. I feel 99.9% healthy as of yesterday but still positive.
So.......i guess my question to you guy's is its going to be 70* and sunny today and supposed to be quarantining- is riding a motorcycle (grom) by myself and son fall into that category. ? plenty of fuel for all day.
Edit: i'll take no response as "get out and ride"
------side note kinda funny, well not really but----
The four of us are not vaccinated and wont be, and all of my other family members are (a bunch of them) and all/most of them have had covid really bad cases.
They are in shock that we are not bed ridden and in the hospital sick as hell (cuz were not vaccinated)

Guess thats it- heading outside to adjust the valves (past due) on the grom over 3500 miles so far.

shep

Hey Shep, Sorry you got the bug buddy. You’re the first person I’ve heard describe that tingly headache the way I had it. Happened three days before my ass got kicked.

You may feel decent now (and I hope that’s as bad as it gets) but I suggest you don’t get too far from home at the moment. When it hit me it was fast and hard. I went from a runny nose to a hospital bed in less than 12 hours.

God bless buddy

[knappyfeet]

Knappy, if the booster won't hold vacuum it may just be the front seal and not the large diaphragm. I had a friend with a 78 Trans-Am that never had reliable brakes after a resto even with swapping boosters. I troubleshot it to the seal with a vacuum pump by sealing off the front of the booster. Sucked in good and held finally.

Hang in there Shep...just a couple more days.

Coolpool....you sound right. When it's at idle and in park and I do not depress the brake pedal it idles just fine. Same conditions only I press the pedal and I can hear a slight "hiss" and it starts to idle ruff and stumbly....then I release the brake pedal and no hiss and it resumes idling smoothly...you nailed it.

I still purchased a new booster....but like everything else it's just sitting in the garage



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[Shep1970]

Thanks guys, so far so good. Both of us seem fine (at the moment) no high temps and no other symptoms "exept" well not to sound gross but no solids have been exiting our back side for a few days now and still testing positive.

In other news- about noon time yesterday my youngest tested positive. Then...............6pm last night so did the wife.
yup, welcome to sheps life There symptoms are starting the same as ours did so guess we'll see what happens....

shep