Last weekend was a great weekend for me. Saturday I rode with Nick and the guys down to Cabelas and it was a great adventure.
On Sunday Skidplate and I rode the Mothers Day Poker Run. We ran into Mandy part way through and we were glad to have her company for the rest of the ride. She is now riding a Vulcan 1500 Nomad and it is a really sweet motorcycle.
Less than two weeks to go until my first ride back to Deals Gap. The great weather and West Virginia roads have been taking a real toll on my new tires and I think I am going to have to tone it down a little bit for the next two weeks so my rear tire lasts through the Deals Gap trip. I am running Continental Road Attacks for the first time and I really do like them. All I have run on the bike so far are the dual purpose tires and I really wanted to try a pure street tire. Mostly I had been running the Metzler Tourance and I have been pretty happy with them but I really wanted something with a little more grip. The bike handles really nice with the Road Attacks and the traction is outstanding but I don’t know if the mileage is going to be good enough on them for me. I have been measuring my tread depth and it looks like I am only going to get about 6,000 miles out of the rear tire. I don’t know if I can afford to put on a new tire every 6,000 miles so I might just try a Metzler 880 for my next one. What I really need is a tire sponsor. Maybe if I put a Continental sticker on my bike they would give me free tires for life? I kinda doubt it.
I came real close this evening to washing my motorcycle but then I just figured “What’s the point?”.