Thought it would be months before I'd be able to ride, but it was dry and around 50 degrees today.  So, I took off the cover, reinstalled the battery, primed the carbs, pulled her off the center stand and went for a jaunt.  Ahhhh!

I live in Florida so we have riding pretty much year round, but I don't have my bike in Orlando, it's at my parents house in North Florida, so I finally got to ride today. Didn't go well. Rode to the mall - found out my jackets not as insulated as i thought. I get there and try to take off my helmet and forgot to take off my sunglasses - ouch. I stuff my gloves under the seat and it cracks the thing that locks the seat - when i got back i had to reach under the seat and pull the cable to unlock it. I get on the road - bike starts chugging, takes me 30 seconds of thinking to realize i need to switch to reserve even though I've only gone about 100 miles since I filled it up (I had filled it up after last time I left home, I think my dad has been riding it and not telling me) . I get to my road, and forgot to shift back to first from 5th gear - bike kept stalling and i drove about half a mile slipping the clutch thinking something was clogging the petcock before I realize what the hell was going on. I get home and take off my gloves - get a papercut on my knuckle grabbing a soda. What the hell.

Quote from: comradeiggy on December 18, 2011, 09:06:51 PM
I live in Florida so we have riding pretty much year round, but I don't have my bike in Orlando, it's at my parents house in North Florida, so I finally got to ride today. Didn't go well. Rode to the mall - found out my jackets not as insulated as i thought. I get there and try to take off my helmet and forgot to take off my sunglasses - ouch. I stuff my gloves under the seat and it cracks the thing that locks the seat - when i got back i had to reach under the seat and pull the cable to unlock it. I get on the road - bike starts chugging, takes me 30 seconds of thinking to realize i need to switch to reserve even though I've only gone about 100 miles since I filled it up (I had filled it up after last time I left home, I think my dad has been riding it and not telling me) . I get to my road, and forgot to shift back to first from 5th gear - bike kept stalling and i drove about half a mile slipping the clutch thinking something was clogging the petcock before I realize what the hell was going on. I get home and take off my gloves - get a papercut on my knuckle grabbing a soda. What the hell.

What no injuries or damage typing that post? 

Dude you need to understand the rest of the US would love to get out on their bike but can't due to the wonderful weather. Everything else that happen is what we call having an i.d.10.T It happens to all of us from time to time so don't worry about it.

on a serious note it's good your dad is riding it because he is running the bike and not letting it sit gumming up the carbs which would mean a tear down and rebuild.