So, just like when you take your car into the shop and explain the symptoms to the mechanic, he (maybe she) hems and haws for a while and says “nothing really comes to mind, I’ll need to take it for a test ride”. And of course, none of the symptoms that you reported make them selves apparent during the test ride. So – you’re stuck waiting for a catastrophic failure. Anyway Keith at Edge Performance did his best to explain away my bikes lack of symptoms. It might be valves – WRONG, this was way too loud. It might be drive train slack – WRONG, gimme a break. It might be a u-joint, coming from the right place, but not making any noise now…..BINGO – as I learned 200 miles later! Evidently there is a sleeve that the drive line slides into and it started acting up near Silver Lake Oregon. Knock, knock, knock, sounded like marbles bouncing around in the transmission, and I was able to put my hand on the cover and feel it…..Some aggressive braking seems to have loosened it up and it’s not made noises now for over 800 miles, so I guess I’m okay. I’ll tear into it on a down day in Vegas later this week.
Today was mostly straight roads. The terrain is hilly, there is much agriculture, even more if you consider sagebrush a crop. I’m glad that I’m leaving eastern OR behind and moving into the trees.
Okay – ran out of gas 8 miles outside of Burns OR. My math skills are fine, the gas gauge works fine, my base for calculations was faulty. Fortunately my cook stove and bike can run on the same fuel and my 22oz gas can for the cookstove saved my bacon!
Best thing today – getting out of Ontario and having a spare (full) gas can
Challenge for the day – finding Silver lake, those road signs in Christmas Valley suck! They could have spent more time being informative and less time being cutesey with their friggin’ road names.
Funniest thing – the next picture
Going to Owyhee Dam
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That's a great looking view, it must have been hard pushing your big, heavy motorcycle all that way!
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