I did not make it

[ragtop69gs]

[Carbon_One]

Nothing like finally getting home to your own bed, especially after all of what you've endured on your trip. Get rested up and tackle those gremlins later.

It was great to finally meet you and hope we cross paths again sometime. Oh and thanks for the kickstand pad.

Larry

[Big Lou]

Real glad you made it

 

 

EXTREMELY INTERESTED IN YOUR FIX

[pmelah]

oh oh oh whats the saying for MD day ride em in PUSH THEM OUT!!!!!!!! looks like that may be holding true now i got to show up at the next Oberlin MD Day :rotf::rotf:

[Flyinfool]

Thanks for all of the well wishes and advice.

 

I left Dons at 8:am and got home at 10:15 pm to cover 425 miles, that made for a trip average of 29 mph. The good news is that there was a nice tail wind and I got 36 MPG pulling the trailer with the cruise set at GPS 75 for most of the trip home. When the bike was running it ran great.

 

I will start a separate thread on what I go thru trying to diagnose and fix this the right way.

I haven't revisited the schematics or the bike yet, but the number of things that had issues is leaning me to start by checking all of the grounds.

 

I forgot to take a pic with the left faring apart in the rest area. It looked like a bomb went off in the bike, I had parts everywhere, But then my mind was more on getting home. Through all of this there was only 1 person that offered assistance and he was very helpful by having heavy enough cable and connectors to run new power direct to the starter to get it to crank. I was kind of surprised, even many bikers (riding many brands) stopped to look at my debris field but kept walking and never said a word. Maybe I gave a false impression that I looked like I knew what I was doing......

 

I haven't revisited the schematics or the bike yet, but the number of things that had issues is leaning me to start by checking all of the grounds.

[pmelah]

just glad you made it home safely and i look forward to reading your findings on this problem

[Flyinfool]

If nothing else all of the time spent in the rest areas gave me a lot of time to eat ice cream.

The Ice cream was for medicinal purposes, to help me cool down.......

[dacheedah]

Glad u got there, how was the awesome drive around chi town??

[Venturous Randy]

It's called;

Making memories.

RandyA

[rickardracing]

It's called;

Making memories.

RandyA

 

 

Unfortunately for Jeff, bad memories. I hate hearing about someone having bike troubles on a long trip.

[Yammer Dan]

Glad you made it home Jeff. Now get ready for the next one...

[Flyinfool]

It's called;

Making memories.

RandyA

Unfortunately for Jeff, bad memories. I hate hearing about someone having bike troubles on a long trip.

 

Not all bad memories for sure. Once home and safe in bed I can look back and chuckle at what some other travelers saw.

 

 

 

Glad u got there, how was the awesome drive around chi town??

 

Did I ever mention that I hate Chicago.........

I hate Chicago more than Big Tom hates SNOW

 

Actually I was wondering if my eternal wish had been granted and that all of the Chi regulars had been beamed to outer space. Kenosha had more traffic. Maybe they all knew my planned travel itinerary and had given up and gone home figuring they missed me this time. I never seen so few cars on the road. This was even less than at 3am. I'm so confused. Maybe they heard of my troubles and felt sorry for me.

 

With the intermittent engine I was really worried about getting thru Chi and always wanting to be in the very right lane in case the engine shut down and I had to dive for the shoulder. Then there were the road destruction areas with nowhere to go.

[Trader]

Geee......if you hadn't spent so much time of "every one elses" bike you could have done some work on yours!

 

So now I really feel guilty.

 

But you beat me home.

 

I had rain going to Marcarls's on Thursday and again home today....but the rest was GRRREAT!