And what a day. Beautiful weather with a little wind but nothing too bad. We rode up through Forestburg and Saint Jo up to Caps Corner then through the wind farm at Bulcher and down to Muenster for lunch at Doc's.
From there we planned to ride back home through Tioga but.... Coming to a stop sign in Collinsville I tried to shift into first and heard a "clink" of something hitting the ground...
When I look down I see the toe end of the shifter has broken off. <insert crying like a schoolgirl emote here>
So there we sit with me crouched down beside the bike trying to figure out how the heck I'm gonna shift and get us home. Thank you Mister Collinsville policeman for just laughing at us from your speedtrap a few yards away. Fortunately I never go anywhere without a few feet of para-chord. So I rig a sort of suicide shifter with the chord so I can pull up on it and we're off after only a few minutes.
Huge kudos to the folks at Maxim Honda here in Allen for offering to stay late and wait for us so they could fix the shifter. Got a new one installed and we're ready for more Mother's day weekend riding tomorrow.
Will post some pictures once my wife gets them uploaded off her camera.
262 miles in 7 hours with a few picture and lunch stops along the way.
From there we planned to ride back home through Tioga but.... Coming to a stop sign in Collinsville I tried to shift into first and heard a "clink" of something hitting the ground...
When I look down I see the toe end of the shifter has broken off. <insert crying like a schoolgirl emote here> So there we sit with me crouched down beside the bike trying to figure out how the heck I'm gonna shift and get us home. Thank you Mister Collinsville policeman for just laughing at us from your speedtrap a few yards away. Fortunately I never go anywhere without a few feet of para-chord. So I rig a sort of suicide shifter with the chord so I can pull up on it and we're off after only a few minutes.
Huge kudos to the folks at Maxim Honda here in Allen for offering to stay late and wait for us so they could fix the shifter. Got a new one installed and we're ready for more Mother's day weekend riding tomorrow.
Will post some pictures once my wife gets them uploaded off her camera.
262 miles in 7 hours with a few picture and lunch stops along the way.
