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February 6, 2006
Weekend in review
According to the Seattle PI, the wind storm that had our power out was the worst since '99 - affecting 200,000 in the Puget Sound. When we woke up on Sunday to find the power still off, but on in downtown Winslow, we called our neighbors Dave and Marcia and went down to Doc's for breakfast. After breakfast, Dawnise and I made the second trip to the recycle center (opened this time, fortunately) before returning home to find line crews working on the power-lines feeding our road.
By the time we got inside and putzed around a bit they got the power back on. I went downstairs, started up the computers, and put on my work outfit and set to tearing down the Trophy.
A couple hours later, I had the spark plugs renewed (the middle of the three cylinders is directly under the frame, and a royal PITA to get a wrench on) and was on my way to the local auto parts store for some tubing to renew the clutch fluid. After starting the bike (success!), I set to putting all the body work back on.
I was two screws away from calling it done when I heard a crack. An expensive sounding crack. One of the ABS screw tabs on the faring apparently didn't like my arm squeezing past it and broke. As I type the broken bits are in the bathroom upstairs, with an improvised splint and "liquid weld" applied. If that doesn't work, I'll try something else, or perhaps a few something elses, before forking out several hundred dollars to replace the plastic.
So I finished the evening with one bike mostly together, running again, but I can't call it a victory quite yet.
Posted by dberger at February 6, 2006 7:55 AM