Ride With Tank

Well, the first trip to Deals Gap is over, and as usual we had a great time.  There was an awful lot of traffic, an awful lot of wrecks,  and an awful lot of law enforcement but still a good time was had. 

I am working on putting together another ride down this weekend.  I have the oil changed and the chain lubed, so the bike is ready to go.  I am unsure if I am going so I am going to look at the weather and make a decision from there.  If I go I will go down on Thursday and return on Sunday.  Right now they are predicting a high of 97 degrees for Friday and I just don’t know if I can handle that kind of heat!

My Metzler Z6 is looking good so far!  I have put about 2,000 miles on it so far.  This breaks down to around 1,200 miles on the freeway, about 300 miles on Deals Gap, and the rest commuting.  I still have 95% of my center tread, 97% of my far edge tread, and 84% of my tread in the middle of the side.  I have so much on the far side because I rarely lean that far but I was real impressed by how the center held up.  I am sure it was the 300 miles on the Gap that ate up the sides, but it was less wear than I would get on the Tourance.  The Tourance would be bald on the sides after two trips.

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Usually if we are starting a ride like this on a weekday we will knock off work a little early.  Since we were only riding to the other side of Columbus on the first night I decided to put in a full day at work.  This was a mistake.  You can not imagine how long of a day it was!  Eventually quitting time came around and I made it home in record time.  Can you believe Skidplate was not home yet?  OK, no big thing, I still have a little bit of packing to do anyway.  Skidplate got home just as I was finishing packing and all appeared to be well. 

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