Thursday, January 1, 2015

First Ride of 2015

Like some others, I went out before sunrise to get a pre-sunrise photo. The good part is I was able to sleep much longer as sunrise today was at 10:55am. This photo was taken at the same location as my new header photo and it is one of my favorite locations around town. I used to walk on this road often and love the view.

I did make another PBC video (can anyone say obsessed) but only went about 42km at +19°F. In the PBC video, Bridget rode in the sidecar for about 30 minutes at +16°F. She said that it wasn't too cold but I was a lot colder as the sidecar windshield almost negates the bike windshield. Our warm spell is ending as the temperature has been dropping all day long and will probably be near 0°F sometime tonight.

I finally turned the air intake around on the Ural air cleaner housing. Hopefully, this may eliminate snow clogging the air cleaner. I was prompted to remove the air cleaner housing as I was hearing a loud intake noise on the right side of the bike when accelerating. It turns out that the right intake air hose had come partially loose from the carburetor.



7 comments:

  1. Brrrr. Great new header pic though.

    Do your daylight hours seem to be getting noticeably longer now or does it take a few more weeks to really see the light (so to speak)

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    1. The length of the days will start to pick up soon. Now it's only a minute per day longer each day. By next month maybe six minutes per day.

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  2. Man, 1055 am and then its sunrise.....unfair advantage! ;)

    You're not the first to have knock off the carb's intake hose by the way.....let us know please if reversing the air intake scoop makes a difference....

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    1. But you have the advantage come summer. I'm not doing pre-sunrise photos at 2 am.

      Even with the original position I thought the opening was pretty well protected.

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  3. Richard walking through the snow. Great you took a "monkey" along for the ride. By all means if you need a regular one, just fly me in ;-)

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    1. Bridget wanted to get a winter ride in while it was still warm. (Everything is relative)

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  4. I meant waltzing, darn auto correct.

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