Mother's Day Ride

This morning, it was a chilly 30°F but the cloudless sky promised warmer temperatures by afternoon. The lake shown is along my commute and, as you can see, the ice is almost completely melted. Only another week or so. A small group of us from church rode west towards Nenana to the Monderosa Bar & Grill for lunch. The small size of the group was probably due to it being Mother's Day. My only instruction from home was to be back in time to make dinner for the family. The bike ran fine but when I returned, I noticed a couple of drops of brake fluid below the front master cylinder. There is still plenty of fluid but I guess I need to do some troubleshooting on the system. Afternoon temperatures got up into the low fifties (F) so it was a wonderful ride though a couple of the other riders without windshields were feeling pretty chilled by the time they arrived at the Monderosa. It was a diverse group comprised of a Harley, Goldwing, V-Star and my airhead BMW. I only saw two other bikes out today besides our small group. Since this was basically my first real ride of the year, I opted to ride by myself instead of with the group. I wanted the luxury of having the whole lane especially since I didn't know the condition of the road and prefer not having someone following me. Plus, the rest of the group were much more experienced riders all who preferred a higher average speed than I. They needed to stop for gas on the way out of town so the timing worked out perfectly. We all pulled into the Monderosa parking lot at about the same time. No food shot of my Mondo Jalapeno Burger since I didn't think of it until it was all gone. Now, I need to re-torque the heads and figure out where the brake fluid is leaking from.

Next Sunday, the very loosely organized BMW group in Fairbanks is trying to put together some sort of ride. This is a different group than the Airheads and exists only as an email list. Suggested destinations are all over the map ranging from 30 to 300 miles (this is just for lunch!) but will probably end up being the same destination as todays ride. Fortunately, their burgers are wonderful.