At long last Kimmie is back up and running properly. The head gasket was replaced, the oil pressure switch is repaired and a new rectifier has been installed. I pick her up on Friday but due to a full weekend of requirements, commitments and duties was not able to ride her till Monday.
Weekends are normally busy for me, so I made a promise to myself that I would get out more, go to the places that interest me. I have been wanting to travel up to Brookstown for over a month, Ybor (ee-bor) City for about the same amount of time. Weeki Wachee - the city of mermaids is also on that list. Before I did all that though, I needed to go to work. So we fire up Kimmie.
It's a lovely day and I'm riding 301 into Tampa, it's more or less a straightaway through some scrub and swampland. Nothing really to look at or do other than pay attention to the traffic and be careful when passing or being passed. I'm about halfway though this route, the one place in all of Florida where I know for sure I don't have cell phone coverage. I look at the instrument panel.
Yep, that happened.
Now I have a choice...that could be 1001 things and the light was not on when I started Kimmie. I know they replaced the rectifier and I thought to myself that the mechanics would have double checked everything before releasing the bike to me right? RIGHT?
So do we trust Kimmie to get me to work? Do we turn around and go home? Do we pull off and call the tow company to take me back? Do I tap the idiot light and hope it goes off?
I head into work, knowing I can't do anything on the side of the road. Sure I have a small tool kit in the bike but other than some very basic fixes I've no idea what I can do other than ignore the angry red light for now.
Kimmie runs fine and takes me to work with no issues. Somewhere between point A and B the red light goes off. It does not come on at all on the way home and I take the highway home...thinking that if there is an issue I would rather be somewhere I can get help quickly rather than a empty country road in the middle of the night.
My mechanic is not open on Monday's. I leave a message and await a call back. "It's probably nothing." I tell myself.
Still though it's a nagging issue in the back of my head, I start Kimmie up in the morning and have no issues. No lights turn on...I ride to work on Tuesday.
It's a lovely day and I'm riding 301 into Tampa, it's more or less a straightaway through some scrub and swampland. Nothing really to look at or do other than pay attention to the traffic and be careful when passing or being passed. I'm about halfway though this route, the one place in all of Florida where I know for sure I don't have cell phone coverage. I look at the instrument panel.
Yep, that happened.
Now I have a choice...that could be 1001 things and the light was not on when I started Kimmie. I know they replaced the rectifier and I thought to myself that the mechanics would have double checked everything before releasing the bike to me right? RIGHT?
So do we trust Kimmie to get me to work? Do we turn around and go home? Do we pull off and call the tow company to take me back? Do I tap the idiot light and hope it goes off?
I head into work, knowing I can't do anything on the side of the road. Sure I have a small tool kit in the bike but other than some very basic fixes I've no idea what I can do other than ignore the angry red light for now.
Kimmie runs fine and takes me to work with no issues. Somewhere between point A and B the red light goes off. It does not come on at all on the way home and I take the highway home...thinking that if there is an issue I would rather be somewhere I can get help quickly rather than a empty country road in the middle of the night.
My mechanic is not open on Monday's. I leave a message and await a call back. "It's probably nothing." I tell myself.
Still though it's a nagging issue in the back of my head, I start Kimmie up in the morning and have no issues. No lights turn on...I ride to work on Tuesday.
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