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I decided to burn up a personal day yesterday to get some things done on my "to do list" then went for a ride in the afternoon as it was too nice not to.
I took a dirt road some where around rt 12 ish that didn;t say it was a dead end, but petered off to more like a trail , I followed it for a couple miles through several large puddles from the heavy rain we had , when it turned to more like a trail and less like a road I stopped to scout ahead a bit .
this is what made up my mind to turn around, apparantly the beavers had been busy .
from what I could tell it was only 9-12 '' deep but up ahead looked pretty dark and probably deeper than I wanted to venture alone, so I turned around as there was no way I was getting 500lb bike out of the muck by myself, not that I would want to have to do it with help either.
there was water everywhere from the heavy rain , this road is usually pretty dry.
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so that was friday .
Saturday Leah and I headed out for some local dirt road action .
there are a couple windmills on the back side of Mt Wachusett you can just make them out through the trees
Here is the DOG CRAP part of the ride ,
I was "just riding along" when all of a sudden my bike sounded really loud , as if I didn't have a muffler , so I pull over to find that it was falling off.
so I get off the bike and stand on the side of the road to check out the damage when i find myself standing in a pile of dog crap .
THANKS TO THE A HOLE THAT WALKS THEIR DOG DOWN THAT PARTICULAR DIRT ROAD AND DOESN'T ATLEAST HAVE THE DECENCY TO TOSS THE CRAP IN THE WOODS IF YOU AREN;T GOING TO TAKE IT HOME WITH YOU IN A BAG !
Now there is in fact a recall from kawasaki for the muffler bolts and at the time of purchase, the dealership said that they would get the bolts for both bikes, I said that I could install them to save myself a trip back , so they said they would mail them to me , and since the bolts haven;t shown up in the mail yet it was out of sight out of mind until today when it fell off rubbing pretty good on the wheel , thankfully it didn;t jam in there
being that I went to the school of McGuyver I carry what most would think of as too much stuff , but I happend to have one bolt that would fit one of teh holes and some safety wire for the other hole
back in business
after I scrapped the pooh off my boot we were on our way .
as soon as we got home I called the salesman and explained the situation , and come to find out they never ordered the recall bolts for me, but I was assured that they were now on order and i should see them in a week or so . ................... we shall see.
It was a nice day for a ride despite the dog crap .