ADVENTURE-TRAVELING!!
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:28 pm
MY TRIP TO MINNESOTA
This story is off CBX topic but I had to post it..............
Coming back from picking up a 71 CB500 in MN, about 100 miles north of Kansas City I blew one of those crappy tires from the highway repair truck that I had to pay an exorbitant price for when I went to Oklahoma. The shaft was missing to lower the spare so I had to use an Allen wrench to lower it. The jack wouldn't raise the truck high enough because of the weight of the motorcycle so I had to dig the gravel out, lowering the earth so I could get the tire off. It was flat so I used 2 cans of old air to get enough in to limp to the station a half mile up the road and get air. The tire is so old there were cracks all over it so I only put 26lbs in and the wheel is rusted so badly that I was afraid it might collapse. Needless to say I barely made it back. I thought I was going to have to wait for the Highway Patrol and get another crappy tire from the tire repair truck. I call this adventure traveling.
This story is off CBX topic but I had to post it..............
Coming back from picking up a 71 CB500 in MN, about 100 miles north of Kansas City I blew one of those crappy tires from the highway repair truck that I had to pay an exorbitant price for when I went to Oklahoma. The shaft was missing to lower the spare so I had to use an Allen wrench to lower it. The jack wouldn't raise the truck high enough because of the weight of the motorcycle so I had to dig the gravel out, lowering the earth so I could get the tire off. It was flat so I used 2 cans of old air to get enough in to limp to the station a half mile up the road and get air. The tire is so old there were cracks all over it so I only put 26lbs in and the wheel is rusted so badly that I was afraid it might collapse. Needless to say I barely made it back. I thought I was going to have to wait for the Highway Patrol and get another crappy tire from the tire repair truck. I call this adventure traveling.
