The First Thousand

I rode the motorcycle to work earlier today. Ran out of gas along the way and switched over to the "reserve tank". I stopped at a 7-11 along Highway 121 on the way home. It cost me approximately $13 to fill up. I reset the trip-odometer which was showing 170.7 miles and noticed the regular odometer was showing 2058 miles. Being that I was about 10 miles from home still and I got the bike with 1068 miles on the clock, that means I've rode a full 1,000 miles on it so far. Hard for me to believe that between when the bike was new in 2002 and when I got it in February 2008 it racked up almost the same amount of miles as what I've ridden in 3 months!

So far it's been great. In the past 3 months I've gotten back into the groove and riding has become more second nature. When I first got it riding wasn't a totally comfortable experience since I was spending alot of thought processes on things like...

"need to up shift... gotta work on matching those engine RPM's", "here comes a corner... watch your speed!", "gotta balance the front and rear braking... don't lock-up the rear wheel!", "turn signal on", "how do I turn this signal off again?", "what gear am I in again?".

Now that the technical part of riding has come back to me I can focus on the experience itself. But that'll have to wait for few days. Bad weather is returning to the DFW area and the bike will sit in the garage until better days. It's all for the best anyhow since I need to tighten, clean, and lube the chain. My first motorcycle maintenance session. Ah fun.