Out at fernly race way watching the vintage car race. Very cool, some true parts of racing history here worth the trip to see it..
Good bolivar petiti corona and a good sunset over reno nevada
Going to the hot tube time to start the weekend booze cigar and family oooh spring is here
Congrats to my unr computer science boys they kicked it good had the crowd laughing, engaged and asking questions they were social geeks
Seniors doing final dry run this should be good I maybe biased but this project could be a legitimate business
@unr watching cs senior projects wondering how my team will do giving there presentations
Several months back my wife suggested that I take my friend Kay Vetter up on his offer to take me through Baja on my dirt bike, to which I of course said “I would love to do that”. Thus began the adventure. The first thing that I needed to do was purchase a new motorcycle, after all my 2000 Yamaha WR 400 was worn but still a great bike with 8,000 mile and 8 years of riding on it. I just did not feel comfortable about taking it, after all, during much of the trip I would be hundred of miles from a road, civilization or even water, so it was decided it was time for a new bike.
After selling my bike, I was off to Sierra Yamaha in Chilkoot California to purchase a new 2008 Yamaha WR 450. Of course, when you get a new bike you also need all the accessories for it too. I proceeded to purchase a new helmet, goggles, hand guards, GYTR AIS kit and a larger fuel tank from IMS for the Baja trip. I was stoked, the shop gave me a great price on the bike but that came at a cost off course, I guess it was a wash. (More on that in a future post)
Once I got home I also proceeded to get some additional accessories for the bike such as a skid plate and a RAM mount for my Garmin GPS. With the bike now in the garage the preparation began. I started with the easy things first like the hand guards and skid plate. After that I headed over to Kay’s house where he has a lift for motorcycles which made the next job of the GYTR AIS kit much easier.
The GYTR AIS kit was no small job, requiring the removal of the rear wheel, sub frame and shock of the bike just to get to the carburetor, 5 hours later, the bike was back together and started first try. I proceed to test refine and do shake down on rides with the new bike over the next several weekends leading to the departure. On every ride the bike ran great, it had a small stutter/stall if I hit the gas to fast at idle. Heck if it did hit when I wacked it wide open I would be on my back so that is a safety feature I figure.
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So that sums up the bike prep, next post will be the carry along items.
Terrible custmer service @ Sierra Yamaha is bringing me back 2 blogging I know u think it is all going via tweets but it is not going to be!
@sterlingdoak shiner? Did you lay that monster bike down? Or was it a bar fight?
Still pissed @ the way I was treated yesterday @ Sierra yamaha according to them there is nothing wrong with my brand new motorcycle
just had the absolute worst customer service experience in my life at sierra yamaha.
Bike is fixed pinched breather tube causing backflow which threw oil and made it run like crap we will see on test drive
Time to move to tequilla brrrpbrrrrrrrpbrrrp
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