{"id":1171,"date":"2010-08-01T06:34:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T10:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2010-08-03T22:00:46","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T02:00:46","slug":"new-gear-for-vermont-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/new-gear-for-vermont-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"New gear for Vermont trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not a lot of new gear for this one, but what little there is tends to be pretty critical stuff.<\/p>\n

I have always been torn between sticking with my Aerostich and wearing a mesh jacket and pants. Since I dehydrate easily it seems like the Aerostich would help slow that down where mesh would accelerate it. But I just don’t feel like facing 100+ temps in the ‘Stich so I picked up an Olympia Airglide jacket off EBay for a great price. I already had Airglide pants so that’s what I’m going to wear on this trip. Both have water proof, thermolite insulated liners for cooler temps and rain. I still don’t know if I should pack my Aerostich — jeez, it’s almost like a security blanket to me.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>My well loved and well used Toshiba MP3 players officially bit the dust. Not wanting to spend a lot of money, I got an 8GB Sandisk Sansa Clip+ off Amazon for $55 and an accessory kit for $7. The kit included a 12 volt charger for the motorcycle, a wall charger if I don’t want to drag my computer in at night (advertised 15 hour battery life), ear buds, screen protector, longer USB cable (the Sansa Clip+ came with a 8″ cable — what a pain…), and a silicone protective cover. The Clip+ has a slot for mini SD cards so I should be able to take all the music and books I want. My hope is that the flash drive will be a more stable storage media in the high vibration environment of a motorcycle, but I have no idea. Only time will tell. The Clip+ is tiny and so light weight that it’s almost not noticeable. I’ve tested it on the motorcycle and it cranks the music.<\/p>\n

And, of course, my new Kouba lowering links that have brought the motorcycle back down to my height even with the Ohlin shock. I can’t wait to get on the road and see how this combination works out over the long haul.<\/p>\n

I felt like I had a slow leak in my front tube after getting new tires put on, so I pulled the wheel off and took it to Grif’s Cycle Sports in Lewisville to have a new tube put in. Really great people at this shop — they had it mounted and balanced in no time for $20 plus the cost of the tube. I feel much better heading out of town with a fresh tube — I don’t know about anyone else, but I thinking finding air while on the road is a pain and most places charge for it. I have a mini compressor, but I hate to dig that out and wait for it to inflate unless I’m stopped for the night. A good tube is a much better bet.<\/p>\n

There’s been a lot of maintenance. The water pump had to be done again, but that was covered by my extended warranty (which I think may be worth it’s weight in gold). The water pump involves dumping both oil and coolant, so those are both fresh. I changed the brake fluid, the fork oil, and put new brake pads on the rear caliper. As mentioned I put new tires on again.<\/p>\n

I think the motorcycle is good to go. I’m looking forward to seeing how the Ztechnik windshield is in HOT weather, since I have already experienced how much colder I am in cold weather. Maybe the increased air hitting me will help with the heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not a lot of new gear for this one, but what little there is tends to be pretty critical stuff. I have always been torn between sticking with my Aerostich and wearing a mesh jacket and pants. Since I dehydrate easily it seems like the Aerostich would help slow that down where mesh would accelerate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycles-gear","tag-vermont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}