{"id":10550,"date":"2021-10-14T11:57:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T17:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=10550"},"modified":"2021-10-10T10:58:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T16:58:03","slug":"the-wonderfulness-of-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/the-wonderfulness-of-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wonderfulness Of Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s so nice to see my Concours out with the gang again, and running well, which is to say, normally.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

I can’t even remember how long ago it was that my Concours started giving me trouble, but it seems like it’s been all summer. I packed it off to Joel before the OFMC bike trip<\/a> but when he brought it back Joel said it still needed more work. But there wasn’t time to do that before the trip.<\/p>\n

Once I got back from that trip I ordered the necessary parts and called Joel to let him know they were in hand and I was ready for him to come get the bike again, and this time bring it back really, truly fixed.<\/p>\n

Well, Joel brought it back the other day and first I took it on a brief errand run to the wine store and then a few days later I rode it with the RMMRC to Daniels Park. And there was just one word for it: normal.<\/p>\n

How wonderful it is for that bike to be operating normally again, finally. Normal is so great.<\/p>\n

No more racing at a screaming pace when I pull up to a stop. No more dying as I coast to a stop. No more needing to ride around the neighborhood first to get the bike running halfway smoothly before getting out on the less forgiving main roads.<\/p>\n

It was also nice once again to have the feeling of power. I had never noticed a lack of power in my other bikes before but lately I have. On the Colorado Cruise with the RMMRC<\/a> I was on the V-Strom and for the first time it seemed like it was struggling for power going over the highest passes. That bike is currently with Joel and I hope it feels more back to normal when he brings it back. And then the other day I rode the Honda CB750 with the RMMRC up to Kremmling<\/a>, and that bike was totally left in the dust by those other bigger bikes. The Connie has the power to keep up with any of these other guys.<\/p>\n

Yeah, normal can often be boring. We crave some change, some variety. But when you’ve had a steady diet of not normal, and it hasn’t been fun, it’s amazing how wonderful normal can be. We all know that old Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times. Right now I’m really hoping to be living in some boring times.<\/p>\n

Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n

100 reasons not to date a biker: 19. We “need” a bunch of expensive riding gear, usually 2 or 3 of each item.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t even remember how long ago it was that my Concours started giving me trouble, but it seems like it’s been all summer. I packed it off to Joel before the OFMC bike trip but when he brought it back Joel said it still needed more work. But there wasn’t time to do that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[460,349,517,518],"tags":[36,906],"class_list":["post-10550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honda-motorcycles","category-kawasaki","category-suzuki-motorcycles","category-v-strom","tag-kawasaki-concours","tag-rmmrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10550"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10554,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550\/revisions\/10554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}