{"id":11590,"date":"2023-06-01T11:33:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T17:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=11590"},"modified":"2023-05-30T15:34:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T21:34:30","slug":"what-bike-to-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/what-bike-to-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"What Bike To Ride?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The OFMC gets out of the rain in New Mexico last year.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

The RMMRC<\/a> is leaving in a few days on this New Mexico ride and at last week’s meeting someone asked me which bike I’ll be riding. Gosh, I hadn’t even thought about that. I guess I ought to.<\/p>\n

The Honda CB750 was out right away because its tires are too thin and would not be enough for a 1,500-mile trip. That left the Concours and the V-Strom.<\/p>\n

I figured what I really ought to do is take both of them out for runs and see which seems to be most ready, or else figure out what each of them might need.<\/p>\n

I checked the tires on the V-Strom and the air was good. Check. Tires are good. Check. My top bag has suffered some damage in a couple times dropping the bike but I pulled out a strap that secures it well so no worries there. Check.<\/p>\n

How is the oil? I just got the oil changed in my car the day before because I realized I had pretty much forgotten about paying it any attention. And I couldn’t remember the last time I changed the oil in the V.<\/p>\n

I checked, which first meant figuring out how. That’s how bad an owner I am. So there’s a sight glass and you’re supposed to hold it level and check the level in the sight glass. Well, I didn’t see anything in the sight glass. I figured it would be good to take it for a ride over to Vickery to get some oil. That way I would also get a chance to see how it’s running.<\/p>\n

It ran great. One thing I like about this bike is that it always runs great. I’ve had my troubles periodically with the Concours and the CB but the V-Strom, as they say, is bullet-proof.<\/p>\n

I got home, put in some oil, checked the sight glass, put in some more, and it looked fine. So this bike is ready to go. I guess I’ll be riding the V-Strom. But now I really ought to check the air and oil in the Concours, just because they need to be checked. And if I do that before I leave, and I take it for a ride, maybe I’ll change my mind about which bike to ride. After all, the Concours is a really fine highway bike . . . <\/p>\n

Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n

You know you’re a biker when you hate the fact that you were in front of your computer long enough to read this and not on your scoot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The RMMRC is leaving in a few days on this New Mexico ride and at last week’s meeting someone asked me which bike I’ll be riding. Gosh, I hadn’t even thought about that. I guess I ought to. The Honda CB750 was out right away because its tires are too thin and would not be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[460,349,2,970,818,517,518],"tags":[104,36,1016],"class_list":["post-11590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honda-motorcycles","category-kawasaki","category-gear","category-motorcycle-mechanics","category-rocky-mountain-motorcycle-riders-club","category-suzuki-motorcycles","category-v-strom","tag-honda-cb750-custom","tag-kawasaki-concours","tag-suzuki-v-strom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590","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=11590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11594,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590\/revisions\/11594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}