Like last winter, I try to use it at least once every two to three weeks to avoid having to winterize it.
So far, so good. Yesterday (Sunday) the weather was really nice so I took it out for a spin, for the first time since Thanksgiving. I just imagine that it appreciates being used and not left alone for months on end. Especially when you give it a little TLC, this time it was a few drips of oil on the chain. And an oil level check.
It started right away and I let it warm up a bit. When leaving our street, I was reminded of one of the benefits of riding a bike, attention from females, as one of my neighbors' daughters just gave me this smile and a friendly wave that I would have never gotten when driving a cage !
Down the road it went, into the low sun and along several of the hilly and windy backroads :rawk:
I stopped to check out some illegal logging activity along a creek, freshly chewed tree stumps, five or six trees felled, that's special for a Dutchman like me, you should know that the last beaver in The Netherlands was killed in 1825, that is before most of our forum members were born. The mass extinction of the Dutch beavers in the early 19th century was a direct result of the Catholic church declaring beavers to be "fish". :whistle: Catholics are not allowed to eat meat on Fridays, and fish is not a meat as defined by Rome, therefore the Catholics eat fish on Fridays. They must have preferred the warm blooded furry fish with legs and lungs. O_o
I made a picture of my bike in the leafless woods however I didn't realize I had the camera set to 'macro' so all pics look like through fogged up glasses...
On the way home I noticed that my turn signal indicator light had died as well (the 'neutral' light went a few months ago) so now I R-e-a-l-l-y want to replace them by white LEDs, I'll try to do that this winter and make a 'how-to' of it. It will involve cracking the old bulb, soldering a resistor, a couple diodes and the LED to the wires and another, mixing up some plastic, and that should give you a nice long-life replacement light bulb.