At The Start
Well, I arrived in Spartanburg just before 5pm local time.
The ride has shown me that I'm going to be hurting, at least getting started. My lack of any prep rides has got my tolerance down. Yesterday was just under 500 miles, today was just over. Getting off the bike for bonus stops will probably help me more than I had thought before.
It looked like there were about 12 bikes in the garage when I pulled in. Most were covered up, so I didn't get any pictures yet. We'll see if more people are out and about tomorrow.
Only two problems with the bike as I got my ride into Spartanburg knocked out. For some reason, my cell phone voice quality is terrible ... I can hear fine, but my voice is coming out garbled. The frustrating thing is that this tested fine before I left. I'll do some testing tomorrow to see if it's a phone issue, a coverage issue, or something new that's come up with the intercom. This issue came up before I hit any rain. The second problem came up when I stopped for gas after the first good strong rain. The 378 started complaining that it couldn't communicate with the XM antenna, but a power reset fixed it temporarily. I'll do more investigation on that tomorrow as well.
There's nothing officially scheduled until Saturday morning at 9am, so I've got two days to work out these things, rest up, and hopefully meet some of the other riders. With the bikes parked down in the garage, I've at least got an easy place to work on things ... and it's not as hot as my garage at home.
The ride has shown me that I'm going to be hurting, at least getting started. My lack of any prep rides has got my tolerance down. Yesterday was just under 500 miles, today was just over. Getting off the bike for bonus stops will probably help me more than I had thought before.
It looked like there were about 12 bikes in the garage when I pulled in. Most were covered up, so I didn't get any pictures yet. We'll see if more people are out and about tomorrow.
Only two problems with the bike as I got my ride into Spartanburg knocked out. For some reason, my cell phone voice quality is terrible ... I can hear fine, but my voice is coming out garbled. The frustrating thing is that this tested fine before I left. I'll do some testing tomorrow to see if it's a phone issue, a coverage issue, or something new that's come up with the intercom. This issue came up before I hit any rain. The second problem came up when I stopped for gas after the first good strong rain. The 378 started complaining that it couldn't communicate with the XM antenna, but a power reset fixed it temporarily. I'll do more investigation on that tomorrow as well.
There's nothing officially scheduled until Saturday morning at 9am, so I've got two days to work out these things, rest up, and hopefully meet some of the other riders. With the bikes parked down in the garage, I've at least got an easy place to work on things ... and it's not as hot as my garage at home.
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