Tasks, as always, take longer than one thinks they will.
A week back, ordered new tires to replace ol' baldy at the back and ol' hard'n'leaky at the front.
Delivered to my door by Canada Post 4 days later.
Took a morning to jack up the rig's back end, remove the back wheel, find my extra front wheel and drop the wheels and new tires at a local bike shop.
Picked up the wheels, new tires on, old tires disposed of, at 4pm.
End of day one.
What with swapping the brake disks over the 2 hour wheel install took all of effin' day two.
Meanwhile my spring startup had revealed the need for a new battery.
In theory, charge it up and fling it in.
Yeah, right. As if.
Install goes OK. Turn on, not so much.
Green light shines bright, signals work, try horn, massive earsplitting blast instead of the former low voltage bleat.
Push starter. One clicking sound from somewhere under the seat then nothin'!
All fuses check OK.
Severe WTF? moment.
Two entire effin' days pulling plug-in connectors apart and pushing them back together.
What can I say except the problem went away as mysteriously as it showed up and I still have no idea what caused it?
But now the rig is road-ready. If it ever warms up enough for an old fart to go riding.
Wish me luck, eh?