{"id":17711,"date":"2015-10-27T12:41:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T19:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=17711"},"modified":"2015-10-27T12:42:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T19:42:03","slug":"tuesday-moto-mx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=17711","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Moto MX"},"content":{"rendered":"

A sure sign of getting old is confusion over\u00a0repurposed abbreviations. I no longer know what people mean when they say CRM or CSA\u2014or even CIA. I used to teach CRM\u2014crew resource management\u2014to USAF fighter pilots, but that’s not what computer people mean by CRM. People tell me they get their veggies and fruits from the CSA, and I want to ask if they have Confederate flag stickers on their cars. CIA? Well, you can look that one up in the Urban Slang Dictionary yourself.<\/p>\n

MX apparently stands for many things, but to me\u00a0and other USAF veterans, it stands for\u00a0maintenance. Moto, of course, means motorcycle. So that’s what I was doing this morning, a bit of moto MX, repairing damage I did to the Goldwing over the weekend, when I scraped a hole in the\u00a0coolant reservoir trying to get the bike off a rental trailer.<\/p>\n

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The coolant reservoir I wrecked<\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was able to make the short ride over to Ed’s house without overheating. Ed, as regular readers of my blog know, is\u00a0my riding buddy and moto MX guru. It just happened Ed\u00a0had a\u00a0spare coolant\u00a0reservoir on hand. We R&R’d the reservoir and fixed a couple of unrelated problems while we were at it. R&R, I see, has multiple meanings<\/a> as well, but in\u00a0this context it means “repair & replace.”<\/p>\n

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Ed getting ready to R&R<\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I ordered a new coolant reservoir, along with an aluminum belly pan, an aftermarket part designed to protect the reservoir. Judging by the different kinds of belly pans you can buy for the Goldwing, I’m not the first guy to knock a hole in a\u00a0reservoir! As soon as\u00a0the parts come\u00a0I’ll go back to Ed’s garage to bolt on the belly pan\u2014and give him\u00a0the new reservoir so he’ll still have\u00a0one in stock.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, when I turned in the rental trailer, I told the guys there about the problem I had getting the\u00a0Wing on and off it. They knew about that particular problem and had a fix for it: welding a six-inch extension to the end of the fold-down ramp. They\u00a0said they’ve done it for several\u00a0Wing and Harley owners, and that it works, so I picked out a new trailer and gave them a deposit. They’ll add the ramp extension,\u00a0do the title & license, and have it ready\u00a0Thursday.\u00a0Before I drive the truck over to hook it up I’ll putt over on\u00a0the motorcycle to make sure it\u00a0goes\u00a0up and down the ramp without scraping bottom\u2014then give them a check for the balance.<\/p>\n

We’ll break in the new trailer by hauling Polly’s Ducati over to Ed’s to get it running again.\u00a0Already planning a spring drive to Farmington NM with the Wing in tow, a good launch point\u00a0for a Four Corners ride\u00a0with Donna on the back. Whoopee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A sure sign of getting old is confusion over\u00a0repurposed abbreviations. I no longer know what people mean when they say CRM or CSA\u2014or even CIA. I used to teach CRM\u2014crew resource management\u2014to USAF fighter pilots, but that’s not what computer people mean by CRM. People tell me they get their veggies and fruits from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5,2],"tags":[1993,425],"class_list":["post-17711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumerism","category-motorcycling","category-personal","tag-abbreviations","tag-honda-goldwing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17711"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17716,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17711\/revisions\/17716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}