{"id":3344,"date":"2009-12-23T09:59:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T16:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=3344"},"modified":"2009-12-23T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T17:14:51","slug":"motorcycle-maintenance-log-part-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=3344","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Maintenance Log, Part V"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Working at Ed's garage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Posted to a Goldwing forum yesterday:<\/p>\n

Thanks to my friend Ed, mounted and balanced in the comfort of his heated garage. And no wobble, at least for awhile . . . actually, the second set of tires I ran on this motorcycle, D250s, never cupped or wobbled. If only they had lasted longer . . . oh, well, maybe I’ll be lucky again. One hopeful sign is that the front wheel balanced out perfectly without needing any weights. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.<\/p>\n

Some say it’s easier to dismount\/remount the rear wheel if you pull off the left muffler. Ed thought we’d try doing it that way, and I’m here to say it was a whole lot easier. And then we went to put the muffler back on . . . maybe next time we’ll just work around the damn muffler!<\/p>\n

Anyway, I know people love to rag on Dunlops, but I’ve had good luck with them. This is my first set of Elite IIIs . . . if they wear or ride significantly differently that 250s, I’ll let you all know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Less than 24 hours later, at least a dozen readers have responded to my post with slams against Dunlop tires.\u00a0 One of them is a self-styled “darksider,” a guy who runs car tires on his Wing.<\/p>\n

Yes, Virginia, there is a guy out there who bought a $23,000 motorcycle and is too cheap to put motorcycle tires on it.\u00a0 Actually, there are a bunch of them, if you believe what you read on the Goldwing forum.<\/p>\n

I met my friend Ed through the forum, which I read for maintenance tips and techniques.\u00a0 Useful messages are increasingly scarce, though, and the forum has come to be dominated by old white guys who just want to slam Harley riders or pass on the latest Limbaugh\/Beck\/O’Reilly talking points.\u00a0 Of course, old white guys pretty much are<\/em> the Goldwing demographic, so what can you expect?\u00a0 Here are some sample subject lines:<\/p>\n

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  • Merry CHRISTmas and a Happy New Year<\/li>\n
  • Here one<\/li>\n
  • First peak of whats inside a can of wooopass<\/li>\n
  • Another Harley riders sees the light<\/li>\n
  • More On Tigar<\/li>\n
  • To cool<\/li>\n
  • Can You Relate????????<\/li>\n
  • Memoriam: Global Warming Causes Everything<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Yep, Grandpaw is alive and well on the Goldwing forum!<\/p>\n

    And before you bother to point it out, yes, I’m old, and white, and a grandfather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Posted to a Goldwing forum yesterday: Thanks to my friend Ed, mounted and balanced in the comfort of his heated garage. And no wobble, at least for awhile . . . actually, the second set of tires I ran on this motorcycle, D250s, never cupped or wobbled. If only they had lasted longer . . […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-motorcycling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344","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=3344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3347,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions\/3347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}