November (10 Months to go)

WOW has time been flying, here we are in November already. Well the FJR hasn't seen much road time since mid October. I have been working on wiring and mocking up a mounting system for the new Aux-fuel cell. The design has been completed for a week or two and I'm planning to build it out of cardboard to see how it fits before I start fabrication.

I was able to get the ECU recall taken care of and I'm planning to test the new ECU this weekend with a 350 mile ride into the mountains. This will probably be the last mountain trip until spring. I'm setting at little over 15.5K for the year, so it looks like I'm going to fall a little short of the 20K mark I was hoping to hit this year.

The month has been flying along one week away from Thanksgiving and I'm at the 16.5K mark. Have been doing a few small rides nothing over 370 miles for the last two weeks. I just had the recall completed on my top box and I was able to do our cities toy run this Sunday. I took my son on his first toy run, we probably had 7000 riders. He had a blast waving and checking out all the bikes.

Well I have not been doing very well this month on completing modifications to the FJR, I still do not have the mocked up mount for the fuel cell and I'm still playing with the wiring. I still have a ways to go before I'm ready for the 2009 IBR. About the only thing that is completed is sending the final payment on my entry fees, now I'm all in.

Well I cannot believe it but it looks like I have my cardboard mock up done and I have scheduled time with my buddy to build the mount up. I've still been getting in a couple of more rides and things are looking like I just might install the aux-fuel cell by January.

I had to try one more run through the mountains so last weekend, I conned seven friends into riding and we did a 250 mile loop with the temp around 28 degrees mid-day. A little chilly but everyone made it back with no frost bite. One of the guys was riding a brand new Yamaha Raider with no windshield and jeans. It was wild running through the twisties and seeing snow and ice on the edges of the road.

Take care, till next month ride safe.

Dave