Well first day in September and the Goldwing is supposed to be done today. I also need to check on the last two parts I'm waiting from my last order. It is the mounting bar and bracket for my GPS.
I also received my invitation to register for the 2011 IBR. They moved the dates up it used to be August/September time frame but this time they moved it to June. Not sure why the change and I haven't seen anything explaining why. I would really like to apply but I would only have a little over nine months to get the Goldwing ready. I really don't think I could get it ready and I would hate to be picked and have to drop out. Nine months seems like a lot of time but it is really hard to get everything ready to go and get the funds set aside for the event. All told last time I probably spent around 8-9K. I think I'm going to have to wait till 2013 if I want to give it one more shot. This next time I really want to give it my best effort and scrambling right from the start isn't the way to do it. I'll wait and slowly work on the Goldwing and hopefully get selected for 2013.
It would really be cool if my wife would do the 2-up thing with me. I'm trying to get her interested in a rally and if she liked it, I might get her interested in the big one. We are still thinking of doing a SS1000 this month so who knows.
I really haven't been doing much this month outside of a few rides. Since getting the Goldwing 10 weeks ago, I have put 3200 miles on it. It looks like my wife is going to do the SS1000 with me this weekend. We are probably going to shoot over to Tucson and loop back home. I'm hoping I can get the GPS mounted and the oil changed before we take off. The weather looks to be a little iffy but should be okay. Right now the plan is to take off at 05:00 and hopefully be home before mid-night, we will be running interstate most of the time so it shouldn't be an issue. The loop will be around 1070 miles.
Well until next time ride safe.
