(Yes)Today was a pretty chill riding day. Probably another almost 300 miles. Given that it was cold last night, we started out in extra layers and utilized our heated jackets and handgrips.
This morning, Jaron raised my bike’s preload to the highest setting. We’ve been working our way up. It handled noticeably awful at 6 clicks out of 10 on the way to Winchester and much better at 8. Yesterday I rode on 9 and noticed that it handled still better. Suspension is important!
So this is a lowered KTM 790. My thought when I did my test ride was that it felt like I was riding on a cloud. Hard to beat that! I’ve been thinking of names. I tried out Falkor (the luck dragon) but that didn’t stick. Trying to think of something…playful? As my suspension felt normal again, Jaron asked if it was feeling fluffy like a cloud yet. So Fluffy seems to be sticking, reservedly, like a nickname in lieu of a name until a proper name reveals itself. I mean, I had Sheila for almost 2 years until she revealed her name to me.
Speaking of fluffiness and clouds, the sky was a nice blue with small fluffy clouds all day.
We had a late lunch at a token Italian restaurant in southern Ohio where we were the only dine-in patrons.
We made our way through horse country in northern Kentucky. Very green fields full of horses surrounded by white fences.
After a motel stay south of Louisville, we continued on to yard sale country on Saturday morning. I swear, every, idk, 500 feet there was a yard sale with cars parked on the side of the road slowing down traffic. Aye yai yai.
As we got hungry Jaron was very excited about the prospect of Dairy Queen. While Julie was very carefully parking her bike, Jaron got the sign language from inside the door that they were only doing drive-thru. So we drove thru.
As we approached the pickup window, Julie was thinking this wasn’t going to work out well. So I zoomed around in to the adjacent parking lot and walked over to take the food from Jaron at the pickup window.
And so it was that we picnicked at the Pizza Hut parking lot with Dairy Queen food. But what Jaron really wanted was a DQ blizzard. The drive thru line had gotten really long, so Jaron downloaded the app to place a mobile order and walked over to see where he was supposed to pick it up. He was directed over to the door to the dining room and someone stuck their arm out with a cup in their hand. So Jaron got his ice cream.
We noticed that in Illinois, there are signs that say too many words for “slippery when wet.” Like, “water on road after rain” or something like that. The words were small but that’s what it amounted to.
Popcorn and reeses for dinner, because sometimes being an adult is awesome.
Probably another 300 miles today. We set foot in 4 different states today: Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. The ergos on my new bike are pretty comfortable, I can go a lit longer between stops now.
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