Just a quick post tonight. Don't want the blog to go too long without some sort of post, but this one isn't about motorcycle maintenance or the Trackside Wheel Chock. Those are the closest topics to building a following for this sparsely read blog. This post isn't even about a neat ride, although today I did my usual short loop and until I ran down some traffic I was cruising along smoothly and a bit faster than normal.
Nope, today was more a "work on bike stuff" day than "ride the bikes" day. Local CMA chapters here in San Diego bought a motorcycle trailer from one of our members when he was selling it. The trailer normally stays in my driveway, and rust was starting to take it's toil on the railing and get more severe. I began sanding and roughing up the old paint and had primed the trailer a few weeks ago. Today was my first opportunity to re-paint it, and with some help from my eldest daughter we got the first coat of black Rustoleum paint on it. While it would look much better sprayed, I can't risk overspray where it is, and the trailer won't fit in my improvised paint booth (as shown in this Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN2-bM2D3V0 at least from the inside-all it was is an easy-up with paint drop sheets alligator clipped to the top). So we're brushing the paint on just to get it covered. It's a 50/50 paint job: At 50 feet or at 50 MPH it looks ok!
Hope you had a good Father's Day and good riding.
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