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Post trip roundup
Jun. 27th, 2025 05:12 pmThe 2025 Erie Canal bicycle trip is in the books. It went quite well, the worst thing that happened was one of us slipped on a corner on sand and got a significant bruise on his calf requiring an ace wrap.
We skipped about 30 miles of it to make it manageable to finish Sunday - Monday was forecast to be in the 90s. We got by with only getting to about the mid 80s which was really just fine between moving and consuming a large quantity of water with LiquidIV in it (I've found this makes a huge difference in how I feel later in the day).
It's now 5 days on from getting home. Everything is put away, the bills are settled (everything went on my credit card and we settled after the trip).
I managed to mow the lawn on Wednesday - it was far too hot earlier and also raining periodically. Wednesday I found a window when it wasn't terribly hot and finished just in time for it to start raining again.
Now I need to start prepping for the UP trip. I pulled all of our camp chairs and tents out yesterday and today and set them up to confirm they are all OK (mice get to them sometimes). One repair was done, the rest are OK.
It's raining as I type this, the cold front is coming through, tomorrow should be much cooler (the temp already dropped nearly 20 degrees since the front moved in).
I found a video on a common problem with Goldwing carburetors, and did that fix yesterday. Today I tried starting it up and it does seem to run much more smoothly now though there's still a miss. I think the heads really should come off and the valves lapped - I will do a leak down test once I get the thing hot again; hopefully it's the heads/valves and not the rings.
I've converted it to mostly stock without the fairing up front, I like the look. It was originally in a blue/green color, I haven't decided if I'm going to repaint it. Official colors for 1977 were a blue/green, a candy red, and black. The year before there was a Sulfur Yellow which I quite like.
We skipped about 30 miles of it to make it manageable to finish Sunday - Monday was forecast to be in the 90s. We got by with only getting to about the mid 80s which was really just fine between moving and consuming a large quantity of water with LiquidIV in it (I've found this makes a huge difference in how I feel later in the day).
It's now 5 days on from getting home. Everything is put away, the bills are settled (everything went on my credit card and we settled after the trip).
I managed to mow the lawn on Wednesday - it was far too hot earlier and also raining periodically. Wednesday I found a window when it wasn't terribly hot and finished just in time for it to start raining again.
Now I need to start prepping for the UP trip. I pulled all of our camp chairs and tents out yesterday and today and set them up to confirm they are all OK (mice get to them sometimes). One repair was done, the rest are OK.
It's raining as I type this, the cold front is coming through, tomorrow should be much cooler (the temp already dropped nearly 20 degrees since the front moved in).
I found a video on a common problem with Goldwing carburetors, and did that fix yesterday. Today I tried starting it up and it does seem to run much more smoothly now though there's still a miss. I think the heads really should come off and the valves lapped - I will do a leak down test once I get the thing hot again; hopefully it's the heads/valves and not the rings.
I've converted it to mostly stock without the fairing up front, I like the look. It was originally in a blue/green color, I haven't decided if I'm going to repaint it. Official colors for 1977 were a blue/green, a candy red, and black. The year before there was a Sulfur Yellow which I quite like.
