Y'all can blame Deadly for this gratuitous nonsense. Anyway, I had my camera with me today,
so I took photos regarding Hondo's oil change bucket idea. I also checked my tire pressure for the first time in a while and surely it was a bit low. This meant I could stop at a gas station on the way home for some air and get a third photo for the report!
Anyway, here's my bike at work. It had rained pretty hard about an hour before, but surely that was all done with!
Heck, let's swing around front and get a picture of the front door for no reason:
Might as well get some gas before stealing free air. Clearly this was a courtesy.
Well it turns out that they lost the free air hose and put in some coin-operated thing. Screw that, I don't pay for air.
I'll stop at the Hess near home. Anyway, this photo was an accident, but the coin-op compressor is behind the truck.
In the spirit of the ride report, I opted to avoid highways for the scenery of
South Mountain Reservation. Of course, as the photo shows, it was drizzling by the time I got there.
The rain got heavier, so I really thought it unwise to whip the camera out of my tank bag till I reached cover. I pulled into a bank drive thru, but it offered a useless view. I got home, parked, and ran across to a covered parking space (I'm on the waiting list). I opened the wet tank bag...
and was glad to see no drenched electronics. This meant it was time for another parking lot photo!
Did I mention it was raining heavier? What was I wearing you ask? Why,
Firstgear mesh! Oh, the camera has a timer, so let's see how it looks:
It looks like a new desktop background to me! Oh, here's the same outfit (still wet) indoors. The dopey expression is slightly different too.
Let's see how the mesh withstood that precipitation:
Am I perfectly dry, or drenched? See if the next pic answers that for you.
Answer: the back armor seems to keep a small spot dry, as does my wallet.
I never stopped at the Hess, so my tire pressure is still low. I'll deal with that tomorrow. I have
another pair of gloves since I doubt these will be dry.
I guess I'll be pulling out the old H-D engineer boots too. Or maybe I'll just take the car.
