Johnny's Journey's With Weight Loss!: Bike troubles!!

Where to start???

Well, I decided to start this blog about 2 things in my life that I love and hate. I love cooking, traveling the roads on my motorcycle throughout the Eastern Canada/United States region and traveling. What do i hate? I hate how overweight I am. I am 51 years old and finally this year, I have decided to do something about it. I joined Weight Watchers on January 6, 2010. I weighed 304 pounds! Even I never thought I was that heavy! I was, and still am, disgusted with myself. How did I get here? Well, that's part of what i will be exploring with this blog. So, I am starting out on another journey. This time however, it will not be bike travels on twisty roads, with the wind in my face and pure joy and excitement but rather a road that will be much harder to travel, but hopefully with rewards and accomplishments along the way. So, I am starting this blog a bit late but better late than never. Plus, I am at the point where I have been successful so far but am in need of a little more motivation. I say more motivation because, well, I guess I should have enough motivations already (and I will list them in a later post) but I guess I am feeling a bit stagnat.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Bike troubles!!

Well, here in Ottawa, Canada, we had record smashing temperatures this past weekend. I was off Good Friday, through the weekend and thanks to my employer (we're on a reduced work week, with reduced pay as well), I had Monday off. Planned to get some mega riding in.

Friday, I decided to change the oil in my bike. I drive a 2009 Suzuki M90. 1500 cc's of pure stump pulling power. Anyway, I change the bike and noticed when taking the oil pan drain plug out, fine little thread like peices of metal came out with the bolt. WTF! I thought it might be part of the washer (it's a special "crush" washer that is used). I continue with the oil change and when I go to screw the drain plug back in, I find out the oil pan threads are stripped. I was bummed! Spent all day Saturday trying to find out what was entailed to fix this and how much. Long story short, and many visits to various bike and machine shops, I found the cheapest fix was going to cost me $75. But all places i went to could not look at it till the end of this week. Bummer. Then a chance call to a buddy and I learned about self tapping oil pan bolts. Eureka! Found one at a Napa Auto Parts place. Cost...$3.58! Unfortunately, it's no Monday late afternoon so I missed the awesome weekend weather but the bike is now fixed.

Johnny is very happy!!!

At least with my bike....