Summer #40. Check!
August 15, 2008
It's all about vacation and getting ontoppa junk. So one of the first things I did this summer was buy a motorcycle. Every family should have one. For me, it's a 1984 Moto Guzzi 850 T5. Some call it (No, I'm not gonna call it "her"...it's an it.) the redheaded step child of the Guzzi family. I'd never go and say a thing like that, and besides, it's a great bike. In the background, you'll see John's 1975 T3. Too bad you can hardly see it because it looks great. And his busted Simplicity lawn tractor with the good story...almost as good as mine. And maybe better.
I was at John's because the bike was in Many Apples Many Sodas and he lives in between here and there (two hours on each side). We went and got the bike, I rode it to his place, we hung out in his garage, and I rode it the rest of the way home the next day. Klink's garage is pretty well organized.
Pretty soon thereafter, we went on vacation to an undisclosed location so the paparazzi wouldn't bug us and there were lots of lily pads around. Mysteeeeeerious...
When we got home from vacation, we had to unpack the van. I couldn't help but notice the garage was a complete mess. In fact, it has been becoming more and more of a mess for the past four years. There are boxes in the corners that haven't been touched since 2004.
That's when I decided I needed to clean it. Woke up the next day, ate a Sunday breakfast, went to church (the whole time there are children starving in Africa and the Arctic Ocean is melting), and went outside and cleaned my garage. It took nine hours and boy does it look great. There's even room for a motorcycle.
And if you hadn't noticed, there was an ice cream bucket lid zip-tied to the bike in the first picture. That's where the missing side cover is supposed to go. So about week after I cleaned up the garage, my friend John is visiting from New Mexico and he's a cycle guy, too. In fact, the guzzi was having electical trouble, and John cleaned the ignition while I was at work one day and it works sweet now. No new $30 ignition switch necessary! On top of that, we had a good time that same afternoon creating this new side cover out of an infant boggan. And that's what I did with my 40th summer on planet earth.
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