Vancouver BC to Vancouver WA, Portland and Washougal...

Warning! This post is a real bike bore...

After a cold trip down, I fixed the wiring for the heated clothing and power adapter. Grant added heated grips... I SHALL be warm on the road!

Its looking a busy about the battery but I SHALL be warm.

Next job - new tyres!

 just about got em back.

Good to practice fitting them with my own tools.

Sadly, like an old victorian house, when you peel back the wallpaper...

...you usually find a nasty surprise.

The forks were in need of TLC, fortunately Grant has a garage with every tool you can shake a stick at... and has designed motorcyle forks!

Faithful Panzer in the background, keeping an eye on things, but despite having a tool for collecting oil... 

No one was ready to see mushroom soup come out... 

Nastly! Poor old Hondi, its taken a beating. 

I think its time for a quick intro to Grant.

Here are his bikes... all five of em:

An old Norton, lovingly restored. 

a 50cc mini dickingabout bike 

A Ducati Panigale, beautiful sportsbike.

The 'shitbox' as I call his dirt bike.  Ridden on the TAT last year, it would never start unless it was cold or cooled off with bags of river water... a bit like this from 2015, in a mosquito zone:

 ...and finally a Ural, with side car, that he takes for a spin some times with the dog, sometimes in the safeway carpark...

Depite this reckless behaviour he is a very nice man thats totally saved me and the bike! 

 Time to show this man the respect he deserves with another clip from 2015 :)