pscook
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Sunny skies, screw work! I picked up a 2011 EC300 last night, and went for the test ride today. I was not disappointed. I went to Walker Valley in NW Washington (hour north of Seattle) to meet with a fellow smoker rider. Long story- I went to work early as I had a bunch of stuff to do before riding. Went to bed very, very late as I had to prep for a ride and was not even CLOSE to being ready. So, asleep around 10:45 (had trouble falling asleep, of course), up at 3. Working by 4 AM writing some crap documents before my day job started. 5 starts my work day, so I dig into my regular workload knowing that in three short hours I will be on the road to salvation.
7:00 AM. Training starts. I get to train some people on the use of software and hardware. I'm not a techie, I'm an end user who knows a bunch of stuff about the product. Anyway, the group starts asking silly questions. 7:45. I try wrapping up. Nope. 7:50, I try again. Thwarted. 8:00, I'm gone. Hit the road, I'm on target (well, within 15 minutes. Bill knows about this...) for timely arrival.
Arrive at trail head in work clothes, get taunted for being "slick." It's okay. Roll out the new toy, get dressed, go to check tire pressure. Bib mousse up front, off to the rear with the gauge. No stem. Seriously? Seriously. Stem is missing. Zero psi day for Phil!
Start bike, it runs. Perfect, couldn't ask for more. Hit trails, wet and rooty. Zounds! The forks seem to soak up the little stuff. Perfect. Hit faster trails, it just keep soaking up the trash. Hit some gnarly, rooty, wet, rocky stuff. *yawn* Yeah, the forks don't care.
Anyway, I'm terrible at this. I can spin a yarn in person, typing sucks. Bike performed flawlessly. I am super impressed with the whole package, I just need to make some adjustments for preference. New 'Zokes are light years ahead of the 43 WP's, or I just didn't have them adjusted properly (most likely scenario, I'm useless tuning my own crap).
That's it. New bike, great day, fun ride. Could not ask for a better day to skip work to hit the trails. Now, off to sort my home chores to keep the missus from getting more sore at me. Time to renew the kitchen pass!
7:00 AM. Training starts. I get to train some people on the use of software and hardware. I'm not a techie, I'm an end user who knows a bunch of stuff about the product. Anyway, the group starts asking silly questions. 7:45. I try wrapping up. Nope. 7:50, I try again. Thwarted. 8:00, I'm gone. Hit the road, I'm on target (well, within 15 minutes. Bill knows about this...) for timely arrival.
Arrive at trail head in work clothes, get taunted for being "slick." It's okay. Roll out the new toy, get dressed, go to check tire pressure. Bib mousse up front, off to the rear with the gauge. No stem. Seriously? Seriously. Stem is missing. Zero psi day for Phil!
Start bike, it runs. Perfect, couldn't ask for more. Hit trails, wet and rooty. Zounds! The forks seem to soak up the little stuff. Perfect. Hit faster trails, it just keep soaking up the trash. Hit some gnarly, rooty, wet, rocky stuff. *yawn* Yeah, the forks don't care.
Anyway, I'm terrible at this. I can spin a yarn in person, typing sucks. Bike performed flawlessly. I am super impressed with the whole package, I just need to make some adjustments for preference. New 'Zokes are light years ahead of the 43 WP's, or I just didn't have them adjusted properly (most likely scenario, I'm useless tuning my own crap).
That's it. New bike, great day, fun ride. Could not ask for a better day to skip work to hit the trails. Now, off to sort my home chores to keep the missus from getting more sore at me. Time to renew the kitchen pass!