I hope I get better at this.\u00a0 Since the weather finally got better this weekend after our recent \u201cwintry mix\u201d (BTW, one the stupidest phrases), I finally got around to changing the oil in my motorcycle on Sunday.\u00a0 Aside from lubing up the chain, this is my first major piece of motorcycle surgery I have attempted and everything was going fine, despite making a major mess spilling oil everywhere, until, as I was tightening up the bolts on the oil filter cover, I was thinking, hmmm, these bolts don\u2019t seem to want to tighten.\u00a0 I re-read the part about closing everything up and sure enough, it explicitly stated not to overtighten the bolts.\u00a0 I then went back to tightening the bolts and the next thing I knew *snap*, \u201cFUCKKKKKK,\u201d I overtightened the bottom bolt.\u00a0 Immediately I began to envision the horrors of what should have been a $15 job into a $150 job, just because I\u2019m a dumbass.\u00a0 Luckily, in reading up on the forum of knowledge for my motorcycle (www.gstwins.com), this is a pretty common problem and an even easier fix, you just need to have the correct bolt.\u00a0 Knowing all the dealerships were closed on Sunday, on Monday I started calling around and discovered that apparently no dealership keeps these parts in stock, so I had to go online to order the bolts.\u00a0 As a temporary stopgap measure, I managed to fashion a replacement bolt out of one I found at a hardware store (not Home Depot, which has fuck all for metric sized bolts) by cutting off the head with my rotary drill.<\/p>\n
My other bit of motorcycle shenanigans has to do with my attempt to purchase a pair of electrically heated gloves.\u00a0 I know a couple posts back I was boo-hooing over how cold my hands get and gloves don\u2019t seem to work, so I began poking around and found a company that makes what appear to be pretty good heated gloves.\u00a0 I found a place way out in Plano that sells them and when I went out there I found out that they did not have the proper harness in stock.\u00a0 I still bought the gloves (although even a small appears to be too big) and when they finally got the harness in yesterday, I went out again, bought it and stupidly forgot to check to see if it was in fact the correct harness.\u00a0 When I got home, I discovered that although I do need the harness and this one would work, I was still lacking the fucking battery connector cable.\u00a0 So now I\u2019m going to have to order and wait some more.\u00a0 Luckily the weather has improved, so there no longer is a time issue involved and I can wait, but still, what a fucking pain in the ass.\u00a0 Also, knowing my luck, were going to have an early spring and it\u2019s going to already start heating up next month, so I may just need to return the gloves altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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