Monday November 6, 2023 Guerneville CA.
Ride in the forest
I joined my brothers for a dirt bike ride up into the forest. We had to wait for a rain shower to pass before we took off. It came down hard for a few minutes, then mostly stopped. We are getting ready to take off.
We rode around for an hour or so. We had a few real light drizzles once in awhile but not enough to get wet. We looked around to see if any new edible wild mushrooms came out from the rain, but not much yet.
Break spot
We eventually made it up to the hill top where we take a break for a spell.
Smoke
We noticed what looked like some smoke out in front of us.
It was smoke all right, but it was rather brief, like they tried to start some wet brush on fire but it was too wet. I think this house did a lot of cutting for fire prevention last summer and they were trying to burn the brush piles without much success.
We left there and rode around some more and then headed back to my house.
Bike problem
Once I rested up, I went on YouTube to find out how to adjust spokes on the wheels as my rear tire was a bit wobbly and was hitting my chain causing it to make slamming noises as I rode around. So, I needed to try to adjust it to take the wobble out of it.
I set the bike up on it’s jack stand and used this old chair bottom as a pointer to check the tire run out as I turned it to find the spots that needed to be adjusted.
I used the tip of the chair mount as a pointer which I placed by the rim as I turned it.
This worked pretty good and I was able to take out most of the wobble. I then went around the spokes a few times to tighten them all up as they were pretty loose.
I got most of the wobble out. I need a new chain as it’s about worn out and it’s loose which is part of the problem the tire hits it.
I ordered up the chain and some better tools to do this job, like a much better spoke wrench then the adjustable one that was starting to round off the spoke nuts.
Crab
Both brothers were out crabbing on Saturday, opening day, so Barry brought me over another crab for dinner tonight. Yum.
Nice day.