{"id":9025,"date":"2025-12-31T14:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/?p=9025"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:08:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:08:03","slug":"40-miles-for-errands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/40-miles-for-errands\/","title":{"rendered":"40 miles for errands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rode about 40 miles to end at 64,466, just running around town doing errands. I picked up some shop supplies at Advance Auto Parts\u2014shop rags, shop towels and a quart of Valvoline 20W50 &#8220;racing&#8221; oil, the only 20W50 they had available. It was fairly cheap, only $10. Total bill was $21.17. Surprised I guess because I almost never buy oil any more \u2013 all our cars are less than 20 years old for once (2008, 2013, 2016) in our collective lives and I don&#8217;t do the oil changes any more. Since my 2015 BMW is water-cooled, it has a wet clutch, which means it takes regular motorcycle oil just like the Indian FTR1200S does. So now I have a dry clutch bike again (dammit!), which means I need to keep car oil in the shed \u2026 but car oil technology has changed and it looked like the most popular version was 0W40 \u2013 that&#8217;s never going to do for a 50-year-old Airhead!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_halcyon_mirrors-1024x372.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9026 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"372\" src=\"http:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_halcyon_mirrors-1024x372.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9026 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_halcyon_mirrors-1024x372.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_halcyon_mirrors-300x109.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_halcyon_mirrors-768x279.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_halcyon_mirrors-1536x558.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_halcyon_mirrors.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><i>The <a href=\"https:\/\/classicpartsltd.com\/halcyon-motorcycle-bar-end-mirror-feature\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/classicpartsltd.com\/halcyon-motorcycle-bar-end-mirror-feature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Halcyon bar-end mirrors<\/a> are substantive and stable. They&#8217;re only sold in England, so I had to import them, but this was before the tariff situation so even though the mirrors were expensive, they weren&#8217;t crazy expensive. It appears that in 2026, Revzilla is an importer for Halcyon.<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Got lunch from Sheetz \u2013 all this stuff fit in the side cases, which is nice, but I have to remember they&#8217;re cracked and therefore not waterproof. Tightened the fittings on the Halcyon bar-end mirrors; 5mm hex for the mount to the bar &amp; 11mm wrench for the mirror adjusting bolt, which absolutely does come loose if it&#8217;s not tightened, making the mirror floppy and leaving me to wonder if it&#8217;s going to fall off some time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_halcyon_adjust-1024x993.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9027 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"993\" src=\"http:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_halcyon_adjust-1024x993.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9027 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_halcyon_adjust-1024x993.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_halcyon_adjust-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_halcyon_adjust-768x745.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_halcyon_adjust-1536x1489.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_halcyon_adjust.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><I>Detail of the nut on the back of the Halcyon mirror. This keeps the actual mirror part stable; the tighter it is, the harder it is to adjust the disc with the mirror in it.<\/I><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rode about 40 miles to end at 64,466, just running around town doing errands. I picked up some shop supplies at Advance Auto Parts\u2014shop rags, shop towels and a quart of Valvoline 20W50 &#8220;racing&#8221; oil, the only 20W50 they had available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-riding-without-cruise-control"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}