{"id":9052,"date":"2026-01-29T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/?p=9052"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:13:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:13:27","slug":"last-riding-day-for-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/last-riding-day-for-a-while\/","title":{"rendered":"Last riding day for a while"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gas, 3.866 gal\/87 oct @ $3.099\/gal @ Royal Farms. $11.98. That&#8217;s about 33.8 MPG. Not that great if you ask me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>End @ 64,679 (70 miles)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Total mileage for January: 213<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had to go into the city today to check out my kid&#8217;s car. She called me yesterday morning, saying it kept trying to stall at stoplights. If she put the transmission in neutral at the lights, then the engine would race. My guess is there\u2019s some water that\u2019s come out of solution in the fuel system, likely because she doesn\u2019t drive as much as she used to before she had a boyfriend and it only takes her about five minutes to get from her apartment to work. The engine isn\u2019t getting enough time to heat up properly, and the fuel isn\u2019t being agitated enough to keep the water in solution. I added a can of Sea Foam to her fuel tank and put in a fresh air filter (the old one was dirty, but not terrible). I checked her oil and coolant levels\u2014both OK. No obvious vacuum lines disconnected or anything else untoward that would obviously cause the near-stall issue. I counseled her about driving her car for 20-30 minutes once a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At a stoplight on one of the US highways in the city, I\u2019m just sitting there in neutral, minding my own business. Some dude in a giant SUV, maybe an Escalade, starts honking like crazy. When I looked over to see what was going on, he was beaming broadly and waving at me. Once he had my attention, he shouted, \u201cNice bike, brother!\u201d I said thanks and waved; the light turned green and we both drove off all warm and fuzzy inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I went across the James River to visit the new MotoRichmond location, which hasn\u2019t been new for almost five years. What can I say? I don\u2019t get across the river much! I\u2019d planned to ask the owner if she might know of a person, place or business with space where I might set up my lift, store my tools, parts and bikes, and do my content creation tasks. Turns out she\u2019s in New Zealand until next month some time, so I\u2019ll have to come back to that. The sales lead at the shop suggested I email her, but I\u2019m not sure I want to bother somebody while they\u2019re on an adventure vacation on the other side of the world.<\/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_waterproof-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9055 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_waterproof-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9055 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_waterproof-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_waterproof-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_waterproof-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_waterproof-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_waterproof-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><I>This waterproof (or at least highly water resistant) bag from Wolfman Luggage isn&#8217;t intended to be a side case liner, but it works well as one. I bought two of them on clearance!<\/I><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On the way home, I needed gas and knew I could work my way past a Royal Farms, which meant I could also get some spicy chicken to take home for dinner. I hit the new location near the I 64 interchange and ended up waiting around for about 45 minutes because they were down a fryer, which of course I didn\u2019t know when I placed my order. The upside was after about 20 minutes, this dude wearing turnout gear came in, walked right over to me and asked, \u201cIs that your R 90 outside?\u201d Jake is a firefighter and has his father\u2019s 1974 R 90\/6. He wants to restore it and said it has something like 250,000 miles on it due to his dad riding a lot all over the world, wherever they were stationed at the time. Jake also has an R 1200 GS and a middleweight Yamaha T\u00e9n\u00e9r\u00e9. I happened to have a business card in my pocket, so I gave it to him. We had a nice chat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forgot to check the oil AGAIN before I left home. I really need to develop that habit! I tried to check it while I was working on the car\u2014the engine was hot, and I\u2019m not sure that was the best way to do it. It registered a tiny bit of oil on the end of the dipstick and manipulating the hot dipstick was not pleasant. I need to remember to do that when the engine is cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;ll be a couple of weeks at least before I can ride again, tomorrow is foot surgery day for my wife. The bike is safe in the shed and on the battery tender for the first time in a week. I did remember to add two ounces of my fuel treatment blend to the fresh tank of gas.<\/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_shed_tools-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9054 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_shed_tools-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9054 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_shed_tools-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_shed_tools-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_shed_tools-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_shed_tools-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_shed_tools-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><I>This is my shed tool kit, purchased on sale\/special around Christmas 2024 from either Home Depot or Lowe&#8217;s &#8211; I forget which now. It was $100 shipped and I feel like they lost money on that deal.<\/I><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>ONE YEAR LATER: No further difficulty with the car after the fuel treatment and advice to drive the car at least 20-30 minutes once a week.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life occasionally gets in the way of riding, but family is important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9052","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\/9052","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=9052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}