Monthly Archives: March 2008
March 29, 2008
Why I can't get to Portland
Last December, some of the senior guys on the FJR Forum put together a discounted group buy for new suspensions with a well-respected shop in the Portland area. GP Suspensions spends the spring, summer, and fall doing race and track setups for sports bikes, so they agreed to a nice discount to get some business during their slow winter period.
My original suspension is nearing the 36,000 mile mark, and really needs to be changed. I never really got a good setup going with the OEM shock and forks, and the new aftermarket pieces are top-of-the-line. Most of the guys in the group buy had their parts shipped to them, but the shop also offered a discount on installation service, so I decided to head up to their shop to have them do the work.
I've been trying to get up their for about six weeks now, and have just not been able to find an opening in the weather. I was all set to go a week ago Wednesday, but a storm rolled in at the last minute to blanket the passes in the Siskiyou's.
Here's today's highway cam pic of the Siskiyou Summit on I-5, six miles north of the California border in southern Oregon.
March 21, 2008
Tour tanks
