NOT FUN

Riding from Spokane, Washington for about 50 miles to Jim's cousin's house outside of Seattle there was nothing but wind and I do mean wind on Thursday, July 16, 2015.  Extremely Strong Wind. Jim thought that he would have to ride on the shoulder of the road like we did in Salt Lake City Utah at the Bonneville Salt Flats on July 28, 2010. At that time, we drove at a speed of 20 MPH for over 30 miles. 

We took more rest stops than usually on this day because of the wind. Jim said he was stressed and that raises his adrenaline and makes him tire. At one of the rest stops, we spoke with a lady who was complaining about the wind pushing her car. Imagine, she was in a car. She told us that we had about an hour and a half addition ride before the winds calm. I told her that if that time was based on 60 MPH, we may have a longer drive because we are traveling slower. She named the area as Vantage, Washington and said that it would be beautiful. She also said that when we got to the trees, it would be less wind. We got to Vantage, it was beautiful but the winds continued to be strong. The trees did not help either. We continued to ride slow, safe and we stopped often.

There were others at rest stops that were driving top load trailers or pulled trailers that were chagellaged by the winds. Jim was very careful if he needed to pass a tracker trailer.

After all that wind, we finally get to his cousin's street. The GPS was reading .1 mile so I decided to get off to look at the addresses. As I was getting off, Jim said, "check my tire, something is not right." As I looked at the tire, I said that something is leaking from the bike. There was a puddle in the street. He walked the bike to the side and created another puddle. We saw his cousin. We missed the house by one. I informed him that something was wrong with the bike. Ricci looked at it and said that the seal was broken.