Still alive and travelling

Hi all sorry about the long break from the blog. Often get in late from dinner and have to catch up with family and business first. As you would have picked I did a repeat page for the first day on the road.
Well we did get the Harley fixed the next morning. It took until about 11.30 am. It was a flat rear tyre. It sho9wed up as a slow leak and we pumped it up on the side of the Hwy with Gerald's little compressor and tried to keep and eye on it. But is blew out big time and by the time I pulled over it was off the rim and smoking. The tube had melted and the new tyre damaged by heat.

Got back on the road heading for Kansas City. Hit rain during  the afternoon, it got heavier. Interesting riding on a two lane Fwy in rain with trucks and cars doing about 70 to 75 mph. Eventually had stop 30 miles short of Knasas City as the wet and cold was starting to beat me.

Made it into K/C the next morning and Gerald took us straight to Austin M/Cycles who had been holding his near new Victory for about 6 months. Talk about a kid in a candy shop!! One very happy lad.