Replaced fork seals and cleaned out fork internals. Carl helped. Brenton let us use the SAE shop to do the work. The left fork was rusted and corroded inside. We cleaned both forks out and flushed them with new oil. The manual had an error in it that led us to reassemble the forks incorrectly. They were too raked out which made it impossible to reassemble the bike and also caused there to be no damping. We had to come back the following day to finish the job as we had been in the shop from 6pm to almost 2am. The following day, we were able to completely disassemble and reassemble the forks and put them back on the bike in only a couple of hours.
Tire pressure
Pressurized rear tire to correct PSI. Was at 25 when I started. Pumped up to 41PSI cold. Handled much better afterward. Front tire has a small leak that requires it to be repumped every few days.
Kings Valley and Lewisburg Saddle
From my house to Jaime’s house to pick her up. We went out Highway 20 to the Highway 223 (Kings Valley Highway) turn. Jaime’s bike can only go a maximum of 55mph which makes it interesting to drive on the main highways. Highway 223 had about 10 miles of loose chip gravel on the road surface as they were repaving it. It was a rather miserable part of the ride. We turned right at one point where the road takes a sharp left to stay on the main highway. Out in the country, we tried taking several different roads to connect over to Sulfur Springs Road and Lewisberg Saddle but each ended in gravel which we didn’t want to try. We ended up going out to 99W and down to the road past the garbage dump. We took it and went out Sulfur Springs Road and over Lewisburg Saddle. Then we road back into Corvallis via Highland.
65 miles total.