Zoom!

Got the motorcycle (a 1979 Yamaha XS-1100 Standard) out of the garage last night. No juice in the battery so I had to jump it with my battery charger. Got it going (belching a lot of blue smoke) and found the new stickers for the tags and went to a meeting. The handling felt "mushy". When it was time to leave the meeting there wasn't enough juice in the battery to get it to kick over again so I had to use jumper cables. Got home, parked it, and hooked up the battery charger at 2 amps over night. Plenty of juice this morning! Checked the air pressure this morning - 8 lbs in front and 31 in the rear. No wonder it was mushy. Pumped the front up to about 34 and rode to work. Everything seems "normal" again.

So why does a ride on the two wheeler, even a short one, relieve so much stress and tension? Everything is better on two wheels (except snow and ice).