Goodbye Sportster

I bought my Sportster to learn how to drive.  Now that I know that, I wanted a bike for long road trips.  Thus, I traded in it for a touring model.  But before I talk about the new bike, I want to look back at the old bike.  I put almost 4.5 thousand miles on that bike.  (Ending with about 10k and starting with 5.5k.)  I came close to driving that bike more in half a year than it had been driven its whole life before me.  It was dirty when I left.  The sales manager said you drive in the rain a lot or just never wash it.  I was like maybe a bit of both :)  The funny thing is I had just washed it a few weeks ago.  As I said, I road this thing.  It wasn't a show piece in a man cave.  It was a bike on the road, through wind, rain, shine, cold, heat, and etc.  Just about the only thing I did avoid was lightning.

Changing Motorcycle Oil

I did something for the first time...  I changed my oil in my motorcycle.  Another great learning experience.  The best advice I have to offer is face you don't know what your doing.  I don't know what I'm doing.  I'm not qualified to be a Motorcycle Mechanic.  I just figured out how to drive the thing, let alone do any repairs.  But you know what?  Everything in life can be learned.  Thus, for real, read multiple sites, view multiple videos.  Read up on it until you feel confident you know the flow of what they are saying.  And don't be in a rush.  The people who do this everyday can do it in like 5 minutes, because well, they do it everyday.  Plans for this to take hours, give yourself plenty of time.