While I was cleaning the bike about two weeks ago, I noticed that the front tire seemed to have some dry rot spots on the side walls. When the bike was inspected in February (2012) they said that the tread wear was close to replacement at 2/32, the replacement depth being 1/32, it wasn't a ding on the inspection check list. I decided that with the ride to skyline drive coming up I should probably replace the tire. The rear tire was replaced along with the rear brakes and rotor during the inspection at 42,000 miles.
Like many leasure riders I don't ride the bike that much. Kari and I ride it to the farmers market on Saturday mornings, which is a total of 8 miles. I like riding the bike I just don't like the hot weather. This summer was hot. If we had a cool morning or evening I would hop on the bike and do a little ride down bayridge which leads out to the bay. Again, a ride of only 6 miles.
The longest rides I've done were from the Sanford/Orlando autotrain station to our house in Juno Beach, about 180 miles. I took the bike down in February and brought it back in May. While in Florida I did some short rides into the interior of Florida to Lake Okeechobee, and then some short rides up and down the beach road. I don't really use the bike for a daily ride down there either. As most people know, Florida is jam packed with "the ancient and infirmed". Driving/riding in the heavy trafficked areas like Ft. Lauderdale and Miami is as bad if not worse than driving the DC beltway in rush hour. Fortunately, from West Palm Beach North things aren't quite that bad. And, from our area Juno Beach/Jupiter North things really slow down. Mostly because our area isn't as commercialized as further south. We don't have big hotels on the beach, actually we don't have any hotels on the beach. In Juno/Jupiter we only have 3 hotels, Best Western, Hampton Inn, and Holiday Inn Express. They each have about 50 rooms. So ours isn't a big "destination" vacation spot.
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