Ken and I left early to get to the Kawasaki Dealership by 9 a.m. so I could get my wheels balanced. We got there at 9:00 a.m. sharp and the dealership doesn’t open until 10:00 a.m. So I got the idea to go to the BMW dealership and have them balance the tires. We get there and they are open for business. I drop my tires off for balancing. I told them they are Kawasaki wheels and they said it’s not a problem. We left and purchased some blue loctite from the parts store. We went back to the BMW Dealership to pick up my wheels. Always remember BMW means Bring More Money With. We then went over to the Kawasaki Dealership and picked up some air cleaner oil. Then we went back home and I started assembling my motorcycle. I put the rear tire on first and then the front. Next I put the gas tank on. I had a pencil pushed in the end of the fuel line to keep the dirt and water out. I pulled it out and the gasoline dissolved the pencil end and made a genuine mess inside the fuel line. I took the line off to clean it out. We eventually took a small rope saturated with gasoline and flossed the inside of the fuel line until we cleaned all of the gunk out of it. I then installed it back on the carburetor and gas tank, turned on the fuel and started the motorcycle. It ran ok and I didn’t find any gas leaks. I then took my new air cleaner, saturated it with air cleaner oil and installed it back into the air box. Next, I mounted the seat. The last thing I did was to install both side panels and I now had a complete motorcycle. I took it out for a test run and got lost. I staggered around a while before I found Carol and Ken’s house again. I eventually made my way back. The motorcycle ran fine and the brakes worked well. I then reinstalled the saddle bags/panniers and started loading them in the manner I had them packed the last two months. It took me a couple of hours to clean up the backyard where I was working. The last thing I did last to was cover my bike. The last couple of nights I’ve been struggling with Matilda trying to get the North American maps loaded. Anyway, true to form she has been rebelling. I finally fired off an e-mail to Garmin about not being able to load any maps into Matilda. They gave me a whole list of things to do. One was to register Matilda. So I did that. I e-mailed them again and asked what’s next. Ken and I were talking about Matilda and I told him I needed the unlocking codes to load Matilda with North American Maps. He checked into it and said he needed Garmin passwords etc. I provided that to him and EUREKA! there was the unlock code for the North American Maps. I tried loading Matilda and my computer contaminated the maps file. Then I got the idea to load the maps on an sb card. I did that and pushed it into Matilda and I'll be darned. The North American maps were in Matilda. I typed in the address to the Kawasaki Dealership and went outside so Matilda could find some satellites. I then pressed go and she plotted right to the place. I was so happy I was doing back flips. I went to bed happy.
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