We were pretty happy to be picking up the Ural Thursday…

Today we drove out to Ural of New England to turn over our cashier’s check for the bike (yikes! Neither of us has ever paid cash for something that expensive before!) and fill out the paperwork. We had a last minute snafu as we were gearing up and doing our normal pre-ride check before getting out on the bikes… Kay’s valve stem on the rear tire started spurting air, and he couldn’t get it to stop. It’s stuck in the open position. We grabbed the Cycle Pump, and our…

Yesterday was S/TEP - Sidecar/Trike Education Program - through Ironstone Ventures, a local motorcycle education school here in Massachusetts. I took my MSF class through them in 2010, so I was delighted to find they had a sidecar class, too! After some minor snafu where the website said to show up at the range at 8AM, but the group was actually meeting in the classroom 8 miles away, we got to the right place and started our education.