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| At Kiss Honda with a C5 in the background |
A little bit over the recommended mileage but the break-in period is finally over. This morning, with 1577 miles on the odo, the Bullet made the trek to
Pottstown for the second scheduled maintenance. The weather was beautiful, clear and blue with temperatures in the low 80s and no humidity to speak of. The trip out through
Valley Forge Park and up 23 to
Phoenixville was amazing. Just a little after 09:00 and there was almost no traffic on the roads at all. The portion of the ride on 23, from the turn in the park to Phoenixville was amazing in that I had the road all to myself.
On arrival at
Kiss Honda, the Bullet had 1603.9 miles and we had made the trip in 55 minutes. The guys at Kiss did the required maintenance and found a couple more missing bolts from the heat shield that they replaced. They also replaced the longer bolt that I had replaced earlier. These replacements definitely did away from the rattling that I had noticed coming from the muffler area. The guys at Kiss had a Continental GT sitting in front of the shop. That will have to be my next bike.
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| Continental GT |
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| Continental GT |
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| Kiss Motorcycles |
On the return trip the Bullet purred like
Lucifer and ran really smoothly. While the guys were working on the Bullet I walked around downtown and snapped some shots. The Bullet handled increased speed on the straights really well but it does not seem to able to go any higher than 70 mph, even downhill with a tail wind!
Although there was no need to refuel, I made a pit-stop at the
Wawa on 724 and Bridge St. and filled up. The odo at that time was reading 1612 so the next refuel should be around 1812. Easy enough to remember that number. The tank took 1.882 gallons and we had covered 119.2 miles since the last refuel for a mileage of 63.3 mpg.
Traffic on the way back was a little heavier but despite the fact the it was lunch time it was not bad at all. The weather continued to be fantastic and could not have asked for a better riding day. At return the odo clocked 1634 miles for a 58.6 mile round trip.
Route:
Outbound: Church to Waterloo, across Valley Forge to 23 and up 724 to Hanover St into Pottstown.
Inbound: Reverse of outbound route with a detour down Berkley to Sugartown to my wife's work and from there back to Sugartown and Church for home.
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| Downtown Pottstown |
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| Downtown Pottstown |
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| Downtown Pottstown |
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| Downtown Pottstown |
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| On departure at home |
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| Arrival in Pottstown |
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| At Kiss Honda |
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| At Wawa gassing up |
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| At my wife's work |
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| On return at home |
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