Temperature during the photo above….76 degrees. The temperature this morning…49 degrees.

Last night this shot was taken just before a massive torrential downpour in West Palm (from my balcony of course). Honestly I wasn’t really expecting this much of a temperature drop but here we go again. It may get into the 60’s later today, whoo hoo.

I guess this is just the remnants of the huge blizzard cold front that hit the north about a week ago. Summer weather sure is taking it’s sweet-ass time getting back down here. Time to break out the heavy coats once again.

It was great to have Mom and her friend Missy in over the weekend. I took them out downtown including Rocco’s (of course), then up to Lost Weekends, Monarchy, Dr. Feelgoods then off to Oshea’s. Needless to say they weren’t feeling so great the next day but we all had a good time.

Saturday I took them for a drive out to the beach then up Palm Beach island to show them the enormous houses up there.

Saturday night was the Waterfront opening downtown which was a zoo. Lines for everything and hundreds and hundreds of people. I’ve never seen so many women pushing strollers, they must have had something for the kids down there.

I ended up going out a bit later with a few friends. They left early Sunday morning but had a rough trip back home as their route was blocked by a rockslide of all things, in the Carolinas.

It was great as always to have my Mom in town. Love you Mom, hope you had a great time.

After talking to my Dad I checked all the hoses, vacuum lines, lifted the tank and checked the airbox and air filter. Once cleaned up it seemed to run fine until today when it began acting up once again. Geez.

So after taking a quick ride it began acting like it had bad gas, bad idle but luckily I had a screwdriver so I was able to adjust the idle enough to get me home. Tried to take it apart once again but the idle still wouldn’t stay below 3k without dying.

So now it was time for run out to the bike shop. The guy at the shop said it was probably a fouled idle plug. After catching a cab back I’d just have to wait for a call.

Luckily a few hours later he called and said it was all good. He just took the hoses off, sprayed out all elements with air, put it back together and adjust the idle and it’s back to running fine. Hopefully all will still be well tomorrow so I’m crossing my fingers.

Thanks to Spencer for giving me a ride out to the shop. The guy only charged me $80 to take a look at it and make the necessary adjustments / cleanings.

New lesson I guess…don’t use a self car wash to clean the bike off. Hand wash everything and watch what gets wet. Who’d of thought getting a bike wet would foul out the damn thing. I’ve ridden in a monsoon before with no issues.

Looks like we’re going to enjoy more surf over the next few days. I made an evening run out to the beach before sundown yesterday and caught a few guys out at La Puerta on Palm beach catching some nice clean 3-4 beauties. Mild offshore breeze and glassy rollers…makes me wish I had four wheels again to get the board to the beach.

Hopefully Spencer is heading out later today; maybe I’ll see if I can catch a ride out if so. It’s a little chilly this morning at 43 degrees but I’m sure it’ll warm up as the day goes on.

Surfs up!