Yay! Brakes are Great!

I am really excited! We got my brake fluid reservoir fixed! Yay! No more master cylinder floppin' in the wind! So it is not supposed to look like this:



It is supposed to look like this:


Ain't it pretty?

So anyways, I got to ride on the back of a sport bike for the first time.
Sport bike (aka "crotch rocket")


Cruiser:



Note the back seats:




Yeah, it was my bike. Darling Hubby did not want me to ride all the way to the dealership to get the reservoir changed and the brakes bled with the reservoir floppin' in the wind. So he rode it and I was a passenger on my own bike. I have issues with that. If it's mine, I like to drive it. However, common sense must prevail and since I am not on the highways, yet, I need to let him be the driver. I have learned that I don't like my back seat at all. I also learned that I would rather ride my bike than be a passenger on it. I now know why girls who date guys with sport bikes aren't all that into riding. Something having to do with the seats, maybe, or possibly even the fact that I felt like I was hanging on for dear life? My feet kept slipping off of the passenger pegs and my left knee felt like it was all the way into my chest. Oh my, and the acceleration, it was almost like being a passenger in my old Mustang with my husband trying to "blow the cobs out." Or the lean over his back and the pressure in the lower back from not wanting to just flop onto him forward.
We rode to Destin, Florida on his bike and I never felt like that.

We went 30 miles to the Kawasaki dealership and I guaronteee that it will be a long time before I am a passenger on a sport bike again.



Thanks for stoppin' by!

Jen

Brake Fluid Reservoir

Good Afternoon! The plan was to discuss how my daily attacks on my hill of doom was going, and to let everyone know if I am still 0-6 for stalling out on this intersection. For everyone who has not experienced this phenomenon, "stalling out" is when you don't give a manual transmission enough gas while letting out the clutch. Happens quite a bit. More on that later. Unfortunately, things change. Instead, today we are going to talk about how a Brake Fluid Reservoir on a Kawasaki ZZR is NOT a good place to hang your helmet while you run into the Post Office. Especially when you can tell that it has been broken before and the previous owner to my previous owner (grand-owner?) had epoxied it back together.

DOH! Doo-tee-doo! So I came back outside, picked up my helmet, and there was my little reservoir swinging in the wind.

So instead of running the rest of my errands, I went home. Can't chance not having brakes, right?