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May 14, 2012

Doug Hits the Road

My buddy Doug is off on another adventure. This time, he's driving his BMW GS1200 in a big loop through the Southwest that will include a nice piece of the California coast, roughly from LA to San Francisco. You can follow his adventures here: http://mc-california-trip-2012.blogspot.com/

My goal is/was to meet up with him for a piece of the ride. At least from Pismo to SF. Motorcycle has been giving me fits lately. Last week, I finally decided that it was the starter, so yesterday I pulled the starter from one of my bikes in CO. Only after I removed it from the bike did it dawn on me that I'd have to some-how get it past the goons at the TSA.

It smelled like gas and was not really shiny and clean or anything, so I cleaned it up so it looked like a nice, shiny pipe bomb, instead of a dirty gas-smelling pipe-bomb. I pulled the wires off of it so it didn't look quite so scary.

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and flew it out last night in my carry-on luggage. With the wires attached, it was pretty scary looking.

They did notice it when it went through the X-ray, and they pulled it out and looked at it real close. Then they ran it through again, but in the end, they let me keep it. Now, I've got to put it on my bike in CA, and roll down to meet Doug.

Posted by Rob Kiser on May 14, 2012 at 11:11 AM

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