Monday after class, Ralph and I run up to get the bike. Its good on the way up…Ralph is a very intelligent guy with lots of varied experience. It’s always cool to talk to him and hear about his experiences. I have always liked a good yarn…
We get to the VP and Brittney is still there. We load the bike up and this dude on a little Ninja sportsbike comes over for some small talk. He says how it looks like a really pretty bike and that “it’s pretty cold. I don’t blame you for taking it home on a trailer.” As I told Ralph later that is when I had the energy to want to kill somebody and this guy was it. I told him. “It’s not running right. That’s the ONLY reason I’m not riding it home. This weather is fine!”
Having already called the shops in town, I knew none were open on Monday. Ralph was nice enough to let me keep it on the trailer overnight. Furthermore he was nice enough to haul it over to Yamaha-Suzuki of Louisville for me. I talked to Ty in the shop and told him about the bike, that it was an 08 with only 2700 miles and I just bought it and had to have it towed and trailered. I told him that I needed it looked at that day—not necessarily repaired in case they had a huge waiting list—but I needed to know how bad it was. He was nice enough to get me in.
After school I went over to check. Sure enough it was the clutch. The mechanic said that somebody had overly tightened the clutch adjustment and the clutch pads had been rubbing and causing constant friction which is what burned them out. He said it was not great but not bad. I said “so are we talking like $1000????” and he said that it wouldn’t likely be that much even worst-case-scenario. I was relieved—I had the money to fix it (just barely). I asked him “what about $500?” he said with a couple hours and labor it might get into $250-300. I was relieved. I told him I know they probably couldn’t work on it right away because I figured a lot of other people were ahead of me. He said “I was gonna tear it down today and order parts. I can let you know something for sure tomorrow morning.”
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