My first day on the road and first taste of salt water!!!
Super excited and anxious at the same time, we left Davids at 9am. Fully fuelled on $14 I rode West following David to his beach house in Playa Gorgona. The bike rode sweet even with the aerodynamic addittion. I rode out of P' city on the InterAmericana with the biggest grin under my helmet!
After 3hrs riding we stopped to get some lunch... when we went to leave the Fonda (awesome road side cafe's / people's front room) the bike decided it didn't want to play. The fuse had gone again!
I was carrying a couple of spares but beginning to doubt the bike was a good buy... after getting it going we stopped at a shop and bought 8 more fuses! This would have to tide me over until I figured out the problem. I hate electrics!
We got to Davids place and the surf was small but pretty... he suggested I stay the night before driving the next 4/6hr leg to Playa Venao but his house had been burgled and was covered in gecko shit. I wanted to keep going... Unusually common sense got the better of me and I decided to stay and figure out the electrical problem. After much wiggling of wires, wrongly accusing the rear brake light and removing the front brake light switch I found a a pair of wires running to the 12v charger that were touching main earth terminal. Bingo... I relocated the wires and haven't had a problem since!! (I still bought another 10 fuses just in case!)
David left to go back to P 'city and I went for a small surf at the rivermouth at the end of the beach. It was sooo good to get wet and try out the board!
I crashed on the couch and woke at 6am to check the surf... the pics below are of the incredible sunrise that morning and some chump on a bike... Awesomes!
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