Cool Wednesday
Now I know why these guys ride on Wed. - it's the cool day of the week.
MxDad also let me take a spin on his 250F - that thing wails. The first couple of laps my thoughts were "Yah, I'm roughly the same speed on the 250 as my 426, but I can go at least twice as long on the 250". On third or fourth lap it was, "Hey, can go faster through the whoops and corners on this thing and it suits my clutchy riding style better". I gotta have one now.
I pulled apart the clutch after the ride, and as I suspected, the inner hub (not the basket) was toast. The splined steel sleeve in the aluminum inner hub started to spin within the hub, giving me neutral in all five gears. There was a lot of play in the hub previous to the self destruct, making it near impossible to disengage the clutch all the way (causing a hard shifting/stalls). Looks another call to Hinson for a 426 clutch part ($$$).
LT showed up with his son, and let my daughter take a spin on the 50. She thought the automatic four stroke was "cool".
Tony was smoking me (I'll have to do something about that) and I stayed away from Bill because he makes me feel slow. :think
I probably won't have the chance to go on many Wednesday rides in the future, but the ones I've been on have been great. :)