{"id":487,"date":"2014-09-24T20:25:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T00:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/box5417.temp.domains\/~jyytcfmy\/?p=487"},"modified":"2025-01-07T22:53:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T02:53:57","slug":"milddogs-ride-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milddogs.com\/?p=487","title":{"rendered":"Milddogs Ride Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yup, it happened. But how did it happen? Where did they go? What did they ride?<\/p>\n

Hasn’t been much of a riding year for me. I’ve only put about 2000 km on the Super Tenere. Mostly because I was commuting with another person to work for the summer. Weather didn’t help motivate us to plan any weekend adventures. I’ve seen Dendog a bunch this summer, but we usually travel with our families and that means: No motorcycle trips!<\/p>\n

But that all changed Sept 19, 2014. The culminating weekend of the 2.5 year preparations and celebrations for my birthday. The preparations began in earnest when I purchased my Super Tenere with the goal of riding to Alaska.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago I read this post on the Super Tenere Forums: Wife buys dude a Grom<\/a>. I thought, “hey, that’s really cool”. I had been watching Honda Grom Youtube videos during the rainy summer and thought, “hey, that’s really cool”. A little bike to fart around on. Cool. I had mentioned them to my son and wife and Dendog.<\/p>\n

On Sept 18th, Dendog, Mrs. Dendog and our mommy arrived at my house in my dad’s truck. With a Honda Grom in the bed of the truck! It was for me! My wife had purchased a Grom for me! Dendog did the procuring at Hully Gully<\/a> in London, ON.<\/p>\n

Friday Morning, Dendog and I unloaded it, laughed at the tiny battery, put some gas in it and fired it up. We rode up and down the street a bit, adjusted the clutch and then suited up for the maiden ride. Dendog rode the Super Tenere for the first time and I rode the Grom. It was a blast. Had to stop for fuel and filled it up with $4.60 of gas. Dudes at the gas station were staring. I was in my full gear, riding this tiny bike and taking with Dendog on the intercoms while I fueled up. He was out of sight so it probably looked like I was talking to myself. A bit like the old days of Bluetooth headsets.<\/p>\n

We did about 50 km around the back roads. Up hills it was a struggle to maintain speed. The little Grom isn’t broken in yet. Can’t see anything out of the mirrors. One of the neat features is that with a full face helmet, you can’t see the bike at all as you are riding.<\/p>\n

I have to think about what mods I am going to do. Would be nice to get a few more km\/h to make the commute to work viable (almost all 80 km\/h roads). Most popular performance mods seem to be
\n-taking out the restricting tube in the air intake (I already did this)
\n-new exhaust
\n-Power Commander
\n-big bore kit (any size up to 181 CC)<\/p>\n

I was joking with my wife that I could spend $400 and get an exhaust system that cuts the bikes weight by 5 lbs. Or, for free, I could lose 5 lbs \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Now that I have two bikes again, Dendog and I can ride when he is in town. Next summer we hope to do the east coast and finish the provinces. I’ll take the Tenere \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I think I need racing leathers to go with the Grom!<\/p>\n

We went out for dinner Friday night. We went to Kelsey’s. It wasn’t great, but it was better than Smitty’s!<\/p>\n

Peace out!<\/p>\n

Some pictures:<\/p>\n

\"Dave's<\/a>
Dave’s Grom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Blue<\/a>
Blue and Red<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"600lbs<\/a>
600lbs vs 225lbs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Big<\/a>
Big and Little<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Big<\/a>
Big and Little<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"After<\/a>
After a ride in the country, returned home with exactly 100km on the ODO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Dendog<\/a>
Dendog on the Grom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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