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Greenville, SC to Alexandria, VA (490 miles)<\/div>\n
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There’s nothing like a little engine problem to put a damper on your day after riding 2,500 miles out of 3,000.  Yesterday was a big riding day and I was determined not to let it go to waste.  Focused on the finish line, I woke up early and was on the road by 8 am.  I only had 7 hours to go, the finish line was in sight.<\/div>\n
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On my first fuel stop, I got the bad news.  An engine hose had broken on the Ducati, and oil was now spraying the top of my engine.  Luckily, I never leave home without zip ties.  I did my best to zip tie the hose to the engine.  I rode on for a few miles, nervously hoping the engine would continue to run.  I pulled into the first rest stop to survey my quick fix.  Not great, but the idea seemed solid, so I pulled off my gear and went to work on improving it.<\/div>\n
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After a little more sweat and burnt fingers (motorcycle engines get hot, so does oil), I finally had a better zip tie fix.  I rode for another 50 miles, before pulling over to check that the zip ties were holding.  It looked surprisingly solid, I could get on with my ride.  I didn’t stop until lunch and kept my lunch short.  By the time I had less than an hour to go, I was so exhausted I had to pull into a Starbucks for some ice coffee and to cool down.<\/div>\n
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Naturally, I ran into traffic on my sprint the the finish, but nothing could stop me now.  I was so close, I could coast to the finish line.  Around 6 pm, I rolled into my brother’s driveway, just in time to surprise my nephew for his birthday.  Mission accomplished!<\/div>\n
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Petter on his Ducati Multistrada 1100S<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oil Greenville, SC to Alexandria, VA (490 miles) There’s nothing like a little engine problem to put a damper on your day after riding 2,500 miles out of 3,000.  Yesterday was a big riding day and I was determined not … Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/svbellamarina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/09\/blogger-image-1293119309.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9ytjM-e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/svbellamarina.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/svbellamarina.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/svbellamarina.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/svbellamarina.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/svbellamarina.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/svbellamarina.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"http:\/\/svbellamarina.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/svbellamarina.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/svbellamarina.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/svbellamarina.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/svbellamarina.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}