My faith in humanity has been restored after this weekend.
Sunday morning, I was on my way to Windrock which is a 3+ hour drive for me, I look down at my temp. guage in my Honda, and it is suddenly pinned past redline. I immediately pulled over at a gas station, and was stranded.
The guys I was meeting to ride with were already riding and once my car cooled down, I realized that my radiator would not hold any water at all, and that I was basically screwed. It was Sunday and nothing was open.
Some guy with a mechanic shirt on walks over and we start talking. He was very helpful, and he ended up pinpointing that something like a small rock went through the grill of my car, and busted my radiator. You could see the hole. I just shook my head and said if $hit was luck, I would be constipated. So this "good ole boy" then offers to drive me 15 minutes to Windrock so I can meet up with my buddies. It was a super nice thing to do, and the only downside was me having to hear about his troubles with his "old lady." So,
I got all Dr. Phil on him, it was the least I could do.
Anway, so we get there, and I see Spoke80, and tell him what went down.
He immediately offers to take me and get all my gear from my car, so I can ride. After that, he shuttles me up the hill all day in his truck. He broke a der. earlier that day, and was chillin'. Unreal.
Then, Profro tells me that he has a car trailer and can tow my car back to his house, and then take me to the Honda place first thing Monday morning, and I can just stay with him.
Then on Monday, I found out after sitting there for 4 hours that Honda does not have the part, and they have to overnight it from Ohio. So Profro takes me to lunch, then drives me back to his place, throws down 7 MTB DVD's for me to watch and then heads off back to work. That night he and his wife took me out to a sweet pizza joint and actually bought me dinner.
Then, me, Profro, and Spoke80 went into Knoxville for a street ride on UT's campus. It was sweet. I found out two things. I still can't ride street and college girls are getting their skirts from Baby Gap. Who hoo!!
Finally, Honda has my car ready around noon on Tuesday. My car only has 32,000 miles on it, but evidently "road debris" is not covered under warranty,
so they charged me $472 for their bad design that let a small pebble do that much damage. Bad Giant Honda, Bad Bad!!
But back to the point, the hospitality I was shown this weekend was unreal in this day and age, where you can't even leave your bike unlocked for 5 minutes without some douche baloon stealing it.
It is great to have friends like that, and he11, even a cool azz stranger who went out of his way for me.
2 thumbs up for you guys and thanks again!!
Sunday morning, I was on my way to Windrock which is a 3+ hour drive for me, I look down at my temp. guage in my Honda, and it is suddenly pinned past redline. I immediately pulled over at a gas station, and was stranded.
The guys I was meeting to ride with were already riding and once my car cooled down, I realized that my radiator would not hold any water at all, and that I was basically screwed. It was Sunday and nothing was open.
Some guy with a mechanic shirt on walks over and we start talking. He was very helpful, and he ended up pinpointing that something like a small rock went through the grill of my car, and busted my radiator. You could see the hole. I just shook my head and said if $hit was luck, I would be constipated. So this "good ole boy" then offers to drive me 15 minutes to Windrock so I can meet up with my buddies. It was a super nice thing to do, and the only downside was me having to hear about his troubles with his "old lady." So,
I got all Dr. Phil on him, it was the least I could do.
Anway, so we get there, and I see Spoke80, and tell him what went down.
He immediately offers to take me and get all my gear from my car, so I can ride. After that, he shuttles me up the hill all day in his truck. He broke a der. earlier that day, and was chillin'. Unreal.
Then, Profro tells me that he has a car trailer and can tow my car back to his house, and then take me to the Honda place first thing Monday morning, and I can just stay with him.
Then on Monday, I found out after sitting there for 4 hours that Honda does not have the part, and they have to overnight it from Ohio. So Profro takes me to lunch, then drives me back to his place, throws down 7 MTB DVD's for me to watch and then heads off back to work. That night he and his wife took me out to a sweet pizza joint and actually bought me dinner.
Then, me, Profro, and Spoke80 went into Knoxville for a street ride on UT's campus. It was sweet. I found out two things. I still can't ride street and college girls are getting their skirts from Baby Gap. Who hoo!!
Finally, Honda has my car ready around noon on Tuesday. My car only has 32,000 miles on it, but evidently "road debris" is not covered under warranty,
so they charged me $472 for their bad design that let a small pebble do that much damage. Bad Giant Honda, Bad Bad!!
But back to the point, the hospitality I was shown this weekend was unreal in this day and age, where you can't even leave your bike unlocked for 5 minutes without some douche baloon stealing it.
It is great to have friends like that, and he11, even a cool azz stranger who went out of his way for me.
2 thumbs up for you guys and thanks again!!
I tried already
