For the past ten years a small group of us rides down to Guymon, OK for the 5-State poker run. It’s a fun ride, 300 miles and five states in one day and for a good cause.
Saturday morning we were going about 70-75 MPH, I was in 6th gear, and suddenly the trike lost power. The bike was still running fine, but there was no power to the wheels. I down shifted to 5th and everything went back to normal. So figured I’d try 6th gear again and the same thing happened. Wheels weren’t being driven. So we pulled over and as I was slowing down it started to make bad noises. Roadside diagnosis was that I lost at least some of the transmission. I could still ride it going about 20 MPH as long as I kept the RPMs low so since we were only six miles from town I rode it to Dalhart, TX to get towed. Roadside America will get the trike (or bike) towed to the nearest dealership, no charge. My problem was the closest dealership was in Amarillo, 100 miles in the wrong direction from home. It might sound strange, but I really wanted it to be worked on by my usual mechanic at my home dealership. I’m sure the guys in Amarillo are good and would have done a fine job, but don’t know how many more nights I would have had to hang around.
Heres where the the good news happens. Two friends made plans to drive a trailer from Denver to Dalhart, pick me and the trike up and bring us both home....380 miles each way!! They got to Dalhart around 7:30 am (figure they left Denver around 1:30 am!) and we were back home by 3:00 pm. To say I was very grateful would be an understatement.
So I’m home, sleeping in my own bed and will be be taking the trike in on Tuesday to have an already scheduled 10k service done and find out for sure what happened to the transmission after only 8400 miles. Hopefully it’s an easy and quick fix because I have a week long trip to ride around Arkansas next week!!
Saturday morning we were going about 70-75 MPH, I was in 6th gear, and suddenly the trike lost power. The bike was still running fine, but there was no power to the wheels. I down shifted to 5th and everything went back to normal. So figured I’d try 6th gear again and the same thing happened. Wheels weren’t being driven. So we pulled over and as I was slowing down it started to make bad noises. Roadside diagnosis was that I lost at least some of the transmission. I could still ride it going about 20 MPH as long as I kept the RPMs low so since we were only six miles from town I rode it to Dalhart, TX to get towed. Roadside America will get the trike (or bike) towed to the nearest dealership, no charge. My problem was the closest dealership was in Amarillo, 100 miles in the wrong direction from home. It might sound strange, but I really wanted it to be worked on by my usual mechanic at my home dealership. I’m sure the guys in Amarillo are good and would have done a fine job, but don’t know how many more nights I would have had to hang around.
Heres where the the good news happens. Two friends made plans to drive a trailer from Denver to Dalhart, pick me and the trike up and bring us both home....380 miles each way!! They got to Dalhart around 7:30 am (figure they left Denver around 1:30 am!) and we were back home by 3:00 pm. To say I was very grateful would be an understatement.
So I’m home, sleeping in my own bed and will be be taking the trike in on Tuesday to have an already scheduled 10k service done and find out for sure what happened to the transmission after only 8400 miles. Hopefully it’s an easy and quick fix because I have a week long trip to ride around Arkansas next week!!
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