I made it home. OK; about 875 total miles.
Just one little mishap on 40 in Nashville. The %$%^^&^*& key flew out of the ignition and went sailing down the road.
I had stopped at a Yamaha shop to get a face shield but the did not have one and sent me back down the road to a Honda dealer. I was zipping along and felt something hit me in the chest, went What the he!! was that and kept on rolling. Stopped at the Honda dealer, reached for the key and figured out what I had felt hit me. Did I mention I was on reserve? So, back to the Yamaha dealer but they don't cut keys. We were trying to get the gas cap open, (I figured I would just pull the main fuse to shut it off) when one of the guys took a screwdriver and turned the ignition off and it would not turn back on. Now, I'm thinking I am really screwed. The service manager called another Yamaha shop down the road and gave them the number off the iignition and they cut two of them. Problem was, I was stuck at the shop so the shop owner drove over and picked them up for me. I don't know the name of that shop, but they didn't charge me for the keys and Ron didn't want anything for going to pick them up. Did I mention this was after 4:00 Saturday? I left him a Benjamin and asked him to treat the shop to lunch on me for all the help.
So, If anyone down that way is looking for a shop that goes the EXtra mile, Precision Motorsports in Mt. Juliet Tennassee is one to try.
Other than that and the rain, the trip went well and the bike runs like a top. Oh ya, a big blue trash can blew out of a pickup about four car lenghts in front of me and bounched through three lanes of traffic...
The guy I bought it from said he didn't know if you twisted the throttle and held it, the pointer on the speedo would go around past the MPH on the bottom of the dial.
dp