Good Karma

Started off to do a loop, Prescott to Lake Pleasant ,Wikenberg, Big-E's secret trail back up the hill & home. Started off well.

Maggie Mine Rd a little more interesting than in the past.


Rockspring to top off & then hit the Gas Line Rd.



Well somewhere along this stretch I hit a rock that I thought must have bent the frame. A little farther down the trail I stoped & as the bike was leaning over I noticed something drippig out. Looked like gas & stoped when the bike was uprite. Went across & got on 74 to Lake Pleasant turn off & up onto Castle Hot Springs rd. Stopped to get a drink & saw leaking again. Felt it & oh no it's oil. Couldn't see where it was coming from. Turned around & took 74 to the 60 . Got off & lots of oil everywhere. Dropped the skid plate & I hear this bike pull up & this guy says do you need any help. A 78 year old guy named Tom on a restored 70 Beemer. We can't see where the leak is & he says I live just a mile back on Castle Hot Springs RD, the one on the west side & why don't I come to his place & we can take a look. I follow him over to his house, sorry not any pics. at this point. I had added a small flap to my skid plate for better protection & bolted it on the plate & when I hit the rock it flexed enough & the bolt poked a hole in my case:eek1 He said he was a retired welder & if we could get it off he could weld it up,WOW! He had not run the welder in 9 years & could't get the gas flowing, so over to a friends house we went & Glen also had a welder that he had not used in 7 years, but it worked & Tom welded it up, we got it all back together & I was home just before 11:00 PM. Cold ride home BURRRR! Any way just another incredibly lucky moment in my charmed life. What goes around comes around but I always seem to have more come my way.



Tom's place & a really neat old Dodge truck he restored.

Nice!

Good job getting yourself home Tom.

Nice story. Restores ones hope in our people. Pay it forward! Glad you got home on two wheels.

Tom, I am glad to see that you were able to get some help.

Great story Tom! Lots of good Karma.

What's that saying? You meet the nicest people on a Honda.

Nice! Last time I was down the gas line road was... uhm... when was that... oh, it was with you the first day after you had reinstalled your new clutch!

Sure wish I was right there with you but I had a whole house full of people yesterday.

Yes the infamous Revloc that caused me to have a motor needing a top end sitting on a shelf in my garage. Always welcome your company. Happy day ater Thanksgiving.

What you give comes back. Nice truck. I like the matching cooler in back. Glad it turned into a good story.

Good Karma would have been not puncturing the case in the first place.


Finding a guy with a welder in BFE is called Divine Intervention.

Long day! Good luck for you running into that Tom guy!

I am gonna have to NOT show you guy's anymore of my "seacricket" trails anymoe!!

Glad it all worked out well Uncle Tom!!

Be careful out there, motorcycles are dangerious!! Or so I have herd!!moo..........

Hey Tom, I'm pretty sure I know both Tom and Glenn. Tom's BMW has a later model engine shoved into it, right? And Glenn....Big, bearded dude with a GS and I think a Harley, correct?

I met Tom several years ago when I saw an ad for a Ducati for sale. I went for a look but never bought the bike. It was his son's and it needed a bunch of work. We hung out a couple of times after that. Nice guy.

And that house of his is cool, no?

Glenn's wife is the butcher at the local Bashas in Wickenburg. She sold us a horse once.

S.C.

This is a better "Karma" story.



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Right on, thats the guys. Great folks, really saved my butt!! Glen now has two Harleys one's his wifes, 2 KLR's & a GS?

Agreed