well the last time I went to winding creek it didn't turn out so cool! but this one did! I loaded up my bike after spending two days figuring out that both the starter and the battery were bad, and then replacing them! I will give you a little piece of that here! the first thing I did was short across the starter solenoid just a click click then I took it the cover off and check the washer no it is good! put it back together now  for the starter,
first I had to take the seat off then take the battery out! then take the rear wheel off then the inner finder out then loosen the oil tank! now you can take the primary cover off so you can reach the bolt on the end of the shaft! then take out the two bolts on the starter,  now if you have done this before you will know there is a sleeve you can slide off the shaft and then wiggle the starter out under the finder! if not you will have to do a lot more work to work it out around the finder and oil tank! I figured this out after I did it the hard way! from there I put it on the bench and hooked it up to a battery! the damn thing spun so im thinking something else is wrong since if you remember from my last story  I  had it hooked up to car batt with it in and no luck turning it over! so I put it back in bike and decided to hook it from the car directly to the starter to check it! no since paying for a starter if that isnt it!

 ok so I get it hooked direct and click click! I see the gear go out and stick in teeth but it wont turn over! now I used some pretty strong language about now! ok take it all apart again! take it to the shop and have them test it! under a load and nothing! check the battery under a load and it is bad too! so I spent just under $400 on parts and then go home to put it all together! I have learned about the sleeve by now but there is more to learn! I get the whole thing put together but notice the gear is engaged all the time! I take it apart and find a snap ring inside that makes it only fit one way! ok flip the thing over and put it all back together and this time it starts right up! there is about 6 hours of frustration in this process but hey I learned some shit while doing it! next time it will only take me about 3 hrs to change it out! 

Well so much for the hassle of changing the starter! now on to the ride to winding creek!  it was a nice warm day not quite in the high 90s yet! headed down I 35 after getting gas enjoying the ride! I got out of house in time to miss some of the traffic so my trip down I 35 was smooth then east on I 40 caught a little bit of the mess at tinker but not too bad! got to highway 102 south and headed toward pink! I got to highway 9 and turned back to the right for the last one mile when I got to the corner to go south to the camp ground there was several vehichles on the side of the road