First wet day for the Aerostich suit

I was up at 6:00 and rolling at 6:30. No sooner had I pulled out of the dealership, when it started to rain. And rain. And rain. I still kept stopping at all my planned photo locations, but it just seemed to take forever. When I got to one of my Ride To Eat locations, I actually ate there. I have been riding for almost 6 hours and had not even gotten 200 mi down. Very frustrating.

Despite all the rain, though, my Aerostich riding suit kept me almost completely dry. It's not waterproof, but it's extremely water resistant. After 6 hours in the rain and road spray, it had only just begun to look saturated and then only in small patches. By the end of the day it was completely dry.

I say it kept me almost completely dry because it doesn't seem to matter whether I have on a riding suit, a two-piece rain gear set, or a one piece rain coverall, they all seem to let the water in right at the crotch. Disappointing.

After lunch, I stopped for some gas. When I started the bike back up, my auxiliary lights went out again. And then they came back on. And then just the big white ones went out. Then they all went out. Then just the little yellow ones came on. Anyway, I stopped at Timm's Harley-Davidson in Anderson, SC, and they rolled it back into service to see if they could figure out what was going on. Not half an hour later they told me there was a problem with the wires going into the controller. The controller is both the power switch and a dimmer switch for both sets of lights. Apparently something is loose, melted, shorted, whatever, but it wasn't anything they could fix or even hotwire around. But at least now I know what the problem is. I'll have to work with Denali to figure out how to fix it since the controller is hardwired into the entire wiring harness.

The lights still come on and off, but it seems to be whenever they feel like it, which of course is not when I would feel like it. I had them a little bit tonight in the dark, which was awesome, but they were only on when I turned on my brights, so every time I turned off my brights for oncoming vehicles, I couldn't see the road at all. Not. At. All. A couple of times it was pretty scary and I almost came to a complete stop because I didn't know what I was going to run over. I have got to get these fixed.

I stopped at 2100 tonight, much earlier than last night, so I pulled out all of my camping stuff. And I'm just about to settle down in my sleeping bag. I'll be in Virginia Beach tomorrow, just in time for the storm 🤣.

Hope to see you on the road! Remember, NO WHINING! ✌️

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Starting odometer: 50895
Ending odometer: 51374
Daily mileage: 479
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