I rolled the little Beta 250 out of the garage this morning and messed around with its flat tire for a while. I couldn't find anything obviously wrong so I'm thinking that the tire was leaking around the bead because I didn't put enough pressure in it the last time I pumped it up to properly seat the bead. Hopefully I fixed it and I'll check it tomorrow morning to be sure.

I set up my Coleman instant tent in the yard for a couple of hours to make sure it was good and dry before I packed it away for the season. Since I can't think of a reason that I would need it this winter I'm just going to leave it in my storage room until I get back to Denver next spring.

I finished repairing my old American Furniture Warehouse sofa bed so now it looks and works like it used to but I don't expect my repairs to last for too long. I'll just be glad if I can get a couple more years of use out of it before I need to get another one.

When I bought the Yamaha WR 450 I also bought two, 2  1/2 gallon gas cans, this proved to be more gas than I really needed to be carrying around since my truck is a diesel, and I have no generator, the only thing using gasoline is my motorcycle, so I gave one can away.

So when I got the little Beta 250 it held even less gas so even one 2  1/2 gallon gas can seemed excessive. Then recently the gas can sprung a leak, well not actually a leak it was more of a weep, or a very slow seepage. I couldn't figure out where it was coming from so I poured all the gas in the motorcycle, filled the can with water and set it on the kitchen counter. And with a little bit of time and a lot of light I finally figured out where the leak was coming from.

It appears that while the can was sitting in its normal storage spot, which is in the homemade box in the bed of the truck, it had been rubbing against something which made a teensy weensy hole in the side of the gas can. I guess that says something about these cheap plastic gas cans we buy nowadays.

Back in the day when my vehicles were gas powered and I had several motorcycles, I used military Jerry cans to keep everything full. And other than their propensity for lighting up like a gigantic Zippo lighter from static electricity, they worked great and would last forever. But come to think of it I believe even the new military Jerry cans are made of plastic..... I guess that's progress.

 I ordered another cheap plastic gas can from Amazon, this one is only 1  1/4 gallons which is about what the little Beta's gas tank holds. So now if my front tire doesn't go flat, and my homemade seat doesn't fall off, and my new gas can doesn't spring a leak..... I'm ready for my winter travel season.

                                     theboondork

My old easy chair that I set out next to the road yesterday was picked up within a couple of hours and taken away, hopefully to a good home. I'm glad it was taken away fairly quickly I'm pretty sure if it had rained on it it's perceived value would've declined considerably.

I've been working on my old American Furniture Warehouse sofa bed. Since it was about the same age as my old easy chair it to is starting to fall apart. Some foam in part of the seat had torn apart and if you sat down in exactly the wrong spot there was the possibility that you might go right through the sofa onto the floor. So I'm in the process now of reinforcing the torn foam so I don't have to worry about what few guests I get disappearing into the depths of my sofa never to be seen again.

                                   theboondork

I've been kind of busy lately, or at least what I call busy. I've put together my new easy chair and officially retired my old easy chair by sitting it out next to the street with a "free to a good home" sign on it. I put together the chairs for my grandsons table and chairs and since the missing table just arrived yesterday afternoon I'll be putting it together in the next day or so. I installed a new garbage disposal at my wife's house because the old one had a crack in it and was leaking. I also figured out that my little beta 250 has a leak in its front tire which I need to figure out where it's leaking from and how to fix it. And for a lazy guy like me.... That's what I call busy.

I dread getting involved with a flat tire on the little beta 250, first because it's a tubeless tire and second because it has the Nuetech Tubliss tire system installed in it, which works great but is a pain in the butt to get the tire on and off.

I'm hoping it's something simple like a small hole in the tire which I can put a plug-in just like any other tubeless tire without removing it from the rim. Or maybe I didn't put enough air in it the other day to seal the bead and if I pump it up to a higher pressure maybe it will be okay. I haven't had a chance to check it out yet but I'm hoping it's something that doesn't require me having to remove it from the rim.

Just when I thought it was starting to feel like Fall around here, the last few days have been in the low 90s. Fortunately the humidity's still in the teens but 90 is too hot for the middle of September. Thankfully it appears we only have one more day of this and then its going to get back to the high 70s low 80s where it should be this time of year.

                                           theboondork