I’d been thinking I’d take the bike out if it warmed up starting yesterday, and sure enough it turned out nice!
So I thought, why not hit up a hot spring? Just a quick one!
A public bathhouse would’ve been fine too, honestly.
I don’t like the Tomei Expressway, so I searched around the Yokohama-Yokosuka route to see what was out there, and I managed to find something.
Some hotel or other http://www.maholova-minds.com/
Well, it’s good enough! So I headed out on the GSF★
The weather was great and the bike was running smooth! Route 3 → Shin-dō → Yokohama-Yokosuka in that order.
But while I was on Route 3, the TMS tire pressure display started acting weird again?
The front keeps dropping! It’s below 2.0 kpa—something’s off?
The bike felt a bit heavy too…
Once I got on the Yokohama-Yokosuka, it was down to 1.85 kpa… I was like, come on, is this okay? But I kept riding at a decent pace anyway.
I continued on.
It was a weekday so the road was empty and felt great.
But I was still worried about the air pressure!
Then some sedan behind me kept flashing its high beams at me! Huh? Me?
I don’t remember passing anyone, and I wasn’t going that fast! I was planning to go all the way to Sawara, but I got off at Zushi instead.
Even on the highway exit curve when I got off, the bike wouldn’t lean at all! This is bad news!
The tire is seriously flat… ugh.
When I checked my mirror, that sedan had followed me all the way to Zushi!
The air pressure… ugh. I went through the ETC gate and somehow ended up on the Toyo-Enoshima Expressway by mistake.
Hmm. Mistake #1—should’ve gotten off on a regular road.
Anyway, a lot happened—my hot spring trip turned into a coastal Enoshima tour instead, and I was bummed out.
I pumped air at a gas station and bingo—it was leaking. Damn it!
I knew about the recall and took precautions, but it looks like I’ll have to stop it with a more reliable method.
I headed out along the coast, took a break, drank some coffee I didn’t even want, took some photos, and came back.
I thought about grabbing food at Enoshima, but the air pressure kept nagging at me.
When I got back on Route 3, it started dropping again—come on, seriously?
By the time I got to Tokyo, the front was down to 1.85 kpa, and the rear was at 8.7 kpa???
What is this? It’s crazy! Seriously.
I replaced the unit with a new one and did the sensor matching, so it’s probably the sensor after all…
It turned out to be a pretty strange outing.
Umpoco
