Day7 - already!

Today was an interesting day. Over the past few days my bike had been acting funny, coughing and backfiring at times, especially when cold. We visited Rapid City Harley this morning so, I decided to have it checked out. At first it looked like it could take hours to get it looked at. Not only that, I expected to take a big hit in my wallet. The rest of the group took off into the Black Hills while I stuck around at Rapid City. Susan and I decided to run up to Sturgis and drop in on the HOG reception and get a ride pin. On arriving back at Rapid City they had just dropped my bike off the stand. As it turned out, it was only a corroded connector on the fuel injector. They cleaned it up and also replaced the plugs (though plugs weren’t the problem). We were back on the road by around 1 pm and caught up with the others in Keystone, just a few miles from Mt Rushmore. From there we did the Iron Mountain road for the second time, then up the Needles highway to take our Black Hills final ride. We ran back to the hotel with showers bearing down all around but we arrived ahead of them by about an hour.
In bed early tonight because it will be a long ride tomorrow - The run to Devils Tower in Wyoming.