A Ride on Tanque Road

 Tanque: Spanish for Tank, in this case a water tank I believe.

This morning, three motorcycles went out, and I'm happy to report, three came back.

Lori rode Chris' TW200, Chris rode Yagi, my TW200 and I was riding Scarlett to give her a longer test ride after the sidecar shaft repairs recently.

I led the trio north on Haekel Road to the junction with Tanque Road.  At that point, Lori took the lead and we rode for a few miles with Mount Graham in the distant background.

I think soon after the above picture, we turned around and headed back towards Haekel Road, enough sand and dirt riding for the day.

As we returned towards camp, we stopped where Lori Z. had spotted an amusing addition to the humdrum cattle crossing sign:

From the sign, we decided to check out the nearby abandoned farm house, wind vane and water tank:

While Chris and I explored the old house and surrounding structures, Lori stayed with the motorcycles and produced these B&W studies of Scarlett:

During the riding, Scarlett had exhibited issues that I managed to quickly associate with a loose connection with the battery ground cable.  Once I got back to camp, and after some effort getting tools to get at the grounding screw, this is what I saw:

The wire was loose within the eyelet's clamp, causing sporadic grounding connectivity issues which led to to no power when turning the ignition key!  I got things cleaned up, bare metal once again exposed and in contact.  

Both Lori and Chris say Scarlett sounds much better now.  I'm not sure I hear a difference but at least she seems to start reliably now.

Sitting on Scarlett after a brief test ride

I went for a walk in the afternoon, hoping to find wind carved patters in the nearby dune areas but this is all I got: