Put a new chain on and getting ready for the big trip

Well, I've been super busy. May was a hectic month. Ashley left for Vegas to visit her sister for a week while I stayed home with the kids. We managed to find baby sitters (Mom rarely says no God bless her) for the two days that I had to work. It started out fun, we gor some ice cream and movies and all watched them together, but soon enough Austin got sick with Rotavirus. So the fun stuff I had planned was spoiled. Austin got better, then worse for the rest of the week.
Ashley came home and I turned 30. Ausitn's illness spoiled our B-day plans, but we'll make up for it. During the chaos, I managed to change the chain on my bike, I replaced the sprockets also. The rear Sprocket is now a 44 tooth instead of the stock 42, which will give it a little better acceleration, but kill the top speed a little.


I got out for a ride on it finally though. The new gearing feels great. The damper I put on is leaking oil, I checked into it and learned that it's normal for them to come overfilled and they will leak till they have the right amount in. I'll give it some time but I don't think it's normal.
Now I'm just getting ready for the trip to California. Randy's going to let me borrow his tank bag, that'll be convienient. I'll keep the camera gun and phone in there.
I'm estimating the trip will be about 3,000 miles total. I may need to get myself a new rear tire while i'm down there. These sport tires don't last much longer than 3,000 and I put this one on last fall, it doesn't have too many miles on it, but most of them were on the track.
In th pic above you can see Randy's tankbag attached to my bike, it fits nice. It's a nice bag, a little smal, i've never liked tank bags, but this one's pretty convienient, not too big, will give me quicker access to the things I need regularly without having to dig through the backpack.
I got a new camera for the trip too, a "Steal" of a deal. I was at walmart, some one had tried to steal the exact camera I wanted and opend the box. They got caught the camera was recovered, but they couldn't restock it, so I got it for %50 off. IT's pretty cool 8.1 megapixels takes video too. I bought a 2 gig card with it, hopefully that'll be enough storage for the trip.