{"id":6869,"date":"2017-05-23T21:19:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T21:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=6869"},"modified":"2017-05-23T21:19:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T21:19:55","slug":"life-stranded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/05\/23\/life-stranded\/","title":{"rendered":"Life: Stranded"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3015,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.bmwmoa.org\\\/general\\\/custom.asp?page=membertypes&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20201027082854\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.bmwmoa.org\\\/general\\\/custom.asp?page=membertypes&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 02:23:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-20 15:57:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-17 08:04:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-17 08:04:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Today was my final day at work as I embark on my first trip to Belgium in 2 years. I\u2019ll have to return to work in a week but for today, I\u2019m free of emails and Skype and phone calls for a bit. It\u2019s going to be a nice trip. Right now, I\u2019m in Barre, VT. When I go on a trip like this, it\u2019s always smart to load up on beer at my favorite brewery. I left work at 3PM and 35 miles into an 80 mile journey, my motorcycle\u2019s TPMS light comes on. It\u2019s been very finicky lately. It comes on a lot more than you\u2019d think but usually it\u2019s just a yellow light. This time, it was full on red. I pull over, the front tire does indeed feel softer than usual. It is a super hard radial for off-road so they don\u2019t give like a standard tire. I hop back on the bike deeming it drivable and the TPMS light goes dark.<\/p>\n<p>I stopped at the next exit anyway. No need to push my luck with a sensor that\u2019s not reliable. BMW says for $250 per tire, they can replace my TPMS batteries that supposedly just die every 5 years and since this is an \u201909, it\u2019s probably just time. Great. Of course the Germans would engineer something so insane where instead of a tiny Li-Ion battery inside of your wheel, they have a sensor in the wheel and another on the brake housing that talk to each other and those two sensors communicate tire speed. If one tire is spinning more than the other, they throw a code and estimate how low the pressure is. Well, the wheel communicates using a battery pack to transmit this wireless signal. The battery is not replaceable. You have to do the entire system per wheel. crock of shit if you ask me.<\/p>\n<p>I pull off at the next exit, spend a buck accessing the air compressor and the front tire reads 15 PSI (ideally 35). I fill it up and the machine can\u2019t reach the set PSI. Sigh. I try again half an hour later after the tow truck has been called and it reads 6 PSI. If you look at the tire, it looks completely normal. It\u2019s not though. It\u2019s completely flat.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmwmoa.org\/general\/custom.asp?page=membertypes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> member of BMW MOA<\/a>. I pay $79 each year for roadside assistance. They\u2019ll tow me up to 100 miles to wherever I want. I\u2019m 35 miles from the motorcycle shop I trust so that\u2019s perfect. I am in the highest tier for MOA so I also get tire protection. This $150-$200 tire, if I need to replace it will be free including the service + the tow. Thank goodness. The membership has already paid for itself four times over. Last year, I only used it once for running out of gas. Since I added the 2 gallon fuel tank, I haven\u2019t ran out of gas accidentally since then.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014-<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 5:15PM and instead of leaving Hill Farmstead and heading home to pack for the trip, I\u2019m stuck in Vermont waiting on this tow truck. Today\u2019s timing isn\u2019t all that impacted. I\u2019ll get home around the same time I would have had I went to the brewery. Except, Heather and I will have to wake up tomorrow much earlier to get to Hill Farmstead before we make it to Montreal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing could have prepared me for a flat-tire and hey, it could have been worse but it\u2019s never fun. You are literally stuck in that one place and today, I\u2019m thankful I am a BMW MOA member. $150 for a tow, $150 for a tire, $50 for service just because I wanted to go up and grab some beer.<\/p>\n<p>The bike does look beautiful just sitting there hanging out. I wish it was red but it was a great deal. Only 3,000 miles on these tires and now I have to replace one of them. That probably puts me out of sync for tire changes now.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to leaving and heading to Belgium tomorrow. I haven\u2019t seen you guys in 2 years. Will have IPAs a full day fresher for our tasting.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today was my final day at work as I embark on my first trip to Belgium in 2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-05-23T21:20:03Z","apple_news_api_id":"3f5d6b5e-eb33-4564-a95b-1bf7f81d8225","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-05-23T21:20:06Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AP11rXuszRWSpWxv3-B2CJQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-life","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1MN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6463,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/11\/21\/motorrad-my-2016-motorcycle-road-trip-on-the-bmw-r1200-gs-adventure\/","url_meta":{"origin":6869,"position":0},"title":"Motorrad: My 2016 Motorcycle Road-Trip on the BMW R1200 GS Adventure","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"November 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This trip has been one of the best I\u2019ve ever taken from the perspective of just a single solo quiet time to be with myself away from distractions and troubles. 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