Seeing that this is a holiday weekend and the rest of the gang in the office left for their vacations last night, I decided to get a short ride in this morning. Just me and the Beemer up the coast for 2 of the most peaceful hours I’ve had in what feels like a long time. Given everything that has been going on, it was nice to finally get away from it all - at least for a bit - and just enjoy riding again.

I suppose I really needed it after spending a great deal of time yesterday on the phone with ProItalia, one of the local Ducati dealerships in LA, and several loan companies. Seems that since MotorMilt & I bought the 749’s Ducati has gotten out of their affiliation with eTrade and now are using GE Financial Services. More importantly the great finace deal that we both got because the bikes were left overs is now obviously gone. So not only do I have to put up with all this bullshit from the insurance company, but I also get to take a hit thanks to the thieves who snagged the bikes. Fantastic.

Last night I found my head spinning with all of this new info, so it was really quite nice to be able to get on the bike this morning and just ride it away. Granted I felt a great deal of anger during the ride because I would have enjoy canyon carving much more on a Duc, but I’m trying very hard to say to myself that the brand or type of bike isn’t as important as just getting a ride in when you need one. And so far it seems to be working a bit better as of late. I’m not sure that this feeling will last, but it’s certainly better than feeling annoyed all the time.