Saturday, September 7, 2024
Day 5 — New Battery in Kalispell Date: Saturday 9/7/2024 Destination: West Glacier KOA, West Glacier, MT Travel Time: 8h 7m Miles: 293 Notes: Slept well on motel bed (on sleeping bag, not in the sheets). Another hot one. Discovered that the water pump seal leaks oil. A quick post in the TRK Facebook group revealed that this is a common problem on this bike, and and easy fix. It’s apparently just a bad o-ring. Battery has been getting continuously worse, and now requires I jump start the bike about every other start. Google Maps to the rescue: directions to the Batteries Plus in Kalispell, please. They don’t have an Odyssey AGM in the right size; the Duracell will have to do. (It’s been great.) I set up camp at the West Glacier KOA, which will be my base for a few days. KOAs are their own little world. Very strange. Not really my thing, but the on-site laundry was handy. After setting up camp I opened a cider and used the iPad to book a vehicle reservation for the next day to ride Going to the Sun Road, which I really wanted to do.