Hot Motorcycle Seat? Home Remedy

Do you suffer from the dreaded biker hot butt syndrome in the summer time?  

You are riding along, knees in the breeze, it's all good.  Quick stop and you're off the bike, it's parked in the sun, but you'll be right back out of Walmart in the time it takes to go check the $5 DVD bin....what could go wrong?

Back on the bike and your butt is burnin'!  Worst of all, your significant other is suffering her baby cakes to be burnt and now nobody is happy.....

Shopping for a solution, the internet is awesome, there are $50 dollar solutions and custom made brand specific hundred dollar solutions to be had.

But, if you understand what Cousin Eddie meant when he told Clark Griswold that the burnt chair was a quality item....  you don't mind a little home grown remedy to solve your troubles.  After all, this is the age of knowing how to get things done (or so the commercial tells us).
 
Here's an inexpensive solution for your burning bagger bottom blues....

Find one of those folding spring loaded car shades, the kind with both halves connected and it twists back on itself for storage.  You can spend $5 to $15 on them, shop carefully.  I had one left over somehow.

Go get a package of 4 tarp clips, the kind that clamp on the edge of a tarp and leave a spot for a bungee cord to pass through.  $3 today at Harbor Freight, on deal from $5.

Procure four bungees, I used the little guys with the adjustable lengths and ball on one end.  Bungees by the bag, $5-$10...

Assemble the tarp clips at each of the four corners, clip the teeth on so they are grabbing just inside the spring coil outline of the sun shade so they don't pull off. 

String your bungees to suit, and hang the whole contraption on the bagger of your dreams.  No more hot butt and you're $30-$80 closer to your next insurance payment.  Not to mention your significant others' cool baby cakes comfort, you, my friend,  will be a regular rock star!

Villa City. Bridges Rd., Tuscanooga Rd.

Here's a quick Lake Co / Sumter Co Ride.  
Beautiful scenery, close by, what's not to like?

West of Clermont out SR50 to Groveland...go north on SR19 and watch for Lake Emma Rd to open on your left.  Go west on Lake Emma Rd, you'll find a historic marker telling about the short history of Villa City.  You can also stay on SR50 past 19, pick up CR565 at the ASCE Hardware store, but you miss some nice scenery and the historical marker.

Lake Emma Rd connects to CR565, turn right and follow it out to US 27.  That stretch is really nice, the road has some elevation to it and crosses through gorgeous lake county scenery.  Go north (left) on US 27 afew miles and watch for Bridges Rd on the left.  It's just past the turnpike northbound entrance.  Turn west (left) onto Bridges Rd.

Bridges Rd turns into Austin Merritt Rd at SR33 crossing.  The Bridges Rd section is really nice, higher elevation, sweeping vistas, just great.  There's even a giant Harley oil can out there, you can't miss it..

Austin Merritt Rd is very nice as well, and gets progressively smaller as you go west.  The road has name changes, to Youth Camp Rd, then Sunridge Rd, finally settling down at the Sumter County line to CR702.  Stay on to the dead end into 48, you'll see the Center Hill downtown area on your left.  Go left into Center Hill.

In Center Hill, pick up cr469 heading east (left) and roar back outta town....nice long sweeping turn there, usually there are Sandhill Cranes out in the pasture with the cows...  stay on 469 to Tuscanooga Rd, and take that back down to SR50 in Mascotte.  Tuscanooga Rd goes by another turn-of-the -century settlement that started out strong and was crushed by weather.  There's a white sign "Tuscanooga Baptist" marking the turn.  This road has an outstanding canopy stretch.  Watch out for the sand washes in the side road intersections and curves, sometimes the wash outs are heavy.  There's this abandoned farmhouse out there, like they just pastured and plowed around it and the house is up on it's original grade, while the ground all around is well down.  It presents an odd look, perched up on it's base out in the field sadly abandoned.

Back on 50 just on the west edge of Mascotte.  Lots more rides...maybe it's not time to head home yet, there's the Green Swamp off SR 33 coming up....