Uh oh! Safety Recall

It’ll be a lit­tle longer before I start tak­ing girls for rides on the motorcycle:

http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/problems/recalls/recallresults.cfm?start=1&SearchType=QuickSearch&rcl_ID=05V067000&summary=true&PrintVersion=NO

Looks like I have to get the deal­er to replace the mount­ing hard­ware for the bitch seat. Inter­est­ing coin­ci­dence: the recall date is the date I bought the bike. The recall notice arrived in the mail yes­ter­day, and I had a friend sched­uled to ride with me today. I want­ed an expe­ri­enced rid­er to ride as my pas­sen­ger and give me some instruc­tion before tak­ing any­one else on any rides. Since I got the notice yes­ter­day, I can­celled today. Prob­a­bly every­thing would have been fine—the descrip­tion sounds like it’s a prob­lem that can arise over a long peri­od of time—but it would be irre­spon­si­ble to take a pas­sen­ger after get­ting the recall notice.

Black­out (Down in Mex­i­co)—Simon Stinger