Monday morning we went back into town to the motorcycle shop (The Zen House). Dave, the owner, already had most of the front end of my bike taken apart and was making a list of parts that needed to be replaced. He had to leave, but I spent a while on the internet and phone trying to locate new or used replacement parts. Unfortunately everywhere was closed since it was Memorial Day. After exhausting all the options, we called it a day and walked down to the wharf for lunch. We had sandwiches at a cool coffee shop and spent a few hours relaxing on the coast.
We walked back into town and remembered that there was a really cool old art deco theater that had been turned into a single screen movie theater. They only change the movie once every week or two so we didn't have much of a film choice. This week they were showing "Angels and Demons," which ended up being pretty decent.
After the movie, we rode back down to the pier for some great pizza. We also picked up some ice cream which we took back to share with the couple who had taken us in during our unplanned stay in Point Arena. Dave and Jamileh were great. They made us feel incredibly welcome and really helped make a bad situation as pleasant as possible. Since they were both motorcycle riders, we spent a bit of time talking about the great roads we'd all ridden.
The next day (Tuesday) I was finally able to get ahold of people on the phone. It turned out that new parts would take 7-10 days to arrive, so I turned my attention to salvage yards in the area. I gradually expanded my search area and after calling 30 or 40 salvage yards finally found some parts from an '04 model in LA that sounded like they would work. I paid an arm and a leg to have the parts overnighted and hoped they'd make it early the next morning.
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