I'm in Canada right now, visiting for my brothers wedding. When I get back, I'm going to replace all the little things on the bike. plugs and bearings for starters. The valves need to be checked for sure. When I returned home, I replaced the busted mirror with an old mirror. Now they don't match but they both reflect. So that needs some work. And I want hard bags. I don't want to pay 2500 yuan for the one shop that sells hard bags and a kit to mount them on my bike... so I'm going to look around and find a welder who will be able to fashion a kit, then I'll buy the pelican cases for 300 yuan each. I'm selling the bike at the end of next year and I don't want to sink too much coin into it before then. On the other side of things, never again with soft bags.
The panda mascot was actually a gift for our niece. We took it with us to make the photos of the trip more relevant to a two year old. We gave it to her. I want to give her an album of all the pictures pannada is in with maps for each picture. I'll start working on that project once I finish doing all the ride reports.