Thursday, May 17

100 miles in

Richard dropped the bike off yesterday. I took it out for a 30 mile spin, seeing what was what.

The plugs kept fouling (black soot) and the primary case was pissing oil onto the road everywhere I stopped.

So this morning I changed the plugs, leaned out the Linkert, removed and polished the grooves on the check valve ball-ends in the oil pump and adjusted the primary oiler screw which was fully open. Now done 100 miles and the bike is running better: the rebulilt engine feels fresh and strong.

I feel confident enough for the 550-mile round trip to the Tea Party tomorrow... except my wife fell over this morning, twisted an ankle and now can't walk.

She is cursed. I am cursed. And it looks like I might be childminding this weekend instead of riding.

It can only get better?

8 comments:

goosegreen_63 said...

We all have are cross to bear Guy,nice bike you have there,family too!!! count yerself lucky dude i,ve been out since febuary with a fucked back, bike is ready to go since jan oh well!

The Castle Run said...

I Can send beer if that Will help ........

;-).

Whishes for a speedy recovery, and helpfull grandparents...

Sideburn Magazine said...

Bag of frozen peas, four ibuprofen. G

YZ400BEN said...

Yes. Go to Dirt Quake four til nine thirty, then hammer on back to the ol' lady.

WhitelinePsycho said...

Great lookin scoot mate, hope the curse gets lifted, call Catweazle.

MUNGOCHINO said...

Nice bike, Guy
I like exhaust lines ..
Hope you can ride it tomorrow..

Anonymous said...

Re the fouling plugs. My Pan did this intermittently. I finally realised I wasn't tightening the plugs up enough. I wasn't doing them up really tight because of the short reach...didn't want to strip out the threads. But precisely because of the short reach, they are difficult to seal. So now I tighten them down hard after I check them.

Diesel said...

Bike looks SO nice!!! Looks like you made the ride also! Karma baby, karma.