Posted in adventure on May 31st, 2010 3 Comments »
It was raining and crappy this morning, so I did what any normal person would do and put on some GoreTex and headed for the other side of the mountains in pursuit of sunlight. The weather through the pass was cold and miserable but it was all worth it if only to stop off at [...]
Posted in adventure on May 30th, 2010 3 Comments »
Had some friends in from out of town and we decided to head up to Mount Evans today. They opened the road to traffic early Friday morning. There was some debate on whether I should drive or ride the motorcycle (at least in my head), which was largely based on worry that the road might [...]
Posted in adventure on May 29th, 2010 No Comments »
Cracked the case. Everything in the engine looks clean and a-ok. Ultimately the problem with the engine turned out to be the #3 piston and cylinder. If you look closely at the pictures you’ll see the rings were frozen and the cylinder has a bit of corrosion on the inside. I think water got in [...]
Posted in adventure on May 29th, 2010 No Comments »
So on the 11th I’m getting on a plane to fly to NYC to get on a plane to fly to BOS to get in Hilary’s Subaru to drive to PDX and/or SEA. You can’t drive across the entire country enough times. Thinking about heading over the mountains on Monday, maybe explore around Yakima or [...]
Posted in adventure on May 29th, 2010 No Comments »
From mysterious mike, this is a pretty badass (I think) color scheme. Who wouldn’t love orange?
Posted in adventure on May 28th, 2010 No Comments »
I forgot to mention that someone nearly hit me last night. A LR Discovery of all things. I had just turned left on 202 from the shop and some disco threw on its blinker and just came into me. I sort of expected it because I am wary of travelling beside cars, and I just [...]
Posted in adventure on May 27th, 2010 4 Comments »
Pulled the head off, then the cylinder head. Basically all that is left is to crack the case and get the crank and transmission bits out. The pistons look scary, or not, I can’t really tell. For all the crud the walls seem pretty smooth and I didn’t notice any visible scoring. I guess we’ll [...]
Posted in adventure on May 26th, 2010 6 Comments »
I don’t think I’ve ever carried a television or a pizza on a motorcycle, much less both at the same time.
Posted in adventure on May 25th, 2010 No Comments »
Got the stubborn bolt off. I whacked the valves to unstick them, put a ratchet on the alternator bolt, and gave it a couple of sharp whacks, and the engine unstuck. This let me rotate the bolt to where I could get to it. Pulled the rockers and cams off uneventfully. 4 of the head [...]
Posted in adventure on May 25th, 2010 2 Comments »
As seen in a 1970s Honda CB750 repair manual.