Today is a great day for a motorcycle ride, too bad I dont have a running motorcycle...or do I?
Started off this morning with a pot of coffee and by hooking up the new petcock and carb, putting everything together.
Then went to advance to pick up some 10w40 for the gear case, and some new fuel line.
Then I put some 50:1 gas in the newly non-rusty tank, because the oil injection doesn't work, tried to kick start it...it sputtered once or twice, I was like
and then nothing
.
Took the spark plug out to test for spark, ended up shocking my dad
, he's ok.
Before I replugged it, I added some starter fluid to the combustion chamber.
Kick started it one more time...and I was like
It smokes, who needs the ozone anyway, but it runs great. The video below is the second start up, I also seafoamed it, smoked even more.
Then came the next step, it ran, so now question was does it drive? My dad took the mayden, er, latest voyage, surprisingly the speedo, odometer, headlight and most importantly the brakes work. What doesn't work is the brake light, turn signals, horn and dash lights. The video below is of his ride.
THEN, I took my first ride on a motorcycle, the camera's video memory was full so there's only pics.
After my ride, my dad made me change the handle bars back
...he said they hurt his back, and he also says we have to get ride of the pink handle bars, so Im going to get some drag handle bars.
Now, its time to get this thing street legal, and looking young again, and ride it to college next year in good weather.