Last ride of the 2013 season

[Paul Heim]

Thanks for that, Tom! I still wish I had the one he wrote when the tree fell on him.

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> On Nov 6, 2013, at 5:43 PM, masonjs at nrtco.net wrote:
> 
> 
> I decided to move my old 1970 Triumph down to the garage at the 
> cottage to make more room in this garage.
> I went up and checked the Triumph. It was low on gas, the gas was 
> stale and it didn't have a battery. I took the battery out of the atv 
> (its actually the one for the Triumph), and installed the one out of 
> the Suzuki vstrom into the atv (I put the Suzuki away Yesterday). 
> You're wondering why I just didn't put the Suzuki battery in the 
> Triumph. Its too tall. I put a block of Styrofoam under the Triumph 
> battery when its in the ATV. I had to go to Kenny's store to get gas 
> As I had dumped all the spare gas into the ATV yesterday.
> When I got back I dumped a gallon of fresh gas into the tank with out 
> getting rid of the old gas from May 2012. After a dozen kicks still 
> nothing. I didn't want to drain the tank so I got a syringe , loaded 
> it with fresh gas, removed the right cylinder spark plug injected the 
> gas into the cylinder replaced the spark plug and kicked the bike 
> over. 2nd kick and it was running, not well but running. It quit while 
> I was getting my riding gear on.. I had to give it another injection 
> to get it running again.
> It farted and stumbled on its way up the driveway but seemed to clear 
> up once I got it going down Rapid road in 2nd gear. I was less than a 
> kilometer into the ride when the left side plug fouled and I lost 1/2 
> of my engine. I kept going on one cylinder figuring the left one would 
> clear.
> I had about 1/2 a kilometer left when the engine died. I looked down 
> and saw the right hand plug wire had come off. I was about to put it 
> back on when I remembered a similar incident from my youth.
> I had a plug wire come off one cylinder of my Matchless. But the 
> Matchless 650 was still running on one cylinder and turning about 4000 
> rpm. I grabbed the plug wire and immediately got 25,000 volts or what 
> ever Lucas was putting out about 33 times per second.  Similar 
> experience to urinating on an electric fence.
> I didn't want that sensation again so I pulled in the clutch so the 
> engine wasn't turning over. I grabbed the plug wire and pushed it on 
> the plug. I got my right hand off the plug and onto the throttle grip 
> before I dumped the clutch. Not only did the right cylinder fire but 
> also the left got a couple of blasts from the raw gas in the  mufflers 
> and I was back on both cylinders.
> I walked the 3 miles back to the cottage/house.  It was 10C I should 
> have left my riding jacket in the garage as I was soaked with sweat by 
> the time I got back.
> I went back later to retrieve my helmet, gloves, the battery from the 
> Triumph.  Then, put some rodent poison around the bikes and covered 
> them up.  I drained the Triumph fuel tank and put the gas in my 
> snowblower.  Those Briggs & Straten engines will eat anything.
> I'll have to get the snow blower over here soon.
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
>> On Wednesday 06/11/2013 at 5:55 pm, schnowz  wrote:
>> Where do you see the price? This dealer wasn't known for Bargains at 
>> least under the old managment.
>> 
>> An update to the center stand issue on mine. The bolt and frame lug 
>> hole was worn and creating all kinds of play at the pivot . I'm having 
>> a new bolt made up with grease fittings. Hope thats the issue..
>> 
>> On another subject - on the news last night they were saying how 
>> mechanics have been seeing a big rise in rotted  brake lines on cars 
>> from the liquid de-icer. Apparantly most states uses an anti-corrosive 
>> agent mixed in there but CT is too damn cheap. I know it has done a 
>> number on my swing arm.
>> 
>> Pete S
>> 
>> 
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