Then it was summer

Well I know it's been a long while since my last post. I've been meaning to post my rides. So this is my summer catch up post.

Uncle Wally and I've gone on roughly 4 weekend rides. My first ride I went solo and ran out of gas in Bancroft. Ran it up north near Van Buren too.

Few others for summer.

There is nothing to do but wait

Well it's the shortest days and long cold ass days and nights part of the year. It doesn't bother me except that I'm up north, which means it's about an ten degrees cooler all the time.

I've been doing battery trickle charging every so often. Looking on eBay, craigslist, chopcult and the jockey journal every so often trying to find the right gen shovel or panhead. It seems like nothing is going on anywhere.

The govt ended the EUC for everyone in the country. They say that's an estimated 400M pulled out of the economy every week. If that's true it's worse than the actual govt shutdown was on it.

Out in Colorado they legalized pot. They sold a million dollars in one day. Crazy money there. So I picked up some weed stocks. Maybe I can make some market money, since that's the seemingly only way to make money, cuz there's no damnd jobs in the country anymore thanks to globalization.

Anyway. Happy New year. Drink some beer.

Love Chuck

New jets

Welp... it's the best time of year for some. For me, it's the beginning of winter. However, I've been busy.

I decided my carb needed new jets and not spring for a needle too. So I ended up ordering a 48 and a 45 pilot, as well as a 160. 180 and a 185 main jet.

I had 45/175 going and upped to 48/185. So far seems good at 2.5 turns out on the idle. But it's getting colder.

Running again

Just in time for the last few weeks before the snow flies. That first ride is so exhilarating.

Gasket and cams

Well finally got the gasket. Turns out I already had one. Argh... now I have an extra. Oh well I'll use the thicker one.

A small problem

A couple weeks ago I ordered some struts which didn't fit. There is a picture. So I had to send them back.

I also messed up my rocker arm and had to get a new rocker arm spacer and spring.

Unfortunately I'm still waiting on my new gasket. Luckily I've got dads 74 honda cb four to ride.

Tinkering tonkering

The oil was fine, but I changed it anyway. I wanted to make sure the filter was fresh. So today my uncle and I took off for a 50 mile ride through the countryside.

Returned. Glass of water. Decided to head out for more. Click click click... Time for a new battery. That battery had been abused and defeated.

My concerns about my generator and voltage regulator have been put to rest as the system was charging. Even before a full charge was put on.