The Bike is Alive!!

okay so yesterday I got 4 boxes from the post office...and honestly didn't know what was in them. Turns out they were all motorcycle parts! woohoo!

So I sped home as fast as I could and started re-assmlbing the carbs off my 1980 Kawasaki KZ650B. Things were much better with the assistance of a manual! I rebuilt the accelerator pump and the vacuum pump thingy next to it, and reassembled everything with new float bowl gaskets. A little silicon on the intake boots and some new gas line and presto: looked like new! almost.

I wheeled the bike out into the driveway and went full choke and a little throttle. Kick 1; sputter sputter. Kick 2; ZZZZZZZZIIIIPPPP zam! 4000rpm idle!! woot. choke down and close the hand thottle and sure enouigh the idle goes down and it doesn't die. I give the throttle a twist and sure enough a roaring sound comes form the exhuast instead of the usual rattling gasping death! YAY!!!

Now I need an idle screw so the damn thing stops dieing every time I close the throttle. Then new tires and a headlight and I might have a usable bike!

I am like so excited! yay.

-G :D

Poor Jan...

So...in case some of you haven't noticed I follow things Czech whenever I can. And WRC Finland was last month and poor Jan Kopecky(Czech driver) in his Skoda(Czech car) had a rather nasty little bump. As Follows:

and now...The News!

I haven't posted much lately...since my life is in the usual standstill that it ends up in.

I've been spending a lot of time with my girlfriend lately, which does indeed greatly detract from the amount of time spent moping about over my car and dead motorcycle. But I view it as a good thing.

I need to start planning for my move to the twin cities around christmas, and everything else involved in that, as well as clean out the garage of all my shit and figure out what to do with the Bimmer.

I am also still trying to persue Rally. The bmw is on hold but another Suzuki Swift recently came up for sale for a totaly decent $3000 price tag...which is about the cost for a roll cage...so it would be a crime NOT to! We will see.

and on life goes...

-G :)