anyone go for a ride today? Pics?

[Burque73]

I stopped for gas today and noticed the sticker on the RV behind me. The driver said he's a road racer and Z1 sponsors him.




Got a few showers today, but still nice to ride for a while. After I pulled into the garage it really started raining hard.

[steve murdoch]

The racer may have been Dennis Parrish.
Was he a large man?

http://www.randakksblog.com/what-ive-learned-from-ahrma-vintage-roadracing/

[Burque73]

The racer may have been Dennis Parrish.
Was he a large man?
http://www.randakksblog.com/what-ive...ge-roadracing/

No, that wasn't him, maybe just a roadie. He did seem to be a big guy though.

I walked over and he rolled the window down to talk. If he hadn't just started the engine and buckled his seat belt, and the rain hadn't just started again, maybe we would have visited for a while.

[steve murdoch]

I just know Dennis from a Honda website and he seems like a good guy.
He does live in Corrales.

[Burque73]

I just know Dennis from a Honda website and he seems like a good guy.
He does live in Corrales.

Well, that's gotta be him or his rig then. Corrales is a small place. How many vintage road racers could there be in a population of 8,500 people?

If you chat with him anytime soon you can mention you sort of know the guy on the old GS riding in the rain for no apparent reason. I asked if he worked for Z1, I suppose in a roundabout way he does.

[Boriqua]

Oh what fun .. It has gotten close to 100F already but this morning is was a cool and overcast 80F so I decided to head out to canyon lake. It turns into a nice twisty road and its recently paved so I was determined to try and scrape my pegs. The new tires were a dream and the bike soared up to 9000rpm without a single complaint.

The lake was beautiful and while I ride all year I hadnt been here since the fall. Being early in the season not to many people so all the wildlife was out in force and I ran over a rattle snake on the way out. I hope he was dead when I went over him. Birds that stand up almost to my shoulders and everything is in bloom. Wish I had a cooler picture with all the wonderful things out there but instead all I have is this pic of my Bike in the parking lot when I got back from hiking around.



I have gone to the other side of that little mountain on a rubber raft and you can spot a fair amount of big horn sheep. Only bad thing about being outdoors right now is Rattle snakes and bees are especially active right now so you do have to keep an ear open when walking about

[Hayabuser]

Out racing around tonight.

[TEcklund]

Not a bike but got a ride in this.

Guess I need to figure out how to flip pics

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[Buffalo Bill]

Oh what fun .. It has gotten close to 100F already but this morning is was a cool and overcast 80F so I decided to head out to canyon lake. It turns into a nice twisty road and its recently paved so I was determined to try and scrape my pegs. The new tires were a dream and the bike soared up to 9000rpm without a single complaint.

The lake was beautiful and while I ride all year I hadnt been here since the fall. Being early in the season not to many people so all the wildlife was out in force and I ran over a rattle snake on the way out. I hope he was dead when I went over him. Birds that stand up almost to my shoulders and everything is in bloom. Wish I had a cooler picture with all the wonderful things out there but instead all I have is this pic of my Bike in the parking lot when I got back from hiking around.



I have gone to the other side of that little mountain on a rubber raft and you can spot a fair amount of big horn sheep. Only bad thing about being outdoors right now is Rattle snakes and bees are especially active right now so you do have to keep an ear open when walking about

That dead snake was dinner for another animal before you got home, so don't worry about it. You bike looks really clean! I got a rack like that too, but I need to paint it black.

[Jedz123]

I seemed to have killed my Michelin man on my Road 5's this weekend. Lots of running (in the rain and cold) for I lost a close member of my family over the weekend...

Tech day today!!! I need a new shoe in a bad way.,..

[Buffalo Bill]

Rode it first time, last years squashed bugs included?

Rides real good, love the way it handles, turns in EZ predictable.

[Boriqua]

That dead snake was dinner for another animal before you got home, so don't worry about it. You bike looks really clean! I got a rack like that too, but I need to paint it black.

I have the Sissy bar that goes with it but .. took it off immediately. I certainly like the look of the bike sans rack a bit better but its my primary transport now that I work from home and it sure comes in handy when making post office runs or going to the shooting range. I can load up 20 lbs of ammo and guns and off I go.

I took my time about a year and a half ago and gave it a good good sanding. I wasnt going to pay to have it blasted and I didnt bring it all the way to bare metal but it was well sanded. After that I spent two days giving medium coats of Rustoleum. After letting it cure for 4 days that paint is tough as nails. I am impressed. It should be scratched to hell by now or bleached out by the sun but the rustoleum it turns out is a very quality paint.

[Redman]

Got out for an early evening ride.
Enjoying that is running better, and forks not slobbering, and tensioner not dripping.
(and that have cleaned up all the slobbered fork oil, and tensioner leaked engine oil, well, most all)

Rode into town, looking for "walls"
(See Picture Of The Week for details, and other folks postings.)




And then I saw the clutch actuator seal is dripping some down the cover. (cant see in pic)
Had been a little smudge there before. I think I bought a replacement seal some time ago.

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[Redman]

Was just the other day I was so happy the bike running so well after the carb rebuild-cleaning and other work.

Today Took the bike out to runn some errands, and started running like c-ca-cra-crap, a bit of a shutter-stutter. Seems to idle, but the stutter on accell, and not the accelleration it should be, and can feel the stuttering at higher speed. Is a real quick stutter, maybe better described as a shudder.

Very discouraging.

Stopped an let it sit for about 5 minutes, #2 pipe was cold while others still warm.
Ran it some more to get home a few miles, stopped and checked pipes again, #2 pipe a little warm by head and cold further down, others hot. So #2 is not heating up.

Makes me want to read the "why some folks should not have old bikes" again.

Next few days I have a lot other stuff going on, then will be completely unavailable to work on it for about 3 1/2 weeks, then will have not much more than a week before Brown County.

Trying to think of what to check first. Plug wires were trimmed back last year, and new caps last fall. But I can check those again. New plugs with the recent work.
CAn check spark on #2.
Since is cyclinder 2, I can see if blocking off the vacuum line to the petcock makes a difference.
Other than those, I cant think of anything else.
Dont know weither to post in "Ignition" or "4 cylinder". Maybe after I find out a bit more.

Am annoyed and discouraged. Looking for any words of wisdom.

[Guest]

Ride? What's a ride. Been a sh*t spring so far. I know have this orange two wheeled thing in the back of the shed somewhere and a big ole Spyder in there as well. Between wind, flaring up arthritis, a 15 yr old that needs 24/7 supervision and now an injured knee ( massive hematona on it and swelling from a fall this last weekend) my riding has been crap. One decent ride about 4 weeks ago. Was looking forward to AspenCash in Ruidoso this weekend but nooooooo.