Payola

Barry riffs on the recent payola decision.

Wed in a barn

We will be soon - wedinabarn.com

Honda

The last couple of weeks has seen Stizzle tear the carbs off of the olde Honda 550four and clean them, repeatedly since we found out we hadn't done a proper job the first time around. The work was not just limited to carbs either. His bike has seen new dials installed, an oil pressure chinga replaced, an engine cover and a bunch of other bits polished via machine.

After a bunch of cleaning and fiddling and messing and futzing and reassembly, the moment came to start the sucker up. And start it did!

It was pretty exciting to have the engine fire up, even in an untuned state, after having all of its lungs torn apart and spread across the little ass garage.
Oh yeah, there was also plenty of ultrasonic cleaning.

Since then, he has taken the bike up to Cycle Depot to have them tune it, adjusting the carbs and the valves. Now it spins like a top. While it'll never set any land-speed records, he feels the power is much more consistant and reliable. I'm very impressed by how snappy the electric start is...touch button *SNIP*,prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

Meanwhile, I wanna say that I have fixed the BMW's ABS fault, and perhaps I have, but since replacing the relay (I have gotten good at removing the tank at this point) the fault light has returned to blink mode on me a couple times. Since the second time resetting the computer brain it has unfaulted after a restart of the bike. Most of the time it seems to work properly. I have an unsubstatiated hunch that the backing downhill, braking and herky jerky forward motion it takes to get 1988 out of the driveway triggers a fault.

Bachelor trip planned for next weekend which means no MotoGP trip this weekend for me.