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No time like Sunday, for a ride. The Ducati had not been out yet this year. I’d just made sure the battery was charged, tires filled, chain oiled and my riding gear still fit. All systems GO! WX data indicated I had until 6:00PM to get the thing done, so I headed West, towards [...] Awaking this morning, I decided to put together this little rundown of my two liter-class twins. For a pair of bikes with remarkably similar dimensions, and engine type, their characters are vastly different. Some of this is clear in the HP and weight differences, but it goes beyond that. There is a ‘feeling’ you get [...] Starting Point I purchased the house in January 2007. I took this picture on the night I received the keys. The garage looks pretty big in this photo. And in fact it is a nice decent sized tandem garage. Nothing was painted at that point. As you can see, the rear wall is cement.
Wow.. the first video was interesting, but this.. this was fantastic. Something Europe, looks like Europe.. hard to put my finger on it. Anyhow… this is a shorter but much more engaging clip. Riding on the bridge looked pretty wild! Not sure what to say or think about this. But, it’s amusing to watch, and they show excellent adherence to timing and speed. It’s impressive, weird, and interesting all at the same time. Found it on this PNWR thread this morning. [...] This week, I have been working with my son on the little Kawi. While I was vacationing in The Gorge, this past week, a pile of parts arrived for the Kawi. Along with starting some bodywork on the gas tank, I also performed the first test fitting of a number of new parts: rear turn [...] Finally off the ground and moving forward! I had some help Thursday taking off all the big old 70′s chromy bits and bodywork. It took a few hours but I ended up with a big box of parts that I probably won’t use again on the final product. This how the day started: Of [...] Progress continues on the KZ400 project. Today’s work was focused around using my new plastic welder to fill in holes on the side panel. The plastic welder came with a number of welding sticks, to use with a variety of plastics. After quite a bit of melting, and trying the PVC, ABS and PP welding [...] Hunting to find info on the missing parts from my bike, I’ve collected a few of these as reference. What I notice in this one, is that my side panels are missing some sort of ‘intake grate (black on this blue bike). After a lot of work, documented here on VW Vortex.. he’s got [...] It was a dark and stormy night….. The amazing KZ400 Somewhere it was, but not here. It was rather warm, and the coolness of my subterranean shop was a blessing. It turned out that I would spend the better part of a weekend in there, wrestling the carburetors into the very tight, very new, [...] |
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