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1/27/2012 11:43am
It happens to all of us. We see an "issue" with our bike and decide to take it into our own hands and get creative with fixing it.
I was bench racing last night and remembered my greatest ideas:
1. Armor All to make my bike shiny and new looking. While I'm at it, give that seat a nice shine to make it last as well. Next time I rode the bike it felt like a bar of soap.
2. Ran out of WD-40 to lube the throttle tube but oh, what's that, some Bel-Ray all purpose waterproof grease? It says all purpose, so it should work....
3. If some is good then more is always better right? Well, this does NOT apply to locktight apparently.
Though my dad takes the cake when he and his buddies blew a header gasket on his '77 Mazda RX3-SP and figured they could make some out of leather.
I'm sure some of you have better ideas than these though.
I was bench racing last night and remembered my greatest ideas:
1. Armor All to make my bike shiny and new looking. While I'm at it, give that seat a nice shine to make it last as well. Next time I rode the bike it felt like a bar of soap.
2. Ran out of WD-40 to lube the throttle tube but oh, what's that, some Bel-Ray all purpose waterproof grease? It says all purpose, so it should work....
3. If some is good then more is always better right? Well, this does NOT apply to locktight apparently.
Though my dad takes the cake when he and his buddies blew a header gasket on his '77 Mazda RX3-SP and figured they could make some out of leather.
I'm sure some of you have better ideas than these though.
The Shop
Wait a minute, that is the 2nd worst. The first is doing it again.
Had some older friends help me as I did not know much about rebuilds......... was 4th on the day (yes 125 novice class), then blew it up the next day riding down my driveway and another friend, older mentor type for motocross (think a guy like bobbyM) helped me tear it back down………he just shook his head when he found out we put the piston in backwards…….
Also, spraying WD-40 on my brake discs "to prevent rust". LMFAO!!
one day we caught my grandpa outside, underneath his car with a can of wd-40. We asked him what he was doing and he replied, my brakes are screeching so imma put this here wd40 on em to fix em. Thank god we caught him before he drove off.
3 months in the hospital and 14 hours of surgery later.......
Connecting my sister's toy phone to an outlet (because if if makes a small ring with 6V, it ought to make a much louder one with 220V)
Going commando (them zippers have teeth!)
Pit Row
And Downsouth...I think Armor All on the seat is a right of passage...right up there with breaking a collar bone.
Only to find out he was 50 years old and pitted next to me.
We split the purse. I apologized. To this day he flips me off and
smiles everytime I walk by.
At the end of 73 my buddy Tim and I went to Mr. Hill's (local welder who we gave a lot of business to) and without any measurements had him cut our frames just like the factory Husky's on our 250CR Husqvarnas and we laid down the shocks.......little did we know we'd be seeing Mr. Hill on a weekly basis after that.
Terrible idea but damn did our bikes look trick!
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