What did you do today?

[Speed 3 Pilot]

Picked up wife's brother and family at the airport this morning...will be playing tour guide for the week...no   [moto]   until Saturday at the soonest...

[MadDuck]

finished fabricating stuff. ugly. but it should pass safety.
ultimately got paranoid after reading too much internets. flushed fuel.
cycled fuel pump with fresh fuel & startron.
put back the DOT bits.
aired tires.
finally after almost 7 months of hibernation, pressed START button.......


IT'S ALIVE!!!


now must get safety check. 

I know that exact feeling with a 999.


Funny, my old 999 is in the back of SS. Dead for over a year now. I've just about shaken off any attachment to it but, somehow, I'd still like to get it to run again. That bike doesn't deserve the crappy life it's had.

[hadesducati848]

I know that exact feeling with a 999.


Funny, my old 999 is in the back of SS. Dead for over a year now. I've just about shaken off any attachment to it but, somehow, I'd still like to get it to run again. That bike doesn't deserve the crappy life it's had.

lets go there this weekend and recue her... ill bring the bolt cutters.

[DRKWNG]

lets go there this weekend and recue her... ill bring the bolt cutters.

As much as I hate to say it (as I loved that bike too), that thing is dead.  It would require so much to get back up and running, and that is going on the assumption that the frame is not tweaked too much...

[MadDuck]

As much as I hate to say it (as I loved that bike too), that thing is dead.  It would require so much to get back up and running, and that is going on the assumption that the frame is not tweaked too much...

I could go for it, at a proper price (which, of course, no one will agree to) just to get the engine running. Never mind put it back on the road. 

[hadesducati848]

I could go for it, at a proper price (which, of course, no one will agree to) just to get the engine running. Never mind put it back on the road. 

well if thats the case, lets give her a proper burial... ill bring the bolt cutters 

[MadDuck]

well if thats the case, lets give her a proper burial... ill bring the bolt cutters 

If anything like that happened they'd come looking for me right away regardless of these posts.     There may be a way, somehow, someday, but I'm not going to spend too much energy on it.

[DesmoBlob]

I could go for it, at a proper price (which, of course, no one will agree to) just to get the engine running. Never mind put it back on the road. 

If just to get the engine running, I gotta think it could power one helluva lawnmower.

[DesmoBlob]

(yesterday)
got free safety check (yay coupon)
renewed registration (yay hawaii kai no line)
got new bmx brakes
realized i got two RIGHT levers      poop
re-routed front brake to right handlebar and changed brake
repacked rear bearings
realized i need bmx freewheel tool to repack freewheel mechanism   

i may just say fawk it and get whole new wheels. cones are pitted, axle bent, rims warped and scuffed. but she still rides "well" after 30 years.

[Speed 3 Pilot]

i may just say fawk it and get whole new wheels. cones are pitted, axle bent, rims warped and scuffed. but she still rides "well" after 30 years.

Did you race BMX back then?

[DRKWNG]

Did you race BMX back then?

I did.  On a beat up old Redline.

[zzilla]

Chuck Norris races BMX in a Radio Flyer Wagon

[DesmoBlob]

Did you race BMX back then?

yup
raced home every evenin' to avoid gettin' a whuppin' fer bein' late fer supper

[DRKWNG]

Got a couple more smokes...

[DarkMonster620]

I bent two Redline frames, a GT bikes frame and a Webco frame...That was back in the day