Sunday, September 27, 2009

Street Vibrations, Tranny Vibrations and the old scooters made it home again..



The weatherman said summer was over a few days back..it's noon and 101 degree's..damn fools. Street Vibrations ended before it started. We got a hundred miles or so away before throwing in the towel..The dirty one's pan started draining batterys before we hit Merced..Leaving the local shop the shovel picked up a Vibration,,before we hit Ripon the Tramps 1969 Triumph dropped a piston so we limped into Love's and found it a ride home..About Elk Grove the shovel was shaking pretty good so we pulled into the shop..Damn poor baby dumped a quart of primary oil before I got the jiffy down..LOL..found a pair of lower bolts snapped off at the bottom of the outer cover so went in bent over and got a gasket and a fresh pair of bolts..paid the morgage for the shop in the process..

We popped the old girl open and found enough metal shavings to build a high end honda and knew it was over..Patched her back together and went into Sac for some roast duck and DosXX..Party's over..

Rolled them home slow and easy yesterday..Lot's of oil and laughs..Greasy burgers and almost sudden death in a gas station..I believe the dirty reffered to the moron as a cameltoe with ears..we were riding and it was all good..our oldtimers made it home again..a little TLC in the next few months and they will do it again next year..By then Mondo might have the paint finished on the '02..Ride Free all..

Rat

3 comments:

FLHX_Dave said...

Bike tampons work good for this problem.

Yeah, sounds familiar. My primary inner bearing went so I too have witnessed the tower of metal shavings.

Glad you made it back. The bright side is you will never have to do an oil change again!

Mr. Motorcycle said...

Hmmm, Bike problems. I can relate. If you never have them, it means you never ride. Look at the bright side. You earned the bike problems. It's like a nice broken in pair of boots.
If nothing else, it makes for good story tellin.

Pug said...

go fashionable and get a open belt drive kit without a belt guard

i did and fr m trouble on sunday i erm got a bit of huge clump by the fucking thing when me leg slipped off the forward peg

now i'm sore an limping

but hey the bike still looks cool

the Fucker !!!

get the yer bike fixed up mate , lets hope yer don't need to rob a bank for the parts bill though