Postby bin rydin » Mon Jun 09, 2014 10:54 am
Preparing for the Black Dawg
Last Saturday I thought I had better change the oil in the bike after doing the 350 mile Sheetiron Ride three weeks ago. To bad it was not just oil that came out, nope a whole bunch of nice shiny silver came out with the oil. Remember that “funny noise” in my engine at last years Fort Rock? Something like a John Deere Corn Chopper? Well a couple of thousand more miles after that…. Hey it was still starting right up and running like a scalder pig. So I put in new oil new filter , ran it 5 minutes, dumped the “oil” = more silver particles.
NOW WHAT ??? Oh Yeah, hee hee, there is that brand new 2002 XR 250 Virgin bike paleing away hiding in the corner of the garage, trying not to be noticed. My eye drifts towards her, her handlebars shudder and turn toward the wall. Her Tires sag, footpegs droop, Pleas she begs, not ME. My tools are laid out on the (clean) floor “This won’t hurt a bit” I murmur. First, off with the old 80K mile XR engine, Done a dark Thirty Saturday night. Then off with the new XR engine. Then New engine into old frame. Actually it did hurt a little, I am missing some skin on my fingers. By 8 PM Sunday night I had the new engine all torqued in place and discovered that my battery was missing, it is somewhere between Fort Bragg & Stoneyford. Rather than go look for it, I am wiring 4 phone batteries together tonight. Tonight we will see if she starts. Otherwise I will be riding a TRL Honda Reflex which last time I rode it, pitched me off so many times without even a warning, so maybe I will bring my tricycle…
While doing the swap I looked in the new bikes airbox, it was full of mouse poison pellets, go figure how the mouse got under the tank and seat to put them there? But hey I found the same pellets in the fingertips of my riding gloves, between the liner and the outer… Another Black Dawg adventure awaits.
Oh yeah, I just got the new RED 2016 ATV sticker.