my new (ol' but low cost) ride

[Rossco]

Trump it!

Good find!

Rossco

[WebPilot]

Thanks bud ...

[WebPilot]

Perhaps this is the bible on the subject.

[tufty]

Oddly enough, I just picked up a new old low cost ride myself.



The grand total of 20 euros for a better bicycle than I've ever owned. Have to pedal it, though.

[WebPilot]

Nice, Simon.

Let's see

20 € = $29.31 in US currency.

Not bad, but I've picked up 4 for nothing. People here in the States are throwing them away.

One is supposed to be titanium framed.

[WebPilot]

Bike started to cut out on me tonight at speed. I slowed down to enter a town and it then quit doing it. It never did it again during the entire trip home. ?

[WebPilot]

I didn't have time to work on my car today - I had to work on my car instead.

The front end was vibrating particularly around the left (driver's wheel) and it was pulling to the right.

It is an older 4 door V-6 Oldsmobile, so I thought "Geez, ball joints, tie rod ends, or what have you ?"

I took the simplest approach first. I jacked up the left front of the frame to inspect that wheel/tyre first. I grabbed the tyre and found no looseness, but inspecting the tyre tread I found a growing bulge where a belt had broken.

No problems. I had found a 185 x 75 x 14 sometime in the past for cheap, and had it sitting in the garage by my air compressor where I always knew where it was in case I needed it someday.

That day came yesterday.

[WebPilot]

But Hell’s Angels started riding Harley-Davidsons mostly because,
unlike today, they didn’t have much choice. In 1957, it was either
ride a Harley or settle for a Triumph or BSA. They’d already stopped
building Indians. It’s always been important for Hell’s Angels to
ride American-made machines. In terms of pure workmanship,
personally I don’t like Harleys. I ride them because I’m in the club,
and that’s the image, but if I could I would seriously consider riding
a Honda ST1100 or a BMW. We really missed the boat not switching
over to the Japanese models when they began building bigger bikes.
I’ll usually say, “F uck Harley-Davidson. You can buy an ST1100 and
the motherfucker will do 110 miles per hour right from the factory
all day long.” The newest “rice rockets” can carry 140 horsepower
to the rear wheel, and can easily do 180 miles per hour right out of
the box. While it’s probably too late to switch over now, it would
have been a nice move, because Japanese bikes today are so much
cheaper and better built. However, Japanese motorcycles don’t have
as much personality.

- Ralph "Sonny" Barger, Hell's Angel, ppgs. 40-41

[WebPilot]

This was sort of skipped over.

[WebPilot]

If you get the opportunity to get
this book, get it.

[WebPilot]

Nothing new to add since it has been raining a lot over the last several days here.

[Viv]

Hi Forrest

Just getting back in to this thread, how are you getting on with the bike now? it seems to have been pretty reliable since you pulled the indicator fuse out? did you ever try pulling the flasher unit out and putting the fuse back to see if it was the problem?

By the way pretty rainy up here too ;-(

Viv

[WebPilot]

did you ever try pulling the flasher unit out and putting the fuse back to see if it was the problem?

I've been riding with the flasher removed for some time now. That's not the problem.

The intermittent major power failure which occurred the other night has me ready to disassemble/inspect the entire harness over the winter.

I'm going to baby it until then.

[Viv]

Hi Forrest

Sounds like a plan to me have fun before the snow comes!

Viv

[WebPilot]

I went out for a ride this evening circa 5:30 PM. It was only 55°F. I came home around 8:30 and it had dropped to 50°F. My hands, face, knees and ankles were cold, but not unbearable. I hate to break out the glove liners, full coverage helmet, and chaps, so soon but …