I just heard about this website today, and I'm well and truly excited ( Read more... )

Looking at the reed valve in the intake and being confused.

Poking at the turbo with a stick to see if it'll try and bite me.

Adding fuel and hitting the starter.

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I've got some questions about the bike.  Hopefully I'll get answers.

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In this segment I repair the electronic fuel injection (EFI) with using a medium sized hamster, two fistfulls of basmati rice, and high pressure cottage cheese.

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I also bled the brakes until they worked the way they are supposed to.  You gotta be able to stop before you can go.

Fred

God damn it.

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In this segment, I get the ignition system back into working order using nothing more than some scrap wire, two spark plugs, wire cutters, and the amazing power of my brains.

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For a while now it's been clear to me that a lot of what I write about is lost on people because they cannot visualize what's going on.  The few youtube videos I've posted, however, have been quite popular amongst a certain demographic.

The shed-dwelling, grease monkey demographic, that is.

I've decided to up the ante as I get this second turbo bike ( Read more... )

I've been sick all weekend with swine flu, black plague or some other malady.  I didn't go to work because of it, but even so, I couldn't sit still.

So I went out and picked up a cart for my latest toy, an acetylene oxygen welding rig.

A little backstory here.  I met Joe H, father of lisastrawberry  and snortleypie , a while back.  He's quite a craftsman, and still produces ( Read more... )

What's better than having a turbocharged motorcycle?


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I rode the bike to work today, and got to experience how it behaves in traffic ( Read more... )