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A bit of back ground:
This is the year I start building a cottage, and sheds, all with permits. So I am mostly on the Island working on stuff. With a break to play with the bikes on the weekends.
Bluzu got parked because I do not have time to check the valve clearance. Deep Purple is filling in.
Noddy is still doing the cruising.
I want to move Inder the side car back one inch. So I removed Inder, and decided to take Yami ( 79 XS1100 ) for a long ride, and up a local mountain for a bike event. Going along the freeway, the front wheel was chattering at around 75, got worse at 90, and got a bit better at 100. there was some noise at 90, a bit like a screw driver touching a grinding wheel. Could be something vibrating.
First suspect. The front wheel, is the only one with beads in it. The rest have balance weights. I will take the wheel and tyre back to the shop that put the beads in, and tell them they do not work, and fix it with weights.
One wheel bearing has one tight spot. So I will get two new bearings and seals. Will also have a very close look at the tyre.
Today I got passed by a red CBX when I was doing about 90 to 95. I would have run with him on Bluzu. Curses.
And later in the day, keeping the speed down to about 70, I got passed again. The shame.
Back together, I will run him on the freeway again.
UK
This is the year I start building a cottage, and sheds, all with permits. So I am mostly on the Island working on stuff. With a break to play with the bikes on the weekends.
Bluzu got parked because I do not have time to check the valve clearance. Deep Purple is filling in.
Noddy is still doing the cruising.
I want to move Inder the side car back one inch. So I removed Inder, and decided to take Yami ( 79 XS1100 ) for a long ride, and up a local mountain for a bike event. Going along the freeway, the front wheel was chattering at around 75, got worse at 90, and got a bit better at 100. there was some noise at 90, a bit like a screw driver touching a grinding wheel. Could be something vibrating.
First suspect. The front wheel, is the only one with beads in it. The rest have balance weights. I will take the wheel and tyre back to the shop that put the beads in, and tell them they do not work, and fix it with weights.
One wheel bearing has one tight spot. So I will get two new bearings and seals. Will also have a very close look at the tyre.
Today I got passed by a red CBX when I was doing about 90 to 95. I would have run with him on Bluzu. Curses.
And later in the day, keeping the speed down to about 70, I got passed again. The shame.
Back together, I will run him on the freeway again.
UK