I rode today, bitches!
 

Ok you naysayers, I still ride. Here's a pic of my bike at work this morning :D

http://www.twowheelforum.com/photopo...edium/ride.jpg


Last night I thought I'd change the oil since I hadn't ridden the bike in about 15 years. I pulled the plug, about 1 oz of oil came out. :yikes: Oh yeah, forgot the filler cap, this ought to do it. And... about another ounce comes out. :panic:

This bike holds 2.1 quarts of oil, and I could see the oil in the sight glass. So, I figured I'd remove the oil filter and it'd pour out. Ok, where are my oil wrenches? I couldn't find the them, dammit.

So I used the tried and true screwdriver through the filter trick. With limited room to move around the hot engine and exhaust pipe (tried to warm the oil so it'd flow) I managed to get the damn thing off after about 15 mins. And more oil came out, but not much; not even a half quart.

So, I've got the filler cap off, plug out and filter off and I can see oil through the site glass, yet it won't come out. So fuggit, I started it and it came pouring out, as you might expect. I eyeballed it and drained about 1.5 quarts total out. I put on a new filter and poured back in (good eyeballing on my part) about 1.5 quarts. Yeah so what, I have .5 quart of old oil in there. It looked new, it wasn't even black and it's all synthetic anyway.

So, there you have it. Air out of the front lines, oil change and (oh yeah) a squirt or two of carb cleaner in the carbs and voila!


PS - I couldn't get the attachment to work, kept getting so I linked. Feel free to edit out the watermark.

Nice, I don't care about the watermark, everyone knows that site here.

:hss: Must have felt good to be on 2 again. :dthumb:

Nice.

Welcome back to two wheels! I bet it felt awesome!

:dthumb:

I rode today tooo bitch.... So :rockwoot:
Bet it felt great didn't it.... :drool:

SWEET!!! Glad to hear you're back on two!!

Damn bike is need of a tune up in a bad way, but hey its working (mostly).

Glad you're back on two and glad you're here posting!!

No BS Shan... we all know that pic was taken two years ago.:whistle:

More like.. In the 80's... :zowned:

owned!

hahaha. He pulled the "owned" on himself.

Congrats on getting back on the bike. Better keep it up.

damn 15 years?! supprised you didn't sell the bike!... yeah I'd imagine it'd need a good tune and a once over...

you might check the chain too... your O rings (or x or what ever type you have) may be dry rotted... :idk:

Oh yeah. Check out this ride (Look at the date seriously FTW!!!) and my perfurated jacket to let all that warm January Air in. http://southeastmotorcycleforum.com/...;sa=view;id=48

Just messing with you. That was a freak week and all the mountain roads where gravel roads at that point.

Anyways glad you are back on two wheels. Riding again always feels akward at first but then rules once you get back into the swing of things.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l3...ezing_over.jpg

:lol:

J/K

Good to see you out on 2

Joke, man. They didn't make SV's 15 years ago. :D

so shan you got any mc trips planned this year? if you head to TN any wouldnt mind shaking the hand that made twf

thats a long hiatus. Ive been riding about every day for the last 3 weeks and its been great.

ahh couldn't see the pic... I was at work... I was think'n you had an SV... but wasn't sure if that's what was in the pic or not

I call Photoshop.

What is that huge , hub cap wearin' beast next to the SV ?

I knew you could do it shan, good job.

Glad to see your back to riding!

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well at least Shan's SV runs.


Makes it a bit easier for me to roll over to his house (gotta figure out where in town he is, prolly isn't that hard) and drag him out for a ride....


Shan. You've got just under a month to get your shit together for a ride. You've been warned.

I love how you just call him out like that. :lol:

Hey... when you've got big ballz.....

Yeah yeah yeah.


Rode to work again today, BTW.:rockout:

:beers: