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General => Random => Topic started by: PonoBill on September 19, 2021, 07:51:37 PM

Title: "In other news, distraction boy gets distracted.."
Post by: PonoBill on September 19, 2021, 07:51:37 PM
So I got this three days ago,
(https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/242127618_10158555731658668_6904169280707543030_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&_nc_rgb565=1&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=Ve8Zy1Qc1ScAX-IKi_j&_nc_ht=scontent-sea1-1.xx&oh=88cc799cdae928c826ebec6da3586931&oe=616BE203)

so of course two days ago I did this:

(https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/242233493_10158555731818668_4795050403702697353_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&_nc_rgb565=1&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=hddWfM5eQV8AX-7KCY0&_nc_ht=scontent-sea1-1.xx&oh=d77100bd9d796f46f73497e7e5ca5034&oe=616C8E5F)

No big surprise to people who know me, but some folks are going a little nuts. It's actually quite rational. It's a 1990 BMW R100GS with the Paris-Dakar stuff added. A nice bike, I paid a bit too much for it, but I've wanted one for decades. These airheads have a few well-known problems, specifically an output shaft issue: the factory decided they no longer needed a circlip to keep the shaft tight against the output bearing. They were wrong and it eventually hoses the transmission. The driveshaft also tends to come apart after 20K to 100K miles. So I'm fixing those issues and updating some things to give me a good 50K miles of riding before anything major pukes.
Title: Re: "In other news, distraction boy gets distracted.."
Post by: 808sup on September 19, 2021, 08:13:05 PM
lol
You better hurry and get it all back together and use it before you change your mind and give it a whole new look. Aka The FunMobile
Title: Re: "In other news, distraction boy gets distracted.."
Post by: SUPJorge on September 20, 2021, 12:01:22 PM
But I was following the foildrive project .... What am I supposed to do now?
Title: Re: "In other news, distraction boy gets distracted.."
Post by: Dusk Patrol on September 20, 2021, 03:47:05 PM
Coming soon to a line up near you:
Title: Re: "In other news, distraction boy gets distracted.."
Post by: PonoBill on September 20, 2021, 09:12:29 PM
But I was following the foildrive project .... What am I supposed to do now?

Actually, that's moving along briskly. I built the battery today and didn't even burn my shop down.
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