What did you do to your Yamaha today?

Well that explains that then. Thanks.

@hogfiddles, apparently you're not riding your Seca 750's often enough

 

Lol

 

We have very few stop signs here....

 

Or you're not riding them FAST enough!

 

Hogfiddles I think your next carb clinic should focus on erecting a barn for all these bikes.
How many XJ riders does it take to erect a barn on a weekend?

 

That depends on how may Amish friends each one has.

 

I don't think they ride xj's
Btw---here's the missing 'n' for ya

 

I've seen Amish drive cars, trucks, construction equipment and all sorts of other things, but I've never seen one on a motorcycle...

 

EBC pads never had a problem with ...Caltech that is a different story

 

Problems with a professor?

 

rode her 40 miles in the rain because i wanted to. passed by a few HDs parked under bridges like trolls

 

Last night, a new-old petcock arrived for me! Thank you, @Toomanybikes!

So tonight, Rebuilding a gas cap and starting on the petcock rebuild, so I can revert to original equipment!

Unless friends lure me away with beer and a swimming pool.

 

Inspected a set of Hagon shocks I bought, cheap and unseen on ebay. When they arrived they looked a lot worse than in the pics...
Anyway, the good thing about these chrome springed Hagons is the built in shield which keeps the stems dry - result? A good pair of gas shocks, just in need of external tarting up. The bad thing about them is they're not very stiff, suspect no good for two up or even possibly my 15stone.
Still waiting for an answer on the bits from ikon (which incidentally are adjustable and much stiffer, so worth pursuing).

 

Petcock should be good to go as is, came off of a previously running bike

 

Good to know! I can save the kit for another day... or another bike!

 

another bike is the best choice

 

Motorcycles are like a drug.
Some is good, more is better.

 

As if people should not already know once you get your bike dialed in I.E. keeping up on the maintenance there is not much to do but ride!
This is where I am at riding every chance I get.
With all the chores of being a responsible adult I have decided to take one day a week for ME-riding as far as possible!
Yesterday went from Medford Oregon to HWY 140 to Klamath Falls going over a couple of summits 4150 and the next 5380 in elevation. This was my way of getting out of the SMOKE from all the fires around the Valley.
I also received my new back tire Bridgestone Battle Axe BT45R. Already have a new matching front tire which I will be having mounted this coming week.
50 MPG
240 miles ridden

 

Since I can never leave well enough alone, I had resynched carbs last week ...result bile was hard to start , so today hooked it back up number 2 cyl was lower than the rest tweaked number 3 and this brought it back ,put a slight turn on number 1 and now all 4 read 5hg and it idles at 1050 ...going to let it cool down and see what it does.

 

Didn’t touch a motorcycle today?
Was a boat nut. Picked up a 14’ with trailer super cheap.
New starter relay and fresh plugs .. vroom it’s Alive.

 

Was working on the wife’s Santa Fe yesterday and had to stop by the hardware store. Pulled up and parked where I always park was a beautiful FJ1200 and R1 next to it. I parked and the guy with the R1 said “Holy crap 2 classic Yamaha sport bikes!”
I laughed and he asked if I was with the FJ and I told him I’d never seen it before. Then the owner cane out and said “Yamaha heaven”. Was cool to chat with the two of them and that FJ was gorgeous.

 

That is an awesome picture

 

Finally got the wife to take a ride up the mountain with me...

 

A whole bunch of crap at work related to the downfall of the newspaper industry and the imminent demise of our paper in particular. So at lunch just now I took a fifteen minute ride on Brother Seca and I feel greatly refreshed and I’m sure my blood pressure dropped 20 points. If they marketed these things as healthcare devices, I could get a prescription and have insurance pay for the bike.

 

And yesterday lubed and adjusted clutch cable and reset fork air pressure

She felt snappy on the test ride today

 

Put an engine in Project ScratchX

 

Will insurance covers the insurance too?

 

ummm bike or wife?

 

good. forgot I quoted that post...

 

That would be ideal

 

See I wasn't the only one who went there!

 

went where ? up the mountain?

 

After a Long road of replacing the Starter Clutch Just added the 2nd to the Last cover to my Engine. So nice to see it in 1 Piece, and not scattered about in a horror of parts... Can't wait to hear it roar into life again...

 

Oil change to proper bike oil, new filter.
Added bar weights and new grips last night, what a difference in vibration! Lol!
Bagged the shit out of her!

 

Ummmm..........?! ?

 

I think he's referring to the quagmire I've brought myself into by referring to the wife on a message board....

 

Went for a short ride today-to work Looking forward to when this smoke clears can not even see the mountains
Riding is like therapy actually better then therapy

 

Walked by my bike this morning to my cage and drove to work.
Southern Oregon Medford to be exact is completely engulfed in smoke! Visibility is 3/4 of a mile and when you are breathing you can taste the ash from the fires.
Really sucks although on a positive note it is mother natures way of cleansing her self.
Natural order of life
Temps running into triple digits for the next few days as well.

 

Walked past my xj's to take the Big Dog out this morning......xj's get to go out later today

 

I squirted a little kroil on the exhaust header bolts as I passed by. That counts for something, right?

 

Having a respectable level of fear on the mountain twistys will keep you safer than fearlessly pushing the bike as fast as you can around corners.
Been riding since the 60s and have lost friends and seen lots of bodies covered with sheets

 

Finally got the front brakes on my xj750 seca bled today. What an ordeal . I should get a tee shirt.

 

Pulled the battery and put it on the tender last night.

 

rode home from work in a downpour. rain felt good after 92 degrees all day. took the long way home

 

Found a photo of the bike before the accident. I had fitted a Motad 4 into 1 and got the fairing resprayed plus a better fuel tank but I liked the Jama System too that was on the bike until a car driver wrecked it.

 

Shame, nice 900.

 

Today I fitted the twin discs to the xj1100 wheel, on the xj650 axle, to the xj900 forks.
Got to love Yamaha...

 

I just finished a trip through most of the west. The smoke haze started around La Junta Colorado, and got worse the further west I went.
Conditions around Salt Lake were similar to what you have in Medford, but visibility was about 3 miles.

 

[QUOTE="Minimutly] This is the way the bike will look once I get my new tank derusted etc which is temporarily on the bike for the photo. .