FAIL BLOG: Long weekend mechanics

The next time I go out to the hills I will start at Cincinnati OH125 to Friendship Ohio. Granted it will be a longer start for the fun, but I'm hoping it will have a trade off of towns and farm land...

Weekend...

Bonjour les amis , voici quelque photo de notre weekend a durbuy . nous avons louer une maison as azur en ardenne vraiment un superbe endroit à côté de tout et accessible à beaucoup de magasin ....

Yesterday I rode up highway one to the Golden Gate Bridge and saw some really cool places along the way. Then I went to Paso Robles to see Sensorio. Riding this far pushed my limits and makes me reali...

Happy long weekend to all the Canucks! Get out and ride y'all!...

Just a chill and nice ride to Tooradin...

Battery is dead due to not being charged by stator. looks like I have a short on 2 of the 3 wires coming out of the stator. my DIY gasket job worked out except when I put it all back together it was d...

Fixed the wires coming out of stator and now have a functional charge system again. While in that side of the casing for the 3rd time in a week I decided to redo that gasket "properly" with an oversiz...

The rusted, faded paint job isn't quite the look I am going for so time to try slopp'n some paint on this bag-of-bolts of an excuse for a bike....

Well here's my first ever attempt at painting a bike..... this should be interesting. This is why we call it the fail blog lol we learn by failing....

Well its definitely an improvement but up close one can see a pretty crappy paint job lol. won't stop me from enjoying rolling down the road on her though!...

Still trying to get these carbs tuned to work smoother. these viragos are apparently notorious for being very picky when it come to air/vacuum leaks. the slightest air leak causes the inability to eve...

Been testing out different air intake setups and have found this setup to be the best lol. Even in this heat wave the bike is running great and not overheating. Was having acceleration lag issues in t...

Since it's fathers day I can finally ignore all other ToDos and put a good day into a much needed rewire of this bobber. Rock'n some AC/DC and living the dream ;) Happy Father's day!...

My previous "temporary " fix to add an air filter has become more permanent today with the addition of some proper metal screen to keep my cloth filter (underwear) from being sucked halfway into the c...