It's sold.

It's always a sad day when a bike leaves the fold.

Today I'm one less flat black bitchy curvey and fun to ride Italian.

She's gone to a good home. The buyer was very excited.

He's an owner of a bevel head and wanted something a little more modern.

I hope he enjoys the new bike.

Korp cycle south bay vintage

Sam Korp is having his south bay vintage thing.
It should be cool and the weather is looking like it might turn out ok.

Selling off the herd

Why is it such a freaking headache to sell bikes.

I've been getting nothing but the run around and superlow ball figures from people on the ducati.

I had a nice woman look at the GB's but she's not the got experiance or time to build herself one bike and sell the other
(She did have a good idea about building herself a the worse of the two bikes)

SO I'll have to find another way to off load the GB's

All three bikes I'm going to miss.

Now that the Duc is getting close to going I'm learning how I need to ride it.
and I'm kind of enjoying it.

Oh well.

Guy Websters

It's only taken ten years of living in SoCal to finally make it to Guy Websters
Garagmahal

It was overwhelming.
The cool bikes that were out.
Real MV's Ducati 851, SFC750's V7 sports
and that was just the parking lot.

His barn was pretty impressive. but smaller then it looked in photos.

His compound was also very nice, not over done.

The ride up was great clear and empty freeway and then nice twisty bits.

Overall a good day to be out on the bike.

The F&$^*%& Guzzi

Well, it seems bikes can hear.
At least this one can. Not second after I said to myself
"wow this has been a great ride so far, the sun is out the bike is running with out a hitch"

POOF

It's dark, no lights, no nothing. I call the better half
I've had a bad day but was having a good day on the bike until the bike stopped
We had words, I was not a happy camper. She was not a happy camper.
She came to my aid.
I called someone from the group I was to meet he came and tried to help.
Here we are two very white guys in a very not white 'hood
One with a non running Guzzi the other a Cobra replica with about 500horsepower and pipes to match.
To say we stoodout would be an understatment.

He pushed but the bike would not light.
We tried to jump it
The bike would have none of that.

I called the other half she came.
I had time to look into the problem.

Oh I almost forgot to mention the fuel line was leaking
I got that fixed pretty quick however.

I pulled the bike apart. Tank off, seat and rear fender up,
Battery out.
I looked all over, I found nothing.

So I decided to put it all back together.
Just as I got the last battery line hooked up I noticed.
There was a wire loose.
A nice thick wire
With a big plug on it.
The wire when to the battery.
But the other part was not connected to anything.

Hmmm it had a big spade style connector so it shouldn't be to hard to find.
And it wasnt' but I had to pull the battery back out.
So I did got the cable hooked back up and was just about to start hooking the battery back up when the other half showed up.
Here hold this I think I might have found the problem.
Sure enough the bike started right up.
Rode it over and put it in the car and bike show. And it won best paint.
On the way home the bike was running really good.
My guess is that connector has been bad for a while.

Bikes You can't ride them and if you toss em off a cliff they sink.

The Ducati 750 sport

While i've come to decide that it's now time for the duc to move on and live with someone else.
I just can't ride sportbikes anymore so it's up for sale.
Hopefully the money raised by it's sale will give me enough to get both BMW's back on the road.

Good weekend

Ahhh got to go for a good weekend.
up the 'crest. Nobody fell down. No wait one rider toppled over right in front of me (and everyone else)
as I was weeding my way past the bikes to ride down the hill.

Great weather the day started out a bit chilly but warmed up to damn near hot by mid day.
Got home and managed to get the oil changed on both comfy bikes.

Nice.