Thought I would add a little bit of music to my Monday MOJO. The people in the video confirm that if you follow your passion, success will follow. None of them quit before they succeeded, even though their path may have changed 100% from its original destination.
Enjoy the music track as well as the video message.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Sunday, December 13, 2009
2Wheel 2zdaize
Hey all, hope you had a great week and got out to do some riding. I did not because at time of writing it is -38C(that is really fricken cold in Fahrenheit) outside and about a foot of snow, so no riding this week.
This 2wheel 2zdaize is dedicated to my 2nd dirt bike. It was a 1981 YZ80.
This picture is pulled from the net.
I bought it at an auction for $50 back in 1984ish, can't remember exactly. But I know I had my drivers license because I was alone at the auction and hauled it home in the back of the truck.
Upon, some basic inspection I discovered that it was not getting gas to the carb, thus the problem with not running. Having some mechanical skills for my age I pulled the gas line off and tried to blow it out, no luck. So feeling along the gas line I found a hard section, kind of like a snake after eating a rat, I cut it open to find a small piece of wood swelled up tight inside the line. To this day I still do not know how a piece of wood would get into the middle of a gas line but there it was. Luckily I lived on a farm so we had all kinds of engine parts and stuff i.e. junk, laying around to scavenge a piece of fuel line off of. After a quick retro fit and a couple of kicks on the kicker, the bike sprang to life. I could not believe it, and figured there must be something else wrong, but before I did a thorough inspection I took it out for a quick and I mean quick rip. In hindsight, that was probably not the smartest thing, but as I said I was a farm kid and thinking ahead was not an attribute I possessed. Luckily she held together and just like that I had a perfectly running dirt bike, and holy crap did that thing have a power band. I could get through most of the gears and not stop spinning the rear wheel the whole time, pretty good power upgrade from the TS100. I figured it was time to buy a helmet.
It was a great little bike, and my younger cousins enjoyed it after I outgrew it. That was also the demise of the bike as it slowly became unrepairable.
This 2wheel 2zdaize is dedicated to my 2nd dirt bike. It was a 1981 YZ80.
This picture is pulled from the net.
I bought it at an auction for $50 back in 1984ish, can't remember exactly. But I know I had my drivers license because I was alone at the auction and hauled it home in the back of the truck.
Upon, some basic inspection I discovered that it was not getting gas to the carb, thus the problem with not running. Having some mechanical skills for my age I pulled the gas line off and tried to blow it out, no luck. So feeling along the gas line I found a hard section, kind of like a snake after eating a rat, I cut it open to find a small piece of wood swelled up tight inside the line. To this day I still do not know how a piece of wood would get into the middle of a gas line but there it was. Luckily I lived on a farm so we had all kinds of engine parts and stuff i.e. junk, laying around to scavenge a piece of fuel line off of. After a quick retro fit and a couple of kicks on the kicker, the bike sprang to life. I could not believe it, and figured there must be something else wrong, but before I did a thorough inspection I took it out for a quick and I mean quick rip. In hindsight, that was probably not the smartest thing, but as I said I was a farm kid and thinking ahead was not an attribute I possessed. Luckily she held together and just like that I had a perfectly running dirt bike, and holy crap did that thing have a power band. I could get through most of the gears and not stop spinning the rear wheel the whole time, pretty good power upgrade from the TS100. I figured it was time to buy a helmet.
It was a great little bike, and my younger cousins enjoyed it after I outgrew it. That was also the demise of the bike as it slowly became unrepairable.
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