Well the business is going well and since we need a bike to start testing a few parts on I decided to rego the XL600. I was also listening to one of my podcasts the other day and there was a comment made about not putting too much off in life 'cause we should enjoy life now as well as enjoy planning for the future. This motivated me to get back out on the bike and ride.
So on Tuesday I pulled out the XL to take it in for it's rego inspection. I looked it over and all seemed fine. I kicked it over and it started after about 3 kicks. All was going well and I was really looking forward to going for a ride. It has been a few months since I even sat on the bike and I just wanted to get going. Then I noticed something. Petrol was dripping from the bottom of the carbs. DAMN IT!
After a bit of closer inspection it wasn't so much dripping as as running freely... that will teach me not to leave the bike untended for too long! Then, to add insult to mechanical injury, one of my two air filters broke!!!! Just a little of the rubber came off, but it was right where it mounts to the carb and it aint going to stay on there now!
So I wheeled the thing back up to the shed and got in my car and headed to work... not quite as nice, but at least the petrol stayed where it should and not running down onto the ground.
When I got home I pulled the carbs off and started to look through them on the bench. The jetting is too lean, so I really should look at that while they are apart. They just look like they need a good clean and a couple of the linkages were a bit bent, but went back into shape nicely and the staggered action is working really well. I'm planning on taking the left carb up to a 120 and the right to a 130. We'll see how that goes and then make changes from there. Not sure I'll mess with the pilot at first as it idles well. I also should get my act together and upgrade the muffler, but I figure I can just leave that 'till the rear frame is redone the way I want.
So while this is all going on I came across this...
If you go back to one of my earlier posts you'll see that this is quite similar to my old motard. The wheels are a bit different as they are cast and YELLOW, but I do like it a lot. I'm seriously considering making an offer on this one, but not sure where the cash will come from.
That said, it would be the perfect bike for the business to use as it's demo bike for all the DRZ bits we stock. We have so many parts for these bikes and it would be great to make some videos of how to fit things and do some reviews of other parts that our customers might be keen on... So how do I convince the business partner that we do need another bike? There is a shelf in the workshop where I put one of each new part we stock, just in case we get another one of these... it would take me a week to put all the parts on there are so many (and I'm a bit slow too :).
What do you guys thing? Should we add a DRZ to the list of bikes in our stable and mod the hell out of it?
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