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- From: ryan.cousineau@compdyn.questor.org (Ryan Cousineau)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: Kikustaatu-Do: The Wa
- Message-ID: <581.97.uupcb@compdyn.questor.org>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 00:03:00 GMT
- Reply-To: ryan.cousineau@compdyn.questor.org (Ryan Cousineau)
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- DS>>> had no time to take a shower, have a major deadline at work and a
- DS>>> gnarly case of PMS, my bike has started up all by itself, rather than
- DS>>> face a minute of my wrath.
- DS>>
- DS>>I think we've go a winner here, folks.
-
- DS>Agree completely. And, in that case, I would like to nominate Laura as
- DS>the official DoD Keeper of the Gnarly PMS.
-
- I am, by gender, excluded from any PMS-related competitions. I do
- however have a strong contender for rattiest of the ratbikes.
-
- At age 19, I have a second-generation rat. In fact, this 1958 AJS 500
- C/S was a piece of crap in the early 60s when my dad bought it. It still
- is. it has needed a paint job since the early sixties, right after my
- dad finished painting it. It has a battery cover made out of plywood, a
- seat brace made out of wood, no working gauges, although there is a
- nonfunctional voltmeter in the headlight case. The transmission has
- always been a dry-clutch, despite what the designers specified, thanks
- to leakage. ditto for the primary chain case, although there's grease in
- there to keep things hunky-dory. The magneto -- all 10,000 windings
- of it -- was wound on the kitchen table. The bike ran better with the
- new mag than it ever did with the old. The last time I kicked the bike
- to life, it took 20 minutes. I partly blame poor application of the
- handlebar-mounted igniton advance control. The kickstarting mechanism
- required new parts when I was done (I'm not joking! unlike previous
- macho fantasies, this really happened. rjc). The forks are bent. The
- frame doesn't look bent. The rider is definitely bent. The exhaust note
- of this monstrous single makes Hog-keepers cower. Foreign-made engine
- cases have been known to harmonically vibrate to death in this thing's
- presence (and from my area code, the US is a foreign country . . . of
- course, the engine case bit is made up, unlike the other bits).
-
- So, any challengers?
-
- Ryan Cousinetc.
-
- * SLMR 2.0 * It's not what you ride, it's that you ride.
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