got a motorcycle a month ago. finally.
it's a 1973 Triumph Bonneville 750. so far i've rebuilt the carburetors, changed the air filters, added a missing passenger footrest, changed the spark plugs and spark plug wires, and sometime soon i have to change one of the petcocks(that's right, petcocks...they're the little valves that shut off the flow of gasoline to the carbs, you're supposed to close them when you're not riding and one of mine is broken.)
so the next thing is i will have to either change the exhaust header altogether on the right side or figure some way to tighten it up better because it's leaking really bad. everytime i ride now, i get a mixture of oil and gas on my leg and all over the side of my bike from where it leaks out of the header. it's also leaking in a few other places on the engine so eventually(as in when it can't take anymore or it's gets too cold to ride, whichever comes first), i will have to tear down the entire engine and rebuild it. all the gaskets are old and dried up so after i started riding it they got wet from the oil and now leak really bad. changing the gaskets throughout the entire engine could take just a weekend to do, but lately i haven't the time on the weekend to do so. but i figure if i'm going to go through the trouble of tearing down my entire engine to change all the gaskets i might as well get the cylinders bored and the head reworked and just completely overhaul the thing. but it will cost a few bucks. not nearly as much as the work will cost me to rebuild my engine in my 66 Malibu cause it's a car and has a much bigger engine...takes more work, but it will still cost me more than i really have to shell out right now.
it is so much fun to ride though. i love it! i had been looking for one of these british bikes for about 3 years now and i finally found one that was still in original condition and had room for improvement, but was at least running. and i finally found this one and it wasn't too expensive. soon i will have it up to the standard i want and i can start riding to far away places all the time. problem with that is, and this will take some getting used to, is that the tank is only about 2.5 to 3 gallons and right now it will go about 30 miles or so on a tank, but that's mainly because i have such a bad leak and the petcock is broken letting even more gas be wasted even when i'm not riding it. so after i fix the leaks it should go about 3 times that i think. then i won't be bothered with having to fill up every 20 minutes.
it's a 1973 Triumph Bonneville 750. so far i've rebuilt the carburetors, changed the air filters, added a missing passenger footrest, changed the spark plugs and spark plug wires, and sometime soon i have to change one of the petcocks(that's right, petcocks...they're the little valves that shut off the flow of gasoline to the carbs, you're supposed to close them when you're not riding and one of mine is broken.)
so the next thing is i will have to either change the exhaust header altogether on the right side or figure some way to tighten it up better because it's leaking really bad. everytime i ride now, i get a mixture of oil and gas on my leg and all over the side of my bike from where it leaks out of the header. it's also leaking in a few other places on the engine so eventually(as in when it can't take anymore or it's gets too cold to ride, whichever comes first), i will have to tear down the entire engine and rebuild it. all the gaskets are old and dried up so after i started riding it they got wet from the oil and now leak really bad. changing the gaskets throughout the entire engine could take just a weekend to do, but lately i haven't the time on the weekend to do so. but i figure if i'm going to go through the trouble of tearing down my entire engine to change all the gaskets i might as well get the cylinders bored and the head reworked and just completely overhaul the thing. but it will cost a few bucks. not nearly as much as the work will cost me to rebuild my engine in my 66 Malibu cause it's a car and has a much bigger engine...takes more work, but it will still cost me more than i really have to shell out right now.
it is so much fun to ride though. i love it! i had been looking for one of these british bikes for about 3 years now and i finally found one that was still in original condition and had room for improvement, but was at least running. and i finally found this one and it wasn't too expensive. soon i will have it up to the standard i want and i can start riding to far away places all the time. problem with that is, and this will take some getting used to, is that the tank is only about 2.5 to 3 gallons and right now it will go about 30 miles or so on a tank, but that's mainly because i have such a bad leak and the petcock is broken letting even more gas be wasted even when i'm not riding it. so after i fix the leaks it should go about 3 times that i think. then i won't be bothered with having to fill up every 20 minutes.
If you want to see a quick review of my year go to my pictures. The one that has 44 pics in it I did wrong, go to the last picture and look at them one by one till you get to the first.