Was pretty d*** cold too. But I took the CB for another ride (video screen cap):
To get this
So I can do something about the reason why the BMW hasn't seen daylight in months. The tank is in horrible shape, this side is not too bad, on the other side the paint is blowing bubbles. I can't wait to get on the BMW again (Zoran's Kawa in the background).
Was bloody cold. I was wearing my open face helmet on my 3+ hours blast trough the Dutch countryside until the sun went down so I have to say sorry to the very nice guy on the brand new Transalp that talked to me. My jaw was too cold to speak decently.
Had lot's of fun on the CB and managed to shoot some video material. In the not too distance future I'll be making a clip with the CB again just as I've done for the BMW.
I am a bit busy with my research, but I found some time to work on the KZ again. Didn't do all that much. I had a fight with the intake rubbers, won one fight, lost the other, so I call it a draw (I installed one new one, couldn't get the other one off). Also moved the tail light to the side mount. I like it a lot better there.
But I might be wrong...
The CB burned a few light bulbs, so I decided to add some cooling to the headlight. Small airscoop on the bottom and a few holes in the back. Just took it for a ~50-60 km ride, partly in the dark, and all works fine.
I'm not the only one to have had my first ride of the year. Excellent editing!
Season 2K11 from Brauchi on Vimeo.
On http://brauchisbikes.blogspot.com/, check it out, it's a nice blog (In German). Thanks to Lars!
My apologies for the crappy quality of the video.
We finally did it! Last night we changed the spark plugs, put a filter on the freshly cleaned carb, screwed in a couple of bigger jets and she fired straight up on both cylinders. After some minor fine tuning we decided to take it to the road. It goes like stink!
We've been fighting this carb for a while now and some people started to lose faith, but we won. We still have to do a little fine tuning (it's still a bit lean in the bottom ranges), but we've now proven it can be done.
And I don't mean the female kind, though I won't say no to that!!
When you go trough the pages of this blog You'll see that besides motorcycles photography is also a bit of a hobby of mine. The perfect combination is obviously taking photo's of bikes, easy. Only: I've been photographing the same couple of bikes for a long time now and it won't hurt to photograph a few others, so:
If you want some pictures of your bike: mail me.
I'm convinced that kapitalisme has already destroyed too much, so I'll do it for fee. Gratis. Gratuit. Voor nop. But since I'll be doing it for free I have a few demands, those are:
- The bike must be special. Either nicely restored, nicely customized or in an excellent condition. - It also had to happen in or around the City of Utrecht, the Netherlands. Else it'll take me too much time and the traveling will be too expensive for me.
So that's it. Mail me if interested!
Nice and sunny day today! Bit cold, but finally clean and dry roads. I took the CB for a 3 hour blast trough the Dutch countryside. I had way too much fun to stop for photo's.
When I got back my girlfriend wanted a go with the CB. She had not ridden the bike before, so I was curious to see if the bike wouldn't be too big or heavy for her. But all was fine, she loved it and she felt comfortable with the bike within a few meters.
I made some photo's, but the sun was already gone.
We've also worked on the Virago again this week. We've really been fighting the carb lately and this week was no exception. The bike gave a nice fire works display while trying to tune the carb:
First part of the video is from the side, second part is looking into the exhausts form the rear. I took the carb home with me to clean it thoroughly, which I've just done. We also need to find more (bigger) jets to play with to find the right set up. It's demanding quite a bit of our patience, but we'll get it to work.
