I love my bike…. I hate my bike…. I….

Actually, I don’t hate it. I suspected what happened today would happen.

I fixed my bike; it turned out the clutch had moved off it’s tapered shaft enough to no longer grip it. Having got it all assembled I started it…. and staggeringly it started first time (not bad for 9 months without running); having got it going I tried….putting…it in gear. And discovered that the clutch was staggeringly missadjusted. Tried again, still misadjusted. Tried again, still misadjusted…and the cluch was back off its tapered shaft. Grr.

I need to be a big strong bloke; or as Lauren suggested, use a bigger lever.

So tomorrow it’ll be taking it all apart again; hopefully catching all the oil, putting it back together, but this time I’ll abuse the torque wrench in my attempt to get the thing tight enough. Still, it was fab to hear her running again; and *terribly* tempting to just take her for an MOT (although she’d fail, atm, she’s got a blown bulb).

Anyway, if I get her fixed tomorrow…. then I might be back on me motorbike! Woo! Go me!

It sounded so good to get that lovely 250 2 stroke noise and have *huge* cloud of filthy blue smoke wafting around me…

Oh, and I don’t *really* hate it at the moment, I’m just peeved at having to do it *all* again. In rather sad news, the fan I got, my attempt to braze the metal on it lead to the outer ring cracking, so I need to think of another solution to that problem and clean off the braze which, incidentally, hasn’t really stuck very well. :(

KateWE

Kate's a human mostly built out of spite and overcoming transphobia-racism-and-other-bullshit. Although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise. So she's either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity. Either way, it's all good.

7 thoughts on “I love my bike…. I hate my bike…. I….

  1. mmmm brings back memories of my 250 cbn superdream, i loved my brown and orange Honda. I knew you had a thing for the odd morris :) didn’t know you liked bikes too. Tell me you entered the competition to win “old cherry”? (i think) Classic morris minor that some old dear gave away to raise money for a hosiptal in sheffield.

    *sigh* I miss my bike, but i went head to head with a large green bus many years ago and sold it after that. Would probs get back on one now though.

  2. I didn’t enter but 2 of my friends did! I can’t really use more than one car at once, although I’d love to get my hands on a Trabant Kombi still :-)

    Some info about the bike’s here: pyoor.word

  3. Nice bike :) Same colours as an old thing I used to have (my first bike) was a Honda again and can’t remember the model, was a 70cc re-bored *sp to a 90. The exhaust used to be one of those under the seat jobbies that kept you extremely warm if you didn’t take care but that had been lowered when i bought it. I was told it had some kinda wind up thing to start it (I always think of ford model T’s) but that was replaced by the kickstart aswell. Was quaint, old and damn reliable :)

  4. Ah, my MZ could never be accused of being reliable. Resilient; I think; would describe it quite well! Hopefully now we’ll be entering the reliable phase of ownership!

    Those under the seat jobbies are cool (‘no Kate, they’re *warm*); apparently you used to be able to get something like that for the MZs…. :-)

  5. The clutch slipping off it’s taper is aparrantly one of those things where people think their mz is dead beyond belief when it isn’t really… You should get back on the list I think Nigel who very kindly looks after my bike on its bi-monthly disentegration has some experience with these things

  6. Well, I thought it was dead dead. It certainly made some very unpleasant noises. Anyway, ’tis fixed now.

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