Hi Sven! Hope you guys have a GREAT TIME in Germany, say hello for me ha ha! Still miss it.
Quite a few events go on at Nurburgring on the weekends, like Vintage races etc. Might want to check that out.
in deed, i second lonnie's statement.
great question: where is easter gone????
no bunnies no flowers no birds no open air enjoyment
arround 0degree celsius and snow now for the whole week
igor as farer east we come as worse it becomes.
looks like you need your third wheel a lot these days.
luckily i only have to adjust the cars heating
best regards from berlin-steglitz
sven
strange what happened to my post from yesterday? it got lost in nirwana?
a few seconds later it appeared
today rotkaeppchen little red riding hood haunted me
Yes, sidecar is a must. Last chance for some snow drifts this year 🙂 20cm of snow. Yesterday we went skiing with my dog 🙂 And made easter-bunny from snow
Hello Igor,
I agree with the cable ties, they were great help when the gas cable broke 2 years ago and worked for riding 2 more weeks.
But WD-40 is in my eyes the world worst industrial lie. Never ever use it in delicate things like pneumatic valves. they will stick within a few weeks. WD-40 gums up to a kind of rasine/recine ? (German Harz, Spanish recina) My former US-boss always had it on hand and damaged more then one equipment with it. (trie to relive and clean a gummed up glass encoder of a cnc-mill, then you know why I do not like that stuff).
Damn it, You have a stubburn winter this year. today at 5:00AM I arrived in Costa Rica and am happy to have left cold Germany. one night we had 10-15cm fresh snow. The warmest was 5°C in Frankfurt. My sister tells me that at the former East German border they have still snow pilled up to 2 m in our village. Bright sun and 30°C is better for the lungs and against running noses.
My daughter had an Anatomic examn at 2:00PM in the University. For sure she understands now why I was shot all those years when I had to travel frecuently from one factory to the other crossing the Atlantic.
Best wishes
Sven
News sound good.
Should I describe the sentence in my signature, for example JOKE: "sentence" END OF JOKE ? 🙂 Agree. Many people believe that WD40 is panaceum for any problems with greasing (and use waaaaay too much for every screw). And for thinking people there's obvious, that petrol products melts gum/rubber and that light oil with cleaning purproses shouldn't be used to grease most of mechanisms. The rest will still use WD40 everywhere. My workmates regularily use it to destroy things or do "massive wash" to every rusted screw (and thus, wasting 98% of used WD).
In my place there was only 30 cm of snow at easter. At east there was up to 2m of snow and up to (down to?) -26°C degrees. But - it's the coldest spring since 1907, as far as I know.My colleague who live in so called "cold pole"( Suwalki and surroundings), couldn't run his snow-plow that he left uncovered for that night. And they used some cross bikes and snowmobiles to get the place where plow and release it with shovels.
30°C? Thanks. If temperature exceeds 25°C, my activity reduces to searching for colder place. Over 30°C the only thing I can do is to get free-days to hole up and wait for life-enabling temperatures, and try not to collapse. I can't function properly in such swelter. And I don't use motorcycle - I couldn't ride without all this "bulletproof" things on me. I'm rather a penguin-type organism than reptile-type.
Best wishes to you and your family.
Igor
Good morning. the birds are calling for more rain. (we had a 1 hour flood yesterday)
The birds singing was the most I was missing in Germany these days. A craw isn't what I call a friendly bird.
My son is more like You, as soon it becomes hot his brain flips out a fuse and tells overflow error.
I use back/spline protectors and heavy riding clothes for 30 years and prefer to sweat to once more go down without it. In 2 occasions the back protector and in one occasion the knee protectors had to do their job.
The sweat paid out. When I had to jump off the Norton in Death Valley in 1988 just a few minutes earlier I did take off the boots and leg protectors. I "earned" a perfect weather forecast for the following 15 years.
We have the most beautyful sun rise I have seen for quite a time. Time for a shower.
Sven
I have no problem with birds. Whole winter thet wake me up. I set a "restaurant" for them, just on my window sill. And I have wild birds, rabbits and sometimes bigger animals gamboling in my garden. Only cats keep out, otherwise my dog Delma try to hunt them.
There were 2 times when I really needed protectors and thankfully had them. And thanks to protectors, I still had knees and few other things in factory condition 🙂 I slipped on my own engine oil, just under the bus (if I has sidecar this day, the situation wouldn't be dangerous). Fortunately, the bus stayed at red light and had to start few seconds later. The same day my brother was coming to me with tools and new oil, was hit by car and catapulted from his bike. Stood up without any pain. Other time I was only touched by a truck that overtook me. Bumped into curb, ripped sidebags and some clothes, scratched the bike but wasn't hurt.
Protectors pay them off quickly.
All incidents I had in 31 years with the solo and rig never involved other vehicles. With the car, yes there had been quite a few crashes and neither any personnel injuries.
Teu, teu, teu let's pray it will stay that way.
Protectors are a great and cheap insurance, as well as the third wheel and saddle bags on the solo bike.
Fun it is to count the street side plocks you pass by, when You go down on ice and wait on the solo bike until the bike will stop... 3 plocks = over 150m, happened so in 84 or 85
A chear for all wind faces.
Sven
lets look if things work out
1805= first sunrise after our return from Germany.
1731,1737,1738= tie down and level out to normal weight riding levels for to get accurate reference measurements / Negra, asking: "when can I ride again?"
1740= the most impressive part of the rig. the main beam that supports most of the sidecar load. As tough as the 15mm sidecar wheel axle!
1743= good bye Wendy-engine
1745= "the" trick for to save ignition coils. Before this breather hose the water when crossing rivers got trapped inside the alternator housing and rot the coils once and again. After this tiny hole and hose the thermal vacuum got broken and when water came in during a river crossing after few miles it was evaporated and out again. With some goretex it would have been perfect. but this hose worked excellent since 2005.
1747,1748= the temperature sensor for the 2 cylinder heads. above 155°C the danger for the pistons was very close. 120-140°C was regular driving temperature. 80-100°C I would get only in rain. The sensor and meter were still from my 1983 CB650 and have at least 140.000 + 36.000 + 25.000km= 201.000km and the last calibration check gave only 3°K max deviation.
1752= Wendy-engine on her way to serve as spare part donator.
1753= how fragile looks an empty frame!
1767= Rotkäppchen = "little Red Ridding Cape" comes into the house. Ain't that an appropiate name for her?
Now let's se how she will fit in and behave with her new frame and rig.
Sven
A song tells; The first cut is the deepest"
I cut off the first engine base ear and the blind inspector (the Golden Retriever) assured it is the way to go.
So here are a few pictures off the first fitting test.
Perhaps even the Jawa's air filter box can be reutilized.
The Husquarna engine weights only 36kg including carb = 10kg less then the Jawa engine. If I remember right.
Sven
I suggest to make some engine guard and radiator guard. In hard terrain (and "offroad roads") it should be very practical
Protection will be coming for sure. You should see how hair rising some tracks are where I pass sometimes. Wednesday I turned arround with the KLR-solo because of wet clay, the only passable part was 30cm wide and right beside the cliff of 70m 80°.
I want to have Fernando, the Jawa Importer, at my side before cutting anything else off. Poor buddy is recovering from an operation. So things have to wait a few days. The Jawa's heart tranplant has years of story behind, so a few days won't hurt, as long it will be finished somewhen. While Fernando's health is unpayable. He hasn't been able to ride his rig now for 2 years and diabetis charges its toll each complication worse. One more reason to do things while you still can do them.
Sven
Peter Pan - 4/11/2013 8:29 AM
Protection will be coming for sure. You should see how hair rising some tracks are where I pass sometimes. Wednesday I turned arround with the KLR-solo because of wet clay, the only passable part was 30cm wide and right beside the cliff of 70m 80°.
I want to have Fernando, the Jawa Importer, at my side before cutting anything else off. Poor buddy is recovering from an operation. So things have to wait a few days. The Jawa's heart tranplant has years of story behind, so a few days won't hurt, as long it will be finished somewhen. While Fernando's health is unpayable. He hasn't been able to ride his rig now for 2 years and diabetis charges its toll each complication worse. One more reason to do things while you still can do them.
Sven
Those are some very deep words of wisdom, Sven! I hope that all here can benefit from them. In the rush to 'have it now' we often lose that which we could have had if we had patiently waited and carefully planned. Patience is indeed a virtue and it can be the key to much more pleasure in this life.
On the other hand one never knows what tomorrow brings. I found out the hard way that 'things' can suddenly change and all of a sudden the future can look quite different. Best to make good plans now and set them in motion while we are able because we never know what tomorrow will bring. Add to this the patience and taking small steps instead of leaps and then we may enjoy the benefits of our labors without rushing into disasters.
A friend pesters me about why I haven't built or started to build my sidecar yet. I tried to explain to him that I am building it right now, but the foundation is a design that's fully thought out ahead of time, plus gathering all the needed parts together ahead of time. That way with a completed design and all the parts already known, accounted for and gathered together the build becomes the easy part! Also the results will be just as planned, instead of unpleasant surprises.
Prayers for your buddy and his illness.
.
Thanks Jimmie.
I will pass your comforting words to Fernando.
I push hard now 24 years environmental and automation work in the local industry. Step by step You get very far, but frecuently feel like a preacher in the desert. So this year has become a kind of family year instead of pushing clients.
Surprise:
I start to do things I had been dreaming of for decades (including the Jaquarna rig "Rotkäppchen" / "Jolly Roger 2 1/2").
Today on a national holday I was working with a year old friend on a sewage water recicle plant for free. And at the end I recalled the words of my fishing friend Mr. Zeppernick when I was a youngster.
"Haven't shot anything, but enjoyed the fresh air!"
= didn't earn any dime, but enjoyed the companionship of a great warm hearted friend with whom I passed quite a few very bussy working years together, but never was able to enjoy the moment with peace.
Now a heart attack later and as he has recieved this month his first pension rate he can do things he loves to do in a patient way.
Aint 'that more worth?
In engineering we learned and confirmed in daily work that 70% of all costs are defined during the design step. Therefor I recomend You to take into account, what I preached allways to my US-Boss in the free zone. "First steps first!" - "Hurry with patience."
As You just wrote.
Best wishes.
Sven
