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Smells like cowshit reminds me of the town I grew up in
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Fresno

Anyone live near fresno and have a cycle electric gen/reg they can sell or loan me?

In other unrelated news my benchmark air filter is working good thanks Kim and Pat!

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Gen that wasn't

Guess I just couldn't believe the new cycle electric generator was bad but soon as I started riding with the lights on the battery drained. Just long enough for me to get right into the middle of nowhere.
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Grapevine

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1969

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Wounded Pinto

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BCM Panhead

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Hola Kim

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Breakfast of Champions

Caleb of Cro customs came to my rescue. He was working round the corner gave me a lift, battery and place to stay. We Went for a ride last night down to Venice. Thanks a lot Caleb I had a good time.
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Whole lotta shovels

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Party never ends

Battery went tits up. No wonder I hate the damn things. Bikey no run with no battery. Maybe that new gen want so new.
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Finally made it up to LA missed the Long Beach swap meet because the old cloth wiring and hack wiring just fell apart and I wasted Sunday messing with more.. On some of the wiring the cloth cover just washed away so it was bare metal. Saturday evening in SD a rain storm came through and I was working on the bike outside in the dark with a shop light. Not my favorite conditions. Couldn't figure out what the wiring configuration was. Some was stock,some was previous owners, and all a mess. The stud that holds the coil to the seatpost had bad threads and was cross threading crooked so my friend Dan drove me around to find a fine thread tap in the size I needed late on a saturday in the rain storm. Found one then fixed that.
The next day I had lights but no ignition so was on the phone with Bill and we tried to work out what was done to the bike and what was where. - I should have just ripped it all out and started over but kept thinking it would be easier to patch what I had. Why do people make the wiring so complicated? You dont need many wires to make these bikes run. Magneto woud have been nice. I can't wait to get the bike home to rebuild it.
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Gracias bill

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Its a party

Opened up a pandoras box be easier to just star over
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Kon Tiki Motorcycles

6 is my lucky number

I love this place. Reminds me of shops I'd hang out in as a kid. Kon Tiki used to be a Kawi dealer and my local shop was a Kawasaki dealer so that's part of it. Recognize some of the old signs.

Helped me pull off the old generator gear with their press as I couldn't get it off with any tools I have with me. I would have had to caveman it off. While I was there got to check out all the old photos, bikes, and shoot the shit about the old days. If they sold donuts and coffee they would have never got rid of me.
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