Browsing Archive: July, 2013
Posted by Jim Zeiser on Sunday, July 28, 2013,
A scarcely mentioned vehicle here has been the original Chinese scooter pictured over there on the right. It's super long name is Bashan Eagle Milano 150DX. Around here it's just called "The Scooter". It's been sitting in the garage with a massive oil leak for the last year while I availed myself of the pleasure of using the Big Scooter and the 50cc bike. I was about 99% sure the problem was a cracked cylinder head,...and I was right. Last week I replaced the head with a whole new unit from S...
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The Next Generation
Posted by Jim Zeiser on Saturday, July 13, 2013,
As I'm sure you noticed my last entry was a video of my daughter, Cheryl, riding the 50cc bike. That makes three generations of my family that have ridden motorcycles. My dad started shortly after the Second World War, I started in 1962 and over fifty years later my daughter has joined the club. Now I don't know when Cheryl will do it again but it's a start. She took the bike out on the local road, by herself, and said she really liked it. In her words, "I know I was gone for awhile but I kep...
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My Daughter Rides
Posted by Jim Zeiser on Tuesday, July 9, 2013,
Rain, Rain Go Away
Posted by Jim Zeiser on Monday, July 1, 2013,
As you can tell by the title the weather hasn't been too pleasant here recently. Our stream on the back of the property has been quite vocal as it runs with great pressure from the rain fall we've been living with. In other parts of the region there has been flooding with streets disappearing under the flow of local streams. We've been lucky in that the rain hasn't filled our stream to overflowing but the sun hasn't been a frequent visitor and motorcycle rides have been few and far between.
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