Tornado
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Did a great bit of riding out to Squamish (about 75 KMs) and along the river in perfect weather, as you can see:
On the return trip, not more than ten mintues along, just passing a big truck on a hill, asked the old girl for bit more power and something gave up, sputtered and dropped a lot of power. No or little power on tap. Pulled over and a blipped throttle showed lots of smoke, most on left side and lumpy sounding. Shut her down and sorted a flatbed to get her home. Since drivers wont take passengers had to take a $95 taxi to next town where I could take a bus rest of way to Vancouver. Did try waving down lots of passing bikes. One did stop and offered a ride but since hauler hadnt arriveds yet and expected anywhere upto two hours to arrive, he couldnt hang about so long.
Anyway, im guessing maybe a ring or valve has gone? Maybe headgasket? Will do a compression check and inspect plugs tomorrow.
Real shame, she was going so nicely all day. Was only reving around 3-4k when this happened.
On the return trip, not more than ten mintues along, just passing a big truck on a hill, asked the old girl for bit more power and something gave up, sputtered and dropped a lot of power. No or little power on tap. Pulled over and a blipped throttle showed lots of smoke, most on left side and lumpy sounding. Shut her down and sorted a flatbed to get her home. Since drivers wont take passengers had to take a $95 taxi to next town where I could take a bus rest of way to Vancouver. Did try waving down lots of passing bikes. One did stop and offered a ride but since hauler hadnt arriveds yet and expected anywhere upto two hours to arrive, he couldnt hang about so long.
Anyway, im guessing maybe a ring or valve has gone? Maybe headgasket? Will do a compression check and inspect plugs tomorrow.
Real shame, she was going so nicely all day. Was only reving around 3-4k when this happened.
