Trixie Combat 4.4th recovery ends & begins.

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Well done Hobot, All ready to "throw yourself " some more.?
Let's try and stay away from the Deer and Goats for a while and have fun out there.
If you must tackle the Wild animals, may I suggest one of these.....
640 Katoom.
You may need an assistant.








Good at night too... I used to run 140w Pencil beam and 100w Broad beam, for 240w High, and 100w Low beam. Spot a Roo a mile away.
You could smell the Eucalyptus burning out of the leaves. (Gum trees)
AC.

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Ugh, first off this is a factory Combat not Ms Peel and boy howdy I already learned its limits and tasted them on each new rebuild to verify all I ever need to know - so no throwing Trixie at the ground and expect nightmare to turn into a flying save dream like my rodded mistress Ms Peel. Trixie is my easy going New Orleans slut, just has to look and sound good.

That is some neat side car rig. Like the buck wagon bed and tail gate. Can't get them out of my mind so who knows. But I especially perked up to the 120 watt pencil beam and flood light, to see the road at 80+ so animals can never strike hard from the side again, no expectations to see them before impact, silly Aussie roo dodger. If I see em first they get aggressively targeted not avoided.

Trixie has a few concessions to her engine survival like super blends but I'll be disconnecting the bee under a bucket to power 130 db air horn.

About to shut down 'puter and begin the mid night toil as shoe eves can't take the bug clouds now its warm again.

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Mr Combat what are the purple things? (can't use AC as that's my ex's name,,,, Anti Christ)

hobot, what does this translate to?
"About to shut down 'puter and begin the mid night toil as shoe eves can't take the bug clouds now its warm again"

Graeme

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Purple dust covers / protectors, for purple shocks. "Reiger Suspension" from the Netherlands. Best there is apparently.
For Sidecars, Rally cars etc. The Europeans are right in to it.
And yeah, Hob lost me too when he got to " shoe eves " ??
Mr Combat.

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Europe craftsmen have an ancient tradition where little shoe eves come out at night and finish up tedious tasks so craftsmen can show off as if their own work. I don't think they like the climate here as never helped me but to hide stuff before I go out after mid night to get most my mistakes repeated and corrected.
Toil is what I meant to spell above, sorry.

I think I diagnosed Trixie's lack of charging, w/o a bit of toil or little shoe eve's tiny hammers...
Remembered I'd gotten carried away emotionally to find the magnetic rotor not centered in stator so beat on the laminates to shift it and likely busted its guts... But got a stock spare and a 3 phase too so will beat the inner case posts &/or open the stator holes some, which i've never had to do dozens of times prior.

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IT'S ABOUT BLOODY TIME, STEVE!

Back to the land of the living (Commandos)

Well done, you'll get it sorted and nipped up in no time. (probably already have by the time i post this)

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Here "eves" are where the roof of a house or building overhangs the walls. (not sure if that's how it's spelt) "Elves" plural, or "elf" single, are what the things are called here.

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Ah yes, Elves... little helpers with pointy hats....
GRAEME, we'll turn this mob around yet,.... GP is stating to talk like an Orstraylien.
Fair dinkum mate.

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Aw crap I'm feeling good but brain static hides spelling at times as spell checker no help. If Trixie was the only project or even top priority it might not have taken as long but that's life and if live long enough got plenty lined up, if fate don't set me back again. That's all too possible with SueVee a goat year dead now.

Was heading straight out to shed, bore out startor holes, nip it up and primary, put on TS side/ignition, dial in, oil up, painted parts on and see what happens. I can ride quite a bit w/o hitting pavement or police before tagged. Hell ain't even transferred to me name yet. But police just see its for a '72 Norton when stopped so they miss its Ms Peel's tag : ) Trixie's been family just before Katrina wipe out.

Will Creep up on my ride skills and Combat controls and behavior.

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Its don't look or sound like it but this is the sound of another failed stress and strain day wasted on a Notrun. Been through two apparently good condition mechanical advances this month the 1st and worse feeling actually allowed dropping engine idle on tricky Gravel sections, if I used the brakes just right on down hill turn with marbles, which is about the most taboo condition I know of. The better feeling looking advance was impossible to unstick once rolling, which is dangerous around here. Just for the record, timing light showed both breaker holding dead on 28" as good or better than my sworn off forever Boyers. No foreseeable riding.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmM5emTXK-g[/video]

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Wes told me today Rich Stone, engraved ass by Commando seat iron butt, and a friend are Codo-ing 1000 miles out here for a weekend larkm, that they don't hardly stop riding, then head home to hit the ground running. So must get electro ignition and a rect/reg, as I think I reverse connected battery initially and fired the Tympanium. Insure and tag and well I can still dream it'll work out by then...

OH yeah, discovered brake fluid leaking out the master cylinder under the lever to put little splashes of fluid on tank and dripped on floor while suffering with adv mechanism, so have tied a bandanna around the lever and tipped forks away or will not have paint in a few weeks. I rebuilt this with SS piston about 3 yr ago and got maybe 2500 miles on it then it set up. If things don't quit decaying faster than I can keep up, may have to give up Norton dreaming.

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by grandpaul » Fri Jun 03, 2011 5:57 am

IT'S ABOUT BLOODY TIME, STEVE!

Click to expand...

I would be careful about using that term around the HOBOT.

I worry about that young man.

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Pazon?
Tri Spark?

Single Mikuni?

Set and forget,,,,,,,,,,,

Life's too short for not riding.

graeme

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Trixie and me very first ride out to pavement to get first tank of gas being so careful timid.

On the way to my village...

Spring sun set

On way back home...

Bloody to the bone.

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NOW WHAT????!!!!

Dang, man, what the heck?

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2006 being extra careful with mental conversation of all the factors of safety to take a Hwy intersection at 20ish mph - where I often take it at 60+ on linked Cdo and 45 on unlinked, I made if fine but was a bit closer to double yellow to stay wide of parked cars on side, I saw on comming car cresting a rise, so eased over to more center in my lane, just being extra careful, I noticed sparks on the road ahead, so cocked my head to resolve better what the heck that was, when a peashooter was seen scrapping, then flashed it was Trixie's, HUH?, then glove wore through, then skin, then hit the bone to realized I was sliding on pavement still in hands forward on bars position and jerked my hand up and rolled a bit till I stopped and watched Trixie slide to edge of road.

Got up, got Trixie up, got out camera and walked back to figure out what hapened, to stare at road surface, seeing nothing unusal looking down at my boots, I dragged it on surface to find an invisible Grit layer from last ice storm, that slapped me down so fast and easy I literally did not know I'd crashed till bone pain HIT. THE Gravel is my Nemesis and everyone else's too.

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YEEF.

Glad you walked (rode) away.

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As I stated I was being super duper careful and slow so impact and injury to Trixie and me was rather minimal, chrome on mirror face, 1/3 lever ball abraded, grip end torn, gloves ventalated and a bit of my pisiform bone ablated.

There's a extra rub to this Trixie tale and me, 3 weeks later about coasting home 35 mph a bit up hill on THE Gravel, ~8:30 after dark in 28' clean sky night. The distinct thought occurred me in my wonderful mood on Trixie, that my hand had finally healed up not to bite each time I used it and not likely to open it back up any more ... a doe leaped down at edge of road and sprang its leap off at full force and body extension upward to catch its shoulder/chest on head light, which went out as brighter lightening in my head hit, deer snatched bike out from under me, which bent deer in half at 35 mph, while my helmet continued forward at 35 mph to strike and fracture deer pelvis and my neck, which stopped heart and breathing for just electrofied vibrating heart and lung/diaphram in locked spasm. oh yeah Trixie landed on me so we dragged and spun together to be pinned under her, L foot behind back, helmet turned around, broken peg pinned R foot under bike laying on TS with gas pouring out, points still sparking-running and I could not reach key or make all the fractures, dislocations and spinal injury reach and hold kill long enough it didn't just start back up!!!!!!

I died more than once that night and joined with the "Incredible Shrinking Man" after straight pin lanced a pouncing spider ... then fading to a point of light as another star in the cosmic dust... Doe died in fits and spasms exactly as I was doing, in severe waves for 15 min before I heard its breath next to me stop... mine took a bit longer to start again.

He was exposed to the ionized radioactive gas release in the Bermuda Triangle, where I was born and grew up... I attack all deer I see first, Aggressively!

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-2U-ibBZss&NR=1[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp3iHjGBfT4[/video]

Here you can see head light path and my face shied/helmet impression on the rump. Collected and butchered the same night to freeze on a barn door and toid about the internal injuries that deer suffered.

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That does it.

I'M NOT riding with you.

(no apologies)

hee hee

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Nor will my S.O. who sees the crush injuries and dangling skewed major limb joints and I long ago left any guardian angles far behind. Most the world will ride when feeling ok, I must be recovered to have new impact-injury reserves to expect to survive a ride. Who know yoose may be reading one of my last posts as I just ordered what Trixie needs to be roadworthy from MAP Cycle.

THE Gravel alone is treacherous, even my buddy Wesley dumped his '69 Bonneville last week by slightly unconsciously dragging the front drum brake after thinking he was had slowed enough for the turn to suddenly have front go out mid 20's mph.

Safe Journeys til the end.
hobot