Hi Guys,
Good to be back home , also good to be back online with the forum, you blokes have grown to be best mates over the last couple of years,
Its along story............No Run , Nor record.
In a nutshell, it was a very difficult push to finish the bike , especially the last two weeks every morning until 1 or 2 am then up for work. But I finished the bike on the Saturday morning, started it up on rollers I spent all day friday making, ( was only way I could get it started....story why later) packed up Van and camper trailer after lunch Saturday, left Sunday morning.
On the way as tired as I was I thought I need to run this girl on the bituman before I take it on the salt so there was a really quiet flat stretch of road about halfway to Lake Giardner so unpacked the bike and rollers , fired the old girl up. For an old 750 It really did sound strong and sharp, the rest of the crew were all excited as it was sounding mean arsed. I gave it a slow run up and down the road for a few miles and it felt good, changed the oils and filter etc , topped up the fuel and said to James the jockey get on and give it one easy pass then give it #$%* on the way back and watch the AF meter.
When he was coming back on the return run it still sounded horny but suddenly it went onto 3 cylinders and pump mega smoke out the exhaust and when he pulled up the breather was puking oil everywhere.
We had a mini wake with a few beers, loaded the bike back up into the van , the other crew jockey and 5 blokes turned around and went home, my son Matt and I continued onto the salt to learn what we could and spend some time with my main competitor and record holder Steven Finn the 750 waterbottle man.
I just got back late last night, very tired and hungover, will do the post mortem on the bike Tuesday night.
IMPORTANTLY I had an absolute blast, I really did enjoy myself, the weather was perfect , less flies than
