So my buddy is always selling, buying and trading bikes and always comes out smelling like roses. THis last one is no exception. He picked up a late model Trophy for next to nothing, put a few hundred bucks into it and had a great bike. Well he traded it for a clean Commando with less than 8,000 original miles:
Clean and original
Well after a few weeks of messing around with the Commando, he figured out something was not right with the engine. Takes the head off and finds:
So he was able to get it fixed and ended up putting a big boar kit in while the engine was apart. He just had dialed everything in when:
About a block away from his house, he looks down to flames coming off his engine. Just before leaving the house, he tightened the petcock and must have either cracked the bolt or the tank. So now he has to try and replace everything.... Talk about luck....
