Subject: RE: LOOP SPARES
Author: Gary Cheek
Date: Dec 23, 2001, 1:05 PM
Post ID: 1709222712
I carry my Master Card and travel light . The whole idea is to do the
work at home and go BOTH ways without busting. Kind of like flying ! The
again, since I usually travel with Tom ,we could probably put a third
bike together with the parts he has in his back pack. {:>
Tom Bowes wrote:
| Bob, I carry about the same stuff (no carb parts) along with some spare control cables, if it's going to be a long jaunt. I also carry a few spare lamps and fuses, a wiring diagram, a points file (remember those?) and a spare tube. Also, some heat shrink tubing and a disposable cigarette lighter (along with some Scotch 33+ electrical tape for making temporary repairs). Robert Hawkes wrote:
Personally, I can't see carrying a spare U-joint as they are not subject to sudden, catasrophic failure. Most reports are that they tend to go gradually with increased vibration in the right peg/floorboard being sympomatic. I've yet to hear of anybody breaking a U-joint, unless it was already worn out and in need of replacement.
Look, there's a reason that a good number of these bikes are still daily riders after 30-plus years of use, and the reason is because there just aren't that many parts that break with any regularity. Does this mean that one can get by without doing proper maintenence? No, but it does mean that you can spend more time riding and less time worrying about what will break next if you do the initial maintenance and do it right. The problem many times is that just because things LOOK OK, they are presumed to BE OK. E.G.. a guy picks up a thirty-year-old bike, and instead of stripping down the drive train, swing arm, steering head, wheel bearings and pivot shafts, and re-greasing everything, he simply starts to ride. After all, nothing APPEARED to be wrong. A year later he's got a pile of junk that is in need of new everything because all the old stuff ground itself to death due to a lack of good-old-fashioned grease. If I had to identify the one system on these machines that would most likely make your fun-meter continuously indicate a ZERO, it would be the electrical system. With the CEV electrical components there is no "fudge factor" that will allow you to get away with any neglect in the "keeping things clean and tight department". Tom '70 (July '69) Ambassador '82 V50-III Shelby Township, Michigan |
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