[TheForge] Cheap Autodarkening Welding Helmet.

Wed Aug 13 21:20:00 2003

Yeah, well, it was worn out.  I finally replaced it and it never slipped 
again, but by then I had developed my technique on the worn one.   Nine 
foot long,  fixed timing 45 degree btdc, flaky kick start only,  binary 
clutch, no front brake, rear brake on the left and damn near no 
clearance under the frame ( had to goose it to raise the front end high 
enough to clear speed bumps).   My motto was why buy an anti theft 
device when you can ride one.   Its still sitting there in the garage, 
but I haven't had it on the road in a really long time.  Shifter pawl 
stuck on it one day and I had to make it home stuck in high gear.  Real 
hairy take off from a stop.  Pulled it apart to  rebuild the 
transmission, decided to rechrome the forks (they were peeling from a 
previous bad job) and haven't got around to putting it all back 
together.  One of these days.

Charles

Dragons Watch Forge wrote:

> Even when new sportster kick clutches can slip out.  Have to be 
> veeeeeeerrrrrryy careful to ensure it is fully engaged before dropping 
> on it.  :-D        Got one of those knees myself.
>
> Larry
>
> [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Yeah well.  I am only forty, but it seems every morning I wake up to 
>> find my body has yet another bill to pay for some dumb stunt  I 
>> pulled at twenty.  The worst bill right now is for running open pipes 
>> as a youth.  Next worse is is knee damage due to being too cheap to 
>> replace a kickstart clutch on bike.
>>
>> Charles
>>
>
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