Been almost bone dry all week and my day off going to do a cam chain swap out and it starts pouring down soaking the ground under my carport so I can't do a darn thing
. Can't even ride either  

Can't ride in the rain? You just need something you don't mind letting get wet. Keep the chain lubed and the cables oiled and forget the rest.

clearush wrote on 06/16/12 at 12:07:07:



Can't ride???? Come on now!  I rode to work this morning through a deluge! I'm talking 4-5" per hour downpours!!!! I never got out of rain for the full 40 miles to work.



The really bad part is that the weather forecast called for "very slight chance of scattered showers" . I wouldn't leave the house if that rainfall was predicted mind you!

Well I lucked out and the weather cleared up by noon and it was dry enough to start in around 2ish. Only took me 7-1/2 hours  

Bad part was the head cover 115mm and 125mm bolts were missing and had 1/4" 20 threaded rods sticking up out of the bolt holes not even a nut or anything to hold down the head cover.  
No issues putting everything back together even went to the hardware store and found some 5" and 5-1/2" 1/4 bolts to replace the threaded rod with. Until I hit the 130mm head bolt  :'( seems like it was previously over torqued to the point of pulling the threads when I tighted it up.     I went ahead and put everything back together so I could turn it over. She idles fine but as expected there was a gusher of oil from the 130mm bolt.

Tommorow I will see if there is anything left down at the bottom to thread a new bolt into, might have to try the 1/4" bolt trick on that one also   if there is enough to thread into.



As for riding in the rain....not by choice     and I was watching my kids while the wife was out so I couldn't go anyways   even if it wasn't raining.

I was getting ready to paint some trailer motorcycle ramps and put the hardener in the paint, and then got the sawhorses out and everything ready....then the rain came.

Times like this puts a Capital R on Rattts!

Dave wrote on 06/17/12 at 07:39:55:


I can tell you thru numero personal experiences, when on a ride and it starts raining, it absolutely won't stop until you get off the bike and put your rain suit on.