We left Columbus to head up to the
Fuel Cleveland show this weekend. We had 4 shovelheads, a cb750 and a turbo kz900 along with my 06 s40 chop. My bike did pretty well until she got beaten down by the pothole friendly nature of Cleveland streets. One pothole smashed by brake light bulb and the next one on the way home caused my bike to backfire real bad immediately after.
My other buddy blew the coil on his shovelhead at the sametime and we just loaded them up a truck and drove back to Columbus. I was having issues getting fuel to flow into the carb (flows fine from petcock). After limping her around a little bit the fuel flowed better but I keep lagging and surging when I am on the throttle. Seems carb related, so I will be disassembling and going through the carb once again.
Ice cream is the key ingredient to a happy chopper ride and pivotal when waiting for on the shovelheads chase gremlins. One shovelhead lost his rear brakes while the other had some tranny issues.
Tyler's shovel ended up blowing his battery at 2am (2 other shovels would end up doing the same thing in the next 12 hours!)
Dan's battery goes boom. Kyle leaves to go get Dan a battery and his blows up on the way. Sidenote, don't use cheap batteries with plates that will vibrate loose and destroy the cells.
Right after I started backfiring like mad.
At least we magically ended up breaking down right next to where Kyle's brother lived.