As long as it doesn't spit the nut between the bars and seat,,,

You guys are mostly in the ball park. Truth is, you can be pretty dumb wrenching this bike and still get away with it. I am not talking about riding safety.

Oldfeller, turning the key to accessory and having a "no start" is ok if you don't pull the battery and the starter switch to find the trouble.  

Raleigh, You'll never work at an autobody shop.  

Dave, isn't the RE5 a rotary engine? If it is, that hurts.  :'(

Stew, I call you the Man of the Hour for even admitting that one! Good cautionary tale.  

Let me go again:
Filled up with gas one day and hit the 2 lane south out of town. Got behind 2 cars running about 45. After about a mile of that I whipped out and sucked their doors off. "Wow", I thought. "That gas made a difference!" Turned out I was in 4th gear the whole time.  

More please. I've been mostly absent from here for the last year. It seems we have a whole new bunch of newbs with varying degrees of experience. We need to repeat what what we know for this new batch of people. Thanks, Boofer  

We, now you know how important it is to seat those little rubber rings in their little grooves before tightening up bolts... Bummer deal..

Boofer wrote on 07/05/16 at 17:50:39:



4th... 5th... It's all the same on this bike!  

In a parallel time continuum dimension, having your bike stolen after it dropped an exhaust valve head into the wheel house. wowza  

I talked to a fellow last night about this thread.  He told me that he found a dirty and neglected Yamaha TD3 in a barn that used to be a race bike, and the current owner had put a small headlight on it and was riding it on the street.  He paid $ 500 for the bike, and the guy said he had a bunch of spare parts - and when he got the parts the boxes all had labels with Vesco - Caruthers written on them (turns out it was a race bike with credentials).  He fixed the hole in the bodywork where the headlight was installed, and got it all put back together properly, and raced it for a few years - and then sold it for $ 750.  (He told me that today they are about $ 30,000).

My only bad mistake was buying my first motorcycle! A very consuming hobby , consumes money,space,time! Wouldn't change a thing , no regrets well maybe one wish I had more money,more space,more time to build more bikes! Life gets in the way of building bikes!