Motorcycle travel and repair on a minimal budget. Lots of repairs.
Sometimes I don’t get my repairs done fast enough. We had a couple terrible wind and thunderstorms come through town and this is what happened after one of them. My Nighthawk got blown off of the Harbor Freight motorcycle wheel stand. It could have been a tragic situation where my bike was damaged in an…
Just upon reflection, I feel like the rotation of the wheel was a little rough, and when I checked the bearing manually I wasn’t 100% confident. So I get to do this bearing job all over again. But this time with more experience, and I picked up a 19mm socket so I can take that rear sprocket off.
It seems that these bearings are pretty frozen into place. Seeing as they’re covered in junk and rust, it’s understandable. In order to expedite the repair I think what I’ll need to do is get a blind puller from Harbor Freight. I haven’t found any pulled that I can rent that would do that job,…
On the way to work this morning my Nighthawk decided to start giving me this loud whine coming from what I guess is the front wheel. It did it on the way back, too. The loud whine starts at maybe 45 mph and stays till I’m going really slow. I thought maybe it was the…
I'm doing everything I can to keep riding as much as possible. Beyond that, I play upright bass in a band called The River Valley Rangers.
For work I help manage a team of web content publishers at Launch Digital Marketing so I'm on the internet a lot. :)
