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I’ve never seen that technique for checking crankshaft clearances, that’s interesting! 🤔

Very pretty! Such beautiful scenery where you live. 🙂 I’ll bet all the leaves on the road can be a bit treacherous this time of year! We’re in mid November here and it’s still 80 degrees as the sun is going down. A multi day rain event is scheduled to arrive this weekend along with a cool...

Here’s another great use for those offset wrenches, adjusting the clutch worm. The wrench drops perfectly right down into that opening and allows you to easily set the screw adjustor.

You’re welcome! With those offset wrenches, it’s really not a hard job. Good luck! 👍🏻

Here’s how I did it, using an off set wrench set. 😉 https://www.xs650.com/threads/mailmans-xs2-the-rebuild-again.59075/page-31#post-725411

If you click on this link, it shows how I stripped the clear coat off my rims and polished them. You’ll have to scroll down to get to it, and keep going until you see the shiny wheels pictures! 😉 https://www.xs650.com/threads/my-60th-birthday-present.47639/page-10#post-486751

That W800 is a great , dependable bike. I regret not buying one when I had the chance. 😉

Wow! That almost looks fake! That’s beautiful! 😃

Twenty years ago I tried for years to find an old Triumph or Norton , locally , to restore. Anyone who had one didn’t want to let it go. I finally wound up buying one from Baxter Cycles in Iowa and having it shipped to me. Fast forward to today and I can find them almost any day on Craigslist...

Think you got enough firewood to get you through the winter ? 😄 Love that Ulysses! 😉

Yeah, that’s a lot smaller than I was imagining.

HooWee! Transformation of the year! 😃

What an epic ride through some stunning scenery! 😃 All that riding in the rain almost seemed like England there for a while! 😁 Nice ride report.

Hey Gary! I found another one for you! 😆 https://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/mcy/d/rimrock-1971-bmw-r60-basket-case-title/7893332640.html

I knew I remembered seeing it before! Happy to see you got it running! 😃

Gary I forgot what model that is. What year and model? An R50….R60? Slash 2? 🤔

I’ll be interested to see those all cleaned up! 👍🏻

Save your back, get a chain hoist, they’re inexpensive on EBay. You can do it one handed without even setting your coffee down. 😄 I lifted the engine , drug the bench under it, set it down and pushed the bench back to the wall..

Well for those of you still following Itchy Boots, she just finally left Taliban ruled Afghanistan ( thank God! ) those guys were scary. Especially when they pulled her into some compound a couple times for interrogation. 😲 She just entered Tajikistan, which is still an authoritarian regime, but...

Oh no! 😲 I hate to think of your riding season coming to an end! You’ve been posting such beautiful photos lately. 😃