Tales from Toolbox

More Junk from my Wall of Shame.



Moto Guzzi Quota Piston. Dropped an exhaust valve. Previous owner was "experimenting with valve clearances".



1976 BMW R90/6 Piston. Dropped an exhaust valve while I was riding it down 10th ave in Columbus, Ohio. We dragged this one home with a tow rope and my buddy Steve's XS1100.



Bevel Drive Ducati Front wheel. No idea what happened here, but the result is somehow visually pleasing to me. (Mental note. Discuss with therapist at next opportunity.)



BMW K100 Drive shaft/Ujoint. A customer brought this one into the shop.These are usually very long lived, but this one is done. Maybe the guy used the bike to haul bricks for his masonry business. Maybe his girlfriend has been hitting the buffets kinda hard lately. Maybe Helmut in quality control had one too many lagers at lunch that day.


And that, dear friends, is just a drop in the bucket.  

LOL! good stuff!  

There was this little white puff of smoke and then Dave's DT400 coasted to the side of the road.  

I had a DT400 that did exactly the same thing; just after I filled it up with gas from a country service station!!!  

I missed this somehow and started a new thread in the "current issue" forum, maybe Annette can clean it up....

Anyway -

Ed Milich asked, so here it is.

Or some of it.

I'm glad that others also keep pieces of motorcycles from the past, souvenirs.

There are several around my garage somewhere, one of the most notibly being the tachometer from my 1972 Kawasaki H1B - or what remains of it.

Back in 1978 or 1979, Jon Gershin and I lined them up in the school parking lot. During school, of course. He rode a RD350 and it was neck and neck until he slowed suddenly, in time for me to broadside another motorcycle that was wheelying inbetween parked cars.....

The tach is in a box somewhere.

And then there is this one -



That bike ended up being crashed (stupidity again on my part) and ultimately sold with a GS550 front end slapped on it.

But I still have the emblem.......

Valve cover from a 1979 Honda CBX



Bought the bike cheap, no title, from a repo-man. It had been in a barn for years and the carbs were gunked. I learned you had to loosen the upper ending mount and tilt the engine down to get the carbs out. Eventually sold most of the bike to a fellow in town named Leon - he had a pristine CBX and even let me ride it, great guy.

Thank you Ed Milich for the memories - I need to remember many of those to help keep me from repeating them.