My friend , Big Mike , was in town (Bullhead )yesterday to make arrangements to remove the burned up rental Mobil home , he owns.
So, not wanting to spend lots of money on gas , I rode the Vision down to the river. We had a nice lunch at the buffet at the Riverside Hotel, Took a quick look at the classic car and bike museum, as well. A BSA Gold Star, a Matchless 600 single caught my eye. I helped tune a Gold Star at Ascot Park in Gardena CA. in 1961 and missed buying a Matchless 600, for 25.00 in 1971. But I digress.
After leaving the Riverside I headed through Nevada , into California to the Avi Indian casino and crossed the bridge back into Arizona. Temp was 114.5. After traveling about 2 miles the Vision started sending code again, dit daa, dit,dit dit. I made a wrong turn and while making a u turn the fire went out! I parked the bike in the shade and asked at the house if I may sit on there steps while I waited for the gas to stop boiling in the carbs. The lady of the house, kindly gave me a large glass of Ice water.
20 min. later it started up and I was off. It started burping again , while I passed through Golden shores, but I made it onto I 40 and it smoothed out at 7000 rpm. But as I stopped at the sign on the off ramp, it died again. The area I pulled over into , was bottomless sand and since the side stand would not support the bike , I had to stay on it for 20 min. in the 116 deg. heat. Finally it started and I headed to Lake Havasu city. At the second stop light coming into town , you guessed it, it died. I coasted down hill in to a mall parking lot and parked in the shade. J C Penny's has double doors and a nice air conditioned lobby, so I sat and waited.
I called Kojo and asked if he would come over and guide me to his house and he obliged. About a 1/2 mile from his home, it died again, but finally we reached his house. I stayed until about 8:30 or 9:00 and I was able to keep it running , as the temp was only 102. Finally made it home about 10:45 . Now you know why I hate going to the river in the summer!
Monk , stay away from Parker, till the fall!!
So, not wanting to spend lots of money on gas , I rode the Vision down to the river. We had a nice lunch at the buffet at the Riverside Hotel, Took a quick look at the classic car and bike museum, as well. A BSA Gold Star, a Matchless 600 single caught my eye. I helped tune a Gold Star at Ascot Park in Gardena CA. in 1961 and missed buying a Matchless 600, for 25.00 in 1971. But I digress.
After leaving the Riverside I headed through Nevada , into California to the Avi Indian casino and crossed the bridge back into Arizona. Temp was 114.5. After traveling about 2 miles the Vision started sending code again, dit daa, dit,dit dit. I made a wrong turn and while making a u turn the fire went out! I parked the bike in the shade and asked at the house if I may sit on there steps while I waited for the gas to stop boiling in the carbs. The lady of the house, kindly gave me a large glass of Ice water.
20 min. later it started up and I was off. It started burping again , while I passed through Golden shores, but I made it onto I 40 and it smoothed out at 7000 rpm. But as I stopped at the sign on the off ramp, it died again. The area I pulled over into , was bottomless sand and since the side stand would not support the bike , I had to stay on it for 20 min. in the 116 deg. heat. Finally it started and I headed to Lake Havasu city. At the second stop light coming into town , you guessed it, it died. I coasted down hill in to a mall parking lot and parked in the shade. J C Penny's has double doors and a nice air conditioned lobby, so I sat and waited.
I called Kojo and asked if he would come over and guide me to his house and he obliged. About a 1/2 mile from his home, it died again, but finally we reached his house. I stayed until about 8:30 or 9:00 and I was able to keep it running , as the temp was only 102. Finally made it home about 10:45 . Now you know why I hate going to the river in the summer!
Monk , stay away from Parker, till the fall!!
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