Why? When some person, who knows how many owners ago, decided it would be just the thing to buy a bunch of "high performance" parts to soup up their Suzuki Katana, which already works perfectly, and goes faster than any amateur human ought to ride, what were they thinking? I believe it has been unridable ever since.
My brothers used to talk crazy about souping up engines of motorcycles, but it was all hypothetical, so I know a little about how that sort of thinking works, but it was just talk. An amusement to entertain themselves, which is where they are superior beings to whoever followed through on crazy talk by ruining this poor defenseless Suzuki Katana.
While Himself was off on one of yesterday's test rides, I got a call to bring the trailer and pick him up. Thank goodness he was all right. The throttle had stuck wide open when he was accelerating (just like a Toyota) and all he would say to me was that it went REALLY fast. He used the kill switch to stop the engine, and was able to just pull over to the side of the road. He thought maybe he would quit bad-mouthing kill switches.
Poor Himself! He tried so hard to make the thing work, fixing all sorts of mistakes and spending all his free time for the last month and a half to help out some kid who'd gotten stuck with someone else's mistakes, not to mention helping the once nice motorcycle, and he really had hopes. But no. The poor helpless defenseless motorcycle is still good for nothing except maybe drag racing.
3 comments:
wide open throttle? yikes!! Good thing Himself has roadside assistance ;-)
Never grow old. There...that's my advice.
It's usually best to leave them alone unless you really know what you are doing - after all, I guess the manufacturer did a lot of work getting it the original way.
I remember my first bike (a 2 stroke BSA Bantam), when in the army. Us lads were always thinking we could make a 55mph bike go to at least 70mph by mucking with it. So it seemed a good idea to take out all the baffles in the little BSA's silencer. It then would only manage 40mph - but boy! it sounded faster!
Glas himself is OK - a frightening experience.
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