KZ Breakfast Time again

Here's the rest of the pix.

Opps I lied. Here's more of the BEZONDA

Thanks for the pics, Mark - the BEZONDA was bitch'n and so was that Norton. I like them all!

Glad you guys had a good safe ride. I was going to show up but I have a second job and have to be at work by 3:30pm on Sat and Sun so going from Malibu area down to Murrieta (about 120mi) even with weekend traffic I would need to leave Rock store by 1:00pm at the latest. And that is if some idiot does not get a flat tire on the freeway (damn looky lues!) and backs up traffic for miles! Just does not leave enough time to relax and enjoy myself. I'll catch next ride...

Well we missed you John, I had the only "650". We heard Angles Crest Hwy is open now and were talking about it next time. Maybe we'll do Ortega or something near you so you can make the next one. Joe wasn't going to go to the Rock Store but we talked him into it at breakfast, the weather was just too nice for to say no.

Mark

Good trip, nice weather, fun group to ride with. Seems the only time I get breakfast is with you guys.

Grant, Alex, and I headed back home via Topanga Canyon, thru the SF Valley. We'd almost made it to the 118 when Blaze decided to break down. I was loosing clutch cable engagement, so we pulled into a gas station, and adjusted the cable. Fixed the engagement, but the first time I pulled in the clutch.... PING! Felt like a parted cable.
The cable looked good at the lever, so we had to pull the clutch cover and have a look-see. It was over 100°, and not a bit of shade, except for the ramada at the gas pumps. We pushed Blaze to the edge of the shade, so cars could still get gas, and got to work.
Grant carries every tool you could ask for in his bag, including a spare clutch cable!
Well we pulled the cover, but the cable was fine. What had broken was the bracket that the cable barrel fits into. The bracket was in two pieces, sheared in half. CRAP!
Grant & Alex produced some wire and dykes, and we wrapped the wire around the cable, behind the barrel. Then we threaded the wire thru a cotter pin hole in what was left of the bracket. Very ugly, and no one really thought it would work. But I put everything back together, made another cable adjustment, and got decent clutch engagement.
Grant figured it was good for "20 pulls", and I had maybe 10 stoplights before I was home.
We timed 3 or 4 lights before we hit the fwy, and then I could speed shift into 5th and keep it there for the next 60 miles.
Didn't have to clutch again until I was 2 miles from home, and it felt just like normal. Couldn't tell anything was wrong by the feel of the lever.
So, by Grant's reckonning, I still have about 16 pulls left on the jury-rig.
I need to research the parts catalog to find the part I need, inside the clutch cover. Then she'll be good as new.
Tim

WOW Tim glad you had Grant and his tools with you. It sounds like your going to need a new cover, at least on the 650's it's cast in. We rode to PCH with the BZONDA and he does know the roads, I pushed my 650 the hardest I've pushed it scenes I've had it back together. Boy it was fun, we left poor Joe and Rudy in the dust.
Glad you made it home OK.

Mark

Mark Wing wrote:

Boy it was fun, we left poor Joe ... in the dust.

I was conserving gas...

JoeK wrote:

Mark Wing wrote:

Boy it was fun, we left poor Joe ... in the dust.

I was conserving gas...

And I was making sure if Mark fell again that nobody ran him over :whistle:

Good job Joe, what kind of mileage did you get?

And thanks for watching my back Rudy, glad you were back there.

Mark

Good to see everyone this past Saturday. Sorry couldn't join you guys to the Rock Store. Sounds like I missed out on a lot of fun. I've been inspired by Rudy to get my Z1R running, or at least get it out from under the tarp. Mark, thank you sir for the OG SuperBall. Good to meet you Alex. Good to see father and son sharing the same interest. Oh, and I forgot to say "Thank You" to you Alex for your service to this country. Next time, I promise I'll do the whole ride.

www.RockStorePhotos.com shot some great pics of Rudy, Mark and I. They're in reverse order on Flickr, Rudy, Me then Mark. Here's a link to one of mine that I think I'll buy!

www.flickr.com/photos/capfacsurf/3673708...t-72157620753916306/

It looks like I was going extreamly fast... probably upwards of 20mph!

Rudy:
www.flickr.com/photos/capfacsurf/3674517...t-72157620753916306/

Mark:
www.flickr.com/photos/capfacsurf/3673708...t-72157620753916306/

BEZONDA: (BSA - Honda)
www.flickr.com/photos/capfacsurf/3674516...t-72157620753916306/