Dave I will be studying the all in one rack and struts wonder for Peel as I want her easy to pair down to flat tracker raw by tooless fast on/off of full fairing,lights and luggage rack, but still retain the mounts for crashing on and riding off.
Chiggers? I never had to deal with them. I kind of questioned their existence and assumed they were just another creature living among the snipes, unicorns and fairies?
Ugh, they are also known a 'No See-um's" and sand fleas at beaches. I finally got to see them when I tried painting yellow parts outside, they land on paint to stand out as dark fine splinters, ugh. Finer than an eye lash but big enough to look like dust grains in nice paint surface. Other blood sucker here are the deer ticks big as a pea or seed ticks small as grain of sand, that love to attach between toes or crawl up to groin and latch on but takes over night to be felt then whelp up.
Thank for the photos, your struts are beffier than I imagined.
I see another mystery item on the Misses. Looks to be attached to the front of your chain guard, round and chrome.
Its one of 2 horns mounted as Keeny Deer did his.
Staggered crop circle Z plate holes my design to signal aliens and let air though.
Ok the city boy wants to know how you make those big hay balls. Is it like snow, you start rolling and it keeps getting bigger? Ever make a hay man?
Closest neighbor 1/2 mile away mows our 2 small pastures to bale, saw toothed oscillating bar or small saw like blades that cut it at base, then drys a few days then raked up into rows, then baler straddles the rows and rolls up till big enough to wrap cords or netting around it then stops so rear of baler opens and out rolls 12-1800 lb bale. I've pushed one I wanted to keep over edge of slope to get it most where I wanted then pushed it to final place, but other wise they move em by stabbing them with 4 ft long steel spikes. I first learned to ride canyon walls when leaving my two rut drive way 30 mph and tractor popped around a big hunk of rock with 3-THREE bare spikes aimed right at me and bike to impale on. I was essentially horizontal when my head passed over tractor tire and could see it was brand new still casting nubbins and shine showing while hearing myself and framer's involuntary screams. NOTE to go 30 mph level then .15 sec later be on bluff wall is almost same impact as landing from 4 ft, bottoms pilot and springs hard and could easy hit head on bar if not lucky or prepped for surprise impact, its not like hitting a 60' banked race turn or Wall of Death beveled entry and 'slow' speeding up to it. in this case I also had to fling a phase 4 handling method, by tripping it out sideways on power to let it high side back up [ "up" here was to face Peel back down to path ruts and get sideways two tire braking from bluff rock face zooming into face too. I'd rather be crashed up on rock than wiggle a few seconds or more on the spikes. Below is shot after ice storm that shows the rock and turn - learning curve almost ended at.
Here's how drive usually is on the other side of jutting rock. Perspective from bike/car don't allow vision beyond rock till very near.
Dam Steve, so much for simple bed roll tied to the handlebars? How many seasons of supplies do you carry and have you looked into towing a motor home?
Wes came with me to Ohio but his '71 didn't have much luggage provision so I carried mine and most of his kit, plus 4 place chair/table, 10'x10' 5 pole awning and a tent, plus unseen all the tools to do complete rebuild and needed most of them while others at rally > various pullers to lend out to such cargo limited unequipped folks with big trailers and multiple bikes : ) hehe also boot legged half gallon of Doe Urine moonshine to loop half a dozen famous Nortoneers and me plus later 70 yr old bored grounds keeper that gulped and gulpped then yelled to high heavens then stumbled off in an energetic hop skip dance jig singing to the woods. Took me 20 min to finish loading and on way out saw him working his way back slowly to main office, still singing and dancing a jig, amazing! Me and Wes laughed our asses off at the sight and conversation about to occur once he reached main office. Hope it didn't harm Norton crowed reputation.
I got to ask, with the lawn mower gone did you just stand guard over the field? Steve, it looks like you’re poised to run down every blade of grass to keep it at its rightful height.
Ugh, farmer told me not to worry about the grass, it'd just get so tall before
it just falls over, and it did that year, ugh. Brit bike hand holding allowed me to complete block up rebuild mower for about only motoring thrills for a year now since goats got me.
Here's mower catching air mowing up a steep, where i also catch air on bikes
going either direction, when grass low enough not to drag down speeding up enough.
