The First Second Sunday of 2017

Second Place at Second Sunday

On Sunday morning, Rick came over and we synced the carbs on his Moto Guzzi.

We needed to make two adapters to fit the threaded ports in the intake manifolds.

That in turn necessitated the use of the patented Garriz Gauge.

Two adapters of 6mm x 1.0 thread were made and used to good effect.

However, we found that the carb on one side could not be adjusted down sufficiently.

The throttle cables were removed and the throttle stop in the twist grip trimmed.

You can just about see the adapter on the end of the hose.

That solved the problem.

New throttle cables were sourced from El Cheepo Throttle Cables Inc for one sixth of the price of the genuine article.

Unfortunately they are too short, not by much, but just enough to be useless.

These throttle cables will last for a very long time and never wear or kink, hanging on a nail in Rick's garage.

So our Sunday morning task accomplished, we set off for the Second Sunday show.

All was going well as we rode along PCH with the sun shining and the ocean to our right.

The Morini started to develop some kind of fuel problem, the engine revved up but did not seem to have any power. It felt like it was running on one cylinder.

After about a mile of this kind of this type of bad behavior, the Morini gave a couple of surges and then went back to normal. Maybe a little piece of schmutz got loose in the fuel system.
Hmm, I wonder what the Italian word for schmutz might be.

We rode the rest of the way to the meet without problem.

This is the Morini in place at the event.

There were a total of 97 bikes there, not all of which are in the Vintage (over 30 years old) category.
All bikes entered for judging are required to be in this category.

We got second place with the Morini.

The winner was:-

This 1979 Suzuki GS 750.

I should have asked for a recount as I think that the ballot was hacked.

Ciao Bella
Norm