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7/7/2025, 4:50:09 AM
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>>28501147
Update:
After seeing that you have to pry the crimp up, I manned up and got the gauge apart without breaking anything. After 42 years all the grease in the gauge had melted and settled in the bottom of the housing, but had drained out and left metal flake residue. It looks clean in the photo but everything was covered in metal dust flakes which I cleaned up with Q-tips and a special solvent cleaner that I kept away from the odometer numbers. You can still see it on the jack screw for both odometers.
Thank you to >>28501165 for the website; I'm going to look into getting it refurbished. It's just worn out, and there's no easy way to get in there to lubricate everything without prying it apart (just the cover) every time. In the meantime I need to find a temporary gauge that's around 3.5 inches across or just under 9cm.
>>28501462
Last week or so I was coming back from a nearby logging town on a two-lane road that follows a river with hairpins and hills all over the place (follows the hillside). Three sport bikes came up behind me and settled in, and I set a little quicker pace for the rest of the trip. They stayed tucked in behind me staggered. When we got to an uphill section with passing lane, I waved them by knowing they'd go flying by, so I decided to see if I could keep up with them. I dropped it into low and downshifted, and while they did go by it wasn't as quick as they had planned. If they had all the road in the world and no cops, they probably would've disappeared into the distance. I did manage to keep up with them into the next town. I had to stop and get gas though.
Other than that I usually ride pretty relaxed since I don't want to get killed or trash the bike. My cornering has gotten pretty good though, I've got about a finger's width of chicken strips on either side of my tire, and I managed to lightly scuff the ball of my right foot on a descending hairpin turn the same day the gauge had a stroke.
>>28501147
Update:
After seeing that you have to pry the crimp up, I manned up and got the gauge apart without breaking anything. After 42 years all the grease in the gauge had melted and settled in the bottom of the housing, but had drained out and left metal flake residue. It looks clean in the photo but everything was covered in metal dust flakes which I cleaned up with Q-tips and a special solvent cleaner that I kept away from the odometer numbers. You can still see it on the jack screw for both odometers.
Thank you to >>28501165 for the website; I'm going to look into getting it refurbished. It's just worn out, and there's no easy way to get in there to lubricate everything without prying it apart (just the cover) every time. In the meantime I need to find a temporary gauge that's around 3.5 inches across or just under 9cm.
>>28501462
Last week or so I was coming back from a nearby logging town on a two-lane road that follows a river with hairpins and hills all over the place (follows the hillside). Three sport bikes came up behind me and settled in, and I set a little quicker pace for the rest of the trip. They stayed tucked in behind me staggered. When we got to an uphill section with passing lane, I waved them by knowing they'd go flying by, so I decided to see if I could keep up with them. I dropped it into low and downshifted, and while they did go by it wasn't as quick as they had planned. If they had all the road in the world and no cops, they probably would've disappeared into the distance. I did manage to keep up with them into the next town. I had to stop and get gas though.
Other than that I usually ride pretty relaxed since I don't want to get killed or trash the bike. My cornering has gotten pretty good though, I've got about a finger's width of chicken strips on either side of my tire, and I managed to lightly scuff the ball of my right foot on a descending hairpin turn the same day the gauge had a stroke.
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