I’ve been spending some time with Zed’s carburetors, working on details that required home-brewed engineering. The Mikuni carbs on Zed…
One of my moto buddies stopped by Tinfiny Ranch, our high desert lair in New Mexico, and in the course…
Air-conditioning is a luxury in my world. Compressors, evaporators, electric clutches, if that junk fails I never bother to repair…
Regular readers (if anyone who reads this endless chain of Kawasaki Z1 resurrection stories can be called Regular) will recall…
See that gap? That narrow space between the semi-truck hauling 20-foot long, 6-inch diameter solid aluminum rods and the BMW…
Jack Lewis and I used to work for the same motorcycle magazine. We both started at the magazine about the…
I got tired of cleaning carburetors. The chemicals, the gunk, soaking and prodding with tiny wires, it’s flat wore me…
After I made a particularly snarky Facebook comment regarding some newfangled electronic rider aid, a former editor sent me an…
There’s never a good time to work on carburetors. I was hoping for a quick rinse out operation on Zed’s…
The first thing I wanted to check on Zed was whether the oil was contaminated or if the wet sump…