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April 8, 2008
Relief and Grief
Another F1 has come up for auction and not made its reserve. On the last day, the seller lowered the opening bid and I was hopeful that the reserve had been lowered as well. No dice. On the plus side, I appear to be single-handedly setting the market value for the model.
I stopped by PJ's to look in on the 750. PJ sold his 888, but he told me to call him first should I ever decide to get rid of the 750 Sport. In other news Parts Guy Chris has resigned, taking a leave of absence to write a book. Good for him. I hope it has motorcycles and is set in Albuquerque.
Service Manager Mike assured me that the 750 Sport was ready to go, but for some paperwork to complete. Mechanic Shannon took the bike for a spin after all its service so he knows that the bike runs. Service Assistant Aaron was acting all disappointed that I was not planning to ride the thing away. Props to him for fessing up that some of the delay was due to his not submitting the proper paperwork to get the stainless lines made. I offered to come back in a cage later in the day to pick it up, but it was already past 3:00pm and I did not want to rush the bike after waiting so long for it.
Mike suggested I take it for a test spin, so I rolled from the holding pen to the parking lot, got Mike to retrieve the key and hit the button. "Click." No woof. No roar. Mike had a pretty good idea of what the problem was. Evidently one of the technicians had left the gas on, filling the lower cylinder with fuel. This in turn points to an inability of the float needles to contain fuel. Evidently Shannon had complained that the angles of the Mikuni's were pretty severe. It must be noted that this was not a problem before I brought the bike in.