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Cleaned carbs last night. 🤮 Monday evening when I was coming home, I thought I was running out of gas but realized that I didn't read the markings on my new (to me) Pingel petcock and I wasn't on reserve like I thought. Good news right? I still had some gas to get home! I fiddled with the petcock and got it onto reserve and started riding home. The bike started running really rough and the O2 was reading really lean. I stopped at a light and smelled gas and when I looked down I could see gas pouring out of the carbs on the right side. I made it home and shut the gas off and the leaking finally stopped. I am assuming that when I went to reserve with the new petcock, some crap from the bottom of the tank got sucked into the carbs and at least one had its float valve stuck open. Bt the time I got home Monday, it was too late and I was too pissed off to think about working on the bike. When it's time to clean carbs is the only time I ever wish I had fewer than 4 cylinders! Anyway, It's running perfectly today!

How the hell did any tire on any bike you own last long enough to rot?

Went to air up the front tire on the CBR for the maiden voyage of this year. That things pretty well dry rotted. It started leaking air like a sieve. I guess it’s best that happened here in my garage and not on the road. Still a bummer though.

Down from 224 when I retired last August to 191 today! Got at least 10 more to go. Switching from beer to bourbon helped a lot!

Got rid of my six year-old all-seasons for some proper Pilot Sport 4Ss and cruised around on these clouds in the awesome weather. I should have done this a long time ago.