The only danger there is the shock pivoting. Look into the back shocks on the walmart NEXT Avalon bike. It is designed to be bolted through the frame of the tail fork and then bolt like yours to the mid frame. I might borrow your idea since I have one laying around. Not much compression but it would be better from a handling standpoint.
Hi Rgvrider, welcome to the forum.
Good to know. Thanks for the report. I think they don't wave back because they're so surprised and thinking what the H is that? lol.
Sorry about your bike trouble, but that's cool to see another MB in your neighborhood.I haven't written in a couple of weeks because we bought a house and have been moving, so i wanted to jot down an update post. The last time I rode, I thought I was getting close to having all of my carb problems figured out, it wasn't 2 stroking as bad, and seemed to be going a little faster without bogging as much. Then my NT carb popped off. That was the problem I kept having with the CNS carb! Once it did it a second time, I though that was enough, so I took the intake off and drilled a hole though the carb collar and the intake and used a self tapping screw instead of the collar clamp to secure the carb to the intake. I put plenty of pooky on the intake, re-mounted it and waited till the next day to take it out again.
The next day I took it out, let it warm up and gave it the gas. I heard a POP again and though "there's no way that carb popped off again." I was right, it didn't. The intake manifold broke in TWO!???
The only thing I can figure that would give back pressure through the carb like that is that maybe the catalytic converter in the muffler is completely blocked.
I called SBP and spoke to them. They hadn't experienced that, and thought maybe I was right.
Anyone else ever experienced this? I am going to drill a hole through the cat and see if that corrects the problem, but first I have to get a new intake.
I will keep you posted. That all happened about a week and a half ago before I moved.
On a lighter note, I got my secondary fork that I am going to use to make my monark style suspension! That project is on hold, but it is progress.
Also, yesterday in my new neighborhood, a teenager rode by on a bike with a china motor on it, so add 1 more to our ranks!
Yesterday, I rode the atomic bb across town, and back. About 40 miles. It seemed like this ride was doomed. I got about 2 miles away, and my chain came off. I had to peddle back home, and cut a link off the chain. The adjuster was already all the way out. After a 2 hour delay I was off again. Seems like everywhere you go in Dallas right now there's construction going on. I wanted to go through Highland park, but ended up having to ride down Denton Rd past Love Field, and all the way down to Oaklawn. It started raining about that time, so I stopped at Lee Park to wait out a shower. I don't like ridding in the rain.
Most of the time I was in Dallas. I saw several Dallas police up close, but none of them were interested in me. One things for sure, they weren't checking my plate. I don't have one lol. The farthest I got from home was the west lake road at White Rock Lake. Probably 20 miles away.
I'm sad to have to report that the Bicycle Cafe is closed. There was a sign on the door that said the business was locked out because of not paying the rent. I was worried about them, because whenever I drove by there in my work truck, business looked pretty slow.
RIP
After that I started heading generally toward home. I did a drive by at SMU. It was about 6 pm by then, and I was about 8 miles from home. I decided to call the house and see if I was missing out on anything. Then I was reminded we're taking my son out to dinner for his birthday. Oops. Normally I don't ride big streets, but being Sunday traffic was light. I needed to cover the last 8 miles pretty fast so I blasted up Midway about 6 miles, all the way back to Farmer Branch. As I was riding along I looked over in the left lane to see a guy in his car taking pictures of me. He must have turned around because he passed me twice taking pictures or video both times. As he went by the second time, I heard him yell I want one, that's so cool.
Now I was close to home. As I rode past the Farmer Branch police department, there's a long downhill. The Atomic BB set an all time speed record, 38 mph. I was home in less than 30 minutes from the time I called.
What a fun day. The only thing that would be better is if I had someone to ride with.
