Connie Gets Her Guns Back

After a month in the shop, the Conc gets back on the road. Ethanol busted the needles in the carbs, an aftermarket petcock let all the gas bleed into the crankcase, the crankcase sloshed all the oil (and gas) out the air intake onto the back tire, leading to a tow. All solved now though -- carbs rebuilt, plugs swapped out, new oil and filter, everything else checks out fine.

Concours Problems Already

Yeah, some sort of oily blowout yesterday on the way to the gas station.

You can read about it here:

http://cog-online.org/clubportal/mboards/viewmessages.cfm?clubID=1328&forum=1406&Topic=22575

And see it here:

http://www.pbase.com/egoeres/conc

Fug.

Getting Started

Kicking of the planning stage. Working on:

• Route planning
• Bringing bikes back into service (de-winterizing)
• Setup of blog (check!) and Twitter (TK)
  

Moto4our planning is underway

Here's what we know:

Dates: July 23 - August 1, 2010

Guiding Principles:

• New-England Centric.
  
• Less miles, quality over quantity. Total of 2000 or so miles, instead of 3000-3500. Individual days under 200 miles. Back roads, no slab.

First proposed route:

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