My First Bike

Well, it seems #2 isn’t firing at idle and may be burning lots o’ oil. Every time I start it up, I get a white cloud…I guess it could be fuel - too rich? Doubtful, not dark smoke. So I have purchased a leakdown tester on ebay and will rent a compressor from home depot to test each cylinder myself. Tonight, I think I’ll replace the advancer, check the timing, and double check for bent crank. God, I hope it is just a re-ringing in order. That would be easy/nice. Probably not…

The slow repaint is going well, but I think the forks are leaking oil past the seals…

May 27th, 2008

Back to clean running

In attempting to get the bike running after the winter, it became obvious that the number one cylinder was failing to fire. Since I got zero compression from the cylinder,but the carbs and spark where good, I immediately suspected the valves.

After checking all the valve clearances the first time, everything came out normal, but when i put the new shims in, the number 1 intake was crazy wide. My feelers could not get a reading on it; it was something over .75mm. So, i had a stuck open valve…great.

Thus came my first attempt at removing the head on that motorcycle. It came off pretty easy actually, once I figured out how to correctly remove my exhaust headers. And it turned out that yes, the number one intake valve was very bent. However, this gave me the opportunity to actually fully check and clean the head and valves for the first time since I got the bike.

I was able to rent a valve spring compressor from Murray’s without problem and cut a spark plug socket to allow the removal of the valve keepers. After a bit of trial and error, I was able to quickly and easily free up each valve, remove it, clean it, and get it ready to reinstallation. After some cheap valve lapping compound from AdvancedAutoparts, I was actually able to relap each of the valves correctly and get them all to sit nicely.

This additionally gave the opportunity to clean out the carbon buildup from the combustion chambers. It turned out to be much harder that I expected. when I used the dremel tool with a small wire brush, it worked well but took forever. Additionally, the wires would eventually break off and fly into my eyes — not fun. I tried using a mild wire brush on the drill, but it was almost to crude. A couple of time it would fly off the combustion cambers and into the mating surface, giving it some lines. I was really scared I had screwed up the head and it would no longer seal.

After all this though, I was able to regrind each valve seat and put on new oil seals for each valve. From Z1 I got a new head gasket as well as new exhaust crush gaskets, so the reassembly went really fast and really well. It took a bit to get it to the correct clearances again, but once that was finished it fired up just fine.

So other than finally replacing all the spark plugs one last time to make sure they are not fouled, I think the engine on that bike can be consider in good working order. The only thing I haven’t done on it is replace the pistons or rebore the head. Perhaps in a year or two over the winter

The only major problems I’ve noticed now are the front suspension and the paint work. I was able to repaint some of the brown pieces over the winter, but there are still quite a few pieces that could use some work (especially the frame and shaft). Thankfully I have a good, well-matched brown to use from Walmart. The beige though I have found out isn’t actually beige. I brought my tank in Home Depot for a color match and it is “porcelain peach” — Glidden code 10YY76/104.

Now I gotta see if the PPG paints can match it as well. If so I can get a quart and be in business. Then I can redo the missing side covers and the bike won’t look QUITE so ghetto.

The front suspension however is weird. I’ve heard it rattle a good deal recently and it is REALLY bottoming out on hard stops. When I opened the drain screw for the fork oil, nothing came out — disconcerting. I think I will flush a liter of oil through each front to clean it up a but and then re-oil them as prescribed. Unfortunately today, I have some sort of pink eye going on, so it might have to wait.

I am excited though that I’ve been able to get on the bike earlier this year - I’ll get a full season this year (hopefully!!!)

April 29th, 2008

No posts in 2007

Despite it being a crazy year for my bike in 2007, there have been no posts. I’ll give a quick recap, then try posting again for starting winter 2008.

In 2007, I picked up the bike from Ann Arbor, only to take Jana back to her place without a helmet and get her snagged by the cops for it. Apparently, Michigan has a helmet law. Oh well. Got back to Chicago with it and enjoyed a long beautiful summer.

Most of the first half of the summer was spent trying to figure out a terrible electrical daemon that caused me to replace the stator, the rectifier, the battery twice, and the ignition switch. Turned out the problem was the crimping on the positive charing cable — it have gotten very crusty.

Got a new acewell digital tachometer/speedometer - it’s beautiful.

Got into an accident with Jen on the back coming up to the light at Broadway and Irving Park - thought someone was going to make a left in front of us, so I slammed the brakes down hard. We stayed upright to the very end and then tumbled off. Jen and I were mostly ok, except for her pinky finger which still hurts her. Also scared her off the bike for awhile.

Was going to go on a long trip with my dad, but just before we left, someone pushed my bike over, tore a big hole in the frame tubing near the kick stand, and stole my side covers. Went on the trip sharing my dad’s bike. He’s been trying to get me to take his, but I can’t let go of mine yet. Got back to Chicago and found an autobody place that welded a patch over the tear. It works great, but the kickstand is now too high, so the bike doesn’t lean over at all - only using center stand for now I guess.

Near october, some guy stole my inductive pickup and ignitor off the bike while parked on the street. Shithead.

Just a few weeks ago, in efforts to avoid my thesis, I purchased a replacement left side cover (which still needs to be painted), a replacement turn signal (for the one I crushed laying the bike over), and a replacement seat. I’ve fixed the new seat all up — no more rust, repainted, cover redone and riveted on, cover all polished. It looks amazing.

Tried out the rust removal by electrolysis on the headlamp bucket I let rust to pieces. Works like a charm. Now that bucket is all reapainted and ready to reapply.

So, what’s left before I can ride in the spring again? lets see…

Remove battery holder bracket. Repaint. Firmly attach rectifier and replacement ignitor to it. Replace on bike.
Put seat back on
Change broken clutch cable (have replacement cable in house)
Reattach headlight bucket and check wiring crammed inside
Replace bent handlebars (need to buy this)
Replace broken turn signals
Clean all switches
Finish cleaning carbs on table and reattach

When spring comes around finally I’ll also need to do a full tune up, i.e. oil change, gas change, value clearance check, spark plug replacement/gapping, air pressure, maybe an idle mixture reset (if I can figure out how to do it correctly!!)

So ‘07 was fun - ‘08 I feel like I know more about my bike now and can hopefully get it in tip-top shape for fun riding around the city as a reward for my thesis being done!

January 20th, 2008

Ways to spend a saturday

Well, last weekend, I finally had enough confidence in the bike to take it for a long trip. Jen and I decided to take the bike to visit my friend from high school, Jana, in Ann Arbor, MI. So, last Saturday, Jen and I bundled up and set out on what the weather men were saying was going to be a chilly day.

So the adventure starts as we get onto the SkyWay out of Chicago. Jen’s hungry, so we pull off at the McDonald’s that is in the center of the highway. As we are going to turn around the drive-through, I hear Jen scream “STOP”, I turn my head to the right slightly, catch a sight of a truck and slam everything down at once. We were only going about 5 mph, but this causes the bike to topple, sending both me and Jen over to the left and on the ground. Nothing worse that some nasty bruises, but it shakes us both up a bit.

After eating, we head back out. As we are nearing the 90/94 split, Jen signals to me that her helmet has issues. I’m too busy worrying about the helmet, that I miss the 94 turnoff. So, it’s I-90 now.

The entire trip takes longer than expected through Indiana. We stop about once every hour or so because it is really, really chilly on the bike. On this part, I’m anxious to kill miles, so I go fast. As an interesting side note, my speedometer goes up to 85 mph. With Jen and I on the bike, at fully open throttle in top gear, the acceleration and wind resistance perfectly balance at 84 mph. Ah - well engineered meters. However, the difference of wind and cold between 65 and 85 is huge.

Finally we get through Indiana and realize we’ll have to go to Toledo to get on the highway that will take us up to Ann Arbor. As we are approaching Toledo, both Jen and I hear a very strange very high vibration start out of nowhere. This really troubles me so I pull off to look at the bike. Immediately I don’t see anything, but it sounds MUCH louder. Queue exhaust—- I look at the header pipes to find that the retaining plate that holds the header to the cylinder block has come unbolted and slid down the exhaust pipe. The loud noise was exhaust exiting around the header pipe and the vibration was the rattling plate around the exhaust pipe. So we quickly scoot to an AutoZone in Sylvania OH and pick up two nuts to put the plate back on. Unfortunately when the plate came undone, two metal wedges that keep the header sealed to the cylinder head came off so even bolted back on, the plate does little for the noise. Additionally, since there is no seal, we are getting a weird oiling discharge out the exhaust port all over the front of the engine block and inside surfaces of the exhaust headers.

We limp along from Sylvania to Ann Arbor, getting to Jana’s in one piece. We decide the best course of action is to Greyhound it back to Chicago and for me to come back in two weeks with the necessary parts to fix the bike. I’m hoping, without reason, that the loud helicopter noise was just the loose plate. I’m also not amused with the prospect of spending a Saturday in Ann Arbor retorquing nuts to ensure that another plate or exhaust plate doesn’t fall off again.

October 11th, 2006

A lot has happened.

Ok, so I haven’t kept up with this like I wanted to. But, here it goes, a recap of what’s happened.

First, in the course of everything, I managed to mangle my starter brushes again. Not sure how, but I have a feeling constantly push starting it had something to do with it. So that was a expense replacement - nearly $50. Additionally, since we moved, they shipped the new brushes plate to the wrong address, so I got them 3 weeks after I was supposed to. That was very unpleasant.

So, while waiting for my brushes, it became clear to me after talking with my dad, that my bike’s choke had a real issue. I would have to leave it on for something like 20 mins before I could take it off completely…I learned that that is totally unacceptable. So, there was good reason to believe my idle jets in the carbs were clogged or the like. So, last weekend, I took it upon myself to remove the carbs and clean them all over. I thought this would be terribly involved, but it turned out to be pretty damn easy. I worked one carb at a time and slowly took everything apart. I think sprayed 2 cans worth of carb cleaner through every hole I could find until they all sprayed clean. Upon reattachment, I can turn the choke off within 30 secs to a minute now. I’m also hoping this will increase my fuel efficiency. I’m in the middle of a test tank and will have a number soon.

However, the charging system still seems to be broke. So, I used the original regulator/rectifier, crimped new connectors on it, and did the full battery of tests that the repair manual suggests. Next I’m going to connect the alternator coils on and see if it is producing over 12 in the first place. Hopefully it should and will.

I’m trying to get the bike in perfect condition because next week we are planning on taking it to Ann Arbor to visit Jana. So far, it’s looking good. Unfortunately I left the new plug wire/spark plug project half done. I will finish that one when I sync the carbs.

Speaking of syncing carbs, I need to do it. I really did not want to buy the expensive 4 line mercury tool, and felt very bummed about it until I saw this http://faq.ninja250.org/index.php/Is_there_a_carb_sync_tool?. Quite possibly the neatest, cheapest idea I’d ever seen. Simple principles at play. What’s even nicer is that the fluid, by design, can’t get sucked into the engine, but provide a very clear, very simple way to measure relative vaccuum - genius. I made my own edition with two FUZE drink bottoms, some clear tubing, and a mess of epoxy. I will post a picture of my super-simple sync tool as soon as I can. I intend to use it as soon as my old-paint-can-spare-fuel-tank is finished and I can show them off together.

October 2nd, 2006

Impatience creeps back in

Well, last night to get to dance class, Jen and I decide to take the bike. With a fully charged battery, the bike starts immediately!! Even after dance, it roars to life. However, as we get going, it starts to slightly sputter as the battery level drops. I’m more and more convinced that the iginition issues are acutally voltage level issues. I’m very impatient to get the new regulator and test out my theory. I bet once the voltages run above 13.5 at moderate rpm and near 14.5 at high rpm, the battery will stay charged, the ignition will fire smoothly, and the engine will purr so much nicer.

Here’s to hoping.

August 22nd, 2006

Walking in circles

So, as the title would indicate, I feel like I’ve been walking around the problem, fiddling with everything but the real issue.

Last week I ordered a full set of new plugs, new plug boots, and new plug wire which should be coming in shortly. I know they replaced the spark plugs when it was in the shop, but increasingly I am not trusting what they did. Anyways, I can be certain of the quality and craftsmanship of the install when I do it. Sending it to the shop feels too much like a black box operation to me. Hopefully, once they are fully replaced I can be sure that the problem is not in the ignition system.

However, I have returned my attention to the charging circuit. So I think I have a good understanding of how it operates. Six wires come out of the rectifier/regulator. Three of these go straight to the alternator with no other interaction. So, I tested the alternator directory with the engine running and got good results - about 60 VAC on each coil at idle, going up to about 85 VAC at higher RPM. So the alternator is correctly producing electricity and is doing it in a balanced way.

So, once again measuring the battery voltage, I notice that even at nearly 5000 rpm, the battery voltage across the leads barely breaks 13.4V. So clearly, the charing circuit is not kicking it up high enough. At that RPM, it should be crapping out at about 14.5V. I checked the battery out, did a simple load test during the starting cycle, and it seems to be okay as well. So I’m left to think that the problem is the regulator/rectifier.

I found a “working” pull off another kz750 on ebay and bought it cheap. Hopefully it will be here soon. I’m hoping just plugging it in for the old rectifier/regulator will fix my voltage issue. If not, I am sorta at a loss for what the problem could be. The only other issue I could see is if something is drawing a significant voltage drop during operation that is turning a 14.5 generated voltage to 13.5 V. However, that load would have to be quite impressive I’d think.

August 21st, 2006

Way too impatient

Yes Dad, I do hear you in my head saying “patience david, patience.”

Ok, I’ve been too impatient recently to ride, that I haven’t been fully troubleshooting the bike and fixing the issues before I ride again. I have now resolved that I’m not going to go for any real rides until I can correctly identify the issues with this thing. This is mainly preciptated by some events last night.

So, I come home from work last night and Jen had wanted me to pick her up from her doctor’s appointment. So I go to the bike and try to start it. Again, no luck - just a spinning starter motor. So I push start it and manage to get going. As I’m heading down lakeshore I remember that my oil is low, and while riding, the oil light comes on. So I pull of, head to a BP, get a quart of 10W-40 and top it off. Again, I had to push start it (this is getting annonying).

I get to where Jen is and have to turn off the bike to get her helmet off. Not so much fun as I’ll have to push start again. With a short push, it fires right up. We start going home and on lake shore I notice the acceleration is sluggish, especially above about 4,000 rpm in 5th gear. I assume this is just the extra weight of Jen, or the like.

Get home and we chill and have dinner, etc. Finally, I decide to replace the boot on the #4 spark plug wire back to the original one so that it sits tighter. I go out and do this and decide to take it for a spin to see how it runs. I get it going (push start again) and head out north on lakeshore. I try to open up the throttle to get going, but notice it is really not responsive. I get up to 5th gear and open it hard. However, rather than just get little responsiveness, at about 4000 rpm, get this otehrwordly, inverted sound from the engine - kinda empty, hallow and weird. When I backed off the throttle, it would accelerate again, but only until about 4000 rpm, above that, this strange hollow sound.

I did this twice, until all of the suddenly, the engine just completely cut out. So I’m coasting on lakeshore, left lane, with no power. Thankfully I’m near the exit, so I manage to swerve off and coast into the stoplight. Unfortunately, the bike will not get going again, so I have to walk it home. 1.7 miles according to the odometer. Not happy.

So now I’m left, back at square one, trying to figure out what’s going on. Here’s my plan of attack. I think the engine and transmission work just fine. So that leaves ignition and electrical. I know there’s been electrial issues, so it might be interrelated.

1st, always keep battery charged until charging circuit is fixed. Then use the iginition troubleshooter in my book to correctly identify if there is any ignition issues. Be thororugh and complete (I hate doing that). That means taking each spark plug out and checking for spark, checking the timing at all rpms, etc.

Also, I’m going to do a detailed troubleshoot of the charging circuit. No jumping ahead this time.

Add comment August 17th, 2006

So very close!

Alas, yesterday my replacement starter brushes came. Excitedly I rushed home after work to reassemble my starter. The new brushes were pristine and perfect - ooh it looked good. After some trial and error I figured out the order in which things had to be insert to get the starter fully back together. To make sure I did it right, I then quickly touched the stater to the battery and it buzzed to life. Rushed down to the street and installed it straight away.

Now I was one stupid step away from riding comfortably again - clutch cover gasket. Unfortunately because it had been so long since it was last replaced, it was old and very stuck on there. It was a good hour and a half of scraping with a dulled razor blade and using the caustic gasket remover to finally get it all off. I must say though, cutting a replacement gasket was fun as it was a test of skill. I must say, I past with flying colors.

Cover back on, I put the oil back in and push the start button. Suspiciously, it takes the starter motor turning over about 15 times before I hear the engine catch. Oh well, at least I didn’t have to push start it.

So Jen runs down and we go for a ride to see what the neighborhood around our new apartment is like. However, I forgot to check the oil level before level and as soon as I get on lakeshore, my oil light turns on. Crap - we scuttle quickly to a gas station. Apparently I was just under a liter low of totally full. However, once the oil is in there, the starts running like a dream!

Add comment August 10th, 2006

Methylene Chloride is some fun stuff

So my dear wife gave me a call near the end of my workday yesterday to let me know that a small package had come from powersportspro.com. I was all excited that perhaps my starter brushes had finally come and I could now finally get my bike in good running condition. However, rather than go straight home, I had to go visit the new apartment building up on the middle north side.

After visiting the apartment, I took a short walk around the neighborhood and there happened to be a big auto parts store right now - how convenient!! So I picked up an actually closeable oil pan (as apposed to my tubberware bin), some gasket material, and some can of stuff called “gasket remover.” I was hoping said can could help soften the gasket continuing to hold the cluth cover on.

So, when I get home I find my little package waiting for me. Opening it I discover the speedo cable and the replacement engine cover I had ordered earlier….oh well. I run out and put them both on. Turns out the OEM bike had a gold painted engine, whereas the custom paint job of mine left them silver. Nothing like a two-tone vehicle. Now, as I try to push start my bike, I see the odometer turning once again. I hope that mean it will actually show my speed now when I’m on the highway.

So I turn to my sticky clutch and beligerent clutch cover. First things first, I remove all the bolts from the cover - or I thought it was all of them. Turns out after wrestling with the cover for about 20 mins, I had only removed 9 of the 10 retaining bolts. Get the last one off and it’s still stuck hard - I wouldn’t be surprised if that cover hadn’t been removed in, oh, 15 years. Finally, in a bit of frustration I slam my wrench against the cover, and, what’s this, it loosens. I’m able to get the cover off all the way and access the clutch.

So I take the clutch plates apart, wipe the clean, and reshuffle them to see if that helps. However, by this time it is way late and very dark, so pospone resassembly.

Add comment August 8th, 2006

Now it’s the starter

So a few days ago I ordered a new speedo cable, because when I took the one off that came with the bike, the bottom portion was heavily caked in dirt and had clearly twisted off at some point in the past. What I then realized is that the 13K miles on the bike meant nothing, because the odometer doesn’t turn when the speedo cable is broken. So honestly, I have no idea how many miles are on the bike. I’m going to venture a completely uneducated guess that it’s nearly 20K.

So after all the wrangling with the rectifier, I hit a point where I was unable to get the bike started again. So now, I had to put the rectifier troubleshooting on hold while I figured out why the bike wouldn’t start. So I started having to take everything apart. Finally I figured out where the starter was and managed to rather ungracefully disassemble it. As I did a TON of black powder came out and onto the ground. In order to make this a multimedia experience, I have included a grainy photograph of said dust.

Carbon Dust

Now, I’m no expert on starters, but I don’t think that’s supposed to happen. After doing some more research on how starters work, I came to realize that that dust was the remnants of my carbon starter brushes, which for some reason had disintegrated. Now, I don’t know if they were flakey and the recent riding just put them over the edge or my manhandling the bike did it, but either way, I gotta get new brushes, which unfortunately only come as a set.

Continuing to look at my starter, I looked at the armature and say the effects of this disintegration. You can see the layers of dust caked onto the copper armature contacts below.

Dirty Armature Contacts

So now I have something else to clean. Hopefully, once the new brushes arrive, I’ll be able to the bike reliably enough to diagnose the power generation issue quickly.

Add comment July 30th, 2006

I have a compatriot

So, surpisingly, Jen’s relaly digging the whole motorcycle experience. It’s really nice to share this with her. It is especially nice for her to have to help think of excuses to ride.

However, the bike has been giving me all sorts of trouble. I don’t think the shop guys really gave the bike a good look. I’ve been testing everything under the sun. At first, it looked like a bad battery. So I bought a new battery charger to make sure the battery was in good condition. It seems the battery itself wasn’t the issue. Then I started checking the enetire electrical system. I found out my headlight was burned out halfway and it was doing some crazy brakelight action. So I fixed the blub and cleaned every connector with cleaner and an emory board. Doing that seems to have fixed the turn signal relay issues, the headlight issues, and the taillight/brake light issues.

However, it still wasn’t solving my charging issues. So I took off the side panel and followed an indepth guide to the rectifier/regulator. Started down the troubleshooter and immediately had issues. The rectifier is connected directly to the positive and negative battery terminals through some short wires on the negative (-) side and through the ignition switch on the positive (+) side. So, under normal conditions, there should be no voltage drop between the negative rectifier lead and the negative battery terminal, with same story for the positive.

The guide says it should be less than a .2V drop, probably much less. However, I was reading a .5V drop. I have no idea how accurate this reasoning is, but a 14A battery showing a .5V drop means I have .0357 ohm resistance somewhere….WTF? How the hell do you find that???

So once again, I cleaned all the connectors between the rectifier and the battery, sprayed the hell out of the ignition switch and waited for it to dry. Now the starter was really working hard to get the bike going even with a full charge. Finally it went and I was reading a .3V drop….argh!!!

Add comment July 23rd, 2006

FINALLY!!!

I gots my call today that the bike is finally been looked at and ready to take home. Turns out, it was the battery. As soon as they connected a new battery to it, it apparrently started right up. So they gave it a new battery and did a full tune-up include new plugs, oil change, carb sync, etc.

When I went to pick it up, the guys were really helpful and got everything straight away. Took it out to the street and started it up. However, after warming up, the idle began to drop out again (hmmm) so the mechanic turned the idle screw and it was good to go (I guess). So I started to pull out and turned sharper than I intended. Not quite used to the weight of it yet, I managed to lay it on it’s side. Great.

After one good heave however, I did manage to lift the bike all myself (good to know I can). At the stoplight across the street, someone saw me do it and started clapping out their window. On one hand i appreciate the sentiment, on the other I feel like an idiot for dropping it.

Went home and parked the sucker. I’m ready to go.

Add comment July 20th, 2006

So disappointing…

So it has been just over a week and today is my Birthday. I was hoping like nothing else that it would be ready to take out of the shop today - good timing. I called during my lunch to the shop, and they haven’t even looked at it yet….

No birthday bike for David.

Add comment July 6th, 2006

At the shop

So I called the shop today while I was at work. They weren’t too happy that I’d locked such a big bike up right in front of the garage, but he assured me that if it was in the way, they could move it.

So I went to the place after work. It was busy as I’ll get out. Told him it died while riding and I wanted him to check it out. He was rather terse and to the point, but it was late in the day. Told me I’d have to leave a deposit for them to do work on the older bikes, but it would take about a week with the back log they had.

So my bike is being worked on and I have a $200 charge on my card. Hopefully, they’ll fix it up right.

Add comment June 28th, 2006

I bought my first bike

So, after coming home from Minnesota where my Dad let me ride his bike around a parking lot, I came to the conclusion that I needed to have a bike for myself. So today, rather rashly, I opened up Craigslist and did a search for cheap older touring bikes. And there it was, what sounded like my perfect bike.

$1400 for a running 1982 Kawasaki KZ750N1 Spectre. Ok, so I saw the ad and called the guy. Apparently he works as a soybean trader at the COB, which was odd. He lived down by Midway airport, so I hoped on the Orange line as soon as work was done. He picked me up at the station and drove me to his place (totally unexpected and quite nice of him). As soon as he pulled the bike out and started it up, I knew i was going to by it. However, I had to make it look like I was a discrening buyer, for him, me, and Jen.

He fired it up, let me take it around the block, and just get a general feel for it. He was selling it for his uncle that had moved to Florida. It had been garage kept and the speedo only showed 13K miles. That was it, I bought it. An ironic comment he made during my visit was that he would have no issues about taking it for a ride up to the north side.

Well I took off and started going down 55th street through little mexico towards home. However, before I got far, it died. Conviently, right in front of a gas station. So I rolled it in and asked the guy if he had jumper cables or the like. He reminded me that bikes can be push started and we popped the clutch and I was on my way.

Or so I thought - I died two more times, the last time in front of a small strip mall. I couldn’t get it going. Finally, I had some guys from the pizza place in the mall jump my bike - I got it started but it died quickly thereafter. So alas, I called a tow truck. Once he came he got it up on the flat bed and started for home. Along the ride he convinced me that it would be better to leave it at a shop then take it home.

So we left it at Champion Cycle at western and addison. Unfortunately, they had just closed, so I parked it out front. Paid the tow guy $200 for his trouble (grr), and took the bus home.

Not really sure what I’ve gotten myself into, but I’m excited nonetheless.

Add comment June 27th, 2006