everything but teaching: 2011

2011年11月8日火曜日

Honda Fit

1.3 liter CVT

reached 800km without refuel. good enough for 40liter tank car.

2011年10月23日日曜日

his name is iki shijin

the guy pushing my bike is him. one thing we have in common is that we both own panhead.

he doesn't push my bike for living... of course. he is a great painter and he doesn't do it for living, either.

2011年10月11日火曜日

2011年10月10日月曜日

2011年9月30日金曜日

ride with a celebrity

yes, i was looking down. it's only because my gas was running out.

going into the last turn of fuji speedway. Aug. 28, 2011

2011年9月19日月曜日

2011年9月1日木曜日

MCFAJ CSSC Open, August 28, 20011

to make a long story short. i ran out of gas.

2011年8月30日火曜日

behind the scene

one of our friends, #51 drove back from fujispeedway, came to zero shop around 9:30pm. he was running the bike at fuji earlier on saturday, when he heard unpleasant sounds.

we (there were enough hands so i was just watching) managed to disassemble the transmission and replaced all damaged gears, cleaned and re-assembled back before the clock turned to sunday.

we got to our paddock on sunday morning. there were some early birds. team hotdock at their usual spot. only harley-davidson xr besides mine... xr750

this xlcr-look-alike racer joined us first time. it retired during the morning time attack but it was a cool looking bike. hope to see him next round at tsukuba.

2011年8月23日火曜日

force

just one of thousands sights where tsunami walked through.

i went to iwate to look for a friend. the force we are fighting agaist is unimaginable to me. people can study and calculate the "force" and put it into a figure, i suppose, but the figure will mean nothing to understand the force. it looks like i am standing on safe place but i wonldnt be on that day. the tsunami reached about 5m above where i was standing.

2011年6月10日金曜日

D.I.Y

june 5, 2011 at fuji speedway

2'15.362

the cowl thing worked! you can't really test it with the speed you get at fuji speedway at anywhere else but at fuji speedway. i brought my old front number plate just in case the new cowl fails me. but it worked. i could put my left hand off from the handle bar and put it behind the cowl. one of the Do it yourself moment!!!

2011年5月4日水曜日

back in business 2011

one warm spring day... it's been 8month since i rode my xr1000 on any circuit. the engine seems running perfectly but wrong gearing and clutch slipping didnt really make the day the way i wanted.

however, it was a good day for track ride. there were about 25 bikes in my stint, most of them were yamaha R6s with seriousriders, 1 agusta F4 and some kawasaki Z lovers.

about a month to go... im almost ready for fujispeedway next month!!!

2011年4月25日月曜日

lazy trick

changing all 4 rockerams of harley-davidson xr1000

xr1000 engine is beautiful to look at but it's definitely not the one that you want to put your hands on to. just changing rockerams involves engine removal... or just tilting a little to the left.

a couple of scissor jacks will do the job.

2011年4月16日土曜日

usual suspect or unusual

putting the top ball part of xr1000 push rod into a new rockeram

and put that into another rockerarm that has been in my xr1000 engine.

notice the difference there?

the cup where the push rod head sits is clearly wearing out about a millimeter. okay, now we understand that can happen. but did it really happen after i broke the pinion shaft when i was coming out of the fujispeedway last corner, up shifting from 2nd to 3rd at 7,000rpm, and before i stopped the bike about 300m later???

2011年4月8日金曜日

what is that?

finished making the brackets. it will have #39 with yellow background to meet MCFAJ CSSC race regulation.

2011年4月7日木曜日

tv news are never enough to make myself understand what's really happening

since the earthquake, feels like we're living in totally different world. i myself and my life, my family hadn't got any effect from the event but something has changed, though still trouble accepting and understanding what had really happened.

2011年2月24日木曜日

just a thought

after 3hrs of play with the english wheel, placed the "supposed to be xr1000 upper cowl" on someone's bike...

is that better off being on someone elses than on my xr1000??? just a thought.

2011年2月7日月曜日

xr1000 update

finally, i say, finally the harley davidson xr1000 engine had been put into one piece.

my friend and i tried to figure out why i couldnt achive specified tappet clearance, but we're still not sure what it was... anyway, to get a temporary solution, my friend made a special "adjustable-push rod" for my xr1000. done!
i think wear of rocker arm where the push rod is connected is the problem. so i just ordered a new sets. i probably get them sometime in march.

i put head-light, mirrors and everything back to the bike yesterday evening and went for a ride... just a mile. the engine was running okay. i'm still kinda uncomfortable running the bike without really knowing what was the problem causing the stupid tappet clearance, but...