Anybody Still Out There?

The last couple of weeks have been a blur of festive writer's block, at least as comes to moto-blogging. It's hard to come up with something new and novel to tell you about when I'm just riding the same route to work every day. I can only complain about it being cold so many times before you guys will start telling me to shut up because it's fifteen below zero where you live while I was outside in shorts and a t-shirt yesterday.

...For what it's worth, I had slippers on to keep my feet warm.

Anyway, the last time I checked in around here I was troubled by a new and bountiful oil leak on the Triumph. I may have gotten it fixed last night by tightening a bunch of bolts in the general vicinity of the leak. I topped up the oil last night and there was no new puddle on the floor this morning, so that's good.

Of course, I also put too much darn oil in, so now I've got to figure out a good way to get just enough oil out so I won't have to make a trip to buy more oil. What I need is a turkey baster with a long and narrow tip...

In other mechanical news, the Vespa ET4 apparently had sat too long and needed a new battery. It also refused to run once it was warmed up. Luckily, a batch of fresh gas and a can of Seafoam cleared that problem right up.

Seafoam is probably the coolest vehicular chemical I can think of. I'm considering adding an affiliate link to my site just to sell Seafoam....

Anyway, in other other mechanical news, the VX800 is reassembled once more. Of course, the battery is toast, so I'm going to have to roll it outside and hook it up to the car for a jump start to see if the old girl will run.