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Talk about a LAME DAY.

Woke up at 6:00 did our taxes.

Did my son's Taxes at 10:00

Thought what the heck I will dig Linda's bike out and get it running at least it is motorcycle related.

Went over it stem to stern put the battery in and fired her up. Holy s**t white smoke pouring out both pipes and a god awful mess was pouring out of the crankcase breather. The neighborhood had a white fog hanging over it.

Immediate thoughts I blew a head gasket, or the valve guides dried up over the winter, but that would not explain the stuff coming out of the crankcase breather. S**t rings or some internal seal (Honda Shadow).

I shut the thing off and thought s**t two grand out the window one season old and there goes our trade in.

Started to think what did I do it was running fine when I put it away. Lynn comes out and says what’s that smell and where all this smoke coming from, bagged, now I'm going to have to listen to her go nuts.

Well I went over the winterization list and I realized I topped off the tank and put Stab-Il in. So I went to get the bottle and s**t it was two cycle oil. So I drained the tank and the carb, put in fresh gas and changed the oil which did not look at all bad. Cleaned up the mess off the driveway whatever that stuff was pouring out the breather tube.

Fired her up again and she smoked like hell again, but she was not skipping and stalling out like the first time so I just let it run got dressed up and took it for a ride in 20 degree weather. I'm sitting at a light and a town cop pulls up next to me and rolls down his window and yells what are you nut's, you look like a monkey ******* a football on that thing why don't you buy yourself a real bike. I tried to explain it was my wife's bike and he say's you better pull over, we had a report of a big guy on a little motorcycle spewing white smoke by the church and everyone was complaining. Luckily the thing had cleared out by now and was running fine so he pulls me over and asks for licn. and reg. no wallet and the reg. is in a side panel which requires a Phillips head screw driver to get off.

He is looking at me and I can see the cash register ringing up in his eyes. Then he sees my new raptor jacket with Triumph on the back and says you’re the guy with the red Triumph in town and I said that's me. Nice bike, what year is that thing, thought they stopped making those bikes years ago. So we spend 15 minutes taking about Triumph's and he says you live about five minutes from here right. Yup, I will follow you home and you can get me the Licn and reg. for the bike and I can take a close up look at your Triumph sure if this is going to save me a ticket come on over.

So we get to the house and my son Brett is waiting and everyone who knows Brett knows what is coming next. "Hey Dad did you get that thing to stop smoking" The cop goes that was you, I'm bagged so I tell him what I did and he starts laughing. Spent twenty minutes eyeing the Triumph and asks where did you get it? Libby's in New Haven he says I have been looking for a bike and I think I will take a ride down and check one out for myself.

My Triumph and that $140.00 (Raptor Jacket) internet purchase saved me $300.00 in
tickets.

Said that’s it I’m done for the day and went and took a nap before something else went wrong.

What? No egg hunt?

Thanks for the laugh BP, glad it all worked out!

This is why I have the wife do the repairs

Great Easter story..I'm going to save it for my grandkids.