Enigma

Last couple years my PA hunting buddy and I have hunted the Charles E. Baker State Forest during the MZ holiday hunt (Madison County, WMU 7M.) Tags are easy to get and it's 9,400 acres lol. Lots of different forest types and quite a few ag fields butting up to it. Also has 100 miles of horse trails throughout so you're not always pounding through the brush. Can also ride the forest roads and if you cut a fresh track (snow depending) you can make a plan and get on it. Most fun I've had deer hunting in a long time IMHO. PM me for more info if interested.

I've been on the road camping the last month. The last two places I've stayed I've heard grouse drumming nearby in the woods from sun up till noon. It's not just your turkeys lol. Odd for sure.

So if it's plastic, what kind of contraption is it? What even comes close to looking like that on any piece of any outdoor equipment you've ever seen? Ag/atv/utv? Nothing. Low quality pic of a bird's wing.

See the board in the first pic. Captain Jason is a stand up guy. See his fb page for more info.

I'd booked a third day with a different captain. Had planned on taking out one of my sons but they both ghosted me haha. So I called up my friend @Swamp_bucks and we got his son out on the lake for the first time. The fish didn't cooperate but he had a good time. Mission accomplished.

Trolling worm harnesses on the bottom.

My friend Eric lives to fish. Booked a couple days on Oneida Lake for us and had a great time.

Have us a good time

Would have been even more funny if the taser got pulled out.

If you can do the full 11 min.

And a side note . . . Some might wonder why I'm posting this story. It's a hunting and fishing site after all. Point being I divorced my wife when my boys were 8 and 10 yrs old. Turns out she liked the neighbor's Italian sausage more than my German bratwurst. I fought for custody but the legal cards are stacked against fathers and I didn't get to spend a lot of time with my sons when they were growing up. The prime time to introduce them to the outdoors was limited for me and with all their other sports interests teaching them to hunt didn't happen. We do some fishing when we can but they're both busy now with their lives becoming strong young men. No regrets. But we always try to find common ground and for my youngest and I its motorcycles. I hope this puts these posts in perspective.

I've made many test rides on this bike and she runs like a scalded dog. At mid to high rpms she pulls hard for a 440cc bike and scoots right along. The one problem that's giving me fits is the left cylinder plug is always carbonized and running "fat" while the right side plug is whitish and running lean. I've had the carbs apart more times than I can count and cleaned them many times over. They're clean. But no amount of tuning the carbs cures the condition. While tuning her up I've always noticed the right side exhaust has a lot more forceful output than the left. Went outside today to look her over and the oil was low. Then it dawned on me. The left cylinder rings are shot. Need to do a compression test and most likely another tear done to replace piston rings. Don't tell my son lol.

On these old bikes you have to sync or balance the carbs so each cylinder is getting the same amount of gas and air. These carbs happen to be Keihin CV36 or "constant velocity" (air flow) carbs. Various companies sell sets of manometer gauges to sync the carbs but I try to be resourceful so I built my own setup. It worked quite well but revealed another issue I have to deal with.

The front forks were harsh. Had no interest in tearing apart the front end to rebuild the forks. Settled on draining the fluid and replacing it. Had to build a tool to get the oil down in the bottom through a very small hole in the top of the forks. A syringe, 1/4" tubing and some electrical shrink tubing. Worked like a charm. Added 150cc 5w20, reinstalled the air plugs and charged them each with exactly 9lbs of air. Much better ride now.