His previous story here

His new story goes like this:
Basically, he’s moving to Portland, Oregon for 6 months and he can’t bring the bike with him. If you’re interested in borrowing and riding his bike until he returns, get in touch with him and work out the details.

Alex Dewall
561-420-4307
Dewall@live.com

After the ride and some beers at El Camino we went back to Ed’s to give his bike a little tune up and to hear some more stories of his ride so far.

Apparently if you’re under 21 in Florida it gets put on your license plate.

In Delaware he got a ticket for going under the speed limit on 95 in the left lane. Hahahaha

Some of his polaroids from the trip so far.

And our addition to his trip photos.

It was fun to show someone from out of town a good time in Philly. I’ve been lucky to have so many different people help me out on my cycle trips that it felt good to again pass it on. Good karma all around.

It’s finally running and now he’s dialing it in.

It was a pretty big jollapy when he first got it. He rebuilt the engine… the entire engine.

Seat kinda similar to my cb450 seat, but a tiny bit more slim. Red tank. Powder coated frame. Clip-on bars.

New Mikuni carbs and velocity stacks. They need a tiny bit more tuning. Still working on getting the jetting perfect.

This is Colin’s other cycle. A cg125 single cylinder that he’s teaching his g/f Gabby to ride.

This is a link to his full build thread if you wanna check out all the nitty-gritty stuff he did.

Side note – Colin is moving to LA in a couple weeks to race road bikes (geared pedal bikes) professionally for the next 6 months. Good luck.

I took off work and spent 4 days in the “Jankyington” garage. We burned enough wood to build a house in Kensington, which is to say, a fair amount of wood. Together with the Yerkes brothers, a lifetime supply of Sly Fox and a killer high from aircraft stripper, we had a Martin Luther King Jr. Day Weekend no one would ever forget.

I began tearing down the top-end of my 500 with the help of a Clymer book. Essentially I’m doing the same rebuild Ed did with the 650, so I’ll hold off on the details during this stage. I’m taking it to the same machine shop, Mar Automotive, when the rebuild kit comes in.

Ricky and Dana gutted the engine from the Baja 350 project.

On day 2 I bought a bench grinder for the shop, so as we tore parts off, everything got a wire-wheel treatment and high-gloss polish. This was quite possibly the best investment I’ve ever made.

An old-fashioned steel wool polish.

Dana rips out the carbs on the 200T for a cleaning.

Thanks to Mick for the seat. We were almost convinced it was the ugliest cafe seat until I took a saw to it and trimmed more than half of it off. A very productive weekend. I’ll update as the 500 progresses.

ripper: dana