Easy Rider and Chopperguy

While building my chopper I became aware of a guy in California who could build long springers that handled like a dream. Ever since I have been a fan of the work of Sugar Bear. But this thing just plain boggles the mind. Beautiful.

The Guardian has published a list of 1000 films that everybody should see before they die. It should not surprise anyone that Easy Rider made the list. It would have been an insult to not add this seminal film.

A while back I posted about switching to 20w-50. I have halted the experiment. All the spec sheets on the stuff talk about better viscosity at both ends of the heat range. Nope. The stuff is thinner throughout. While I know that after 10 years of hard riding on the old chop she is in need of a top end rebuild, the 20w-50 leaked out all over the place. It also did not improve the cold start dramatically. We're talking a difference of 1-5 versus 2-7 kicks. I actually noticed a decrease in hot start ability. With straight 50w she almost always single kicks when warmed up. On 20w-50, she had a tendency to foul the plugs and give me a hassle.

So it's back to straight 50w for me. I didn't even reach summer heat