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So I put a frozen dinner in the microwave. It was Salibury steak. The large size. I hit the start button. Nine minutes. What can I do to kill nine minutes? I know! I'll pull the carbs from my still completely assembled XS11!
I put the carbs on the bench and walked back into the house just as the microwave was dinging completion.
I should not be able to pull carbs in less than nine minutes. But I've done it so many times that I wasn't even hurrying.
I have not been a good XS11 parent. When I finally registered my ride yesterday so it would be ready for the ROT Rally here in Austin this weekend, the plate told me the bike had not been ridden legally since September 2014. It did not seem that long. But when you get as old as I am now, the years slip by pretty easily. I went back to work to finish my retirement from state employment. In the meantime, I did not have time to ride much. So my bikes sat, including Incubus.
But it is summer in Austin and they are paying me not to come to work anymore. And it seems like about 90 percent of the people who come to town for ROT will walk away from the $50,000 Harley trailer queens to stroll over and admire and talk about my bike. Everybody my age or older has an XS11 story from back in the day.
I'm still collecting my XS11 stories. I hope to see some of y'all cruising over the next couple of days.
BTW, I did a light cleaning on the carbs, threw in some fresh gas and the XS11 roared back to life. This is truly an amazing machine.
Patrick
I put the carbs on the bench and walked back into the house just as the microwave was dinging completion.
I should not be able to pull carbs in less than nine minutes. But I've done it so many times that I wasn't even hurrying.
I have not been a good XS11 parent. When I finally registered my ride yesterday so it would be ready for the ROT Rally here in Austin this weekend, the plate told me the bike had not been ridden legally since September 2014. It did not seem that long. But when you get as old as I am now, the years slip by pretty easily. I went back to work to finish my retirement from state employment. In the meantime, I did not have time to ride much. So my bikes sat, including Incubus.
But it is summer in Austin and they are paying me not to come to work anymore. And it seems like about 90 percent of the people who come to town for ROT will walk away from the $50,000 Harley trailer queens to stroll over and admire and talk about my bike. Everybody my age or older has an XS11 story from back in the day.
I'm still collecting my XS11 stories. I hope to see some of y'all cruising over the next couple of days.
BTW, I did a light cleaning on the carbs, threw in some fresh gas and the XS11 roared back to life. This is truly an amazing machine.
Patrick
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