working on Papa David's motorcycle
Feb. 17, 2008: Bantayan Island, Philippines - getting David's bike back in shape.
Olympus E-1, Olympus Zuiko 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 Digital: 1/250s f/3.5 at 54.0mm iso100
This bike is one of the most abused motorcycles I've seen - out of necessity and certainly not by choice, as Papa's Family is poor and there are no funds for maintenance; this is clearly understandable why it's being driven into the ground.
...when there's a little money, a poor Fisherman buys food for his Family.
After the bike died in Tami-Ao, the first step was getting the water out of the carberator, adding oil (there was none in the engine) and getting 2 new Fuji off road tires & tubes to replace the bald ones on the bike, and as soon as the ties came off both bearings were busted, and surprise - the rear wheel hub was cracked!
P1,300 for the tires/tubes/bearings, and P1,100 for the new rear hub made for a safer, serviceable ride for the time being.
So the mission is a gift for David & his Family who've always been very good to me; he's letting me use his bike for a while, and when it goes back to him it'll be much safer with a fantastic ride, at no cost to him of course.
In the image above the bike's at the welders shop - I noticed an eraser size hole on th top of the pipe and the old rusty pipe was losing compression and had no power while wasting gasoline all the while.
The welders found EIGHT holes in that old pipe, all mostly underneath.
After 30 minutes of patching holes, burning the rust out, and adding a small plate to cover a huge gap left, the pipe was as sealed as it could be in the condition it was in...still loud as a bitch, but I have more compression now and we're not wasting any more gas!
...good to drive on for a few days while I looked for a new stainless steel pipe for David.
Thanks for reading today,
PJAMES
Olympus E-1, Olympus Zuiko 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 Digital: 1/250s f/3.5 at 54.0mm iso100
This bike is one of the most abused motorcycles I've seen - out of necessity and certainly not by choice, as Papa's Family is poor and there are no funds for maintenance; this is clearly understandable why it's being driven into the ground.
...when there's a little money, a poor Fisherman buys food for his Family.
After the bike died in Tami-Ao, the first step was getting the water out of the carberator, adding oil (there was none in the engine) and getting 2 new Fuji off road tires & tubes to replace the bald ones on the bike, and as soon as the ties came off both bearings were busted, and surprise - the rear wheel hub was cracked!
P1,300 for the tires/tubes/bearings, and P1,100 for the new rear hub made for a safer, serviceable ride for the time being.
So the mission is a gift for David & his Family who've always been very good to me; he's letting me use his bike for a while, and when it goes back to him it'll be much safer with a fantastic ride, at no cost to him of course.
In the image above the bike's at the welders shop - I noticed an eraser size hole on th top of the pipe and the old rusty pipe was losing compression and had no power while wasting gasoline all the while.
The welders found EIGHT holes in that old pipe, all mostly underneath.
After 30 minutes of patching holes, burning the rust out, and adding a small plate to cover a huge gap left, the pipe was as sealed as it could be in the condition it was in...still loud as a bitch, but I have more compression now and we're not wasting any more gas!
...good to drive on for a few days while I looked for a new stainless steel pipe for David.
Thanks for reading today,
PJAMES
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