Powerplus or Bust, Eh?

[BoschZEV]

Congratulations Kevin, what a great achievement, a perfect score and 12th overall

Excellent job !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations on a superb ride and fine accomplishment !!!!!!!

Let me be the first to second that... er, I mean, fourth that. Now that you've taken two weeks off work to do this, you'll need to take another two weeks off to recover from this "vacation." Great job.

[Steve Swan]

Congratulations on a superb ride and fine accomplishment !!!!!!!

[gww]

Excellent job !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[panthersteve]

Congratulations Kevin, what a great achievement, a perfect score and 12th overall

Cheers
Steve

[BigLakeBob]

Congratulations Kevin! Enjoyed both the build and actual ride.

[exeric]

I wonder if Cory still follows old bike news and sees how his old Motorcycle is doing?!

I really miss Cory on this forum. His love for early motorcycle history was contagious.

[frichie68]

Hopefully Kevin will update us with some good stories after the run, bet he's having a ball!

[pisten-bully]

Keep on keeping on Kevin

I wonder if Cory still follows old bike news and sees how his old Motorcycle is doing?!

[panthersteve]

I have been watching Kevin's progress with great interest as he is the only person I "know" in the event. I wanted to say something here earlier but didn't want to "jinx" him, I hope we haven't done that.

Keep on keeping on Kevin

Cheers
Steve

[frichie68]

Looking good, keep on keepin' on, Kevin!!!!

[Tom Lovejoy]

so far Kevin and his Powerplus are perfect in the run ! awesome

[Shaky Jake]

Thanks for the donations and kazoo requests. Brenda will be blogging the trip here: http://brendaandkevin.blogspot.com/


Kevin

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[Shaky Jake]

Old 97 will be on display at Blair Pawn this Saturday from noon to 2:00. Stop by if you're in the area. The address is 1647 Washington Street, Blair, NE.






Kevin

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[slamiste]

Hi Kevin,

I haven't checked the forum out much lately so I missed that you got your PowerPlus running and driving. The bike sounds great and video was super cool. Well Done! Thanks for all the documentation you provided.

[Shaky Jake]

Kevin
Going south on the freeway out of Carson City in Nevada, while slowing down (from about 60mph) for the next turn off, my '14 Indian dropped the neck linkage on the throttle side. This resulted in the motor idling only. After a long time walking up down the shoulder of the freeway too many times to count, my friend (who was riding my '14 Indian at the time) and myself stopped looking for it. Of course, some forcefully encouragement from the Nevada Hwy Patrol (two patrol cars, three officers) helped stop the search. We switched bikes and I hand throttle the carburetor until the turnoff, at which time I took the missing neck linkage parts from the other side (spark and compression) and got the throttle linkage back working for the remaining two days of the tour so my friend could continue riding my Indian. It made starting interesting. Do not remember what failed, but I do know I had the cotter pins in the screws on the neck linkage clevises. The only good news was at that time, I had extras of all the missing parts at home.

Mentioned this to show you that you had the parts with you to get the throttle side working again.
Ahhh, the joys of riding old motorcycles.
Spacke2speed

Yes, you are correct. I already swapped the linkage parts over from the right side. I was only about 5 miles from home when it happened, so I chose not to do it on the side of the road. Ziggy is shipping replacements today. It's not a huge inconvenience for me to not have to right hand controls, since I've separated my compression release from them any way. I used baling wire to fix the spark advance in place for now.


Kevin

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