Powerplus or Bust, Eh?

[Steve Swan]

What Cannonball number is BoschZEV?

Mike Love

as noted since, #123, Charles has fallen prey to an apparent aftermarket tapered mag gear moving on it's shaft.

[BigLakeBob]

What Cannonball number is BoschZEV?

Mike Love

I believe its 123. http://motorcyclecannonball.com/riders/

[BigLakeBob]

Wondering who's following Kevin's adventure on http://brendaandkevin.blogspot.com/ Brenda posted Monday's ride was cancelled due to torrential rain; Sunday she posted he was sorting out fuel lines and loss of power although he finished with all points possible Sunday...

I also have been following Brenda's food (Oh! I mean) ride report. Great stuff! Too bad about his trouble, hope he gets it sorted out.

[ihrescue]

What Cannonball number is BoschZEV?

Mike Love

[ihrescue]

[QUOTE=Steve Swan;174145]Wondering who's following Kevin's adventure /QUOTE]

I have been gathering as many shreds on info as possible and Brenda and Kevin's blog is one as well as Cannonball Run on Facebook. Hope Kevin's problems aren't anything that will cause him major problems. But if anyone can deal with it Kevin can.

Here is what Brenda said after yesterday's stage.

"We are done with the fourth day and I am sorry to say poor Patience had to take her first "bus" ride . We got the text only a short time after they took off this morning. Turns out he made about 57 miles before she slowly seized up on him. After getting into the parking lot to work on her tonight, they were able to lube up the pistons and it started but did not sound good! The search is to find the noise problem now. I heard them say magneto. All I know is I hope she gets out tomorrow!"

How much of Kevin's build thread and comments from a number of followers talked about the magneto as a source of potential problem. Of course we don't know yet was the actual cause.

Mike Love

[TechNoir]

Wondering who's following Kevin's adventure

I have been.

I am also following BoschZEV via his instagram page and prior to that on his bike build page on another forum.

John

[Steve Swan]

He seized up today Darn it, hope it's not to bad - don't know what happened.

short night's sleep i'm guessing.

[Tom Lovejoy]

He seized up today Darn it, hope it's not to bad - don't know what happened.

[frichie68]

I will now, thanks for reminding me!

[Steve Swan]

Wondering who's following Kevin's adventure on http://brendaandkevin.blogspot.com/ Brenda posted Monday's ride was cancelled due to torrential rain; Sunday she posted he was sorting out fuel lines and loss of power although he finished with all points possible Sunday...

[hairynob24]

have a great adventure on your journey keep the photos coming ,Rob

[Shaky Jake]

We got to meet one of Pennsylvania's finest. He said he he pulled me over because he had trouble running my tag, but I think he just wanted to check out my creeper van. Nice young man.










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[Shaky Jake]

Brenda and Patience and I finally finished loading on Sunday evening and hit the road for Portland about 8:00 pm on Sunday. We drove all night Sunday night and, except for a few hours at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, we drove all day Monday until about 5:00 pm when we started to feel unfit for duty so we checked in to a hotel in Cleveland, OH and slept for twelve hours. We have another full day of driving ahead of us today. Portland bound.












We enjoyed the Henry Ford Museum a lot.
















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[Shaky Jake]

Kevin
On one of my early Excelsior twin single speed motorcycles, I had a problem with it spitting out master link lock clips. Even just the fact of trying to pedal start the bike would result in the broken lock clip on the ground. It turns out that in back of the pedal clutch, the chains were passing close by, too close. With today available chains, not even counting the extra wide o-ring type, are wider than the original chains. While the chains did not hit each other, the extra thickness of the lock clips cause a problem. I was not using any original chain on this Excelsior.
To solve the problem, I pointed the primary chain master link out, like normal, but the drive chain master link was pointed in towards the wheel. With this master link setup, no more master link lock clip issues.
It sounds like this may not be your problem, but just an issue to be aware of.
Like you, I have had been stopped along one section of this one road many times during the many years of riding on the pre-16 motorcycles tour out of the one area. Most times I was able to get back on the road, a few times, not so lucky. Because of that, I would always take it easy in that area.
Spacke2speed

Burgie, I went and looked again, and you were exactly right. The primary chain and the final drive chain pass so close together that occasionally, if one chain drifts left and the other drifts right, the pins on the master link can hit the pins on the primary chain. I did what you said, I put the clip on the final drive chain towards the wheel. I think it will solve the problem. Thanks for the help!




Kevin

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[Shaky Jake]

Best of luck Kevin, I'll be following your blog.

Thanks Bob. I'm anxious to get started, and tired of packing and loading.




Kevin

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