Saturday, December 21, 2019

Eeeek! Wasp Nests In My Motorcycle!

This video started off normally enough. I wanted to get the sprocket cover off of EZ-Rider so I could start to make an attempt to service the chain. It should have taken just a couple of minutes and a 5mm hex key... But, as with everything related to EZ-RIDER, it got complicated FAST! Someone had mounted an air horn on the bike at one point in its past, and the mount proved to be the trickiest part of this little project, because the nut that they had used as a spacer had me completely fooled. I thought it was a legitimate nut, and kept turning and turning it - with nothing to show. Eventually, the penny dropped and I figured that the nut was just there as a spacer, so I got a pair of pliers out and turned the VERY STRANGE bolt out of the sprocket cover - after struggling with getting the air horn out of the way! The air horn deserves a complete video of its own. It's ridiculously long and BENT in a curve, AND has a scallop taken out of it to fit beside the frame! Wow! Whoever put that in had a good time! I *love* it! I will do everything I can to make sure it goes back into service, but perhaps in a slightly more MMTM approved way! Once I got the sprocket cover off of EZ-RIDER, I discovered a broken lens inside of it from...a car taillight? I dunno - the lens is RED, so I wonder what part of what vehicle got in there, and HOW it got in there? Last, but certainly not least, I discovered a bunch of MUD WASP nests inside the cover. Thankfully, the nexts were empty and I didn't have to contend with any angry wasps! But their nests were still there!





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