I spent Friday afternoon/evening getting my bike’s new headlight and turn signals wired up and bolted on. I gave it most of a can of starter fluid and got it running again – yay! Took a quick trip over to Brown Bear and went over it with the pressure washer.

Adam and I spent a couple of hours moving his bike to the shop and mine back home, which involved a detour up to the Lincoln Towing lot on Aurora, since it turned out his bike had gotten one parking ticket too many. It took some fresh gas, a hit of starter fluid, and a jump from my car to get it running, but then everything worked fine.

Friday evening I went over to AND for cocktails and music, and ended up walking home late. I went back to pick up my bike the next morning and it once again wouldn’t start! I tried push-starting it and got nowhere. Hmmm.

I went back today and gave it another try, with jumper cables and starter fluid, and still got nowhere. It was dark and rainy so I gave up for the time being. I’ll try again tomorrow; clearly there is something gunky going on in the carburetor, and I think I’ll take it over to Felony Flyers and have them fix whatever it is.