Well. I swaped out my borrowed rig for the ratdog bike. It made it a mile onto Highway 520 in rushhour traffice and managed to blow the headerpipe completely off the right jug. I managed to pull over without it dropping to hte ground and getting run over by a semi-truck.
Luckily I had loaded all my tools from my Yellow deco sidecar rig into the ratdog bike AND had my winter motorcycle gloves. I tried to refit it and pound it back on to the smell of burning leather. Hammers are a good thing to have.
Anyways.. the collor was tight at the muffler and I was barely able to get it into the exhaust port on the jug because the muffler was at a slight downward angle. Managed to go another .25 of a mile and it blew off again. The bike is jetted larger than most so at this point was blowing cool flames out the front. Managed to bumper to bumper traffic it off the freeway and to a gas station with flames blapping out the right jug.. would have looked cool at night.
Couldnt get the header pipe back on this time. It looks like the setup of the bike lacked the proper hangers past the collar to hold the muffler and header pipe.
so.. I won't be rat-dogging it. I do have to admit I want to go so bad I was thinking of going and buying a little honda dirtbike just to go.
sigh. Have a fun ratdog. God is too busy kicking my butt around the universe right now.. so I figure I would save you all the trouble of having to tow me out of the mountains and just stay home.
sigh.
