So, I’ve been hard at work trying to get things back together. There are a million and one little projects that I’d still like to do, but I realized that if I want to ride this thing at all this summer (let alone get it to the Smokeout), I need to wrap things up. To that end, it’s probably going to stay in bare metal this summer, and I’ll try not to rip anything apart that I can’t put back together in a few days time.

So, friday much liquid apple pie was consumed from a mason jar. Saturday I walked all over Latimore and nursed a hangover. Sunday, I drove across the state to hang out under I-95.

So I’ve been making some steady progress on the bike. Since the last installment, thanks to the fine folks on the ironhead forum at xlforum.net, I figured out the running issue I was having with the S&S Super E. Basically, just boiled down to some clogged up passages in the carb.

Now, while I was chasing down info on the issue and doing some troubleshooting, I had to remove the tank. While I was staring at the bike without the tank, I started thinking that I should pull the back fender. Of course, to do that, I had to pull the seat. Do you see where this is going? Right, the bike is in a million pieces.

Got a call today from the bike shop to tell me that my helmet finally came in. So I stopped by on my way home from work and picked it up. I also couldn’t help noticing that the weather was beautiful, so I figured when I got home I would play around with the ironhead.

So, I traded a bunch of stuff I didn’t need for something I’ve needed for quite a while.

I’m not going to write a book about this one. I took a ton of pictures that are linked at the end of this entry — they’ll do most of the talking.