- 6/20/2025
This episode of Ran When Parked is sponsored by Visionary Cycles, the U.S. distributor for Kedo products from Germany. Kedo sells thousands of parts specifically for the XT500, and when they heard what we were doing they were stoked to help out. They sent us a big box of everything we'll need to get the bike back on the road. Check out Visionary Cycles and the entire Kedo catalog at http://www.visionarycycles.com
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In the last episode of Ran When Parked, we worked tirelessly to get this 1979 Yamaha XT 500 to start. But now, it's time to get it on the road. With the help of Visionary Cycles, can we turn this crusty moto into a daily driver, or is it destined to sit in the corner of the garage forever?
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00:00Good morning! We are back with the beef, our 1979 Yamaha XT500.
00:06Cool!
00:07If you watched the last video, you will know that we have taken this bike from abandoned in some guy's garage to running again.
00:14We have no idea how long this bike was sitting, but in the last video we had to go through the engine to make it run again.
00:20I did some stupid things that required me to take the engine out, which I shouldn't have had to do.
00:24But the long and the short of it is, you've got a running motorcycle with literally every other system that needs to be addressed.
00:30You may notice that I have some help today. This is Anders Carlson.
00:33He's our new guy here at the shop in Knoxville.
00:35Anders is mean with a wrench, and he has a long history in vintage motorcycles.
00:39Anders, welcome!
00:41Why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself and vintage bikes?
00:44Generally, you'll find me wrist-deep in old vintage two-strokes, Cowie triples, Yamaha twins.
00:49This is my first attempt to fix a dirt bike.
00:52So let the madness begin. If you watched the last video, you know that this bike runs.
00:56You know that it has a 12-volt electrical system, which is an upgrade from the original 6-volt points ignition system.
01:02If you look down the spark plug hole, there is really, really distinct cross-hatching in there.
01:07The bore is clean, and the piston doesn't have any carbon on it, which means if it's not a new piston, it has been cleaned up.
01:13There are new rings in there, and this thing has a ton of compression.
01:16So some of you were wondering why I didn't tear the engine open in the last video.
01:19That's why. But there are some important things that need done.
01:22Namely, the carburetor.
01:24We got a new carb on there last time, but this is an old carburetor boot that's cracked,
01:28and that can cause air leaks, which can cause it to run poorly.
01:31We also don't have an air filter, because the original air box won't fit with our aftermarket carburetor.
01:36Also, the elephant in the room are these wires.
01:38This is the battery box. Obviously, the battery cables could use some help.
01:42And this is our electronic ignition system, and that needs to be tied back and put somewhere where it can live comfortably as we ride this bike on dirt and mud and rocks.
01:52This won't do, so we need to sort that out.
01:54Let's move right along to the suspension.
01:57These shocks are terrible.
01:59Yeah, blown doesn't begin to describe it.
02:01If you put any weight on them at all, they go right to the bump stop.
02:04So these are not safe to go to the coffee shop, let alone to go to Windrock.
02:08I'm going to tear into those and see if we can't get those replaced.
02:11And I'm going to have you tackle the forks, because...
02:14I love doing forks.
02:15You love doing forks.
02:16That's wonderful, because as bad as the rear suspension is, the forks might be worse.
02:20The only thing that they do properly is retain fork oil.
02:23The fork seals appear to currently be good, but that doesn't mean that they're going to stay good.
02:27And I also have a suspicion that they might not be leaking because there's just no oil in there.
02:31Well, we should redo the seals anyway.
02:33Yes, we should redo the...
02:34Just for safety.
02:34Yeah, we need to put some new oil in there so it actually suspends our weight.
02:37I don't know about you, but I'm about 200 pounds, and this thing's not going to support me the way it currently is.
02:42Which leads us nicely to the brakes.
02:45Give that lever a pull there.
02:46See, the front brake seems to be okay.
02:49It's at least actuating.
02:50It stops the front tire.
02:51Sure.
02:52The rear brake, nothing happens.
02:55The way that pedal feels, I'm not even sure if there are brake shoes in the rear wheel.
02:59So this is going to be...
02:59It's exciting.
03:00We'll find out.
03:00Yeah, this is going to be a fun journey of discovery.
03:02And speaking of the rear end, this thing has an aftermarket swing arm, and we're not sure what it's from.
03:08It's aluminum.
03:09The original one was steel.
03:10And there's a really important modification that someone didn't make.
03:13There's a little boss on the bottom of the brake drum here.
03:16What that does is provide a place for you to put a brake stop arm.
03:20Under normal riding conditions, if you just stood on the drum brake, this would rotate and actually not stop the bike and bend all this stuff up and break things.
03:28So you need something to stop that from happening.
03:31This swing arm doesn't have any provision for a rod to go from here to the rest of the swing arm.
03:35So I need to fabricate something to keep the rear brake drum from rotating when you're riding.
03:40What also is going to be interesting is we need tires.
03:42These feel like they're made out of plastic.
03:44We've got a solution in mind, but it hasn't arrived yet.
03:47You and I were talking about this fantastic aluminum gas tank.
03:50Which is fantastic.
03:51Why is that cool?
03:52That is really cool because over time, all the varnish and other stuff that gets into the tank is not going to corrode it in the same way that it would a steel tank.
04:00We're not going to have to use all sorts of horrible cancer-causing gross garbage to clean out this tank.
04:05As I discovered in the last video, the petcock for this tank was ruined.
04:08You could not actually move the arm to feed fuel from the tank to the carb.
04:12So even though it's probably pretty clean in there, we still can't use it.
04:15But we've got a big old box of new parts that includes a petcock, so let's check that out.
04:20Now, see what we've got from our friends at Visionary Cycles.
04:23When we discovered we needed a bunch of new parts for the XT500, I went on the internet, I did a little search, and I found a company in Germany called Keto.
04:31And it turns out Keto has just opened a brand new U.S. web store called Visionary Cycles.
04:36I hit them up and said, hey man, we're restoring an XT500 and we need a little bit of everything.
04:41And they said, well that's great, we've got a catalog with literally thousands of parts for the Yamaha.
04:46XT500, TT500, and SR500, what do you need?
04:50So I sent them what I thought was a pretty ridiculous wish list, and they sent me all of it.
04:54We have all the stuff we need in this box to put that motorcycle back together.
04:58First of all, the most important thing that comes with any motorcycle parts are stickers.
05:02I don't get a sticker, I feel like I've been cheated somehow.
05:05Right here, here we go.
05:06It's visionarycycles.com.
05:08Hit up my buddy Noah, he will send you everything you need.
05:11All right, let's get watches off, gloves on, and dive into this thing.
05:15What do you think?
05:15Let's do it.
05:16All right.
05:16First things first, I've got a little cotter pin that needs pulled.
05:20One thing about working on old bikes is everything's old.
05:23Pretty corroded and crusty.
05:25Oh, come on.
05:25All right, there we go.
05:26Now it's off.
05:27Throw that on the ground so we can pop a tire with it later.
05:2922 millimeter impact socket and big yellow.
05:32Then we're just gonna...
05:34...break the axle nut loose.
05:36This axle is held in place with a couple of pinch bolts.
05:38These shouldn't be torqued super tight.
05:40Remember when I said these didn't need to be super tight?
05:43That's probably too tight.
05:44It is your front wheel.
05:45Get the compulsion to just make these horse tight.
05:48But the thing that's holding the front wheel on is the axle nut on the other side.
05:52These are literally just pinching the axle so that it doesn't rotate and try to loosen
05:56the bolt on the other side.
05:57All right, so that's out.
05:59Ah, like butter.
06:00That fender washer that just fell out of there is not a stock Yamaha piece.
06:04That's a Ace Hardware piece.
06:06Maybe not advisable, but it's what's here.
06:08We forgot to take the Speedo drive out and grab that.
06:11Always make sure you get all the parts out or you'll end up like me.
06:15Man, if you want to look dumb on the internet, try and restore an old dirt bike.
06:18Pro tip.
06:19And if you want people to tell you you look dumb on the internet, try and restore an old
06:23dirt bike.
06:23It works wonders.
06:24It's my treatise on YouTube commenters.
06:26All right, so...
06:26Oh my God, that was so easy.
06:28Yeah, to get the Speedo cable out, there's just a little circlet that holds it in.
06:31Brake drum, and then you just kind of pull it out with the O-ring.
06:35I should be able to slide the axle out and the wheel will come free.
06:38I'm just going to slide the axle back through, hold the spacer in place, throw my washer
06:42and the castle nut so it stays put.
06:45I'll roll this out of the way.
06:46Over to you, Durz.
06:46These little drain plugs in the bottom are really great for becoming rusted and fused
06:51to the bottoms of the forks.
06:53So I'm actually going to hit that with a bit of prophylactic PB blaster.
06:56Hopefully loosen them up so we don't get stripped bolts or anything like that.
06:59It looks like you've got a bunch of little clamps and brackets and stuff to remove.
07:04It's pretty clampy.
07:06There's a lot of...
07:06I believe the technical term is doohickey.
07:08Point is, a lot of stuff to keep track of.
07:10Yeah, look at that.
07:12Yeah, man.
07:13We may need to heat that up later.
07:15But, you know, we might get lucky.
07:16You have to be like a screw whisperer to be like, when you feel it going.
07:20Yeah.
07:20And you're like, ah.
07:21We got an impact driver for that, too.
07:23Okay, yeah.
07:23We're going to find out whether we actually do have a fork oil in here.
07:26I don't know if we're placing bets or not.
07:28Oh, it came loose.
07:29It did come loose.
07:30Dang, look at that.
07:31You didn't even strip it.
07:31Using only brute force.
07:33Oh, look at that.
07:33There's a little dribble.
07:34A little bit of...
07:35A little bit.
07:35A little bit of something.
07:36Anders, what color is fork oil when it's new?
07:40Not black?
07:41Yeah, sort of like a caramel-y color, maybe?
07:43Kind of like motor oil?
07:44Sometimes a festive red.
07:45Fancy actual fork oil.
07:47I actually don't know what color that is because I never use fancy fork oil, so...
07:52Well, good news.
07:53Our friends at Keto, they sent us fancy actual fork oil.
07:56Oh, here it comes.
07:57Oh, dear.
07:58It smells strangely like gas.
08:00Fork oil shouldn't smell like gas.
08:02If there's gas in your forks, like, change them immediately.
08:05And if gas becomes present in your fork, then you have done something wrong with assembly.
08:10Yeah, fuel feed doesn't go through the forks before it goes in the engine.
08:13That's really all that's coming out.
08:14Wow, that's...
08:15Boy.
08:17Oh!
08:18Oh!
08:18Oh!
08:19Wow.
08:20He's wearing it, folks.
08:21Welcome to the team.
08:22Hope you didn't like those jeans.
08:24There's more in there than I thought.
08:25That's actually kind of a healthy amount.
08:27I don't really know why I'm doing this, because once we get the forks off, actually dump it out
08:31from the top.
08:32I guess the next thing to do is to loosen everything up in the triple tree.
08:36The headlight bucket clamps, these are nicely rusted and pitted, so these should be really,
08:41really fun to get out.
08:42When I say fun, I mean actually not very fun.
08:45What were you saying about prophylactic application of PB Blaster?
08:49I did not apply the prophylactic to the fork tube, so that's how the accident happened.
08:53This is, like, a huge pet peeve of mine.
08:55See, like, the bolts are, like, should be on the back.
08:57So, like, these nice, like, sexy bolts, like here, should be facing forward.
09:01Here, he's put the backing bolts, like, facing forward, which is wrong and backwards, in my opinion.
09:06Good news.
09:07We're fixing it today.
09:08You can put those back whichever way your little heart desires.
09:10Whenever anything goes wrong, it's always the fault of the previous owner.
09:13Absolutely.
09:14Always the PO.
09:15Come on, big money, no whammies.
09:18Daddy needs a new Camaro.
09:20There she goes.
09:21There should be no reason for these to be, like, frozen solid type, but that doesn't mean they aren't.
09:25There we go.
09:25Good.
09:26Yeah.
09:26All right.
09:27These are also bolts that don't need to be torqued down to, like, 5 million foot-pounds.
09:32Come on, put some of those corn-fed Midwestern muscles into it.
09:35There we go.
09:36I got liberal arts muscles, man.
09:38I don't have the corn-fed.
09:39You're from the bread basket, dude.
09:41It's genetic.
09:41I hope you're going to keep this reminder here.
09:45Yeah, I'm going to lacquer that on.
09:46Okay, yeah.
09:47Yeah.
09:47In February of 93, we need to change the oil.
09:50That's important.
09:51All joking aside, we haven't reached the 8,400 miles yet.
09:55We're only at 7,700.
09:56So that is still relevant information.
09:58Yeah, it's still relevant.
09:59Okay.
09:59I don't know what you were doing in February of 1993, but, uh...
10:02Well, it's a family show, so I can't tell you.
10:03I was in kindergarten.
10:06So I can start, like, pulling this down and...
10:07Yeah, give her a yank.
10:08Oh, look at that.
10:10Put some loose juice on this thing.
10:11Yeah, awesome.
10:12Okay, look at that.
10:15All right.
10:15All right.
10:15Yes!
10:17Fork leg number one.
10:18That one was moving a little bit easier than the other one was.
10:20Yeah?
10:21Uh...
10:21Did you apply some loose juice?
10:22I did not.
10:23I'm just the muscle, man.
10:24You're the guy doing the thing over here.
10:25If I'm the brain, we're in trouble.
10:27That's stuck.
10:28It's got to be the rust.
10:29It is.
10:30It's just that old pitting.
10:31Let me get Mr. Bendy again, loosen that clamp for you.
10:33Watch your head.
10:34Yeah, it's not the bolts.
10:35It's the, uh, the pinchy thing.
10:36Mr. Pinchy?
10:37That's the technical term.
10:38All right.
10:38Mr. Bendy, meet Mr. Pinchy.
10:39Okay.
10:41All right.
10:41There you go.
10:43There you go.
10:43Look at that.
10:44It's almost like they're designed to work that way.
10:46Woo!
10:46Shoo!
10:47Fork number two.
10:49Oops, that's, that's a little leaky.
10:51Yep.
10:51Safety fourth.
10:53Do, do, do.
10:54Take off the old brakes.
10:56I just took the rod that actuates the rear drum off so that I can get the wheel out.
11:00Oh, look at that.
11:02Axle nut off.
11:04And with our axle nut off, I can slide the axle a little bit further forward.
11:08And when I do that, I should be able to loosen the chain enough to get it off the rear sprocket.
11:13And those of you who watched the last video, I explained what condition this chain is in.
11:17And it hasn't gotten better with more neglect.
11:20So I'm going to take a dead blow and just tap this axle out.
11:22If you've recently changed the wheel on your dirt bike, you shouldn't really need to hit it with a hammer.
11:27Woof!
11:28That is in there.
11:30There is a fair amount of rust on here.
11:34Oh, goodness.
11:35This is brass.
11:36It is softer than the steel axle.
11:37So if anything's going to deform, it'll be the brass.
11:40So if you do need to tap your axle with a piece of metal, make sure it's brass or aluminum or something that's softer than steel.
11:45It's free on one side.
11:46With some wailing and gnashing of teeth, we got the back wheel out.
11:49The axle was fused to the wheel bearing, so the wheel bearing started to come out, which was getting in our way.
11:53Anyway, we have the axle out.
11:55This spacer goes on the right side of the bike, so I'm going to put that back in.
11:59But our brake drum started to come free as it came out.
12:02And, oh, there it is.
12:03We have brake shoes in there.
12:05Actually, pretty new-looking brake shoes.
12:06There's plenty of material left on them.
12:08So I'm going to have to investigate why they weren't contacting the drum as we came out.
12:13And like I said, the wheel bearing started to come out, which also actually feels pretty good.
12:17But this was just fused to the axle.
12:19There was so much rust and stuff in here.
12:20And then I'm going to get our sprocket off and make sure that this all stays together.
12:25This just looks nasty and needs some help.
12:27Now I'm going to pull the old shocks out, which is very exciting because these things are hot garbage.
12:33It started to come loose without too much drama.
12:35The lower one.
12:37Oh, yeah.
12:38Also came loose without much drama.
12:40Bolt came out.
12:41Bolt looks like at some point in its life it was cross-threaded.
12:44Yeah, all these bolts just look like absolute hell.
12:46There's one shock off.
12:48You served well, but you have suspended your last.
12:51I won't throw these on the ground because when I threw the carburetor on the ground, some people got mad at me.
12:55Set it down so I don't hurt the original suspension pieces.
12:58This one also suspended its last a long time ago, but I'm going to be respectful and give it a nice burial at sea on the shop floor.
13:05Let me show you what I was talking about with these bolts looking like heck.
13:08You can see that one.
13:10The threads are all rounded off.
13:12Like that's not how the end of a bolt should look where it's just not flat.
13:16It really looks like someone took a grinder to these to make them the right length.
13:19The last one may actually have pieces of what it was threaded into embedded in it.
13:23What a totally amazing, excellent discovery to quote Wayne's World.
13:26We're not going to replace these.
13:28No, these are still good.
13:29We can use them.
13:30All right, if you come down here too, you can look at our swing arm.
13:33That bolt has been cross-threaded or over-tightened.
13:36One of the two.
13:37Neither option is good.
13:39We've also discovered that this swing arm isn't stock.
13:41We may have to find another solution.
13:43I have a feeling that this project just got a little bit more involved.
13:45So those of you who watched last time may remember that this swing arm nut was finger loose.
13:50I tightened it down just a hair when we went to kick the bike over so it wouldn't like waller the swing arm out or anything.
13:56But I should be able with just this simple 3.8 inch ratchet to get it off.
14:00Oh, somebody actually torqued this.
14:02Goodness gracious.
14:03Someone got in here and got after it with the torque.
14:06I'll just undo it for them.
14:07All right, axle free.
14:08And okay.
14:13Well, there were supposed to be bearings in there, but I sure don't feel like there's bearings in there.
14:18That hole is completely stripped, and that's what our shock bolts to.
14:21So I think we're going to have to get rid of this swing arm either way.
14:24I'm going to save this chain roller, even though it's gross, because we don't have another one.
14:28Start looking at our auxiliary backup swing arm.
14:31See what the bearings in there look like.
14:33And try and get this thing reassembled.
14:34So I pulled the inner axle out of our new swing arm.
14:38And you can see there's roller bearings in there that look really bad.
14:42They might bear, but they don't roll.
14:45So Kido sent us a new set of these.
14:47Hopefully the new bearings we have will fit in here.
14:50So I'm going to pop our swing arm repair kit open.
14:53Man, these are nice and fresh, and they spin freely.
14:56All right, I think these bearings are going to work.
14:57Let me get the other ones tapped out.
14:59This new swing arm, the bolt holes, have threads in them.
15:02So we will be able to bolt our shocks up to this swing arm without cross-threading them.
15:06Someone has modified this.
15:09When I say modified, what I mean is booger-welded a whole bunch of plate to it in an attempt to reinforce it.
15:15This, friends, is why we look after our swing arms.
15:19These are all filled with rust.
15:21It's just good to get in there and clean that out.
15:22You can hear all that sand in there.
15:24And our new bearings won't sound like that.
15:26Just going to make sure this is real clean.
15:27We have a shop press, so I can press these bearings in the proper way.
15:31Got our new Kido bearings in there.
15:33So I'm going to grease this up, and I will clean and lube the axle before I push it back through.
15:37So we have these two little caps with bearings in them also.
15:40And these just kind of sit on the end of where the swing arm axle goes to keep dust and stuff out.
15:45They are barbed one way.
15:47They go in easily and then can't pull out as easily.
15:49So a little bit of grease.
15:52Run that around in there.
15:53Good.
15:53Goes over the end like that.
15:56Pop it over the end of your swing arm.
15:58Robert, as they say, is your father's brother.
16:01Or actually, they don't say that.
16:02I say that.
16:03It's our swing arm axle.
16:05It's disgusting.
16:06Wipe all the old grease off of it.
16:08Run that home.
16:10You kind of have to get it lined up with the bearings.
16:15Throw our cap back on it.
16:17Okay.
16:18Now, the bearing is greased.
16:20I went over to our wire wheel on the bench and cleaned the axle up.
16:25Ideally, it would be a lot nicer than it is.
16:29But it's what we have to work with.
16:30I think it's going to do fine.
16:31I'm just going to throw some extra grease on it.
16:33I'm just going to line our swing arm up with its happy homes.
16:38And then get me a pump of grease.
16:40Push this back where the holes line up.
16:42Wiggle this into place.
16:44Why doesn't it want to line up?
16:46Am I wrong correctly?
16:47Is it bent?
16:48One side's not lining up with the other.
16:50The axle is in.
16:51But part of our swing arm is interfering with our brake rod right here.
16:56This is the actuator for the brake pedal.
16:58And it's just contacting the swing arm.
17:00And the problem, this swing arm has been altered from stock by somebody.
17:04They welded like an extra half an inch of material to the outside of it.
17:07I guess to stiffen it up.
17:09And I didn't think about that when I went to install the swing arm.
17:12And so now we have a little bit of an interference fit.
17:14I'm going to have to figure out a new solution for that.
17:16It sucks because I just tapped our new bearings into this swing arm.
17:19So unless I want to order new bearings, I'm going to have to figure out a way to make this swing arm work.
17:24And if you'll remember, the red swing arm I was going to get away from because the bolt holes in it were all cross-threaded and wallowed out.
17:30And this one's just about perfect.
17:31It would be really ideal if we could make this silver swing arm work.
17:34But it's going to take a little bit of fab.
17:36And let this be a lesson to you about alterations from stock.
17:40Whenever you're modifying something, it's like the butterfly effect.
17:43There's going to be a knock-on effect down the way.
17:45I'm going to pop that back out and see if there's something we can clearance to make the brake rod and the swing arm fit together in the same space.
17:52If you look on our old swing arm, there is a witness mark where something contacted it repeatedly.
17:58I thought that might be a rock or something, but that is right where our brake pivot sits.
18:03I have a feeling that even this swing arm was interfering with that brake pivot.
18:07Something just needs to be smaller in that area.
18:09I've got some thinking to do.
18:11More thinking than I wanted to do.
18:12Removal is the reverse of installation, so the axle's out.
18:15You can see the witness marks already from where that's been hitting.
18:19So since this is not part of the swing arm, I may be able to just take a little bit of a grinder and make some clearance there.
18:25While Aaron is figuring out everything that is befuddling him with the swing arm, I have been working on these forks here.
18:33We have our official vice here and a safety cardboard from our lovely German friend, Akito.
18:38I have drained these, and I've carefully put back the drain plug on the bottom there.
18:42We have taken out the springs, spacers right here.
18:46These go in on the top.
18:48We have all that removed.
18:49Unfortunately, we have hit kind of a snag.
18:52So at the bottom of all these forks, there is an 8mm Allen bolt that is holding all of the internals in.
18:59And that's really great once this is together.
19:02And it keeps it from extending further than it should.
19:05So we're stuck here.
19:06We need to get this 8mm bolt out.
19:08And to do that, we need a special tool that we do not have.
19:13We are going to either A, we're going to find that tool, or B, we're going to make that tool.
19:18Okay, so we're at an exciting part.
19:20I had to do some unfortunate fab work to our extremely not-stock swing arm, but it is now in the bike.
19:27The new brake banana thing is on the bike.
19:30I have changed shirts because I got very sweaty in the previous endeavor and more than a little bit dirty.
19:35But the exciting thing we've got now, remember I told you about those shocks that were so blown?
19:40Kido sent us these beauties.
19:43These things are amazing.
19:45Look at this.
19:46You've got all this like nice machined billet aluminum, these new spacers.
19:50Like this looks like a really high quality piece.
19:53So let's dive right in.
19:54Slide the top of the shock into the top shock mount.
19:58Turn the bolt slowly to make sure that you do not cross-thread it.
20:01Shock number one loosely in place.
20:04Same shock for the other side.
20:06Top in, bottom in.
20:09There we go.
20:10I mean, look how good that looks.
20:12That's really starting to look impressive.
20:14It's amazing what some new shiny parts will do to the back end of a crusty old motorcycle.
20:20Now I'm excited.
20:21Now I'm starting to feel like we're actually getting somewhere.
20:23I love bolting on new parts.
20:25Snugging these down for now.
20:27We will torque them later.
20:28New shocks officially on.
20:29So this is our brake shoe.
20:32This floats independently of the rest of the wheel.
20:35When you have drum brakes, the inside of the actual wheel hub is the braking surface.
20:39So this floats, cruises along with the bike.
20:41And when you get on the rear brake, you can see here, when I move this lever, the brake
20:45shoes move out.
20:46And then they contact this, and that's how the bike slows down.
20:49Independent of that, to help the wheel roll smoothly, there are caged bearings in here.
20:55So these bearings need to be free and turning smoothly.
21:00And these actually don't feel terrible, but we have a new set.
21:04And if you have a new set of bearings, it's a great idea to just go ahead and knock them
21:07in there.
21:07Seating the new ones in is as simple as getting on your press or getting a socket and a hammer
21:12and tapping them in there carefully.
21:14Oh, also, while we're doing that, I'm going to take this sprocket off.
21:16Keto was kind enough to send us a new sprocket that's not all janky.
21:20All right, so I'm just going to try and carefully work this rubber seal out.
21:24Let's look at our new wheel bearings.
21:26I'm going to match those up.
21:27Yep.
21:28So that is a rear wheel bearing, and it should be matched by a similar one on the other side.
21:33But again, as you saw a second ago, there's this rubber piece that's kind of stuck in
21:38there that I need to work free before I can get to it.
21:40Okay, so there's an inner rubber seal.
21:43Set that aside and reuse it.
21:45Now, so that's wheel bearing number one.
21:50Now that that one's out, we have clearance to catch the edge of this other one.
21:55Just work around the edges until the wheel bearing drops.
22:03There she went.
22:04Oh, there's two wheel bearings.
22:06Uh-oh.
22:07They both actually feel not atrocious.
22:09So there's two bearings on the brake side and one bearing on the opposite side where
22:14the sprocket is.
22:14The Keto bearings are nice because they're all sealed.
22:17You'll see that these bearings here are open on one side.
22:20Either means somebody went in there and pulled the rubber seal out so they could re-grease
22:23them, or it means that these bearings were not sealed when they were installed.
22:27They've served well, but they're going in the cylindrical file.
22:29Whoop!
22:30That's called the bearing race.
22:31And it's just kind of dirty and gross, so I need to clean all that up.
22:34Before I put the new bearings in, I'm going to bust the sprocket off of here so that we
22:39can install our new one.
22:40And when I'm done cleaning it, I will put our spacer and our new bearings in there.
22:46And the rear end of this bike will be done, more or less good as new.
22:49Give the hub a little bit of a wire brush-in.
22:52Shellac it with brake clean.
22:53Get your wire brush in there good.
22:55Inhale deeply of the brake clean.
22:57Don't inhale deeply of the brake clean.
22:58Sorry, I keep saying that.
23:00Octane does not condone huffing brake clean.
23:02Bad idea.
23:03It's not good for your health.
23:04Wear a mask.
23:04Wear eye protection.
23:05Don't tell my wife that I didn't wear a mask or eye protection when I was spraying brake
23:09clean all over the place.
23:10Sorry, honey.
23:11Don't watch this video.
23:12Go grab our new sprocket.
23:14Visionarycycles.com in the U.S.
23:16Reasonable prices.
23:18Fast shipping.
23:19Nice folks.
23:20This is a 42-tooth sprocket, so I don't know if that's factory or not, actually.
23:24Let's see what our old one says.
23:26Our old one doesn't says.
23:27So this is cool.
23:28This thing is obviously meant to fit two different bikes because it has these chamfered holes.
23:32Our old sprocket doesn't have those, but if you overlay the two, this inner ring of bolt
23:37holes is the one that we want.
23:39Locked, cocked, and ready to rock.
23:41Grab my lock plates.
23:42Grab the rest of my nuts.
23:45Don't say anything.
23:46It's not a joke.
23:47Run these bod boys down.
23:49They are directional, so if they start to bind, you know you've got them on backwards.
23:53I was about to do a big treatise on how you're supposed to put Loctite on these and not torque
24:01them, and then I didn't put Loctite on them.
24:02If you guys didn't see me not do this, I like to put a little bit of thread locker on these
24:08suckers just to hold them on there.
24:10You don't want your rear sprocket to come off ever.
24:13I use red Loctite because the next guy can just deal with it.
24:18A little bit of Loctite on here.
24:19Give them the old, that ain't going nowhere.
24:21Cue all of the comment chorus about what kind of idiot uses red Loctite on blah blah blah.
24:26This kind of idiot.
24:28That's who.
24:28And again, since the next guy who works on this bike is probably not going to be me,
24:33but might be me, in either case, the hell with him.
24:37I can deal with my own mistakes.
24:38And so can the next owner.
24:40If you don't have something to blame on the PO, what are you buying a used bike for?
24:44Put my finger there.
24:45Run it around inside on the surfaces where the bearing's going to sit.
24:49And if we're lucky, the wheel will fit in our press.
24:55And if I'm unlucky, I'll do it the old-fashioned way with a hammer.
24:58Live with your legs.
25:01That's not going to work.
25:02We're here and set it back on our pieces of wood that we had set up earlier.
25:06Get these on the hub so you don't bend the spokes.
25:09Find the back of an impact socket, just a little bit smaller than the bearing itself.
25:13Gently tap on it.
25:15I like to tap in a circular motion so the bearing pulls down evenly.
25:21Once it's seated, you'll hear the sound change.
25:26There's one bearing installed.
25:28Grab our next one.
25:29Grab a little bit of grease for the outside of this bearing.
25:33Get our socket and our dead blow.
25:34So that is now seated.
25:40Drive our bearing home.
25:43Put our rubber seal back on top of our bearing.
25:47So that is one side of the rear wheel bearings done.
25:50Now the brakes, as I described earlier, pretty simple.
25:53Got a pivot on one side and then just a tang on the other that spreads the shoes apart.
25:58And I think it should technically be spreading both.
26:00And this one's not.
26:01So we're going to pull these two springs out.
26:03Bram's back in Hinton.
26:05I think that means rear brake shoes.
26:07These are genuine Yamaha parts, man.
26:09This is really cool.
26:10And they come with new springs.
26:13All right, brake shoes are off.
26:15Spritz a little on there.
26:17Clean all the mounting surfaces nicely.
26:19It's pretty easy to figure out which goes where because you have one side that's round
26:23for the pivot side and one side that's flat for the actuator side.
26:27Old school brakes literally have two shoes, two springs, and actuator rod.
26:33They could not be more simple if they wanted to be.
26:35All right, I am preparing to reinstall the rear wheel.
26:38Let me just slide your chain tensioners back on.
26:43One goes one side, one goes the other side.
26:45Pull the spacer up.
26:46I greased the axle.
26:48And, oh, spacer fell out.
26:51Work the axle through.
26:53Okay, let's do the chain tensioner.
26:55With any luck, tap the axle home.
26:58Something tells me this axle's slightly longer.
27:00Yeah, we've got a lot of space to take up here.
27:02What is that?
27:03Is this just like a completely different swing arm?
27:05That axle came with this swing arm, so I may have identified a constraint here.
27:11Yeah, it's a different swing arm, so it has a longer axle.
27:15Probably means I don't have enough spacers.
27:18Because everything just fell off of here, I've got to redo it all.
27:22Boy, you can sure tell I've been working on this all day, and I'm starting to get tired and frustrated.
27:27That's how working on old stuff goes sometimes.
27:28After all that lovely work we did, I'm just going to tighten the new axle down in the swing arm I put on.
27:38I didn't think to measure because they looked the same and came with the same bike, and, you know, why would I do that?
27:42Well, it turns out that this swing arm between the axles is maybe 20 millimeters wider than the old one.
27:48So we just basically don't have enough spacers.
27:51Not to cast any aspersions on the previous owner of this bike, but this smacks of someone who decided they needed to solve a problem that maybe didn't exist.
27:59So anyway, the swing arm is just not really going to work for our purposes.
28:05I'm going to have a think overnight and come back tomorrow maybe refreshed.
28:09Hey, so you're probably wondering where I've been.
28:12We actually managed to separate the stanchions from the lower fork parts, and it was not easy because we did not have the right tool.
28:22So we had to make the right tool.
28:23So here is basically the tool we needed.
28:26So this is a half-inch socket that we liberated from the UTV driver tool stash.
28:34Anyway, this has to fit inside the fork.
28:37There's two flat edges right there, right?
28:40So it's not actually a bolt that you could actually, you know, put an actual socket into.
28:44Like, you know, that would be easy.
28:46Instead, we had to make this tool so that it fits on top there so that we could actually grab onto this thing, stick it in here, and undo this particular 8-millimeter Allen bolt.
28:57And now we are removing these old, crusty, nasty seals.
29:00We have new seals, so we should absolutely put those in because we don't want to do this job again anytime soon.
29:07Well, good morning.
29:08We've called in the artillery today because as things have been going with this project, things yesterday got a little freaky.
29:15I have decided to clean up the shock bolt threads on the old swing arm and go back to that.
29:20Meanwhile, while I'm doing that, my buddy Anders is still working on the forks from yesterday.
29:24He can now get the damper rod out of the forks and replace the seals.
29:27So when he's done, we'll reconvene and figure out who's going to do what on the next steps.
29:30Okay, so I just came back from our local fastener store, and yes, Knoxville has a local fastener store.
29:36Not a fasten-all or anything like that.
29:37It's just a bunch of good old boys who sell bolts and taps and dies and all that stuff.
29:41I love this town.
29:42Went out and bought an M10 by 1.25 tap, running it through these threads to un-booger them.
29:49Why didn't I do this yesterday?
29:51Well, that's a great question, and if I had an answer, I probably wouldn't be doing this.
29:55Getting at old seals and this here fork tube, they are seemingly welded in place.
30:01So we are using a combination of flying brute force via a simple flathead screwdriver.
30:06Not really supposed to do this, but this is what we're doing.
30:10Out came the circlip.
30:11Out came the thing that goes on top of the seal.
30:16We got our other one out yesterday.
30:17This looks just terrible.
30:18We actually had to tap it out using an awl.
30:21Anyway, here's number two, and by hook or by crook, it's going to come out.
30:24See how easily this spins now?
30:26Got a little bit of grease in the tap in there.
30:28Just tap these holes out, and now our shock bolts can go home and not be cross-threaded.
30:34And now that that's done, I can do the super fun part, which is undoing all of the rear wheel
30:40attaching that I did yesterday, and all of the suspension attaching that I did yesterday,
30:45and all of the swing arm attaching that I did yesterday, and put the new one back in there.
30:49Boy, are we learning things.
30:51I hope you're learning things.
30:52Put it on the nut.
30:54Useless swing arm out.
30:59If you were the previous owner of this bike, I can tell you were trying something in earnest
31:03and trying to do a good job, but, well, you missed.
31:07Don't put the swing arm in upside down.
31:15What do we say?
31:15We'll torque that down later.
31:17I'm going to go ahead and swap out the chain.
31:19It just seems like a good time to do that.
31:20The old chain's not even wrapped around the swing arm correctly.
31:23That's going to involve a grinder and a punch.
31:25I'm going to put the bike in gear.
31:27I'll just put some pressure on the chain and see if I can't use the impact to knock that loose.
31:31Got that nut right off of there, so now I can kind of pry our lock plate.
31:35We've got a lock plate for the front sprocket, which, as you can see, has seen better days.
31:39Luckily, our friends at Visionary Cycles sent one with the sprocket off.
31:44I can just pull the chain free.
31:46And as you can see, that thing is garbage.
31:50Yes, it's garbage.
31:52Get a closer look at our front sprocket.
31:54You see how there's kind of this big, wide U-shape between the teeth here?
32:00That's called shark-toothed.
32:01And that means that this sprocket has been on there for a very long time while it's worn out.
32:05So on a new front sprocket, you can see that the teeth are much fatter, much thicker.
32:10This is a 16-tooth front sprocket.
32:12This is a 14, so we're going to get a little bit more highway gear out of this bike.
32:1616, I think, is the stock size.
32:17Throw this on there, run it down with the new lock plate.
32:20I have not folded the tabs over yet.
32:22I'm going to wait until I get the back wheel in and the chain on to torque this down and then replace the cover.
32:27When you have the back wheel on, it's much easier to stop this from rotating.
32:32And then I'm going to torque this nut down to about, I think it's 30 foot-pounds.
32:36And then I'm going to fold these tabs over and it'll be locked in place.
32:39DID chain for my lovely friends at Keto and Visionary Cycles.
32:44This is what a chain is supposed to look like.
32:47Way to do a chain.
32:48I'm going to feed it through from the back, but I want to attach it at the top.
32:52Run some of it onto the sprocket thus, so that my main link will be where I can easily reach and manipulate it.
32:59Pull the bike up into neutral so I can roll the front sprocket around to help me feed the chain.
33:04Getting the chain started on the front sprocket.
33:07And pull it through.
33:09I'm going to raise the bike up off the ground a bit so I can turn the back wheel.
33:13Going up.
33:14Oh yeah, look at that.
33:16Back wheel just rolled the chain right off of there, didn't she?
33:18It's almost like I could have thought of that, except for the fact that I didn't.
33:23To the dude in the last comment section who said this was painful to watch on so many levels.
33:28Yeah, fine.
33:29Alright, so our new chain is now in place.
33:32One of the things you need to do when you're setting chain tension, especially with the chain tensioners the way they are on here,
33:36you just want to make sure that you set your chain tensioners evenly, so your wheel is not sitting like this in the frame.
33:41Make sure that all spins free.
33:44Yes.
33:45Anders is about to wrap up these fork seals, and once that's wrapped up, I can knock new bearings in the front wheel, new shoes in the front brake drum.
33:53We'll be rolling.
33:54We will have a bike that we can at least start up and try to ride around the parking lot.
33:58This is exciting.
33:58Okay, so I made a goofy error.
34:00The front sprocket nut torque is 70 newton meters, but I also forgot to put some Loctite on these threads.
34:06Boy, that's just good insurance, isn't it?
34:08So I'm going to run this back down on here now that I've put a little bit of Loctite on it.
34:11Here's my torque wrench.
34:12She's set to 70 newton meters.
34:14All right, torqued.
34:18Loctis titis.
34:19So we have heroically separated everything that can be separated on these forks here, and we got out these offending seals, which I showed you earlier, and we have fresh new lovely seals in there, which we have gently pounded in with this and a cloth shop rag.
34:38A lot of little taps.
34:39The new lovely seals here.
34:41This is a gabelsimmerringer.
34:43This is a gabelsimmerringer.
34:43Eine paar.
34:44These right here.
34:45We are going to have a leak-free, finely suspended experience with these new forks.
34:50I'm about to install the petcock on our fuel tank.
34:53Here I cleaned it out with some lacquer thinner.
34:55I cleaned the surface really well where the petcock meets.
34:58The new petcock, as you can see, comes with an O-ring, which should seal it.
35:01And then to seal the screws that actually go into the fuel tank, I'm going to use two copper crush washers.
35:07Just a hole in the bottom of the fuel tank, and you just, there you go.
35:11New petcock, which moves, is in.
35:13So I can set the tank aside and go do some work on the carburetor.
35:18And Visionary Cycles sent us a new throttle cable setup and a new twist grip.
35:23So I'm going to put all that on the machine, and hopefully that just smooths everything out and makes it work all happily together.
35:29So we've got a new air filter.
35:31This is the solution from Keto and Visionary Cycles for this new carburetor, which the inlet is bigger than the stock airbox,
35:38so you can't use the stock airbox anymore.
35:40To change the throttle cable, we actually need to unscrew the top of the carb ever so gently.
35:48I'm going to pull the spring, the slide, and the needle out as one assembly.
35:52Get the spring out of the way, and you can just push the cable through that hole and drop the retaining plate on the ground,
35:59and then drop that all on the ground because it's under spring pressure and you didn't think about that.
36:03The main thing you want to be careful of is keeping this needle clean and not bent.
36:07This is a very fine taper.
36:09The measurement is very important to making sure that the mixture of air and fuel going into the bike is correct.
36:14So you have to be really, really gentle with this needle.
36:17Make sure you don't bend it or scratch it or get any goo all over it while it's out of the bikes.
36:21And just set these on my workbench for now.
36:24That's all happy.
36:25Okay, so here I have the throttle cable kit from Keto, which will match up with our new grip and throttle tube assembly.
36:32So your cable goes in here.
36:35There's a little tumbler in there with which it communicates.
36:37That's how you go full send.
36:39Next part of the operation is to remove the old throttle cable setup,
36:43winding it back out through where I had routed it,
36:46and sliding off the old tube assembly.
36:50So this is going to live there.
36:52So I'm just going to loosen the screws holding the whole assembly together
36:55so that I can spread it apart and get it onto the handlebar.
37:00Now that that's in place, we have a throttle tube.
37:03You can kind of move this to where you want it for neutral throttle to full throttle.
37:07So now you can see I've taken the throttle tube apart and inside is just a tumbler that catches the cable.
37:11So you wrap the cable around there and it feeds out of this little 90 degree and goes down to the bike.
37:17The basic idea is that.
37:21It's a great thing that they sent us two lengths of throttle cable
37:24because the housing was about an inch longer than the shorter cable that originally was in the housing.
37:33So to be able to measure how long our throttle cable actually needs to be,
37:37clip it to that length, solder on the little brass nipple,
37:40that's going to sit there, that's going to sit there.
37:45Throttle rolls like that.
37:47We've got way more than enough throttle cable.
37:50Hold our cable there, turn the bars all the way to the right.
37:54No binds.
37:56All the way to the left, that's a little bit of a bind.
37:58So I'm going to give us maybe just a tad more throttle cable.
38:01I will cut three or four inches off the end here.
38:03We went away off camera and made a throttle cable again.
38:08We had to solder this little brass nipple on here.
38:10It's pretty tedious and involves more than a couple of swears, generally speaking.
38:15Okay, so just like that and as if by magic,
38:19I built a throttle cable that opens the throttle.
38:23Sounds pretty snappy.
38:25We have a carb boot.
38:26Should fit our Mikuni VM36.
38:29It's just a piece of rubber.
38:30So their carburetor off the bike and out of the way.
38:34It's new rubber, so it's a nice tight fit.
38:36Actually have these fork tubes back together.
38:39We have artistically left some of the patina on,
38:42but we've cleaned off a lot of the stuff, a lot of the surface rust up there,
38:45and that is so that they will hopefully slide on easier than they came off.
38:49This is kind of a watch out.
38:50One of the studs came out.
38:52The previous owner, in their infinite wisdom,
38:54decided to use a nylon washer or something else that has welded itself to the other stud.
39:00We'll try to fix that.
39:00These are ready to go.
39:01These need fork oil,
39:03and then we'll do a little pushy-pushy sort of thing here
39:05to make sure it goes into all of the nooks and crannies.
39:08Our carburetor is now fully installed.
39:10We've got a new carb boot and we've got this air filter.
39:13We're going to get another grip on this bar.
39:14I am going to put new brake shoes and new wheel bearings in the front wheel
39:19like I did with the back wheel yesterday.
39:20There's not really a lot of tension on these,
39:22so it's fairly easy to take off the top cap.
39:25And we'll wait to tension that until we get it on the bike.
39:28Once it's in the triple trees and on the clamps,
39:30it's actually going to, then we'll torque it down.
39:32We're going to take a little spacer there, a little cap.
39:36So while we have all of this down here like so,
39:39we are going to take modal fork oil from our fine sponsors at Keto.
39:43Consensus is that it's about eight fluid ounces.
39:46We're going to just use that as a baseline.
39:48We can adjust it later if we feel that we need more or less damping.
39:52Give ourselves about eight fluid ounces.
39:56And we're going to take our little funnel like so.
40:00Put all this in here.
40:02So as we discovered in our previous attempt, the hilarious attempt,
40:06there is quite a bit of fork oil in here.
40:08And as it stands right now,
40:10you do want to sort of get the oil moving around in the various passageways,
40:13go up and down.
40:13But this is very filled with fork oil.
40:15So really the best thing to do, start reassembly here.
40:18Look at that.
40:20Just make sure it's kind of on there.
40:22So now we can just sort of gently kind of compress it.
40:26You can actually hear all the oil going around,
40:28swishing around in various passageways and through the valve stuff in the bottom.
40:31This bike did have some very crusty gaiters with some period patina and dirt and mud on them.
40:38And they're perfectly fine and they're very usable.
40:40However, we were sent some lovely dust boots from our friends at Kido.
40:44So we're going to actually put these on instead.
40:46And even though some people like gaiters,
40:48they do kind of look the bit of, you know, vintage motorcycling, et cetera.
40:52We're going to go with the dust boots for now.
40:54If we feel like changing, we can always do that later.
40:55But for now, it's all about being simple.
40:57Ta-da!
40:57Okay, ladies and gentlemen and Anders,
41:02we are ready to put this wheel back in the bike.
41:08Man, this feels good.
41:09I'm going to go grab a little bit of grease for this axle and then we can slam it home.
41:13Okay, we're in on my side.
41:14Yeah.
41:16Oh.
41:16Keep going.
41:17Beautiful.
41:18Let me go get a soft hammer.
41:21Kick that.
41:24There you go.
41:25Washer and axle nut.
41:27That's good enough for who it's for.
41:30We'll torque that later.
41:32This is actually a great time that we should actually also torque the bolts on top of the fork tubes as well,
41:39which is now a lot easier because we've actually attached it to the triple trees.
41:43Everything is clamped down.
41:44It's not going anywhere.
41:45So that'll be a lot easier now than holding it while your hands are greasy.
41:49So it's a little known fact.
41:50I actually can measure torque with my arm and just by feel.
41:55So I just torqued these to 22 foot pounds.
41:58Oh.
41:59We have torqued down the tops of the forks.
42:01It's almost like the top of the sundae, the little cherry.
42:04I think all we really need now, besides the tank, seat, cleaning, gas.
42:10Cleaning?
42:10We don't need cleaning.
42:12Yeah.
42:12Besides all that, all we really need is a cotter pin in the castle nut on the front wheel.
42:17And that is 94% done.
42:19I have our new battery, which folks at Visionary Cycles were kind enough to mail to us.
42:25This is the one that they know fits, AGM battery.
42:28It doesn't need to go through all the rigmarole of like putting it on a charger and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
42:33You can just throw it in the bike and it's ready to rock.
42:35And it's cute.
42:36It's a little.
42:37I also like the fact that it's yellow.
42:38Clearly yellow means performance.
42:41Yellow does mean performance.
42:42That's an extra five, six, seven tenths of a horsepower.
42:46Undoubtedly.
42:46So our battery is hooked up.
42:48Let's see.
42:49Do we have?
42:52We don't have headlight.
42:55We have a taillight though.
42:56Do we?
42:56Did it come on?
42:57Yeah.
42:58Oh, okay.
42:59Cool.
42:59We got power.
43:00If you work at a tool company, I know we've asked a couple of y'all, but hit us up.
43:03We'd love to talk about how great your tools are on the internet in exchange for having a cool set of tools.
43:09Grips on, bolts tight.
43:11Side cover.
43:14On.
43:15Piece de resistance.
43:16Seat.
43:20All right.
43:21The beef is back on her tires.
43:23Oh, one thing I have to do after last video.
43:28Oh.
43:30You all right?
43:31I'm good.
43:32I just kicked the seat off because I couldn't throw my leg over.
43:35Well, what'd you do that for?
43:36Jeans went, oh, that's where.
43:38Okay.
43:38Forgot to bolt the seat down, and then I kicked it with my knee.
43:41Nice to be there, Anders.
43:42It's a known fact that clean bikes have a 4% greater chance of starting.
43:46Hey.
43:48We now have suspension that has adjustable preload and doesn't bottom out with just my weight on it.
43:53Forks feel pretty good.
43:56In honor of the people who really made this possible here, we're going to get our little keto swag for a little bit of good luck.
44:03It's nice and crooked, so that'll do well.
44:05No corn juice.
44:06Straight dinosaur bones.
44:07Put the choke on, because it hasn't started in a while.
44:10Cut the key on.
44:11Pull the priming handle.
44:12Give it a few priming kicks.
44:16I don't condone riding in just a t-shirt and motocross gloves, but since I'm only going around the parking lot, that'll do for now.
44:43Woo!
44:45Hey, girl.
44:46You said a minute ago at the end of yesterday you weren't sure that this thing was going to roll and run.
44:53I've got to agree with you.
44:54I wasn't either, but the last time we worked on this bike, in the first episode, I was certain it wasn't going to run in that video, and everything came together, and that happened again today in, like, the last four hours.
45:05We have a running, riding Yamaha XT500, our Dakar Glory inches ever closer, and not only do we have a running bike, we have a healthy bike.
45:14This thing has, like, the motor is strong, we need to do some carb tuning, but, like, it sounds great, it's snappy off idle.
45:21It's happy.
45:21There are a lot of things that we didn't address in this video, which the short list is tires, a rear brake, and to sort of sort out the cockpit situation.
45:31We're going to dial in the carburetor, we'll probably get a new seat cover for it, and then after that, it's adventure time.
45:36We are going to take this thing on one of the local backcountry discovery routes, but what is certain is that you will see it here on another episode of Ranwen Parked from Motorcyclist.
45:44Do us a favor, hit that like button, comment on this video, subscribe to our channel so you can see more awesome stuff like this.
45:51We're working on other bikes in different parts of the country.
45:54Thank you so much to Kido, thank you so much to you all for watching, thanks again to Visionary Cycles.
45:59Head over to MotorcyclistOnline.com, where we've got news, reviews, and buyer's guides of all the latest bikes.
46:05Dude, let's go have a beer.
46:07Let's go have a beer.
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