Oh god, so you guys, I've had this bike for a few months and I feel like I may have just tanked it.
So i've had the bike a few months and have loved it. It recently became my main form of transportation.
So the ol' ex love interest called to hang out so yours truly decided to jump on his bike and make the 45 minute trip to go see her.
I'm on the highway going about 70 and I hear a weird rattling sound. I thought maybe my speedo cable had come loose, and then all of a sudden I start losing power. I safely pull to the side of the highway and as I'm slowing down I see my oil dipstick is loose.
I figured, oh well no big deal.
So i slow it down and then downshift and as I do the loud rattling stopped because my oil dipstick blew a good 8 ft into the air.
A thousand expletives flew from my mouth as I hit the kill switch and pulled into the emergency lane.
The bike had some heat coming off of it, kind of smokey. So I retrace the good 20 ft and end up finding my dipstick, I clean it off and put it back in place and start on the long lonesome walk down the onramp.
During my stroll of misery the bike cooled down enough so that when I got off the freeway and to a safe spot I was able to check my oil and didn't see a thing on the dipstick. The bike had a small oil seepage that was never a problem, though the headgasket was in the mail to replace the current one because of the small seepage.
I walked a good mile to the nearest gas station retrieved a quart of oil and walked back to the bike. I put the oil in it and started her up. Now she didn't hold idle very well so I went ahead an advanced it a little. This allowed me to limp it to the gas station and it had ZERO get up and go. By the time I got back to the service station I knew something was seriously wrong.
I figured if I put another half quart of oil it might be fine.
I put another half quart in and rode it around on city streets. Still no power, so I took it to a different service station and saw it was leaking oil a bit more than it had before.
It's super sluggish and has a distinct clicking sound coming out of the left side of the engine that wasn't there before.
I left it in the upscale town and returned the next day with a friends truck and took it out to my uncles house, he has experience working on dirt bikes. He suspects that the rings are blown and that they need to be replaced.
If you guys could offer any insight to this I would appreciate it so much. I wanted to get a slightly bigger bike but I love this little yellow beauty and don't wanna give up on her.
So i've had the bike a few months and have loved it. It recently became my main form of transportation.
So the ol' ex love interest called to hang out so yours truly decided to jump on his bike and make the 45 minute trip to go see her.
I'm on the highway going about 70 and I hear a weird rattling sound. I thought maybe my speedo cable had come loose, and then all of a sudden I start losing power. I safely pull to the side of the highway and as I'm slowing down I see my oil dipstick is loose.
I figured, oh well no big deal.
So i slow it down and then downshift and as I do the loud rattling stopped because my oil dipstick blew a good 8 ft into the air.
A thousand expletives flew from my mouth as I hit the kill switch and pulled into the emergency lane.
The bike had some heat coming off of it, kind of smokey. So I retrace the good 20 ft and end up finding my dipstick, I clean it off and put it back in place and start on the long lonesome walk down the onramp.
During my stroll of misery the bike cooled down enough so that when I got off the freeway and to a safe spot I was able to check my oil and didn't see a thing on the dipstick. The bike had a small oil seepage that was never a problem, though the headgasket was in the mail to replace the current one because of the small seepage.
I walked a good mile to the nearest gas station retrieved a quart of oil and walked back to the bike. I put the oil in it and started her up. Now she didn't hold idle very well so I went ahead an advanced it a little. This allowed me to limp it to the gas station and it had ZERO get up and go. By the time I got back to the service station I knew something was seriously wrong.
I figured if I put another half quart of oil it might be fine.
I put another half quart in and rode it around on city streets. Still no power, so I took it to a different service station and saw it was leaking oil a bit more than it had before.
It's super sluggish and has a distinct clicking sound coming out of the left side of the engine that wasn't there before.
I left it in the upscale town and returned the next day with a friends truck and took it out to my uncles house, he has experience working on dirt bikes. He suspects that the rings are blown and that they need to be replaced.
If you guys could offer any insight to this I would appreciate it so much. I wanted to get a slightly bigger bike but I love this little yellow beauty and don't wanna give up on her.
;D )
