ahhhhhhhhhhhh

[Oss]

Got the BMW 1150 rtp back from the mechanic

Lets just say I am one lucky son of a gun

I know that I waited too long for brakes and plugs. He saved my rotors and fixed the bent kickstand and a dozen other things both cosmetic and functional   Worth the extra half hour to get there in MahopacNY (Scotty Power )  

Bonus he found a dead mouse and nest in the air cleaner.

Bike runs much better   Took a 90 minute ride home around the reservoirs in the brisk wind  Temp in the high 30's  didnt turn on the heated liner but did use the heated grips for a few minutes here and there  Supposed to snow again Tue nite. Cant wait to see how many MORE POTHOLES come out. The road was pretty full of them and in the shadows lets just say they come at you fast and furious

Oss

Exactly how much is 1 mousepower anyway - like 1 millionth of a horsepower - not that I could see a horse in my air cleaner   

[The emperor has no clothes]

Maybe the mouse had a talk with your neighborhood squirrels and just said “screw it” and committed “harakiri” ?

[Rams]

Yeah, I didn't have much luck with the dead mouse in the air cleaner mod either.   

Went back to a K&N right after that.   Seems to run better.   

[hubcapsc]

Bonus he found a dead mouse and nest in the air cleaner.

Bike runs much better

Getting rid of the dead mouse in the air cleaner almost always
makes them run better! 

-Mike

[Jess from VA]

Evan, I had a mouse (winter over) in a bike air cleaner too.  A Kawi Vtwin, with a much easier air cleaner to access (by mice, or humans).  

Except mine wasn't dead.  I rolled the bike out one early cold spring day, and the mouse probably decided to shelter in place in the safety of the intake.  On choke, it fired right up, at which point the mouse became captive in the intake carburetor vacuum, at high choke RPMs.  I don't know the science of mouse executions in this manner, but at some point he expired (probably from asphyxiation before heat), and at some point shortly thereafter he roasted.  Meantime, the bike ran a little dicey, but that's to be expected after a winter layover, so I left the choke on for another few minutes or so, then backed it off to a good idle.

Then, there came a strong odor that really caught my attention.  The old, something crawled up something else's ass and died odor.  Whoowe.  I cut the bike off and stood back for some fresh air, then went back in and localized it to the air cleaner in no time.  One bolt and the whole thing comes off (wouldn't it be nice if the Valk was like that?).  The freshly deceased rodent (a long dead and dried out one would not have had that really fresh barbecue aroma, or bit of ooze) had a distressed look on his face, and was cooked into intake beyond well-done, and required small needle nose to remove, in pieces.

There remained only to clean the heap of bird food detritus the rodent had been bringing home daily and using for a mattress for months.  He appeared to have prefered sunflower seed to all others.

This was the wife's bike, and she refused to ride in cold.  Thus the undisturbed rodent home.  And she insisted on feeding all the birds in the county, and kept great stores of grain two feet from her bike.

Later that morning, she complained that her bike smelled funny.

I told her it just needed riding, and would go away after awhile.  

And by the way, see that little cigar box over by the fence?  I found something interesting, go check it out.    

  

[old2soon]

I hatez meeces to pieces! Glad ya gotz yer knees in da breeze Evan!  RIDE SAFE.

[cookiedough]

kid wants me to get bikes going tomorrow will be 54 degrees or so, but so much salt and road crap on the road still and only good for one day ride and will have to let sit for 2 weeks not riding again am sure. 

will have to wait until last weekend in March as usually is the case.  Glad you got out and got the beamer fixed up...