DON'T WORRY NOT THE DAYTONA. My vintage bike, 74 Trident.
Hello My Friends. I wanted to post this here as well as on my other forum because you guys are my family as well. I have been enjoying my 74 Trident on the roads in the Midwest of Illinois. Went out on a group ride for the first time with me, my dad, and his buddy.
We get out to Oregon IL just fine no issues the bike is running great for him. My only observation is that when ever he gets on the bike with some acceleration, the pipes would shoot out some black smoke. I'm not really thinking much of that because the power is there for him as he was making some good acceleration.
So here we are at good eatery in Oregon. Got a black Angus burger and it was great.
this photo shows 74 Trident, 78 Kawasaki, and my new 2011 Daytona 675. (Picked that up about 2 months ago)
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Then trouble starts. When we get ready to head out, my dad cant start the bike. When he kicks it sounded like nothing was there. I give it a shot and nothing was there it was like there was no connection between the transmission and the motor. So they said why not give it a push start. I was against the push start on this bike, because i felt it may hurt it further.
So we push start it and it starts up. GREAT! But it does not seem right, i would be in gear and try to accelerate and the rpm's would only increase. So i shift gears a bit and it goes away. I bring it back to my dad so he can ride it so we can go to the next stop.
Well we get down the road and i see in my rear view my dad begins to slow down..... I am not liking this. I pull over and see what is up. He explains that the engine would just rev while he was in gear. We **** the bike down and check for gears. Click down to 1. Push bike to see if in gear, it keeps rolling. Click up to 2, it keeps rolling. Now i am getting concerned. Did i just blow the transmission by push starting....but how did it get that way after we had just rode it for 50 miles...?
so here we are stuck in between Oregon IL and Byron IL on Route 2.
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The sad thing is not one person stopped to make sure we were ok. even guys with empty trailers just kept on going. I saw like 4 of those and i was like man if they could get us to Byron (5.4 miles North) or Oregon (3.2 miles south). I digress.
well, as you have already guessed it we had to tow the bike home.
Stan, the truck driver had a nice set up for the bike.
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And here begins another story about how the bike had died on my or my dad. Darn. I guess i have always wanted to do a full restoration on this thing, but i have to talk to the fiancee about that.....
Cheers,
Joe
Hello My Friends. I wanted to post this here as well as on my other forum because you guys are my family as well. I have been enjoying my 74 Trident on the roads in the Midwest of Illinois. Went out on a group ride for the first time with me, my dad, and his buddy.
We get out to Oregon IL just fine no issues the bike is running great for him. My only observation is that when ever he gets on the bike with some acceleration, the pipes would shoot out some black smoke. I'm not really thinking much of that because the power is there for him as he was making some good acceleration.
So here we are at good eatery in Oregon. Got a black Angus burger and it was great.
this photo shows 74 Trident, 78 Kawasaki, and my new 2011 Daytona 675. (Picked that up about 2 months ago)
Then trouble starts. When we get ready to head out, my dad cant start the bike. When he kicks it sounded like nothing was there. I give it a shot and nothing was there it was like there was no connection between the transmission and the motor. So they said why not give it a push start. I was against the push start on this bike, because i felt it may hurt it further.
So we push start it and it starts up. GREAT! But it does not seem right, i would be in gear and try to accelerate and the rpm's would only increase. So i shift gears a bit and it goes away. I bring it back to my dad so he can ride it so we can go to the next stop.
Well we get down the road and i see in my rear view my dad begins to slow down..... I am not liking this. I pull over and see what is up. He explains that the engine would just rev while he was in gear. We **** the bike down and check for gears. Click down to 1. Push bike to see if in gear, it keeps rolling. Click up to 2, it keeps rolling. Now i am getting concerned. Did i just blow the transmission by push starting....but how did it get that way after we had just rode it for 50 miles...?
so here we are stuck in between Oregon IL and Byron IL on Route 2.
The sad thing is not one person stopped to make sure we were ok. even guys with empty trailers just kept on going. I saw like 4 of those and i was like man if they could get us to Byron (5.4 miles North) or Oregon (3.2 miles south). I digress.
well, as you have already guessed it we had to tow the bike home.
Stan, the truck driver had a nice set up for the bike.
And here begins another story about how the bike had died on my or my dad. Darn. I guess i have always wanted to do a full restoration on this thing, but i have to talk to the fiancee about that.....
Cheers,
Joe
