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great pics as always...but infected leg? Hope it's nothing serious?  Glad you can still make to Yellow Springs, regardless of mode of transportation.

Looks like your truck has a stuck thermostat. Should be an easy fix! Maybe a good time get your coolant changed, too, while they're in there dumping half your coolant out.

Unless the scooter has been in storage for years -  very few of us have had a tire age out.
Our tires wear out - the rear often twice as often as the front.
Rider weight, road surface, scooter type, riding style dictate tire wear.
There are discussions regarding tire replacement based on age of the tire - on the scooter, and even those stored on dealer shelves.
Others point to the age of tires on a great many cars on the roads today. Our car tires are likely much older than our scooter tires! And there isn't tire mahem on the roads! Maybe scooter tires are as over engineered as auto tires? Worn treads lose wet traction. ...
This doesn't seem to stop riders from fretting about shelf life, ozone, sunlight, etc. Even those who never ride in the rain worry about slightly worn treads of a still sound tire carcass.

Just my $.02 on tire age
Stig

infected leg - so off the scooter for a while.
But the gas pedal foot still works a treat....

Took the '06 Silverado (a cowboy's horse?) for coffee at daybreak.
45°F~!


I counted 35 head - what you can't see here is how near they are to the first stop light on this side of Y.S.~!


Also, on this edge of the village - is Joe's private speed sign! He bought it from the village. Fixed it and sets it up in his front yard. I love it when he tows it downtown and parks it on the main drag through town! Hard to see the hand-painted sign below the red numbers, "Just Sayin"


Found a parking spot for Big Red right in front of the Group W bench!


Sun's up, time to head home. (to the boys in the liar's club at Dino's - "remember, we're all still on probation!")


Stig

Winter coming on - think it's time to do something about the thermostat.
This is the temp after 45 min drive.

Glad it worked out for you Hawk.
Regarding your previous photos - I do not know what happened during the forum rebuild.
I've learned that some forums can capture the photo in a manner where it is not lost in the future - (the Vespa forum) by that I mean that I've lost a great many older photos when the photo hosting I was using changed something major, and / or closed entirely.


Stig

thought I'd follow up on this post with what happened after...

Had a heck of a time getting the sprockets with their timing marks , cams, chain, etc. lined up correctly to put the motor back together.  First try didn't go well...pulled it all back apart to start again...which also meant pulling lifters to bleed them each time the cams are removed.

2nd time was bad...I thought it was correct but motor had loud ticking, which I lied to myself saying it was just a lifter that needed to pump back up. Went for a very short ride and bike wouldn't rev over 4500 or 5000 rpm and had no power. Return to garage and pull everything back apart for the 3rd time.

I was off a tooth or 2 on the sprocket. Ugh.

3rd time starting over...followed service manual exactly (except for a major error in the Clymer manual which had to do with initial rotational direction of motor to line up cam sprocket bolts..) Got TDC on the crank bolt and cam sprocket marks lined up with head, chain on and success!

Put motor back together for 3rd time, overcame a bad spark plug hole thread....and finally took bike out for first ride on Wednesday. Nice 20 mile ride with no cam chain slapping noise like I'd lived with for the past 3 years.

Rode again yesterday for another hour covering about 20 miles in town. Only 3rd (?) ride on the nighthawk this entire season. I'll try to make up for lost time this Fall.

I will say that my Nighthawk is my all time favorite bike. The combination of comfortable ride, riding position, power, handling and looks is a winner in my book.   Will attach a few pics of the process as it seems pics from earlier this summer are lost in the forum.