Motorcycle Fixin'

Well, we had a busy week last week... As you've now read, we have been having some issues with our vehicles. Kory's motorcycle (Honda 550 Nighthawk '83) broke down on Wednesday and he was determined to figure out the problem and fix it that weekend. So we spent the night last Friday in Highland and Kory spent Saturday taking the bike apart piece by piece and examining every detail and wire trying to find the problem. He knew that if he could find where the electricity wasn't getting to he would know where the problem was located. He bought a voltmeter to do that. (PS any better details are to be referred to Kory because I don't know the proper mechanical terms very well.) So as you can see in the pictures, the bike was a complete skeleton with wires going everywhere. My little sister Sheyenne was keeping him company too. ;) It rained Saturday so he worked on it in my parent's garage where my mom's Escalade goes. After starting at about 8:30am, he figured out what made the bike go from purring beautifully to a dead silence. In the picture below you can see how a piece of the fuse exploded. This is what he needed to fix. He told me that the two that blew up were the positive wires and the two below it are the negatives, therefore all he needed to to was somehow connect the two blown wires together. So he did; he cut them from the back and taped them together. And Ta Da! It worked again! :) We still have two forms of transportation! He was able to drive it home that night which was nice because it drove smoothly with no signs of additional problems. This obviously isn't the end of our motorcycle problems because the battery still doesn't hold a charge for longer than a day nor in the cold, but at least one problem is taken care of and Kory learned a lot. I personally am glad we had this experience, because now Kory was able to teach himself and now knows how to fix the problem on his own. He still won't admit that and says he would've preferred to avoid the situation completely by buying a better bike, but I know he'll be grateful for this later! ;)














He then gave Sheyenne a ride around the subdivision. :)

He doesn't look very excited here but that's bc he hates pictures, but he REALLY was VERY excited it was working!