Bike problem: water in the oil

[Hermskii]

Oh that sucks so bad but at least your experience saw it coming. I one time was able to ride my interceptor which was supposed to have a hydraulic clutch but a wreck I had ripped it clean off the handlebars. I was still able to ride the bike for a couple of days before I turned it in for the clutch repair. Wait. Actually they totaled that bike and I got another one.

I am a pro. I learned how to ride on a bike that had no brakes and no clutch and was supposed to have both. It is hard and dangerous but in a bind I can do it. Now a big fat pig bike "might" be a different story because that first gear is so low.

Get it fixed and carry on smartly and safely. I need to post a pic of the clutch I'm talking about. Yes, I kept the picture from 20 + years ago. By the way, there is a shot of me over at HOOKS burning up a tire on a second interceptor I had. I need to find it and post a link here to it.

[Hermskii]

Ahhhhh yes! Here is a link to me back when I was about 20 years old. This is the #2 interceptor I got after the first one was totaled. The first one was exactly the same except it was more blue than red.

I have "SIX" 1000+ mile trips on this one. One time I made it from Charleston S.C. to Houston, Texas in 18 hours and 15 minutes and that was back when the fastest speed limit in the USA was 55.

Here is the greatest picture of me ever taken. BEHOLD!!!!!! LOL.

http://hooksutplace.freeforums.org/view ... f=9&t=1692

[a nameless entity]

Oh wow, you had one of those! I thought the v4 Interceptor was one of the coolest sport bikes ever, at the time. (I still do, actually. And you can be comfortable for 18 hours riding those earlier designs too!)
Later we heard about the banjo bolts that had too small an oil channel inside them, thus starving the top end for oil. I guess if you were able to ride 18 hours straight without seizing then the bike had already been repaired.

(I have uploaded the photo here because that Image Shack website put two pop overs that didn't want to go away in my face, forced me to watch an advertising video, and left a gambling website pop under behind. )

Behold! A young Hermskii wasting what's left of a rear tire. Just try to get away with that today.... the environmentalists would hunt you down!

[Hermskii]

Thanks for fixing that for me. yeah, that bike was one of the best decisions I ever made! Oh what fun it was for me. When I did finally sell it it was because i needed the money. I bought it used for 2,200 USD and sold it for the same amount several years later. It was my baby as they say. It is actually a longer story about selling it. This bike actually almost paid for itself twice.

[a nameless entity]

What year did those bikes come out? It was around 1984 wasn't it? I seem to recall being tempted to get one. Of course I was also tempted to buy the then still available unfaired Honda Goldwing for a mere $3000 in 1983, and that 5 valved 1985 Yamaha Fazer that the magazines were raving about. Man, they loved that engine. Luckily I held out and kept on saving for the hog. It was the best $10,800 before accessory add ons and taxes that I ever spent.

However, what I really wanted to mention was a new bike I saw reviewed in the November issue of Cycle World. It's the Honda 700X. It is a bike for the modern world. Go get the latest issue and read all about it. They did a very thorough review, and I believe you will be very favourably impressed. It seems to be much like the old Japanese "standard" bikes used to be. The Honda 700X has a nice upright riding position, and simple parallel twin engine. What really blew my socks off was the phenomenal 73 m.p.g. it gets per U.S. gallon. For those of us out in the world that use the British Imperial gallon, that equates to a mind blowing 87 miles per gallon.

I've often thought I might like to get an HD Sportster 1200 for a second bike, or perhaps a Triumph Bonneville. But they don't make the simple Sportster 1200 any more. So now it is down to the new Bonnie, or perhaps this incredible new Honda. I certainly must consider it, if I ever get the funds to buy a 2nd bike somehow.

[-SuPreMe-]

It sucks i never got it fixed. Well it was used to good use anyway,
the guy tho bought it used its useful parts to replace parts for his
and they're a dying breed now days all being written off lol.

I havent got a new bike yet im been caught up with life not been able to yet,
I will in the near future though for definite.

Cool photo herms

Heres a couple photos of it



Also i went too the British Super Bikes finals last weekend took some cool photos





my bad for image size

[Christopher]

Hey awesome to see that theres ppls working with mechanical stuff,I do it aswell beside UT
Yeah it sounds like its either your head gasket or it could aswell be your waterpump gasket:)