In true Russian fashion, now that we have gotten Smutyanka running, she has started dropping parts.
I was driving around the parking lot this afternoon, practicing my right-hand turns (which are difficult on a sidecar, because 70% of the weight of the bike is on the left, where the centrifugal force is on a RH turn) [...]
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The first casualty of the parking lot…
New Battery
Marc and I have hopefully figured out what was plaguing Smut’ka: a dead battery.
When she was delivered last Tuesday, she started up fine in the morning. But, when we tried to start her that evening, it was just a lot of fruitless kicking, and she wouldn’t turn over. We checked Soviet Steeds, and most folks [...]
