My ’97 RV is based on a Ford E-350 with a V-10 engine.  I missed my chance to get a photo of the mileage showing Pi.

It’s a good thing that water and solvent don’t mix. I have a really cool distilling solvent tank. It separates oil from the solvent with heat, leaving clean solvent. This solvent cost a lot but lasts a long time and there’s no expensive weekly service fee.

I let some water based solvent get into my system and it turned into a thick gooey mess. I was worried that I had ruined 20 gallons of $37 per gallon special solvent.

But solvent is less dense than water so it floats on top of water. I manhandled the system onto my motorcycle lift so I could raise it high enough to make siphoning easy. Then I tilted it so one corner would be the low point. Let it settle. Then siphoned the gooey mess out from under the solvent.

While I’m at it I’ll clean everything and mop the floor. All’s well that ends well. Thank you to Howard at CT-Industries for the advice and sympathy.  Howard has the $37 solvent, the other place wants $75.

With science and hard work you can fix any problem.

When racing in the Spring you have to clean a lot of bugs off your race bikes and gear. Customer bikes too. The Iceman Ninja collects another #1 plate to go with the bugs.

I won the WERA West Lightweight SS race on Sunday. I always tell my LE and Coaching clients to work on their consistency. Here are my laps time from this race: 1.43.44, .43.42, 43.31, 43.27, 43.32. A max spread of .17 seconds with the biggest one lap difference of .11 second and a smallest difference just two hundreds of a second. With my Coaching help you can do this too. Starting at $50 per day.

WERA owner, Evelyne Clarke presenting me with the 2016 WERA West F Superstock number one plate.  My first WERA race was the ’86 24 Hours of Willow Springs.

$200 for this new set of track day tires for 250/300/320/390 bikes. Bridgestone RS10. 110 front/140 rear. You pay shipping or pick them up from me this weekend at ACS in garage 61.

Derek contacted me with a common handling problem, the stock set up was made worst by poor advice he got from various sources. I gave him some different clicker and pre-load settings to try. He liked the changes, so he sent me his shock for LE valving and a stronger spring with less pre-load. I think he liked it:

“Ed,
Due to late winter weather I just got out on the bike today riding my 50 mile test loop. Profound difference in feel of the bike was evident immediately. Every aspect of the ride is improved. I feel no need at present to mess with your baseline settings as I never felt any dread feeling of being at the brink of losing grip or any cornering vagueness at any time during today’s test and I pushed harder today than I ever have. The shock as delivered more than covers my riding ability whereas the stock shock did not. The bike is a much safer ride now. This was the best bike mod money I’ve ever spent. Thanks Ed – you are truly very skilled.
Sincerely,
Derek”

People often wonder how I can make the set up so good on the first try. LE’s suspension theory is more complete than most. Pre-load and spring rate are worked out with math and the clickers just reflect the shim stacks I build.

The messing with my baseline settings Derek is talking about come from this Blog Post:

How to Adjust your Suspension

If you do this before and after you send me your job, you will have a way to judge how complete the LE Theory is.

If you see Derek, you can ask him.

Nope, they don’t wash themselves.  But they do dry on their own.