{"id":10,"date":"2025-07-01T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-08-25T21:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:00:18","slug":"august-10th-2025-here-i-am-catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/august-10th-2025-here-i-am-catching-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>August 10th, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here I am catching up on the bike and the events over July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started by stripping down<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" data-id=\"331\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_9747.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_9747.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_9747-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" data-id=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_9748.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_9748.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_9748-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>you can see that I removed the Gas tank, seat and the cover over the Battery compartment.&nbsp; The Gas tank was not fully mounted and was an easy lift off while the battery cover had just the one bolt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The seat is another story as it certainly had not foam inside and when tilted back and forth it sounded like rust moving back and forth.&nbsp; I was somewhat concerned it was the seat pan, but of course that looked reasonably ok from the bottom. I would have to take the cover off and see what it was like inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was not going to strip it down too much at this point as this was the beginning of my restore and I had at least a rough idea of my plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Step 1.&nbsp; I wanted to get the bike engine running as a first step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Step 2.&nbsp; Remove the drive train (engine) from the frame and then start the methodical restore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Step 3.&nbsp; Put it back together<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Step 4.&nbsp; Get registered legally (plated) and enjoy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 10th, 2025 Here I am catching up on the bike and the events over July. I started by stripping down you can see that I removed the Gas tank, seat and the cover over the Battery compartment.&nbsp; The Gas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/august-10th-2025-here-i-am-catching-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}