“only half way through the month of June and already it sucks…”
so many things surmounting to a good ‘ol depressing and heartbreaking time…
the most impacting to my way of life… lifestyle… etc…. is my bike….
okay… here’s my theory as to what has happened:
First of all, Mice have been chewing through my wires, especially my ignition wires…
My temperature gauge seems to be staying too low lately… like at the bottom low…
I don’t know if someone was broken? loose? or chewed through?
about two weeks earlier (10-15 days), i had to change my oil, because i didn’t know what kind of oil was in there, i decided it’s best to just change all the oil (and the filter since i had one)… i didn’t want to accidentally mix natural and synthetic oil…
on wednesday night, after a long long day…. getting off work after 8pm… I was heading home…
when i left the office’s parkade in false creek… the low oil pressure light went on…
typically in a automobile, when the light goes on, it’s okay.. you don’t have to worry about it unless it stay on… on the bike… most people say that i shouldn’t worry about it unless the engine is warm or the light stays on above 2000 rpm
if you know your vancouver geography… you’ll know that from the false creek side of the granville street bridge to the stanley park causeway is not very far… if you read my previous post… my bike started making a strange sound and loosing power, so i pulled over…
the oil i had in my bike was a 5W50 synthetic… (the same weight as what burnaby kawasaki put into the bike when they had serviced it with the previous owner… but that was in the fall). Apparently, automotive oils are intended for lower compression engines that spin up to about 6000 rpm –with this bike you have to be above 8000 rpm… and i ride 8000 - 15,500 rpm (where the rev limiter is). Most people say using automotive oil should always be sufficient… not great, but sufficient… extra longer term wear to the clutch is of greater concern in using automotive oil than loosing viscocity from higher compression…
my theory is that the sensor for the temperature gauge is the same sensor that tells the liquid cooling system when, how long, how often to operate… and with out adequate cooling with a racing engine, it burned off extreme amounts of oil (without blue smoke or anything noticed along those lines); with all the oil burned up, the oil level in the engine became critically low… critically damaging the engine 
:( most non kawasaki 250 people seem to never realize that it’s such a pain to check the oil level…. there’s a little window you have to look through to see the level BUT the bike needs to be upright and that center stand is a bitch to get on…
Pistons, Crankshaft, Cylinders, and all the Berrings need to be replaced =(
My options:
- Get new parts: at least $2800 PLUS 2-3 MONTHS!! to get the parts from japan!! (this is too expensive in time and cost! and I cannot take this option… it’ll be August before i’d be able to ride again… and i wouldn’t afford to flee the country to taiwan, korea, and (maybe) japan in december…)
- Find a used engine: this option may still cost be about $2000?? depending on cost of the engine, IF i can find one in good condition… but at least it won’t necc take till August!
- Sell the bike for parts and Buy another bike: if the second option is expensive… this may be the more financially reasonable option of the two… but is certainly heartbreaking to say goodbye to my first bike that way…
- Sell the bike for parts and not get another bike at this time: might be the most financial ok option? but certainly sucks not being able to ride… but if all these repairs are going to stop me from travelling to taiwan & korea and moving to japan… maybe i can buy a ZZR400 in japan? (Monica has already scolded me a few times for mentioning this option… )
This is certainly depressing and heartbreaking =(
happening two days after my father was in an accident smashing up his car…. my old car blowing a seal in february…. transportation has gotten really crappy lately…
Laptop has died =( Being burnt out, tired, exhausted, no Transport and no laptop has seriously hindered my productivity ~____~
there’s been a lot of problems, setbacks, issues, conflicts so far this month… i cannot even think of anything good this month so far ~___~
“It is said that what is called `the spirit of an age` is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world’s coming to an end. For this reason, although one would like to change today’s world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation” -Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure, written in the dying age of the samurai
sometimes i don’t know what this world is coming to…. it always feel like we’re in a state of constant decline…
the kids are getting skankier, disillusioned, and disrespectful… everywhere around us… everything seems ruder, more violent, less caring, less open… just tonight… my friend was called out in emmergency because people were harassing then attacking his sister and her friends… the one that’s in the hospital now… i hope he will be okay…. i hope my friend will be okay, after having to get involved in the fight… it seems like all the time i hear about all these bad things that are happening….
yet woman love to date jerks and assholes who won’t respect them, will treat them like shit, use & abuse them… (a number of female friends have admittedly confirmed this to be true)… what kind of fucked up world do we live in??
i think i need to meet more people…
when i was in university I was constantly meeting tons of new people…
so it was always easy meeting people that i wanted to be friends with…
but now, i don’t meet many people anymore, nor have the time to be meeting many people….
and even the people i do know… so many feel like aquaintances… i wonder if i’m wasting my time with them?
even my friends, i rarely see many people anymore… Craig, Pardeep, and Monica… i see on a fairly regular basis… but that’s about it…
yarr!!
Zizi! Please please take care!! Miss ya! We gotta plan a bibimbop and katsu curry night when you’re back!
Taehwa! gong-ju-nim! miss you!! how is the patent place? I can’t wait to see you in December =) �ｳｵ�｣ｼ�鋸,�笈�ｰ �ｷｸ�ｦｬ�寥
Candy! everything will be okay… take care! December is only 5 1/2 months away =)
Pralle! Muu~! saaaawwaaaaaaadddeeeeeee^_____^ beppu de takusan shashin wo totte!!
Jenny Kimchi you better still be around in december =P
Pei-Tien I’ll get your name perma-changed!
Scott I think i can identify now with you when you first became bikeless and had no transport… in these shitty times… riding can be the only good thing… and now without that…it’s rather crushing…
Pardeep, Lionel InitialD movie!!
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