ok i gotta give a little ride update. And before i say anything, i think this was the last time i’m gonna ride it this year before doing something serious to fix it.
I needed to go to the hardware store so i hopped on and it actually was feeling better than it normally does, like i may have had an extra 500 rpm in each gear i don’t know why though. And then of course i almost got hit again the exact same place and way i did last time. At least this woman was nice and pulled up to me to say sorry.
Anyways i was riding back and decided to continue on to a stretch of road i like. It was doing pretty good, and i was getting better with my engine braking so i was using that more. I got all the way back to my town with no issues, i think it was like 30 total miles today. But when i was engine braking in 4th down from 5th it felt more strained than usual.
I really dont like engine braking in anything under fourth gear it feels awful like it’ll explode or something. And then i looked down and i don’t even know what is sitting rattling around my exhaust tube
here’s a picture
NO clue what that is or where it came from. My only guess would be the new graphite exhaust gasket. I don’t know how to explain how, but it felt different for the next minute i rode back home, maybe it was just the rattling of that thing that made me think that.
And to top it all off when i got off to look there was a small amount of smoke. I don’t know where it came from but it was around the carburetor area
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