Rantings of a Lunatic

Well, that’s my guess anyway. I made it back to my friend’s house after work today, and took a look at the bike. I will post pictures later, but apparently the radiator hose was touching one of the exhaust headers, which combined withseveral other factors set it up for catastrophic failure. I have no idea if the hoses have ever been changed, and the bike is 22 years old, so that alone can be devastating. The fact that I pretty much walked the bike 2.5 miles in standing traffic couldn’t have helped. Anyway, the end result is a hole in the hose approximately the width of a pencil. The good news is that the hose should be under $10 I would think, and then a bottle of coolant will be another $6. And it should only take a Phillips head, an 8mm socket, and a bucket to repair the damage, and get it back on the road, and I am currently estimating about a half hour of work. Now, to be honest, that’s all contingent on this analysis of the problem, which seems pretty safe to me. There is the possibility that the water pump blew or something like that, but I am in a mood to think the simplest solution is probably the most likely.