are you ready for this? ...
God bless them and everyone within forty miles of them. My case of oil came in the mail yesterday. I went straight out to the garage, (ok, I was already in the garage) drained the oil tank, filled it with klotz (smells good right out of the bottle, too!) and went for a ride to get the old oil out of the injector lines and the new oil in. Sadly, once the bike is warm it hardly smokes at all. Kawasaki put some effort into being as emmisions friendly as possible with the later models, but that's nothing I can't fix. Two screws remove the injector cover and you can manually hold the throttle actuated lever wide open until it smokes like a boatload of hippies going to bong island. Pure heaven. Ladies, if you want to be absolutely irresistable (to whack-jobs like the guy in the upper left corner) find some burning castor bean oil perfume. I didn't think to take a picture of the smoke cloud and it's too windy this morning, maybe some other time.
Here's what my poor neighbors have to put up with:
1. Deisel truck warming up at 5:30 am every weekday.
2. Triumph with straight pipes coming and going at all hours.
3. Noxious and worrisome two-stroke smoke on Saturday morning.
4. Black Sabbath at high volume every Sunday morning.
But it kinda evens out since they do have the luxury of living next to the neighborhood's only authentic dirt yard. Plus there's plenty of spares (that's spare parts to the rest of you uncultered americans) strewn about said yard in case anyone needs something.