Bushmonkey

1998 zr 500 I bought from my brother in high school. He had it for a couple years, didn't give him trouble aside from a crack in a cylinder that leaked coolant on the outside. He went off to university so I bought it and discovered the bulkhead had so many broken welds there were only two welds remaining that held the front suspension on. Rivets on the belly pans is what kept it together. I stripped it down, replaced the bulkhead. Replaced the cylinder. Decided to upgrade the sled when I put it back together. Needed a new clutch, I installed zr3 front suspension, added new running boards, did post forward mod. Worked on it all summer when I was 16, got it running for winter. Took it for a ride, and the damn thing started burn coolant 5 miles from home. Towed it home, put new o rings on the head. Same issue. That's how I found hcs, discovered the head was warped. Put a new head on, was running out if money though. Ran good, then it would intermittently die on me and leave me stranded. Fucking stator was going! I couldn't afford to replace it, so I parted the sled out as I needed money for college. I've had reliability worries ever since. I also have a very kean sense of smell for antifreeze now.

I've always been lucky to be able to ride from home. Even when I lived in my apartment in Thompson I would ride to work. I just chained my sled to the parking lot divider in my assigned parking spot during the night. Had to sled to work for 3 months before my truck was finished at the bodyshop after being t-boned! Northern cities are pretty sled friendly

I thought maybe hcs was just taking its time getting busier for the sledding season, but there really hasn't been much of an increase in activity (at least the forums I browse). FB kind of sucks in the sense you can't easily search for old topics that might answer your questions, and the crowd in my local area's fb sledding group seems like it's full of douchebags. Anyways, it's cool how FS kept its door open for HCS peeps