[MEairheads] Fwd: Northeast Airheads - Socially Distancing Tech Day

Sun Apr 12 09:46:04 EDT 2020

Tim is much better at this stuff than I am.  He sent along this update 
this morning.

Happy Easter to you all!  And I hope you all have power back!

Best!

Nik
Maine A/M

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Northeast Airheads Regional Events

  Tim Hille

Hello Northeast Airheads -

First of all - My family across the country and here at home is MA are 
all healthy and doing our part to keep others that way - Social 
Distancing and all that stuff.  I hope you are all safe and healthy too.

My personal vigil for this situation is that I vow not to trim or shave 
my beard until we get the all clear on COVID-19.  We shall see how long 
I can keep that up.  At last as long as I continue to work from home and 
am not forced to do video conferences with the office.

Remember the good old days when Airheads would ride their bikes to a 
common gathering with their local members and help each other learn and 
improve our machine performance.

The Spring season is one of the most popular times for this type of 
activity.

Well, Out of an /Abundance of Optimism/ I have not yet canceled any of 
our events that are still outside the dates of guidance from local 
authorities.  But I have to admit the May Swap Meet is highly unlikely, 
well, let's just say it is canceled.

Like many of you, I have been occupying myself with an ubancance of 
projects in my shop.  As a member said recently in an email to me, 
"Thank God for the shop" - I have others I would thank as well including 
my wife who lately is even more happy to see me disappear into the shop 
for hours on end.

See below some images of my shop projects to wet your appetite and 
inspire you.

*How do we get prepared for the season that will come given the current 
**circumstances - */See below for plans of Socially Distant Tech Days/

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Tech Day 2019 - Tucson AZ Beemer Works...
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My shop time is spent on Airhead and other tasks -

Zombie Apocalypse Getaway Rig -

Rally Rig - I retooled my 1957 TeeNee Boat Trailer form a 6 boat Kaya 
rig to be the Airhead Hauler for my Wall-E the Westy Rally Rig.  Planned 
premier event was YB Frosty Nutz, not sure that will happen, so other 
plans are in the works.

Tank - A friend hooked me up with a Sport Tank for my /2, so I have been 
fitting it and doing proper reconditioning, while retaining the retina 
so that it does not make the rest of the bike look bad - keep the 
scratches and chips, but reserve what is there, and relining the tank 
with Red Kote - I will share results as progress continues.

Tank ready for Red Kote - Thanks for the some guidance from Ande - 
@barrington_motor_works

Spring Tune Up - My R90 was exhibiting hard starting behavior near the 
end of last season, so that is what Spring Tech day is for - Valves, 
Timing, and Carbs, the triple hit for each bike for the season.

So, here is the big news - I will not let the current state of the world 
curb my enthusiasm for Airhead camaradarie - We can now take full 
advantage of the social distance of social media for the better.  I will 
be hosting with the assistance of my son who is stuck at home with me 
for the balance of his senior year of college host a series of live Tech 
Day sessions.  We will broadcast live over Instagram, so get your 
accounts setup, and follow me @airmarshalma to watch and interact live.

I am proposing the following sessions based on work I am planning to do 
myself and likely have others who need to do them.

Session 1 - Spring Tune R90/6

  * Valve adjustment
  * Oil & Filter Change
  * Timing adjustment
  * Carb Tuning

I will see how much I can do in each of a series of 1 hour sessions.

Session 2 - Carb Tune on R69S

This will be my first ever attempt at this, so it will be like a real 
learning together session and we can learn and make mistakes together, 
but hopefully more learning with few mistakes.  We all learn best from 
our mistakes.

Session 3 - Member request.  Send me a suggestion and I will see if I 
can make it happen.  I have the following bikes to work on as fodder for 
ideas -

1962 R69S
1974 R90/6
1976 R90/6
1979 R65 - The wife's bike and it does not get a lot of miles...
1988 R100 GS
1967 BSA Starfire 250 Single

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I really hope you are all making plans to attend the */Black Bear 
Americana Music/* fest this fall, it is shopping up to be the Airhead 
event of the season.  See the Web site and Airmail for more details.  We 
will need this event more than ever this year, make your plans now.

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