Old Car and Bike rambling

My gixxer carbs are pretty much sorted out. During the spring I thought I would use some prefilters (made from my son's old tShirt) over the pods to create additional restriction to increase vacuum and increase slide lift. Unfortunately this needed to be removed once the weather warmed up because the bike started to run a bit too rich and I was stalling coming to a stop. No flat spots. Easy cold starts. Significant performance improvement and I'm still seeing approximately 41mpg. The old girl runs real nice now and the only things I need to address are the windshield angle, fuel line routing, front fork seal leaking (even though I've replaced it 2 times already.) I replaced the rear wheel bearing a few weeks ago and had trouble doing the swap. The factory service manual states to fully seat the bearings, but for my 750, I discovered that the drum side bearing cannot be fully seated inorder to get everything properly installed on the other side of the wheel. Pictures of the...

My 1991 Audi 200Q 20v is about as rare as a Porsche Carrera GT with around 1-2,000 ever made in the whole world. Unfortunately it doesn't have the same desireability as the 2 corvettes (late 50s and late 60s by the look of the sillouhette under the moldy covers) slowly rotting around the corner from where I live. My center muffler rotted out last month and I went looking around for someone who could bypass the muffler for me because I didn't want to spend the money on it while I try to drive it into the ground. Stopped by my old mechanic who refused to work on her roughly 8 years ago because he didn't like tying up his bay waiting for parts. He drives an 89 200 Quattro. Stopped by my current mechanic and his son is finished with the ersatz S2 engine transplant and is now taking the engine from a 94 S4 and putting it into an Audi 4000 Quattro. He drives a 94 S4 also. During this time I also had a guy come and buy a set of old Ronal wheels off me and he had 3 200 20vs all in ...