Bravo progress

So the seat....

needs a little work.

Started with some new sliders for the track and rebuilding the rewind

Easier to do with the engine removed

 Also had to get at the busted engine mount

Then we cleaned the carb

which led us to remove whatever the gas had turned into over the past years

 turns out that one of the jets is so clogged up we just grabbed another one.

 After a bit of problems with some wiring it is back together and running great!

All that is left is to get a kill switch, redo the seat.... and oh yea weld the cracks in the frame.

That's some optimal muleage!

Bravo!

Keno's been working up north flyin' snow geese and dropping fuel, pepsi, and ripple chips on every ice flow north of La Ronge for a while now. He's been buggin' me to lend him the Murder Van so he can transport an uber mule of a sled up there so he has something to putt around on until spring. But I'm pretty sure the Murder Van's not quite ready for the abuse that a northern trek would put on'er and I can't afford to not have it running in it's optimal Muleage state. However, today Davey and I sprung the Yammy Bravo Mule from the ground so it can make a mystical journey up north later this week.

First we borrowed the ever faithful Elmer, Keno's community Silverado and head out to the valley where Bravo Mule lays baked in the sun and dirt. But of course Keno hooks us up with an empty truck, so first stop is the 7-11 for gas and ...welll... toquitos of course.


We get out to the farm ok and try starting the Bravo Mule, but it's not happening. I mean even if this thing does make it up north I can't see it getting him too far. It's enough to make even Lee a little nervous. Optimal muleage is one thing, but...

So we hoist it into the back, throw a chain around the skis and head back to town.


Feeling pretty good about the whole thing and thinking we'd made good time, we figure this means Keno owes us a frosty beverage.

So after all that, I think a slow and condescending clap is in order...Bra...vo!

Lineup's continued

Line'n up my summer fun today too.


His and hers dirt mules. Both fired and smokin'. Love 2-strokes. Now primed with opTimal Muleage. DT got new rubber front and back donated by the Kawa 125 I sacrifice over winter.


Pulled the styro out of the shed window today and let POMmie drink in a little Vitamin D.

Optimal muleage week

Today's optimal muleage...got a million and one things done this week. just some of the 20%

Frame's stripped, bondo'd (as much as it's gonna be), sanded, and ready for primer (high build as suggested).

Two wassell tanks are sanded and bondo'd and ready for primer.

This one looks like a clubbed baby seal. Hahahah yeah, I think that's funny, no I've never actually clubbed one myself...yet.

Some warmer weather allowed me to get a peak at Dale and pull the left side exhaust to harvest the other shorty pipe for the cherry bombs on pommie. Can't wait to pull Dale inside this spring and pull him apart for a cleaning and some upgrades.

Hillbilly Hullaballoo

Great weekend. Beautiful weather, quads, dirtbikes, whiskey, mule's, canoes, patrone, old Milwaukee, guns, ice, and hot tubs just to name a few.

Du Keeps welcomes you to the Little Cabin in the Woods bike shop.

Another creature emerges from the Little Cabin in the Woods Zombie factory.


Leaky valve make smoke, fowl plug, make putt putt. New plug makes for optimal muleage.

Funny dirt bike clutch ends up being not so funny.
Now on the to do list for Little Cabin Industries.

Fuck it let's kill shit.

spent



This is how we roll in the SK in November. Breakin' through.

More to do's for Du Keeps' 550, but it's lookin' killer. Gonna be a right rippin' Hooligan.

Optimal Muleage

So yesterday on my way home the whammy breaks (caused by leaking axle seals) actually locked up and would not let go. I dragged a screeching tire half a block before it let go.


Sooo today with a 5 dollar can of brake cleaner I "fixed" the stick. Good lord there was a lotta rubbery grease piled up behind those drums.
I've also coined a new phrase here on the Mule. "Achieving Optimal Muleage". This is done by performing the absolute minimum amount of work and spending the minimum amount of money while consuming the maximum amount of beer possible to keep your Mule on the road. That's it. If it was easy, cost nuthin' caused a hangover and it'll need fixin again in less than a month, you have achieved optimal muleage.