Reading Assignment for Next Class:
Tuesday: Read Chapters 5, 6 & 7 of Zen for Tuesday
Thursday: Chapters 2 & 3 in Soul Craft
Summary of Last Lab
Francesco: We removed the swing arm.
Professor Littman: We had to remove the pin from the frame. The back end holds the rear wheel. Has a spring and a shock to keep the wheels on the ground.
Francesco: We got the pin out
Mikhael: We took the forks of a wheel support and dismantled it. Some rods weren’t coming loose, even after we broke a mallet hitting at it. Ended up using a blowtorch to loosen the structure.
Samone: Same thing. It was fun.
Sydney: Bottom end. The engine was in good shape, and there were a few new parts inside. The barrel and the head.
Professor Littman: For a purist, it looks wrong to have mixed models in a bike. Glen likes having higher performance parts, but that’s not true to the original bike.
Mun: Worked on bottom end as well. Worked to clean grease out of the sockets.
Mark: forks. hammered.
Max S: Used the arbor press.
Kate: Engine group.
Jamie: Worked to catalog the engine group.
Phil: Frames. Punched out pins.
Max B: Got the top end off of the bottom end.
Jay: Electrical worked around the engine and got familiar with the manual.
Caitlin: Forks frames & wheels
Colby: Pictures.
Mary Kate: Bottom end
Devon: Forks. Special tools.
Looking at illustration on handout, the single-piston model. It’s a 4-stroke engine. Intake, power, compression, exhaust.
Book Discussion
Mary Kate: Tack read a steady 9000- what’s a tack? It measures RPM
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Phil: Recognizes the ghost of Phaedrus during the storm.
Colby: Ghosts don’t exist.
Mikhael: Theory of gravity is equally extant.
Mark: The notion of something existing is largely up to our application of any given concept.
Jamie: Education is the induction of ideas into the reality of students.
Kate: There’s a huge amount in the bag. How does he make it fit? He also gets into the personalities of bikes and equipment.
Mun: The initial quality of a bike is inherent to a machine and is fixed.
Max: Talked about the values of technology and the connection between his gloves and the philosophy he has for maintaining his motorcycle.
M.G.S.