The Hodaka Club Forum

Got my copy via email! Anyone else get theirs??? Victor

Yes, indeed. Captain Eddie asked some weighty and not so weighty questions. I'm thinking it might be fun and even useful to hear some answers here on the forum. I've numbered the questions for easy reference, then answered as best as I could. Looking forward to hearing from others.

1 - How do they stick the Teflon to the frying pan?
2 - Is anyone else starting to think Dr. Paul R. Ehrlich was right?
3 - Why is a single “Sanitary Tee” the right fitting for a lavatory sink, but a “Double Sanitary Tee” NOT the right fitting for a double lavatory sink installation? (Don’t bother to answer...
4 - As the clutch friction disks wear in a Hodaka clutch, does freeplay of the
clutch lever at the engine increase or decrease? (and what should you do about it?)
5 - Are the days of edited, organized Club Newsletters over? Replaced by online social
media stream of consciousness communication?
6 - When the current group of long-serving volunteers, who have “made things happen” for
decades in the Hodaka Club, decide (or are forced) to focus on other priorities - who will take their place to “make things happen”?
7 - Does the following concept actually work? “Slow down. You’ll go faster.”
8 - If you are getting passed in the corners, will more horsepower solve your problem?

Answers - sort of -
1 - Careful with assumptions, detached thinking can be the mechanic's best friend.
How do we know that they don't stick the frying pan to the Teflon?
2 - Yes, it is looking like he was right, only he got some time frames wrong. Depressing.
3 - I know, but you said don't bother to answer, so...
4 - Notice this clutch question has two parts - First part, who knows? Second part, open a clutch thread on this forum!
5 - No, surely not. I promise to contribute a project to the Resonator. Soon.
6 - Younger Hodaka Heroes, who are about to come forward. Remember heroes are made not born. Surely they are out there! Wish I was younger.
7 - Yes, absolutely, yes. Whether riding over my head and crashing, or hurrying through a task and not getting it right, - “Slow down. You’ll go faster.”. My corollary for mechanics, take time to really understand a mechanism, even a simple mechanism, before trying to repair it.
8 - Yes, more horsepower is always the answer, otherwise we might have to admit our own limitations.

- Stever

Ha! There's proof! I have a reader of my column!

Ed

I read it too.

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