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Over the years, I’ve owned several motorcycles that were dropped or laid down by previous owners, damaging the engine covers. (I've done my share of damage, but never holed a cover.)
One was a CBR600 with a stator cover so ground down, it read “HON.” I also owned a Yamaha with an “aftermarket” starter inspection hole.
If the cover’s the only casualty, it’s not a big deal. I can send $30 or whatever to some eBayer a few states over and have an adequate used cover delivered by the weekend. If I’m feeling extra fancy, I can order a gasket for a couple bucks, too. Look at Mr. Moneybags over here!
In all seriousness, it’s easy to take all that for granted. Not everyone can just order new parts and move on. I’d like you to meet a very industrious rider I found. He crashed his bike (note the bandaged foot) and cracked an engine cover. Except his repair doesn’t involve buying somebody else’s parts. Nope, a ladle of molten metal soup is all he needs to get back on the road.
In stark contrast to your garden-variety, North American motovlogger, our humble metal master doesn’t say a word for the entire video. No fancy camera work, no product placement, no gratuitous anything. Just a guy making bike parts so he can get back on the road.
Yet this simple video is about to clear seven million views and was only posted about two weeks ago. All we know, from the description, is that “he had an accident when he was going somewhere on his motorcycle and got hurt. He broke his motorbike engine cover and decided to metal cast his own. His foot was injured.”
I checked out the rest of the channel, and saw that the guy also cast his own brake shoes. Bold. Whatever it takes to keep riding, right?
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