You inhaled what?!!

I found out something horrid this week about Lizzy. I pulled her air filter, so I could wash out the foam element. Turns out there was no foam filter. WTF!!! This is no good gang. Really bad indeed. How long has she been sucking in unfiltered air, dragging in chunks of dirt and accelerating them into her piston and cylinder wall at a velocity hellishly enhanced by internal combustion? I woke up in the middle of the night with nightmares about cylinder walls that look like Freddy Krueger was playing in there.

I got depressed, I'll be honest. A little bit of fixing up I am fine with - re-boring my cylinder wall, not so much. I did what any girl would do. I ate a lot of chocolate and read 512 pages of pure vampire smut - thank you J.R. Ward! Then I pulled myself up by the boot straps.

So I needed to order the filter. The Honda dealership in Rye doesn't stock it (surprise!) but they were friendly and will have it within the week. What to do in the meantime? I found a great site online that suggested making your own out of filter foam. Pep Boys didn't have it. Auto Zone didn't. KTM didn't. But the Honda guys had a huge filter for another bike that I could cut up. So I did.

That's right I got all Martha Stewart on the thing. I used a glue gun (two girl points to me!) and sealed the ends (sorry I can't remember the helpful site that suggested this). The foam was a little thick - but I can tell you this with absolute certainty -

Something is better than nothing.