Was able to get out Sunday and go for our maiden voyage in the topless Clyde. It was a beautiful day with sunshine, temps around 80 and it wasn't raining, for the "T's" first introduction to the village streets. The wife and I took drive around the southern side of town, stopped and got some gas and just enjoyed the ride. After that our daughter and her fiancé came over and I took them both for a short ride around the neighborhood, put a total of about 9 miles of travel on Clyde.
He ran very well, and the wife remarked that he seemed a lot quieter than her father’s '22 touring, to which I agreed as you could clearly hear the coils buzzing away, but I don't have a cover for the coil box and we didn't get much above idle speed in high gear as we were on residential streets. Shifting in high gear is not as smooth as her dad's "T", with a fair amount of rough chatter. Transmission brake was fairly good but could use a little tweak and need to adjust for a better larger neutral position on the brake lever as there is not much movement between having the rear brakes on and before high gear kicks in. No major territory marking just a little oil from the rear of the transmission at the ball joint.
Need to get the new top on, pretty warm sitting in the sun. Hopefully we have finally arrived at warmer and dryer weather and we will have many more enjoyable days of driving.
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