New (left) and old (right) mount

I took the bike to a second mechanic – an authorized Kawasaki one to be sure about the state of the engine after running out of oil upon arrival in Puerto Vallarta.  He revved the engine for a few minutes and then told me it would require adjusting the valve clearance which would stop the ticking noise and also that the cam lobe would need to be adjusted.  I wouldn’t need any new parts and it would take a day and cost about $1,000 pesos (< $100 CDN) and that I can drive it – “But don’t return to Canada” with a sarcastic grin.

The second part of the morning was spent eating two fish tacos at the taco stand in the neighbourhood and taking my snapped GPS mount to a soldering shop just near the taco stand.   He wasn’t able to solder the snapped aluminum plate and bolt back to the bolt atttached to the rubber ball. So he looked around at the scrap metal all over the place and pickup up a flat piece of metal, a metal rod, and a metal ball of the approximate size and proceeded to cut the rod to one inch, drill two screw holes in the flat metal, cut the flat metal and bend it to go around the handlebar on the bike, and soldered the ball and plate to the ends of the cut rod.

For $100 pesos  (< $10 CDN) and in 35 minutes he had manufactured (from scrap) a replacement mount for less than the cost of the mass produced original and did it happily, on the spot, without any extra waiting on my part.  This was my second experience with metalworking shops in Mexico and if anything happens to my bike mechanically I want it to be in Mexico where the workmen are far better than in Canada or the US.

Beached Mum, San Francisco, MX

Near Cathedral, PV, MX	Jacarrandas Flat, PV, MX	Fruit, PV	Beach Mum, San Francisco, MX
San Francisco, MX	New (left) and old (right) mount (left)	Services of PV, MX	Winding Staircase
Stairwell	Mum Above Olas Atlas	Rio Cuale, PV, MX	Cathedral PV
	Sand Sculptures Apparently	Man in a tree

Puerto Vallarta to Punta Mita, San Pancho, MX