Zombie Apocalypse on Wheels

Do you know why the zombies always lose?  Because they gimp around on foot.  Clearly you can't conquer anything on foot.  What the zombies need is a car.  What kind of car would a zombie drive?  One that's come back from the dead of course.

On an almost unrelated note...

Today I put 60 miles on The Triumph.

That's more miles than it's seen in a long time.  How long?  It last left its garage in the Fall of 2007.  (For this picture.)  And even then it had to be pushed because trying to start it resulted in a quart of fuel on the floor.  At the time I figured I'd fix it when I got around to it.

I got around to it 4 1/2 years later.

By then its gas was 6 years old.  The tank came out, the carbs came off, the fuel filter and some of the lines were replaced.  It could have been worse.  In the end the fuel leak was caused by bad o-rings on the float bowls.  But 6 years of storage meant a little more work was required.  Most of the fluids were flushed, rubber hoses replaced, and some minor electrical work done.

The "recent" entries in the log book now look like:

   Date     Mileage
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2004-03-12  141127
2004-05-13  141338
2005-05-30  141524
2006-05-15  141692
2006-06-03  141790
2006-06-03  141873
2012-06-02  141894

Which means in the 8 years it's been in Seattle (it arrived in March 2004) it's covered less than 1000 miles.  But there is hope on the horizon.  I woke up this morning to see this weather forecast: