Love the story though, does she know you have it back?:wink:
Pretty sure my 86 still has the OEM cans on it, it is pretty quiet, bit stealth like, but you can feel the V4
Or you just move it outboard so it can get some airflow over it, but a 30/40 degree reduction is massive and it is heat that kills most of these...
I have fitted Oxford heated grips to a couple of bikes, beautiful, on number 4 you can't keep it there for too long, gets too hot, but fit a...
I have no idea how many rec/regs I have fitted over the years, cheap ones, expensive ones, failure rate I figure probably leans a bit to the cheap...
At the end of the day you have just as good a chance of a cheap rec/reg lasting as you do with one that costs an arm and a leg, only thing that is...
Love a happy ending
Billy, you got your animals a bit screwed up, Tassie Devils are not extinct yet, they are suffering badly from some form of cancer that could wipe...
Get it running first, the rest can all be fixed later, as for the rotors they can deterioate pretty fast, remember it is a Navy base, Navy base...
No way they stopped using Tasmania as a Penal Colony, must be over a 100 years ago by now :tongue-new:
Bet with a bit of fresh fuel and probably a squirt of Aerostart she would probably fire up, sitting for a year or two shouldn't be any problem if...
In general Tassie roads aren't wide and lots of twisties, beautiful motorcycle riding country, not a lot of traffic,millions of blind corners,...
Honda doesn't make rec/regs they build and assemble bikes, most likely they get the rec/regs made in China, India or Thialand , probably pay $1.50...
Geeze Randy only 28, I already had 18 up by the time you got married and she has never complained about my bikes
That factory is just up the road from where I live, they had 2 of them at the Vincent rally a few months ago, they do look good and sound even...
Last 2 posters can't blame the bikes, they were old,cheap and probably flogged to death by a string of previous owners
Spray starter fluid onto the air cleaner element and see if it fires, regardless of the carbs it should give an indication of firing and possibly...
Thanks for that about the washers, I only had 2 so they went on top of the springs
And seeing this is your first chain bike, if you are going to fit a new chain then fit new sprockets, old sprockets will chew out a new chain
Still have 4 bikes buy slowly starting to think Trike :courage:
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