OJ
Been Around the Block
Not sure where to put this as I'm not sure of the game plan yet. I am thinking tracker, but she may turn out to be a cafe racer or some mildly modified beauty. I am just at square one and first goal is to get this baby on the road. The plan is to really work on this over the winter, and see what kind of bike I have in May 2013.
I was really optimistic about being close to getting her registered, but I changed the spark plugs yesterday and she started idling crazy high at 3500-4000 rpm. She will calm down when twisting the throttle forward, but once I let go of the grip, it goes back to high rpm. I am fairly certain I didn't touch anything to cause this, but I'm a newbie so who knows. She also back fires quite a bit when trying to lower the idle rpm. This, and my online searches, make me think that it's ignition and carb sync. Oh and of course the left cylinder is not running properly or is dead. There's a spark, but it appears that there's no fuel going in there. The exhaust does warm up a bit, but it's definitely not running.
I did clean almost all the rust out the fuel tank and re-built the leaking petcock and just today mounted new Dunlop D404's on. I also had to replace some fuel lines. The clear fuel lines allow me to see that there's fuel coming from the petcock. I was told that mounting new tires on a motorcycle is really difficult, but it was more difficult to find tire irons than it was to actually swap the tires. No idea how these tires will work, but price steered me away from Avon's and Bridgestones. I asked the Honda dealer to mount the tires, but they would have charged $200 for this work...that's nuts in my opinion.
Tips and recommendations etc. ate welcome.
Here are some photos with new tires. I suppose these could be the before photos.
I was really optimistic about being close to getting her registered, but I changed the spark plugs yesterday and she started idling crazy high at 3500-4000 rpm. She will calm down when twisting the throttle forward, but once I let go of the grip, it goes back to high rpm. I am fairly certain I didn't touch anything to cause this, but I'm a newbie so who knows. She also back fires quite a bit when trying to lower the idle rpm. This, and my online searches, make me think that it's ignition and carb sync. Oh and of course the left cylinder is not running properly or is dead. There's a spark, but it appears that there's no fuel going in there. The exhaust does warm up a bit, but it's definitely not running.
I did clean almost all the rust out the fuel tank and re-built the leaking petcock and just today mounted new Dunlop D404's on. I also had to replace some fuel lines. The clear fuel lines allow me to see that there's fuel coming from the petcock. I was told that mounting new tires on a motorcycle is really difficult, but it was more difficult to find tire irons than it was to actually swap the tires. No idea how these tires will work, but price steered me away from Avon's and Bridgestones. I asked the Honda dealer to mount the tires, but they would have charged $200 for this work...that's nuts in my opinion.
Tips and recommendations etc. ate welcome.
Here are some photos with new tires. I suppose these could be the before photos.