Recent content by markmatt

Can't remember when the meet up time is but if you google chinontank their website should pop up. Lots of good info on there as well

haha i knew it. after i posted this, i was heading into the city and went by your bike to see if id catch ya. thanks for the complement. i love the bike, but iv got some serious top end issues at the moment. smoking out the right cylinder. stuck valve adjuster. yea the weekly vintage ride is...

and my honda btw.

oh bud i know your bike. you live near that warehouse. i see your bike and another black honda parked in the same spot every day. im out on 48th and brown which is south of lancaster just a little ways. we should all meet up. my bikes out of commission at the moment though unfortunately.

hahaha. well, math was never my strong suit. you'd think i could at least count though.

alright ill bite. what am i not seeing.

it does. as far as i know. and i actually just started breaking down a parts engine that has good innards as well just in case.

im curious as to how you got the valves out. im about to be in the middle of this myself with my 500t

Well it clearly had been exposed to some moisture. there was that green colored kind of corrosion all around it. I am going to take another wack at dissecting that. yea generally what you guys are saying is what everyone else has said. by exhaust guide do you mean valve guide(exhaust side)...

how are they performing? did you have to rejet?

its ok bud. i bought my very first bike, the one i have now, for 3500(way too much for a 500t). the guy i bought it from said it needed a battery and gas and i believed him i spent 14 months replacing the transmission, shifter forks, gaskets, stater, wiring, fixing a busted exhaust, cables were...

So to further introduce myself, i come to you fine fellows with what my woes are at the moment. To make a really long and embarrasing story short my bike was running well and then because of some forseeable circomstances, it wasnt! what i was left with after the fact was a burning right...

mine :)

hey bud, i just joined today and i also am a philly guy. i live out in west philly, but i spend a lot of time over in fishtown on frankford.

how do you like those pipes? iv wondered about doing something to get rid of the box between the pipes that yours does not have.