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I'm sure quite a few of you will appreciate this piece of machinery. In 1885 Daimler and Maybach created an engine called the "Grandfather Clock" engine and built a two wheeled frame around it. This became the first Otto engined vehicle. Daimler's fourteen year old son was the first person to...

Anyone want to figure this one out? I went for a ride yesterday, everything was acting fine until I had to stop and turn around on a dirt rode. It died on me, and when I started it, it wouldn't idle at all, so I had to keep high rpm's all the way home. When I got there, I took apart my left carb...

This is starting to frustrate me. I've followed the carb adjustment procedure from the shop manual over and over, yet I can't seem to get the bike to idle lower than 2000 without it dying on me. Is there a better way to clean the jets? Am I adjusting wrong? I don't understand this, please set me...

This is my first motorcycle project. Turns out my grandpa's old bike was still in the barn after he quit riding it 20-something years ago, so I decided I should awake the beast from it's slumber. First thing I did was empty the tank and clean out both the fuel cock and carbs (thankfully the...