jacksonsmith
New Member
Hello to any and all that may read this,
Im fresh to the motorcycle world and have just recently (1 week ago) bought my self a road worthy bike to start learning the ins and outs on with.
In saying that, I have a few problems with my bike that need attention.
i picked her up for just under 2grand with 50,000+kms on it, im the third owner, it had been sitting in this guys garage for a year not running, it started first go, i registered it and took it on as a project and my main mode of transport.
The bike ran like a dream for the first few days, but then things started to go wrong. All instruments went out, lights, turn signals, taco, horn etc. The bike starts first go, but nothing works electrically aside from the speedo. I have a new reg/rec on the way, multimeter is here tomorrow so i can start eliminating things and find the root cause, but the more concerning thing to me is the amount of smoke my left exhaust has decided to start puking out when i start her.
I have been too afraid to ride it incase i blow it up and am waiting on tools to arrive so i can clean the carbs and check out the damage from its year of storage.
Any help and knowledge put forward is met with complete gratitude.
Im really just looking for some insight and opinions that anyone may have as to possible problems i should start investigating.
She is a great bike and im happy as larry to have her.
I did buy her from up a fair way from sea level, i live on the coast basically a few meters above sea level.
could this be a contributing factor?
Cheer legends
Jackson (AUSTRALIA)
Im fresh to the motorcycle world and have just recently (1 week ago) bought my self a road worthy bike to start learning the ins and outs on with.
In saying that, I have a few problems with my bike that need attention.
i picked her up for just under 2grand with 50,000+kms on it, im the third owner, it had been sitting in this guys garage for a year not running, it started first go, i registered it and took it on as a project and my main mode of transport.
The bike ran like a dream for the first few days, but then things started to go wrong. All instruments went out, lights, turn signals, taco, horn etc. The bike starts first go, but nothing works electrically aside from the speedo. I have a new reg/rec on the way, multimeter is here tomorrow so i can start eliminating things and find the root cause, but the more concerning thing to me is the amount of smoke my left exhaust has decided to start puking out when i start her.
I have been too afraid to ride it incase i blow it up and am waiting on tools to arrive so i can clean the carbs and check out the damage from its year of storage.
Any help and knowledge put forward is met with complete gratitude.
Im really just looking for some insight and opinions that anyone may have as to possible problems i should start investigating.
She is a great bike and im happy as larry to have her.
I did buy her from up a fair way from sea level, i live on the coast basically a few meters above sea level.
could this be a contributing factor?
Cheer legends
Jackson (AUSTRALIA)