Just bought my first bike, living in boston, need help, 1978 XS 750

Not sure you need new tire with alloy rims you may have tubless tires. if that's that case probably just need valve stem. At the most it's a tube you need to replace.
 
Sounds good I'm off to work real early tomorrow to get that wheel off, then its off to the tire shop as soon as i can get a ride. Hopefully this will all be sorted out by my day off on wensday.
 
mission accomplished, andersen cycle shop in framingham charged me $20 for the tube and $15 for labor. That place is real legit. Went for a 20 min ride today to have smoke coming from my top end, hopefully its the carb cleaner additive i put in my tank today. It prob isnt though I guess I should probably change the oil tomorrow as its going to be my last day off till next wensday.
 
Smoke from the breather can also be caused by too much oil in the engine. Just FYI for the upcoming oil change :)
 
It stopped smoking and I ride more and more everyday, that was weird. Thinking about buying some clubmans this week, mebe even something to hold my ipod in place - I keep getting lost and having to pull over in order to use GPS. I finally grounded my front turn signals so i think im finally going to get an inspection sticker on wensday aha 8)
 
Im almost excited for the winter to get here so I can sell of a bunch of my parts on ebay and customize the shit out of this thing,
 
Winter time has some decent deals on CL as well!! i'll be on the look out for another pair of rear sets by then and who knows what else!
 
When I bought my bike the front brakes were rubbing on the disks, I bled them and the cleaned the calipers and the problem went away. Its about 5 days later now and when I got on it this morning they began to rub again. Any Ideas??? I gotta get to work and it feels dangerous as shit.
 
wobblesauce said:
When I bought my bike the front brakes were rubbing on the disks, I bled them and the cleaned the calipers and the problem went away. Its about 5 days later now and when I got on it this morning they began to rub again. Any Ideas??? I gotta get to work and it feels dangerous as shit.

The Old Lines Can get Murky Quick your gonna want to Flush the entire system sounds like you may have had some water get in there sounds impossible but does happen
 
http://www.xs650.com.... im in new bedford homie, if you ever need any ideas feel free to hit me up. in the meantime checkout the site
 
I'd suggest forgetting about all the bar and seat options and just get it running right and ride it. It's a nice clean bike to start whatever you end up doing with it. if it's not already too late, try to resist tearing it apart and grinding stuff off that you may need later.

Ride it and service it and get it running nicely and then when you have a few thousand miles on new tires is the time to think about upgrades and modifications. I don't know where all the "build" B/S came from, but it's not necessary or even desirable if you want a bike to ride. If you want an art project to sink surplus funds and time into and have endless patience, then start a "build".

Focus on getting it running sweetly so you can ride it. That's what motorcycles were designed for :)
 
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