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Pulled the '79 out of storage after 5 years of no action. New battery & fiddling for 20 minutes with the janky oem fuse box (glass tube fuses) and it fired up on the third revolution... on 5 year old gas! I did give the tank the 'ol smell test, and it smelled fresh, to my surprise. But, I was...

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Mig welding is the way to go. It's like an adult glue gun, but with metal. Make sure you clean the area you plan to weld down to bare metal for good clean contact and less impurities in the weld. After, just grind and sand the weld smooth to match the frame, and hit it with the paints so it...

I'm 6'0" and the only thing I feel I need to change to make the stock bike comfortable, is to get straighter, lower bars. But, I think most of it comes to personal preference. I agree that they are okay for short rides (at any speed), but anything over 30 minutes puts stress on the wrists. I...

Went for a midnight ride. 70 degrees, thunderstorm rolled through about an hour ago, quiet...even for my little city. Beautiful night to get the bike out after a (rather ghetto) repair to an almost 2 piece muffler. I had been driving across town earlier this month, and whilst launching over...

Rode across town to visit my brother. On the return trip I noticed the bike got much louder whenever I hit a sizeable bump. Rolled up to my garage and found out my factory original muffler had gone from bulging in places, to split in half and hanging on by a sad little flap of metal. When I...

Hell. Glad to hear you are okay. I've seen a standing body hit with a pickup at 40 mph and it is not pretty to watch. You have been pretty inspirational to my future plans and it's a serious downer to see you and your bike out of commission. I'm glad to hear you aren't giving up on bikes...

The bolt clamping the brake pedal has to come out completely if you want to pull the pedal off to rotate it to a different position on the shaft.

Lol. The camo frogs are so terribly out of place. Leather stitching looks good.

Agreed.

I was being overly dramatic about the output shaft. It shouldn't be easy at all in first and gets progressively easier as gears go up because of the ratios and torque and whatnot. A fresh clutch, properly adjusted will kind of make the rear wheel drag and bounce as you push the bike. At least...

Try jumping the wires to the front switch. I assume it's a momentary switch that completes the circuit rather than breaking the circuit, so jumping the wires should cause the tail light to illuminate and stay lit until you disconnect the wires. Then you will know if it's the switch, or something...

Well...I can only speculate. I would check to make sure you can freely spin the engine by hand several times to make sure you have valve clearance / nothing obstructing the pistons and crank. Then check your clutch adjustment and set it proper. Then try to firmly, but not forcefully, press the...

So, engine spins with a ratchet and clutch out of adjustment. Kicker spins with clutch out of adjustment. When you put the two together, nothing spins... Must be something not meshing correctly in the kicker gears.

The neutral indicator switch may have malfunctioned. Stuck on perhaps?

Well, the clutch adjustment screw under the rubber cap in the engine case should be set so it's about 1/16th - 1/4th tighter than when you can just feel the screw hit resistance, and hold it there while you tighten the jam nut down on it. You should not be able to push your bike around in 1st...

Yeah, if you don't have the clutch adjusted correctly, it'll feel like you're kicking a pile of loose mud. Just a matter of 1/16th of a turn on the adjustment screw can make the difference between contact and none.

True, but, with these 360 parts beginning increasingly scarce, there is potential for profit in selling the excess xs, unless the cost is astronomical, of course. Minimum order is 12 pistons, by the way.