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I managed to catch this fault on my bike before the chain cut through too much. It must have been an intermittent connection on your...

Yah I should do that while I wait for the battery to arrive.

I use my battery in a home made battery backup unit for my home router. Better to exercise the battery and keep a float on it during...

Honestly, I don't do much of anything to my 650s for winter storage other than try to keep the tanks full (so as to avoid condensation...

If you are getting a spark when you switch off the key, that means that the tci is energizing the coil and as you switch off the key...

I'd like to clarify here a bit. @TwoManyXS1Bs did a deep dive on the life and times of carbon brush slip rings. (you'd be surprised how...

I have deleted my earlier schematic posting. I am posting this revised version. The previous one had many errors. Unfortunately...

No I didn't get thrown, but I could barely hang onto it. I had wound it up to over 145 km/h. As I throttled back and the bike was...

If the bike is still original, that will be an early version TCI module. In theory it shouldn't make any difference which spark plug...

My second bike was 74 750-4, burnt orange color. Great engine. It could really cruise. Unfortunately I got into a high speed wobble...

There is rust in the tank forsure lol

Could be leaking somewhere on the carb body itself as well, shafts, enrichner, diaphragm covers, diaphragms.

Sounds like a lean condition on the left side, check for vacuum leaks around the left carb and intake boot.

The universal stance for ignitions is resistor plugs OR resistor caps, not both. Guess the logic would be high resistance at both ends...

First Start Today!! This '73 originated with Robin, then stopped with Total Fool for a while, then came to me. I had the tins painted...

I installed a cheap Chinese digital voltmeter/tach that I bought off of Amazon. I wanted to have something that I could use to monitor...

Woof.... that was almost painful to watch.... :doh: Video should be retitled.... "How to add a bunch of unnecessary steps to a...

www.vintageconnections.com. Great shop, used their stuff for years.

I am not quite sure where this thread is going. Seems to be an argument about old versus new tech, which is in itself, quite an old...