The Annual Gentleman's express bike has arrived

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gggGary

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Almost got beat out but the first buyer ghosted and I got the call to "come n get it"
25 mile trip popped it in the van, An hour after getting it home, have the lithium battery that was going in the Beemer installed, got the fuel pump beat back to life and vroom vroom motor sounds good. Tomorrow, a bit of plumbing and the new fuel pump that came with, should be in, time for test ride. Needs tires and chain and a good going over but stoked on the condition.
93 FJ1200 ABS showing 25K miles,
Appears stone stock, excellent mufflers. Important for us old guys...
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Allison approves. ;^)
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A little hefty at 600 lbs.
 
gggGary said:
Almost got beat out but the first buyer ghosted and I got the call to "come n get it"
25 mile trip popped it in the van, An hour after getting it home, have the lithium battery that was going in the Beemer installed, got the fuel pump beat back to life and vroom vroom motor sounds good. Tomorrow, a bit of plumbing and the new fuel pump that came with, should be in, time for test ride. Needs tires and chain and a good going over but stoked on the condition.
93 FJ1200 ABS showing 25K miles,
Appears stone stock, excellent mufflers. Important for us old guys...
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Allison approves. ;^)
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A little hefty at 600 lbs.
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Hell ya!Good for you.
 
Still chasing my tail on fuel system fix one thing another goes.
Damn I just got my yearly reminder of why inline fours are sucha pain indyass. Had to remove the airbox to get at the fuel line to carb rack connection :banghead: F-me! The good thing is the old fuel line split BEFORE I had everything back together.
 
Hot damn! That bike is a real looker Gary! 😎
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I just got my yearly reminder of why inline fours are sucha pain indyass. Had to remove the airbox to get at the fuel line to carb rack connection
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I have owned nine twins, one triple , and two thumpers, but I have never owned a four cylinder bike. Heck I’ve only ever ridden just a few of them.
Frankly all the extra parts and complexity just never seemed worth it to me. I mean they are without a doubt extraordinary machines. I still remember the thrill of riding my old room mates Kawasaki KZ900 back in the day……come to think of it, I was riding my first XS650 back then, 48 years ago. 😄 I guess I haven’t come too far.

I’ll bet that new bike of yours will be incredibly thrilling to ride! :bike:
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A little hefty at 600 lbs.
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That weight usually translates to stability at speed. An unflappable rocket!
 
Well on some owner's advice I plumbed it without a fuel pump got it up and down the road a few times and it was running excellent! Then thought WELL round the country block should be a piece of cake.
Uh yeah not quite, took some finagling to refill the carbs a couple times to get it home. LOL
Ordered a "Correct" fuel pump (we'll see) and will wait till that gets here to see what I really have.
When it was running well I thought geeze it must be geared low cuz it's revving pretty high.
Then I looked at the speedo, Oops. :redface: Guess it's just sneaky fast. :shrug:
Gotta watch that on 12 year old tires. :rolleyes:

Three word review?
Old school roadburner.
 
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You got me curious when you mentioned the fuel pump; google revealed a "blue million" different offerings and several discussions: must be "a thing"...:laugh2:
 
A quicky;
yah-no how the foam rubber seal is always crap when you pull an airfilter?
just cleaned off the old glue (carb cleaner and putty knife) snipped thin slices off green UNI foam with a scissors, sprayed one side of the strips with 3M headliner adhesive, stuck em on and bingo bango.
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use a piece of cereal box to hold the foam while you spray or it'll blow away.

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It's a handy adhesive to have around for sticking cloth, foam etc to surfaces. Like if you were building up layers of seat foam.
 
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After an entirely too long multi day wrenchfest, the fuel system is pumping AND not leaking.. Sheesh!
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Running good! 50 degrees but comfy enough in the sunshine. Today was prolly it for this week's riding weather, so back to slinging wrenches, a rear tire arrived today and that front needs to go too. Rear is an odd size 150/80/16 but found a Shinko verge that's speed rated. Front will get a Verge II
Um don't believe the ABS label......
and an oil change on the list.
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