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  • Its ALIVE!!!!!

    So late in the season last year my bike died. I lost spark. New son took priority. Long time comming I FINALY got out to the garage. Broken pickup wires. A previous half assed repair was found...again. Stupid PO! A little wire and solder and Ta-Da! fired right up. Im still getting a miss after idle at a light that bogs until I hold clutch and let rpm idle until it picks up then good to go. Riding steady on highway etc it works fine. It was doing this before it died. But anywho...IT'S ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good to be back on the old girl. I want to put a more into her this year. Right now shes a ridable beat up old bike. Now if only I were not very poor.
    Remember, eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

    1980 XS1100 Midnight Special
    2007 Triumph Daytona 675

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    Sounds like you need to tune the carbs. I had an "issue" (self inflicted) with the needle position on one carb after I rebuilt them. That one cylinder would foul out the plug at a stop light, but it felt fine and ran decent once I got up to 3k or so.
    Life is what happens while your planning everything else!

    When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

    81 XS1100 Special - Humpty Dumpty
    80 XS1100 Special - Project Resurrection


    Previously owned
    93 GSX600F
    80 XS1100 Special - Ruby
    81 XS1100 Special
    81 CB750 C
    80 CB750 C
    78 XS750

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    • #3
      These bikes run so well, that going down the road, you could still be running on only 3 cylinders. You could take a bottle of water with you, run down the road, pull over and splash some water on all the pipes to make sure they all sizzle fo'shizzle!
      Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.

      You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!

      Current bikes:
      '06 Suzuki DR650
      *'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
      '82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
      '82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
      '82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
      '82 XJ1100 Parts bike
      '81 XS1100 Special
      '81 YZ250
      '80 XS850 Special
      '80 XR100
      *Crashed/Totalled, still own

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