Rally in Northwest????

[XS1100 Newbie]

Have her get you a European shoulder bag. LOL

[Yahman]

I think the Portland area might be a good place to start the ride/rally more to come! Terry

I was thinking the same thing.

Good luck with the shopping trip Terry.

Larry

[tw1980]

Ok the princess has commanded that we must go to Portland and shop this weekend,and that doesn't mean we work in a shop.It means I hold her designer purse while she decides what I buy for her. I plan on doing some scouting on the way and while I'm there.Report to fallow.I think the Portland area might be a good place to start the ride/rally more to come! Terry

[psycoreefer]

Forgive me but I only "browsed" the thread. Have you guys set any dates or locations yet? I'm interested, but I may only show up for a day or two of the trip, I'm in the Reno area so I could leave early from work Thursday, meet up with the "rally-ers" Thursday night or Friday morning, ride with you guys Friday and Saturday and come home Sunday if the itinerary works out right.

[Yard Dogg]

Sounds like my kind of ride! The coast sounds good too. It all sounds good, I don't get out enough.

[XS1100 Newbie]

Hey Jeepster. I think we will probably make a three or four day run this summer, but that will depend on what everyone thinks. Probably to the coast, then South, then, then,????

[Yard Dogg]

I'm here in the South Eastern corner of Washington, so all these places you all are talking about are close enough for me. If you guys plan any rides shoot me a message. I've been dying to take a long tour for a few years and if this year is right I'll do it. I want to go down through California, then to Nevada and Through New Mexico then probably swoop back up through Wyoming or something. I'm not even gonna plan it. Just like Easy Riders!

[Ken Talbot]

I wanted to pull harder on those wires but we had limited tools and resources and I didn't want to break it so you didn't have a ride home!

Just for your own satisfaction some day, take a 12" or so piece of fresh wire the same gauge as your pick-up coil wires. Grab it firmly with both hands, and pull until you can pull it apart and break it. This will give you a good approximation of how much tugging you can do on your pick-up coils wires when testing them for breaks.

Basically, if you can pull it apart, it was already broken, and was just waiting to fail on you. If this were to happen to you far from home, you could bare and twist the broken wires together, give them a small wrap with electrical tape, and ride home. The published fix talks about soldering and shrink wrap, but in a fix, twisting and tape should get you home, even if you have to do it a couple of times.

[tw1980]

3 or 4 days? I thought we were looking at 5 to 7 days. LOL Any ride is good. By the way Terry, the pickup did have a bad wire. We got the valves adjusted, fixed the bad wire, checked the timing, and today i adjusted the carbs again, and re synched. No more high rpm problems. This thing runs more like i expected. I still want to pick up another mag. pickup, and modify it.

Cool,now I can stop worrying about it.I was afraid I missed a pickup wire problem last summer when I looked at it at Detroit lake.I wanted to pull harder on those wires but we had limited tools and resources and I didn't want to break it so you didn't have a ride home!

[XS1100 Newbie]

3 or 4 days? I thought we were looking at 5 to 7 days. LOL Any ride is good. By the way Terry, the pickup did have a bad wire. We got the valves adjusted, fixed the bad wire, checked the timing, and today i adjusted the carbs again, and re synched. No more high rpm problems. This thing runs more like i expected. I still want to pick up another mag. pickup, and modify it.

[tw1980]

What's with the Hondas??LOL Just kidding.I'll try to get a 3 to 4 day ride laid out and posted by mid March.That will give us plenty of time to take suggestions and make changes.More to come.Terry

[lvrsnr]

Don't ask how I missed this for so long ,,, but I'm in, enjoyed detroit lake and hope to get a week of vacation for this one. Bob if you would like I could ride down and try to help you figure out the problem with your bike and would give me an excuse to ride mine (not that I need one) Larry R in kelso, wa

[Geezer]

Nice bike. I was hoping to find a 1200 standard wing but this was a rare model and I've only seen a few. The 1000 with the 1100 engine was really dirt cheap for how nice it was.

The XS11 has a lot of improvements that Honda didn't roll into the wing until 2 years later. So I'm not at all expecting it to be everything the XS11 is. If I keep the GL it will be our 2 up bike but my old lady has put on more than I've taken off and I don't know if there's a bike that will hold 2 fatties.

Geezer

[wa407mpp]

Heres a picture of my wing, taken right after I backed it out of storage and started to get it ready to start. [IM

[tarzan]

Nice wing geezer,
I rebuilt a set of carbs for a guy this past summer.It was a '77 GL1000.What a PITA it was .The guy got the bike for free and PO had left it out under a porch awning for several years, but it was in nice shape.When I installed and tuned the carbs I took it for a ride.Very smooth ride but it sure felt soggy in the handling department.