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If you`ve never attempted it wait for someone, or even a stranger will do, people like to help. I`ve done the bump start a few times, hopping on sidesaddle, the potential to fall over is real, especially if the back tire locks, ask me how I know. 🙃

Any chance you have a vacuum lock, take the gas cap off and try it. Did you try the bump start I mentioned in post #13?

I`m in central Ontario, Kawartha Lakes/Lindsay. Five or six cars at a light is busy for me. My bi-annual checkup at the Durham Region Cancer Center, it`s on Simcoe a few minutes south of Taunton, is anxiety producing. Anything south of 407 and it feels like the walls are closing in. I`m used to...

Should be enough juice in it to bump start. Get someone to push you at a fast clip, put it in second gear and stand on the pegs and come down on the seat hard while releasing the clutch. How old is the battery, cheap replacements don`t last long. I`d say battery, buy the best you can afford.

Engine kill switch on?, sidestand safety switch not sticking and switch plugged in(probably by the stand). Clutch lever safety switch functioning?How`s the ignition switch, making contact? wiggle the key a bit to see how it is. Any chance you pinched some wires putting the case together? Battery...

Just a thought...sure you don`t have a pinch or kink in the fuel line and any vacuum hoses are plugged into where they should be. When I used to drain carbs for winter storage I`d pull the gas line off the tap and pull the vacuum hose off the tap too, and stick an allen key in the hole so there...

You mention the Guzzi Mandello. A while ago Gene/Lightcycle?.. mentioned Studio Cycle for a solid experience there. I looked at the Guzzi lineup there... .beautiful. No personal interest in Aprilia or Husky, I`d take a look at them if they weren`t buried in the bowels of city hell. I don`t think...

Those little 400`s were a blast to flog around, same as the GS400s with the little quarter fairing.

I remember Cycle World West had the XLCR on the floor for at least 2 years with no bites. They also has a Rickman Honda CR complete rolling chassis that my friend bought and put his big bore, MTC Engineering 1080cc( seriously, you could almost see daylight between the liners), Weber carb`d CB750...

Look up the XR streetbikes that Mert Lawwill built, former AMA #1 plate holder. He road raced and flat tracked XR 750`s and was one of the 3 primary stars of " On any Sunday ", with Steve McQueen and Malcolm Smith, whom I talked to at his shop in Riverside, long ago,... " I`m not worthy". Pretty...

Confucius also say.....D) Hookers. ;)

Did you ever see the XR 1200 race class that ran in support with CSBK? Down the backstraight at Mosport, sounded like B-17`s taking off, I had a flight in the nose of one a while ago, that`s the same kinda` visceral noise. I was lucky enough to see XR 750`s in action too, road race and flat...

Strange how that works out. When Harley introduced the XR 1200 I wanted one real bad, things soured when I saw one. I still think it`s a beautiful bike but some of the parts and construction looked almost....agricultural. Toss in failing relays and other gremlins and a plastic fuel tank that...

I think Subaru calls their 4 cyl. engines boxers, I`d say yeah.

Back around 1980 I had the pleasure of riding in a loosely organized tour of the U.S. Southwest for a couple weeks. A company called Western Adventures, run by a guy, Volker Beer who left his position with BMW in Jersey for his start up business...

...not the DCT version. My supersport days are, being realistic, about done. Never a fan of cruisers or anything that weighs 800lbs. Wings or Road Glides...just take the car. Adventure bikes.. nope, no standing on a milk crate to climb aboard, and forget a 30 grand,500lb bike off road. I`m...

Well that`s a step down from Bikes Made Weird :p

I am truly sorry for your loss. Perhaps all of us learn something here, if we need to reconcile with someone we love over something that went sideways in our lives, just take care of it. In her memory.

There is no fix for him and many others. Into the Gator pond with them.