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The primary business of car and motorcycle dealerships is not selling vehicles. They make money by selling service, upselling high-margin products like rustproofing and extended warranties, making money from financing, and making money selling trade-ins purchased at low cost. It's not...

Thanks @Mad Mike . I didn’t spend much time on the starting issue. TBH I spent more time trying to figure out how to connect a battery- the leads were so dang short and they were reversed from where their terminals are on the battery I tried. I ended up having to connect leads and battery...

Fuel tank was in way worse shape than I had thought. I had peeked at it when I got it, and it didn't look bad. There was fuel in it, but seller had mentioned guys had tried to get it started so I was hopeful that was it. Filler cap is not sealing. Looks like it's stock, so not sure what's...

Not really - if that's all I could do, I would do it. I never owned one or even rode one - my parents wouldn't let me near a (road) bike - but I knew it was considered perhaps the best handling road bike you could buy. People waxed lyrical about it in its day. This was written by someone...

Thanks ! I saw this bike listed recently, I am pretty sure. I guess he decided to either part it out or he bought it to part out.

thanks for the reminder about JIS- I had a nice set of Vessel screwdrivers but they burned up on me. Still have a set of JIS bits somewhere. In my excitement I was liable to just go off and round off my screws!

Thanks @Mad Mike ! When I did the carbs on my 87 CBR600, all the orings tore or crumbled apart when I took it apart, but I will check out condition first. For some reason I have read rebuild kits are hard to find for this bike compared to others of similar vintage. I assume that’s because they...

I did not. That was the big missing piece identified in the listing, if you don’t include all the mismatched plastics that is…

Drove about 10 hours total to bring the bike home. Talked to the seller, his family and his buddies for a few hours, and felt like I made some new friends. After I paid him, the seller ended up insisting on me taking back $100. I didn't try to bargain down at all because I really, really...

I did use some inside calipers to take dimensions. I stuck toothpicks into the recesses and marked them to get estimates of depths. I also tried pushing play dough into the recess to make a mold to take dimensions from. But after pulling them out the molds weren't very crisp and didn't...

I’m planning on making some pieces which will probably range from 2-4”, so I expect maybe a half dozen cuts or so? These are trial runs while I learn to machine metal, and while I experiment with dimensions. The largest diameter I need to get to is about 1-2/3”- originally I thought they would...

Nice. I’m going to apply. Having said that, Pete’s wrote the invoice in a funny way. There’s a “combined total” line item for x$, and then two line items describing the Dunlops , each at 0$. I wonder why they did it that way - maybe their price includes the rebate baked in? Edit: it also...

I just can't afford the space for a metal chop saw or a bandsaw. The bar I have is pretty heavy. I have just enough distance between centers to handle the length, but I figured it would be much easier to work with smaller pieces. I’m not sure how well that little motor could spin that weight.

I bought 16" of 2" diameter mild steel from "Mr Metal" near Sherway. Learned a few things. 1) Cutting steel without a good vise is hard. 2) Cutting steel with a hacksaw blade is hard. 3) Cutting steel with a hacksaw blade oriented the wrong way is even harder. I was very disappointed the...

Again, that's super generous. I wouldn't borrow it because my terrain is so varied, with lots of rocks and hard roots you don't even see until it's too late. The problem is made worse by the fact that my tractor was out of commission until recently, so I've only recently been able to properly...

I hesitate to post, especially as I don't have it in hand, but I am so excited. I struck a deal to buy a 500/V30 Interceptor this weekend. It's a bit of a haul. That bike was my dream bike as a kid. I loved the original 750, but when the 500 came out, there as just something about it -...

Thank you both. One of those places ought to be able to sort me out.

Thanks @GreyGhost. Such generous people here. The problem is, I have 3 acres of varied terrain and my tractor has gone through all of it. If I'm walking the property, my wife is going to insist it be with a weed whacker on a harness. What I really need is something like this, only with...

LOL. I took a white drop cloth - maybe 8x10 or so? - and laid it out, then rolled my bike onto it. I figured when the inevitable happened, the bolt/nut/screw would be easy to spot. Somehow whatever it was that I dropped, bounced OFF the soft drop cloth and onto the gravel. Anybody ever try...

It would be interesting to see how much metal I pull up. There's large pieces of metal which have somehow disappeared from my lawn tractor. Embarrassingly large.