motorcycle

Last fall I bought a motorcycle.  It's a 1980 Kawasaki 750LTD.  By the time I learned to ride, got plates, insurance and passed my riding test, it was getting cold and I stored it in my landlord's garage for the winter.  It wasn't running very well before I stored it, but I chalked that up to old gas.  This spring I took apart and cleaned the carburetor with help from this guy's motorcycle blog.  I was lucky that the carb he was cleaning in his example was a lot like mine.  All in all, it was pretty easy even though I really have no experience working on engines.  It was fun too.  And the feeling of accomplishment was well worth the effort.  It still needs some work.  It runs, but not very smoothly.  It takes a long time to warm up and I have to keep adjusting the throttle to keep it from idling too high once it does warm up.   I'm not sure what the problem is.  Maybe the carbs need adjusting, setup, jetting, synchronizing, who knows?  I'm hoping to get some help from friends or at least a place to work on it some more.  There is free parking in front of my apartment, but there's no way I could get away with working on it in the street.  A neighbor once told me that fines for getting caught are pretty heavy.

This is going to be an awesome summer!