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Had an interesting thing happen to me today and can't quite figure out what happened. Maybe some of the other gurus know what it is.
Towardthe end of a 100 mile ride I entered the freeway for the last few miles to home. The bike, a '77 GL1000, was running great - real strong, lots of power, and smooth. As I passed a line of trucks at around 80-90 MPH the engine suddenly quit. Luckily I had enough momentum to pull in front of one of the trucks and onto the right shoulder.
As soon as it happened, instinctively I switched to reserve, but of course (hindsight) the engine stopped too suddenly to be running out of gas, and I had only gone around 100 miles on a full tank... too soon tobe out of fuel.
After pulling over the bike started just fine and I made it the rest of the way without the bike dying. The bike, however, did seem to run a little rougher after the incident.
I haven'tchecked anything to the bike yet... probably won't get to it until next weekend. It still has the old breaker-point ignition system (I haven't sprung for electronic yet), but has new Honda points and condenser, and a fresh carb and air cut-off valverebuild.
Had an interesting thing happen to me today and can't quite figure out what happened. Maybe some of the other gurus know what it is.
Towardthe end of a 100 mile ride I entered the freeway for the last few miles to home. The bike, a '77 GL1000, was running great - real strong, lots of power, and smooth. As I passed a line of trucks at around 80-90 MPH the engine suddenly quit. Luckily I had enough momentum to pull in front of one of the trucks and onto the right shoulder.
As soon as it happened, instinctively I switched to reserve, but of course (hindsight) the engine stopped too suddenly to be running out of gas, and I had only gone around 100 miles on a full tank... too soon tobe out of fuel.
After pulling over the bike started just fine and I made it the rest of the way without the bike dying. The bike, however, did seem to run a little rougher after the incident.
I haven'tchecked anything to the bike yet... probably won't get to it until next weekend. It still has the old breaker-point ignition system (I haven't sprung for electronic yet), but has new Honda points and condenser, and a fresh carb and air cut-off valverebuild.