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:leprechaun:Hi everyone. As many of you know I picked up a 83 Aspencade for $100.00 and have been playing with it for a month or so now. I now have memory for the clock and CB but the radio is still giving me a fit. Works sometime, but most of the time it's silent.
I also am not pleased with the way it's running off of idle.I rebuilt the carbs but I think they're stilloff a little.
I've had the bike sittingon it's side stand for about 4 or 5 days now. I started it up and white smoke came pouring out of the the left exhaust. This is the first time it smoked that bad. After a while it cleared up but not before the front of the house could not be seen. I spoke to a friend of mine who owned my GL standard before me and he said he heard that if the bike if left on the side stand, oil will drain into the cylinders and cause the problem. Does this sound true? It seems to make sense since most of the time I keep the bike on it's center stand and it smokes just a little black smoke then settles down. It's only has 55k of the speedo.
On a side note. I went riding with some new friends and one of them told me that when he first bought his Goldwing, he was so scared to move it, he called AAA to push it into his garage. It seems the largest bike he had ever ridden was a Honda 350. When he finally got the nerve to ride it, he was so scared to go around a corner, since he could not see the front wheel, he would stop and walk the bike around the corner. He's a good rider now, but I think I would have died laughing if I had seen him walking his bike around the corner.
Happy Saint Particks Day
Jerry:leprechaun:
:leprechaun:Hi everyone. As many of you know I picked up a 83 Aspencade for $100.00 and have been playing with it for a month or so now. I now have memory for the clock and CB but the radio is still giving me a fit. Works sometime, but most of the time it's silent.
I also am not pleased with the way it's running off of idle.I rebuilt the carbs but I think they're stilloff a little.
I've had the bike sittingon it's side stand for about 4 or 5 days now. I started it up and white smoke came pouring out of the the left exhaust. This is the first time it smoked that bad. After a while it cleared up but not before the front of the house could not be seen. I spoke to a friend of mine who owned my GL standard before me and he said he heard that if the bike if left on the side stand, oil will drain into the cylinders and cause the problem. Does this sound true? It seems to make sense since most of the time I keep the bike on it's center stand and it smokes just a little black smoke then settles down. It's only has 55k of the speedo.
On a side note. I went riding with some new friends and one of them told me that when he first bought his Goldwing, he was so scared to move it, he called AAA to push it into his garage. It seems the largest bike he had ever ridden was a Honda 350. When he finally got the nerve to ride it, he was so scared to go around a corner, since he could not see the front wheel, he would stop and walk the bike around the corner. He's a good rider now, but I think I would have died laughing if I had seen him walking his bike around the corner.
Happy Saint Particks Day
Jerry:leprechaun: