Amazingly enough, the bike pretty much fired up with zero complaint this spring. I drained the battery completely, recharged it up and it started within a few pushes. Very nice. My confidence in the trusty metal steed renewed, it was time to start getting it really road-ready.
A few weeks ago I got my M1 and I am soon signing up for a motorcycle safety course which will instantly give me my M2. So all I would need would be to get this bike road safety certified, some insurance and bam, open highway bliss!
Yet as things are wont to do in the world of 27 year old motorcycles, my easy riding was short-lived. I drove it over to a friend's place and left it outside while we had dinner. When I came back out, I realized I had left the petcock on -- stupid move, considering that had flooded the crankcase before.. Pushing the starter I heard a weird bubbling noise; it's the sort of noise you hear when air goes bubbles into a water cooler, or perhaps when you unceremoniously fart in the tub. Eventually it started, I got it home, and it died in the driveway. Not good.
I decided to recharge the battery and give it another go. It started again, not without issue, but it ran. I took it over to my friend's place and we decided to swap the one broken turn signal out with a new one so it would pass safety. As it happens something seems to be wrong with the new signal and it does not want to blink properly. If at all. There is some electrical gremlin alive in this machine and I must find and destroy it.
That's where things stand right now. I'll get some pictures up here when I have better news.
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