Motorcycle Forum / General / Technical / September 2007

I just purchased a 1987 Honda CMX250 Rebel for my Wife and it has an
incandesant style headlight bulb. I would like to update to an H-4 style
headlamp.
My question is:

I'm restoring this old Yammy XS400RK. It runs damn near perfect and is
in good shape - 24K miles.
Anyway I need rear turn signals. All the web sites I've checked are a
PITA and so far all I can find are these really small Bikemaster ones

Anyone familiar with these? I just picked up a very clean and low
mileage one. Not sure what I'm gonna do with it yet. Trying to decide if
I want to keep it or try trading it for a pre-unit Triumph, or just
selling it outright.

'87 CBR600
For years, the little 'rubber' cover on the shift lever has cheerfully,
cheerfully been depositing black gunk on my left shoe.
I tried wrapping the cover in good electrical tape. Didn't much work,

Is there a discussion group for Bandits that would describe how to
winterize the Bandit?  In my case, it is a 2006 Bandit 1200.   It is about
due for it's first service at 5000km, so I will likely need to do an oil
change first since I intend to continue riding until the roads ...

Anyone know of a web page that has a wiring diagram for a points and
condenser total loss ignition for a single cylinder motorcycle?
Or, does anyone have one in html format that could email it to me?
Thanks.

Bike is a 1980 XS650.
Decided to check/adjust/synch the carbs this weekend.  The bike has been
running good, just decided to see if I could make it run even better and get
a bit more power.  I had read that the easiest way to set the idle mixture

Took my XS650 out for a ride this weekend, first time in a month or so.  The
front brake was soft... by that I mean that I had to pull the lever maybe
1-1/2"  before I felt resistance and I had to squeeze damn hard to get much
feel out of the brake.  Bad, I thought.  But after ...

Do any of you have an online source for sheets of 1/4" air filter
foam?  It's the type that has to be oil in order to properly filter
etc.  I have one that's begining to crumble into bits and can't find a
source for the OEM filter but I figure I can easily cut a new one out

Hello...I'm getting a rubbing sound coming from the front wheel when I
walk my bike.  Each time my wheel makes a full rotation I hear the rub
sound. Could this be a sign that I need brake shoes or bearings?  I
have a '98 Honda Shadow VLX 600 CD

Regarding those CO2 tire inflator kits, anyone know how many cylinders it
takes to get a rear 180x70x17 tire back up to 40 psi?
Dealer says a lot, maybe 7-8 cylinders.
Anyone need to use one?

I am trying to build the old clasic bike up with vintage parts any
thing you might have seen or done in the past to hop this thing up i
would like to know from fork swaps to carb jeting or any thing
inbetwen but still age corect

I would appreciate any advice on this.  
I have an '85 VT700C with about 32K miles.  When I got the bike about 4 years
ago there were acceleration and top end deficiency issues.  Otherwise the
bike ran fine.  I had not previously done much work with motorcycles, so I

I have looked on line at Chinese made motorcycles.  The price is certainly
right for some of these.
My question is, what experiences have  people had who have bought Chinese
motorcycles?

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