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Spite, people can say what they want but the Delkevic pipes have always treated me right. I will say though I had a set of CF shorties on my 919 and they were loud AF so be sure and put in the silencers, lol. I have a single oval CF on my 88 Hawk and it sounds sweet in a V-Twin Configuration! Also you might try some of the Hot Shot Secret for gas engines in the oil to help with the lifter noises and see if it helps over time. Great effort on suffering through the restoration of this classic!
A guy I race with just wrecked his vmax on the track a couple weeks ago. Every usable part was sold by the next day before it was even taken apart. The vmax community is intense.
That horrible feeling when your bike goes past the tipping point and you know there’s nothing you can do to stop it, I think it’s something most motorcyclists have done at least once in their life.
At the time , the V-Max with a slick and a jet kit and K&N filters was the quickest bike in a shootout for less than $1000.00 investment ! The late Pee Wee Gleason tested all of the quickest bikes during testing back in 1986 . The time was in the mid 9’s at 143 mph ! What a legend !
A similar scenario got me back into biking. I quit riding after a second marriage. A friend also a former coworker "invited" me over to help him diagnose a problem with a friend's Ironhead Sporty. It had an intermittent ignition problem that would cause it to quit for no obvious reason. I think the reason I was invited so I could push it back to the shop after it quit. But doing the test riding made me realize how much I missed riding I had a bike shortly afterward.
That looked like fun. When everything is dialed in you will savor the experience. It would be very cool if you had one of those exhaust analyzing gizmo's and showed everybody how to dial the carbs in. Thanks and be careful out there.
I have an Egli VMax in the barn, Fritz Egli was a legendary Swiss frame builder specialising mostly in frame kits for the evil handling Japanes bike of the 80's and 90's. He was a VMax fan, he didn't like plastic covered bikes and wanted to see the bits that make it work but he was a good racer as well so could actually make a bike that was fast and brutally cool. Mine is one of the rare race editions with unpainted alloy tank and seat and 149hp and it handles about as good as a modified old-school GS1000. The stock VMax isn't that bad, it's just been hyped up a bit by RUclipsrs, same as the Kawa 2 stroke triples, you just ride them different. A bit of frame and swing arm flex is okay if you accept it's happening and the back end wants to slide under power.
That's a great effort considering the state of the bike when you got it in December. You're a lot further along than most people with their project bikes. The VMAX is going to be sweet when it's finished. I see you have a couple of square feet between the bikes in the garage. Enough to squeeze another project bike in perhaps?
You are so much funnier than yammienoob mate. Glad i found your channel. God bless and lots of love from Norway. Edit: and 21:27 pretty much sums up my own experience with Yamaha. That's why I prefer Hondas. We had a saying when I worked at a Suzuki and Honda dealership, buy Yamaha if need a bike that works for a year, you buy a Suzuki if you need it for 10 and a Honda if you need it for life....
It's so fun watching people wrench things while I myself abhor doing anything to my own bike. Even doing an oil change myself needs a whooooole lot of convincing from me 😂
Amusing indeed. 😁 🔧Pro tech tip: Drink 3 litres of light beer, wait half an hour, set the V-max on fire, then make the decision of hosing the fire out or not.🤔 👀 Metinx you know the answer. 👁😉
😮 4:40 good start. Mine just died yesterday. Going to have to try my tires down soon. I got it on it easily last winter. Since then tried it a couple times no go. I need the spool arms my swingarm is rounded and had a pretty big angle. Hangers already there from previous owner I just got some cheap tire stand.
You need to reach out to Captain Kyle in east TN......he has the parts and the knowhow.....the old VMAX's were quite sophisticated for their time and the carbs....ugh!
Reminds me of my old carburated bike, she didn't like to start when warm. Though carbd bikes have a nice analog mistique, to hell with them, my injected bike just starts without having to pray first
TBH a completely functional original condition Gen1 VMax is still likely to be the most dangerous motorcycle you'll ride. As a 15 year owner of a 2003 VMax owner and member of several VMax communities the most common comment for the VMaz is if you're riding it correctly it feels like it's trying to kill you. After that yes the oil light flashing regularly just means you know how to ride it
Speaking of dirty beake fluid, I had my new to me 05 aero when I discovered the master cylinder was leaking. I discovered because I looked in my mirror and saw what I thought was watery mud on my face lol I'm still waiting on the new piston rebuild kit but I'm not looking forward to seeing how bad it really is
Need to get those carbs rebuilt/synchronized. If I remember correctly, they're notorious for getting out of sync, especially on a higher mileage VMax. Love that V4 though. I almost bought me a VMax 1700 this year.
The vmax was a lucky hit for Yamaha. There were guys who were too young or too poor and missed out on the 70s musclecar scene. By the 80s, they'd graduated from college and had some spending money. The vmax had the look and could park it in the apartment building.
I've got a suggestion. Don't do hack work on your bike, especially the brakes. And the gaskets in the fuel tank sensors and whatnot. Were those new banjo bolt washers? If not, they're going to leak. Axle coning loose? Check that stuff before you roll out. Right now, I'm getting a salvage title Tuono 1100 V4, back on the road, and I've been tempted to just hack it together and ride it, but I can't do that, it's got too much potential. Just a suggestion, good luck.
I mostly build budget bikes most 500.00 ta 1000.00 CAD. I would never screw with a max on a budget. Hats off if you can get that thing done for under 3500.00
Hi Spite, i saw you were fiddling with the choke a lot. My vmax only likes a tiny bit when its stone cold, it might help when starting. Good luck with the build, i love mine. (99 plate)
I recently (4k miles ago) got a 91' vmax. This video was physically painful. Also, make sure you do the Vmax crimp fix to save your charging system down the road
1 bottle of Harris 30% vinegar and fill rest with water to de rust tank. $20 job over a few days. +10 Internets for putting in the stainless braided brake line. Can't tell you how important that is for a safe restore. These old barn finds often need caliper and MC rebuilds in addition to the pads. Anyone looking to revitalize an old bike, should look at an older Yamaha XJ650. Much easier than the Vmax. Look for a bike garage kept and minimal exterior rust.
You could have edited that bike falling over out and no one would have been the wiser. Thats why i like watching you bro, your authentic AF. Also, if you havnt dropped a bike do you even really ride ? Haha
takes me back to being a teen, i remember the day these f'ers came out and i was like bam, gimme ! weird that yammy stopped selling it here for extended periods throughout its life - suppose the market made that decision for them
Way back in 1990 or 1991 one of the cycle rags was doing top gear roll on testing. The tach kept spiking and they thought that the clutch was slipping bit the bike was effortlessly smoking the tire in 5th gear at 60mph.
The first gen vmax is fast, but it won't do what you're describing. Not a chance. It'll spin in second gear at 40mph but not at 60 and definitely not in 5th gear.
I miss my old V-MAX but the carbs are the least of the problems I had. My big issue was blowing out the gearbox but dam I miss the thrill of the quater mile zoom
Me: Doing 95 mph on a 50 YO bike whose engine was rebuilt in the parking lot of Deal's Gap motorcycle resort the night before over a half-gallon of homemade whiskey... 😁
Archer quotes for rejection? Perfect... that is when Archer gets stuck outside a Montreal casino after burning his passport and has to get picked up by Malorie's husband... good episode.
I hate to tell you this, but you're going to have to pull those carbs back off. That's not a synchronization issue because the carbs are flooding out. You can hear it dropping cylinders and blubbering from too much fuel. More than likely, it's because because it sat up too long. The gas you buy at the gas station goes bad in about 3 weeks and it starts to turn to brown goo in 3 months. Even if you run the carbs (dry), there's passageways and other places that fuel sits. It will also coat the float needle, causing it to not seal. You can try sunoco 260 gtx or standard race fuel with a little bit of marvel mystery oil mixed to try to clean the carbs out. When you store any gasoline powered vehicles, store it with the race fuels or trufuel. You can use startron to delay the fuel turning, but it will go bad eventually. I don't recommend stabilizers because I have seen them turn fuel into a jelly multiple times.
@spitescorner That doesn't matter unless it's fresh fuel that hasn't been sitting. If the fuel you are running in it has been sitting in your gas can, then you are just running bad fuel through the system. I literally see this issue all the time because people think that just running the bike without riding it will keep the carbs clean. If you have been running fresh fuel and I assume the float heights are right, then it's more than likely the fuel pump. The pump has points that are supposed to shut the pump off when it reaches a certain pressure. I have seen aftermarket and old stock pumps over pressure the carbs. You can use a holley 1 to 4 psi regulator to fix the issue if a new yamaha pump isn't an option. The holley part number is 12-804. Also, down draft carbs are always on the verg of flooding out, and if everything isn't 100% perfect, they will flood out quickly. Double-check everything and make sure there's no trash in the system first. This is just my opinion, though.
Well, I always run ethanol free gas in this bike which has a longer shelf life. Also the carbs are not set right. They have a bench tune on them, and they have been synced. They need to go in for one more adjustment. The idle is close to 700rpm which is far too low so it has to run with choke or throttle too keep from stalling. It will idle forever, but it just doesn't ride because the mix is so far out of whack. They run so rich you can almost smell unburned gas.
@@spitescorner im just commenting because i wanna know, is this bloke who is writing with so much authority, is he correct or does he not know his elbow from his asshole ? Haha
Holy *(guitar riff)* I heard Spite swear uncensored. In all seriousness though I thought this video would be like a motorcycle exorcism and relabelling to S-MAX (sh*t MAX).
The Walk of Shame. I know it all too well. A 1982 Suzuki GS1100G did it to me. Thankfully, it wasn't a long distance. It sucks to push a +550lbs motorcycle for a bit more than 1/4 of a mile. You have my sympathy by pushing that even heavier beast. 😬
QQ: Why didn't you jump-start it while you had some momentum? Whenever that happens to me on any bike, I try to bump start it first, trouble shoot later.
Had a 2005 for under a year. Managed to cover 800 miles and sold for a $1k less than i originally paid for. The most uncomfortable bake that I've ever owned. Could barely last 20 min on it. Still love the iconic looks but hard pass for me. The bike had less than 2k miles on the clock when I got it. Was practically new, needed new tires and carbs rebuilt.
It's only a fail if you give up and/or get injured. As far as I can tell, the only "injury" may have been to your pride...however, pushing a 600 pound motorcycle a quarter-mile in the Texas heat certainly provides opportunities to hurt yourself.
Well done so far Spite with the resurrection of a 30 yr old Vmax. Keep going these were crazy in the day. Boring bit here, carburated bikes left for a long time need strip down and mega cleaning as they are vented to atmosphere and through time gas evaporates and leaves a thick gunge. Easy to clean the bowl and main jet but the pilot circuit can get clogged bad, poor idling and starting. I use carb cleaner and a compressor nozzle gun. Multiple carbs need balancing. Good luck. One of my bikes a Suzuki TL1000S hasn’t been used for 7 years. Changed the gas in the tank, new battery and starts and runs brill. It’s fuel injected so no evaporation of old gas.
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Spite, people can say what they want but the Delkevic pipes have always treated me right. I will say though I had a set of CF shorties on my 919 and they were loud AF so be sure and put in the silencers, lol. I have a single oval CF on my 88 Hawk and it sounds sweet in a V-Twin Configuration! Also you might try some of the Hot Shot Secret for gas engines in the oil to help with the lifter noises and see if it helps over time. Great effort on suffering through the restoration of this classic!
Get on a 1200/1700 fb vmax group. You’d get a lot of stuff cheap and all the inside advice you could ever need.
You're awesome for leaving that bike drop in the video. Thank you.
When a turbo busa seems like the more reliable option....
spite. the mental ability to not gi apeshit and destroy everything when the bike fell over at 4:55 is legendary.
Sometimes you just need to roll with the punches 🤣
Been there, done that, went ape shit. All of us could learn from spite's patience 😭😭
Bikes drop and this one isn't a beauty queen.
I was impressed by how easily he lifted it back up from below horizontal.
I r stronk
A guy I race with just wrecked his vmax on the track a couple weeks ago. Every usable part was sold by the next day before it was even taken apart. The vmax community is intense.
Was it red??
Morley?
@@lennardlennard496 that's the answer I'm looking for lol
The joys of old motorcycles.
Everyone has to own at least one motorcycle that lives under the love and care of Saint Jude, the patron saint of lost causes.
Motorcycle maintenance final exam. Godspeed, Dr. Frankenstein.
That horrible feeling when your bike goes past the tipping point and you know there’s nothing you can do to stop it, I think it’s something most motorcyclists have done at least once in their life.
Easily my favourite video so far man. Absolutely epic. Wicked use of humour.
At the time , the V-Max with a slick and a jet kit and K&N filters was the quickest bike in a shootout for less than $1000.00 investment !
The late Pee Wee Gleason tested all of the quickest bikes during testing back in 1986 . The time was in the mid 9’s at 143 mph !
What a legend !
Delkovic exhausts are wildly underappreciated…. Their sound-to-dollar ratio is phenomenal
They also go nicely with ZX-14Rs.
I love your variety of microphone holders
A similar scenario got me back into biking. I quit riding after a second marriage. A friend also a former coworker "invited" me over to help him diagnose a problem with a friend's Ironhead Sporty. It had an intermittent ignition problem that would cause it to quit for no obvious reason. I think the reason I was invited so I could push it back to the shop after it quit. But doing the test riding made me realize how much I missed riding I had a bike shortly afterward.
That looked like fun. When everything is dialed in you will savor the experience. It would be very cool if you had one of those exhaust analyzing gizmo's and showed everybody how to dial the carbs in. Thanks and be careful out there.
I just bought a 1985 vmax with 5600 miles all original stock runs like a sewing machine
I have an Egli VMax in the barn, Fritz Egli was a legendary Swiss frame builder specialising mostly in frame kits for the evil handling Japanes bike of the 80's and 90's. He was a VMax fan, he didn't like plastic covered bikes and wanted to see the bits that make it work but he was a good racer as well so could actually make a bike that was fast and brutally cool. Mine is one of the rare race editions with unpainted alloy tank and seat and 149hp and it handles about as good as a modified old-school GS1000.
The stock VMax isn't that bad, it's just been hyped up a bit by RUclipsrs, same as the Kawa 2 stroke triples, you just ride them different. A bit of frame and swing arm flex is okay if you accept it's happening and the back end wants to slide under power.
Good job sticking it out. Hats off to ya
Mark my words, I will finish this bike
Another video highlighting Spite's continued decent into madness. Thanks Flying Eyes!
I'm really looking forward to this restoration.
That's a great effort considering the state of the bike when you got it in December. You're a lot further along than most people with their project bikes. The VMAX is going to be sweet when it's finished.
I see you have a couple of square feet between the bikes in the garage. Enough to squeeze another project bike in perhaps?
Shoutout Flying Eyes! Ahaha and dang that took a long while with the V-Max seeing it's Oktober now, lol.
Those red grippy coated gloves Home Depot sells are great for working on bikes and avoiding cuts.
Get a hold of Morleys muscle or Mad max in ct great for parts and info both OG Vmax guys been in the vmax game for decades
Baling wire and duck tape will fix anything. Lol, you got the Kummala cackle in answering your money request.
You are so much funnier than yammienoob mate. Glad i found your channel.
God bless and lots of love from Norway.
Edit: and 21:27 pretty much sums up my own experience with Yamaha. That's why I prefer Hondas. We had a saying when I worked at a Suzuki and Honda dealership, buy Yamaha if need a bike that works for a year, you buy a Suzuki if you need it for 10 and a Honda if you need it for life....
Bro leaving in the bike drop made me a subscriber. Love it
I commented on the last video that I would do a light shake down on the old tires, and you called me crazy 😂😂.
It is still crazy. It's like riding on ice. I just have no impulse control
@@spitescorner I just knew that I would do the same. Temptation takes over.
It's so fun watching people wrench things while I myself abhor doing anything to my own bike. Even doing an oil change myself needs a whooooole lot of convincing from me 😂
The flaming exhaust tile pic is great.
This is how it’s done. I am actually going to look into flying eyes.
Amusing indeed. 😁
🔧Pro tech tip: Drink 3 litres of light beer, wait half an hour, set the V-max on fire, then make the decision of hosing the fire out or not.🤔 👀
Metinx you know the answer. 👁😉
Been working on my 1990 ultra classic since April. I know the feeling.
Dont forget to bleed the clutch line at the top! Crack the bango bolt at the clutch lever to let air out.
"hey Cardo, dial 911 ambulance"
"It's goint go sound like I'm hanging up but..."click. I'm using that at work.
😮 4:40 good start. Mine just died yesterday. Going to have to try my tires down soon. I got it on it easily last winter. Since then tried it a couple times no go. I need the spool arms my swingarm is rounded and had a pretty big angle. Hangers already there from previous owner I just got some cheap tire stand.
You need to reach out to Captain Kyle in east TN......he has the parts and the knowhow.....the old VMAX's were quite sophisticated for their time and the carbs....ugh!
Kyle is a great guy. 👍
If you get a good launch and are brave enough to look down between your knees the oil level light will be flickering on around the top of second gear.
Reminds me of my old carburated bike, she didn't like to start when warm. Though carbd bikes have a nice analog mistique, to hell with them, my injected bike just starts without having to pray first
What's up with carbs, when they refuse to start warmed up? I saw that same issue in a bike advert: honest of the seller, not a great selling point!
@@jamesdspaderf2883 Probably just an owner issue, having screwed the bike up with a cam with WAY too much duration and drag pipes.
TBH a completely functional original condition Gen1 VMax is still likely to be the most dangerous motorcycle you'll ride. As a 15 year owner of a 2003 VMax owner and member of several VMax communities the most common comment for the VMaz is if you're riding it correctly it feels like it's trying to kill you. After that yes the oil light flashing regularly just means you know how to ride it
Speaking of dirty beake fluid, I had my new to me 05 aero when I discovered the master cylinder was leaking. I discovered because I looked in my mirror and saw what I thought was watery mud on my face lol I'm still waiting on the new piston rebuild kit but I'm not looking forward to seeing how bad it really is
Nice bike Beard'O!
Need to get those carbs rebuilt/synchronized. If I remember correctly, they're notorious for getting out of sync, especially on a higher mileage VMax. Love that V4 though. I almost bought me a VMax 1700 this year.
They need to go in for a final tune. You can really tune a motor when it's been sitting for a while you need to run it a bunch
The vmax was a lucky hit for Yamaha. There were guys who were too young or too poor and missed out on the 70s musclecar scene. By the 80s, they'd graduated from college and had some spending money. The vmax had the look and could park it in the apartment building.
Great video!
Thanks!
I've got a suggestion. Don't do hack work on your bike, especially the brakes. And the gaskets in the fuel tank sensors and whatnot. Were those new banjo bolt washers? If not, they're going to leak. Axle coning loose? Check that stuff before you roll out. Right now, I'm getting a salvage title Tuono 1100 V4, back on the road, and I've been tempted to just hack it together and ride it, but I can't do that, it's got too much potential. Just a suggestion, good luck.
I wish the projects were in this good condition when getting one.
Awesome! I need to finish my goldwing 😢
Make sure you replace both fuel filters also
I mostly build budget bikes most 500.00 ta 1000.00 CAD. I would never screw with a max on a budget. Hats off if you can get that thing done for under 3500.00
Hi Spite, i saw you were fiddling with the choke a lot. My vmax only likes a tiny bit when its stone cold, it might help when starting. Good luck with the build, i love mine. (99 plate)
The carbs aren't tuned yet.
I recently (4k miles ago) got a 91' vmax. This video was physically painful. Also, make sure you do the Vmax crimp fix to save your charging system down the road
1 bottle of Harris 30% vinegar and fill rest with water to de rust tank. $20 job over a few days. +10 Internets for putting in the stainless braided brake line. Can't tell you how important that is for a safe restore. These old barn finds often need caliper and MC rebuilds in addition to the pads. Anyone looking to revitalize an old bike, should look at an older Yamaha XJ650. Much easier than the Vmax. Look for a bike garage kept and minimal exterior rust.
You could have edited that bike falling over out and no one would have been the wiser. Thats why i like watching you bro, your authentic AF.
Also, if you havnt dropped a bike do you even really ride ? Haha
OMG, I lost it when the bike tipped over.
in the same boat as you rebuilding a 95! the few test rides ive gotten out of it are equally sketch and thrilling.
takes me back to being a teen, i remember the day these f'ers came out and i was like bam, gimme ! weird that yammy stopped selling it here for extended periods throughout its life - suppose the market made that decision for them
Way back in 1990 or 1991 one of the cycle rags was doing top gear roll on testing. The tach kept spiking and they thought that the clutch was slipping bit the bike was effortlessly smoking the tire in 5th gear at 60mph.
The first gen vmax is fast, but it won't do what you're describing. Not a chance. It'll spin in second gear at 40mph but not at 60 and definitely not in 5th gear.
Vmax Danger!
I miss my old V-MAX but the carbs are the least of the problems I had. My big issue was blowing out the gearbox but dam I miss the thrill of the quater mile zoom
I bought a pair of those little bar end mirrors. Work better than stock cause all I could see in the stocks was my shoulders
Good stuff
Avatar The Last Airbender reference; love it! 😂
ASV levers at 8:00...💪
I've been trying to get rid of them but no one has a bike that uses the same perches. They're taking up space.
Me: Doing 95 mph on a 50 YO bike whose engine was rebuilt in the parking lot of Deal's Gap motorcycle resort the night before over a half-gallon of homemade whiskey... 😁
choosing bitchin' pipes over things like axle bolts, front brakes, whether the engine runs--that's my kinda' priorities right there 💯
Dude! Get the upgraded wheel vise for that lift. That's the first thing I did.
Hillarious!
Getting the rubber on there is always a pain.
Archer quotes for rejection? Perfect... that is when Archer gets stuck outside a Montreal casino after burning his passport and has to get picked up by Malorie's husband... good episode.
strange question but how tall r u bud? Great informative content no matter what you ride.
It sounds good, I’ll give you that
I'm really happy with the pipes. They look great and sound awesome when the vboost kicks in
Took me a few moments to realized the mic is attached to something different every cut 😂
I hate to tell you this, but you're going to have to pull those carbs back off. That's not a synchronization issue because the carbs are flooding out. You can hear it dropping cylinders and blubbering from too much fuel. More than likely, it's because because it sat up too long. The gas you buy at the gas station goes bad in about 3 weeks and it starts to turn to brown goo in 3 months. Even if you run the carbs (dry), there's passageways and other places that fuel sits. It will also coat the float needle, causing it to not seal. You can try sunoco 260 gtx or standard race fuel with a little bit of marvel mystery oil mixed to try to clean the carbs out.
When you store any gasoline powered vehicles, store it with the race fuels or trufuel. You can use startron to delay the fuel turning, but it will go bad eventually. I don't recommend stabilizers because I have seen them turn fuel into a jelly multiple times.
That would be true if I didn't run it every few days.
@spitescorner That doesn't matter unless it's fresh fuel that hasn't been sitting. If the fuel you are running in it has been sitting in your gas can, then you are just running bad fuel through the system. I literally see this issue all the time because people think that just running the bike without riding it will keep the carbs clean. If you have been running fresh fuel and I assume the float heights are right, then it's more than likely the fuel pump. The pump has points that are supposed to shut the pump off when it reaches a certain pressure. I have seen aftermarket and old stock pumps over pressure the carbs. You can use a holley 1 to 4 psi regulator to fix the issue if a new yamaha pump isn't an option. The holley part number is 12-804. Also, down draft carbs are always on the verg of flooding out, and if everything isn't 100% perfect, they will flood out quickly. Double-check everything and make sure there's no trash in the system first. This is just my opinion, though.
Well, I always run ethanol free gas in this bike which has a longer shelf life. Also the carbs are not set right. They have a bench tune on them, and they have been synced. They need to go in for one more adjustment. The idle is close to 700rpm which is far too low so it has to run with choke or throttle too keep from stalling. It will idle forever, but it just doesn't ride because the mix is so far out of whack. They run so rich you can almost smell unburned gas.
@@spitescorner im just commenting because i wanna know, is this bloke who is writing with so much authority, is he correct or does he not know his elbow from his asshole ? Haha
lol i had to watch twice to catch some of the funny gags in this one
I love the old vmax is finally getting worked on I've really been waiting for this video. But what's with that 2nd ktm??
Holy *(guitar riff)* I heard Spite swear uncensored. In all seriousness though I thought this video would be like a motorcycle exorcism and relabelling to S-MAX (sh*t MAX).
“Moist” should only ever be used when talking about cake.
Bike build so stressful he forgot to censor words lol
Dude, you play lefty. Nice guitars.
SPITE! youre a lefty guitar player!!
me too..
I fret with the left hand, the image is just flipped in the indoor shot.
haha great backstory with the sponsors re vmax
The Walk of Shame.
I know it all too well.
A 1982 Suzuki GS1100G did it to me. Thankfully, it wasn't a long distance. It sucks to push a +550lbs motorcycle for a bit more than 1/4 of a mile.
You have my sympathy by pushing that even heavier beast. 😬
QQ: Why didn't you jump-start it while you had some momentum? Whenever that happens to me on any bike, I try to bump start it first, trouble shoot later.
It's not that the battery was dying it's that the carbs aren't right yet. Bump starting wouldn't have helped
"....and here's the story of how I left the garage on a motorcycle without all the critical components bolted down." BOOOOORRRINNNGG
Underrated comment
Pretty common for the ecm to go bad on these. Reference to the superbike surgery channel VMAX videos.
At least the battery and starter are good...for now!
We got a parts cannon build
Had a 2005 for under a year. Managed to cover 800 miles and sold for a $1k less than i originally paid for. The most uncomfortable bake that I've ever owned. Could barely last 20 min on it. Still love the iconic looks but hard pass for me.
The bike had less than 2k miles on the clock when I got it. Was practically new, needed new tires and carbs rebuilt.
If I want a Muscle Cruiser I'll probably put a fogger and tune on a M109. At least it's a Semi Man Size Bike.
And slower than a vmax from 30 years ago 😉
It's only a fail if you give up and/or get injured.
As far as I can tell, the only "injury" may have been to your pride...however, pushing a 600 pound motorcycle a quarter-mile in the Texas heat certainly provides opportunities to hurt yourself.
Yeah tried rebuilding slave cylinder twice before I gave up
You can supercede a part number? Never even considered that they wouldn't be 100% unique
Happens all the time.
Yep. I have an older Harley and I deal with it all the time. Usually they add a letter at the end.
One of the dumbest things about the early Japanese bikes; synchronized carbs. A single, larger carb would have worked way better.
Um spite all 30 or 40 year old bikes made in Japan are roadworks regardless, they just are,you need not fear
Are flying eyes the Dbrand of motorcycles in terms of brand and culture?
I don't know what Dbrand is
Well done so far Spite with the resurrection of a 30 yr old Vmax. Keep going these were crazy in the day. Boring bit here, carburated bikes left for a long time need strip down and mega cleaning as they are vented to atmosphere and through time gas evaporates and leaves a thick gunge. Easy to clean the bowl and main jet but the pilot circuit can get clogged bad, poor idling and starting. I use carb cleaner and a compressor nozzle gun. Multiple carbs need balancing. Good luck. One of my bikes a Suzuki TL1000S hasn’t been used for 7 years. Changed the gas in the tank, new battery and starts and runs brill. It’s fuel injected so no evaporation of old gas.
Get rid of that awful wheel chalk 😅. Harbor freight sells a upgraded one
Well someone is a fan of Archer
And Futurama