If one of the carb sliders is frozen, I can pretty much promise you that your carbs (and the rest of the fuel system) will have a bunch of shellac plugging the galleries. There's a reason that one of the first fuel system cleaners was called "Gumout." It doesn't take much -- your engine ru...

That would be too easy.

Gonna agree, buy the ones here. At this price, get an extra to carry with you.

If there is a partial vacuum in the gas tank, the pump is working fine and the vent is NOT.

It will probably start just fine with the gas cap off, which confirms a stuck or clogged vent.

How much use do you plan to give a CB? There's a significant amount of work involved in installing the factory unit.

You might be better off just to buy a cheap generic one.

Other than T-CLOCS, not much more you need to worry about. The 1800 doesn't have timing belts, which are the one weak point of the earlier engines.

E10 tends to give me 2-3 less mpg than ethanol free (from my limited testing, but again, hard to get exact numbers since my riding varies so much), but E0 is not readily available near me, and is $1 more a gallon for it when I can find it, so not worth it for me. There are tricks for drawing the et...

Solo so longs lengthy and detailed analysis would be more valid if right from the start, the GL1800 was correctly identified! I look forward to reading your own lengthy and detailed analysis, and finding the typos therein. I ride a GL1500 (the One True Goldwing), and rarely type the designators of ...

I don't see headlights behind me -- my own body is in the way. The mirror is for seeing to the sides with just a glance. By the time headlights are close enough to be seen, they aren't pointed directly into the mirror.

Actually, most SWR meters don't have a wattmeter. You match the antenna for the lowest SWR. Tuning radio and matching antennas can be done by any CB shop, which can usually be found at or near truck stops. Old 23-channel CBs had an output power of up to 5 watts, FYI. Citizen's Band was originally th...

Fix it.

If you don't, you will always be worrying about it.

If you don't do your own work, you will not be happy. If you are willing to learn to work on a bike, this is reasonably easy to work on -- a JIS screwdriver and a few YouTube videos will have you wondering why you ever paid anyone else to work on a bike. The timing belts are not that expensive, but ...

good call, mr. offcenter. i used to see those bags around about 40 years ago. would see them on kz1000 police bikes. lowsyanna state police and the shreveport, la police had quite a few of them. The Kawasaki KZ900C (1977) and KZ1000C (1089 - 1891) came with Kaw saddleboxes and windshield. The KZ100...

Call starter/alternator repair shops to see if anyone has an older (pre-1996) one available. It's a long shot, but you never know.

You either have an intermittent short somewhere or your starter is pulling more current than it should. Most likely the short. A former owner may have hooked up something to that lead, then not insulated properly after removal. But when your starter brushes are almost gone, you can get shorts across...

Cheap Harbor Freight ties, fastened to the crash bars, exactly where Honda says not to fasten them. I guess he doesn't care much about his bike... It never ceases to amaze me how manufacturers don't realize that anyone will ever need to strap down bikes for transporting. I saw a really nice rig tha...

You wouldn't believe how much oil appears on the ground under a car that the oil filter wasn't fully tightened before starting the engine.

Not that I would know anything about such an event . . .

There's no reserve. That's why it's a good reason never to pass a gas pump if you have less than 1/4 on the gauge.

After decades on Kawasakis with floorboards, we went to BMWs without them. I really missed the comfort of being able to move my feet around during a long ride. When I went to the Wings, I figured that I would put on floorboards, but before doing it I wanted to put some miles on, and discovered that ...

tbird71 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:54 am plus pay roughly 3500 for installation

Sounds like you're not doing your own maintenance.

That flips it over into the "pass it by" category.

But the trailer is shorter than the distance to the arm from the ground.

Hmm. Watched it full screen, 1/4 speed, and pausing a lot. You gotta admire God's sense of humor, putting the ONE drop of water on the whole lens right in that one spot! ;) Anyhow, the safety arm is higher than the trailer. Number of vehicles: 1 Vehicle 1: Honda Goldwing (GL1500) motorcycle, with si...

If the arm had taken him in the forehead, he would have been unhorsed. I don't see how the arm could have hit the trailer without having first hit the fairing and rider, except maybe if he turned to the left and tailswing put the trailer further right. If the arm had hit the windshield, the windshie...

Maybe he forgot that "Goldwing" is a NAME, not a CONFIGURATION. The bars were down before he came around the curve. He had plenty of time to have see the lights on the arm and on the overhead. Originally, I thought that the "wiping the visor" thing was an excuse, but when he hit ...

I'd have been tempted to just leave him there a while.

That's the kind of rider who doesn't need a helmet, because there's nothing for a helmet to protect.