mello dude

"Take responsibility....." - "The limit is yours and yours only..." Absofuckinglutely! Incredible power slides!...

^^^^ This (ditto)

^^^ That's great! You'll have to give some proper out in the sun photos to show it off.

I wouldnt be freaking over Romney and gun laws. He is a typical political wind sock and will say whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear to get elected. - Trouble is, I have no idea what he stands for.

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That's great - hilarious!

Wet? Full tank and all fluids Dry? Bone dry as in on whats the weight on the mfgr CAD model. Another suggestion, if you got a buddy with a dirt bike, see if you can get some seat time on that. Good luck

^^^^^ Ditto!!

Very cool and tastefull. ..

Thanks for the clear up photo - Looks like he fixated on the gaurd rail and freaked. - I love that section of road going west. Its a great sphincter puckerer. Probly been through there a thousand times.

Holy crap I would love to play with that.....

That road really needs to be done in 1st and 2nd only. If you clipped 3rd you were over your head. Your statements and particularly the one above tell me you need to get some class work and soon. In the mean time get to a parking lot and practice hard braking and - practice good downshifts - Touch clutch, blip throttle, click gear, let out clutch. Be Smooooooth! (For good riders its near simultanous)

^^ I'll ad that IMHO the best "sporty" riding book out there is Nick Ienatch's Sport Riding Techniques - A most excellent riders book http://www.amazon.com/Sport-Riding-Techniques-Develop-Confidence/dp/1893618072/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1334626152&sr=8-1

Ok - I suckered you into answering -- that road on difficulty is a 10 out of 10 - even for experienced riders. The spot you when down is not a place to be fooling around. I'm guessing you missed the loose sand that accumulates at the bottom of the corner, and you hit the front brake and got spit off. The experienced rider advise? Get another thousand miles or 2 before you go back. But if you have to, at the bottom of the hill you need to be in 1st gear, feather the rear brake, and stay wide in the corner. The hairpin drops elevation and will bite you. Just get through it. I've lost count of how many crashes on that road I've seen or heard about. And I did do the mistake of taking a newbie though there. - Yeah, he wrecked. Please take heed of what the experienced riders here are saying. Riding well takes time to build up the skills. Dont assume that you can instantly "get it."

Exarch - you wrecked at the hairpin at the bottom of the hill at RT350 around the Ft Ancient loop? - That's one nasty road. Its a newbie rider crash magnet.

Fine lookn machine - welcome to the sickness....

Agree with this - backtrack the basics first....

- You kinda need to start over --- pull the battery after an overnite charge and go to autozone or batterys plus and get it load tested. The first point is the charging system is worthless without a good battery. Decide good/bad and go from there. If it wont turn over with a known good battery, you may have starter motor type issues. - I might just say effe it and do a car battery jump. If you get it running == Go through this starting point list. Steps: - With good battery fire it up. Run at fast idle for a couple minutes. These are R/R quick checks--- do first.. --- With voltmeter at battery get voltages -- idle volts? 5000 rpm volts? Whats the nunbers? Should be in 13ish min idle and in 14s at revs. - Check stator - 1. pull connector apart. Set meter to resistance. Check pin to pin, 3 yellow wires, A to B, B to C, C to A. Whats the numbers? Should be less than 1.0 ohms. - 2. Check continuity from each A,B,C pin to ground, -- -should be infinity - nada nothing. no continuity. - 3. Crank it back up. Do another pin to pin thing, but set meter on AC volts. idle and 5000 rpms. What's da numbers? Should start 15ish and climb 50ish and more. -- Do again with the bike hot. For even more detail on it heres a chart from electrosport. http://www.electrosport.com/media/pdf/fault-finding-diagram.pdf As far as components for your ride, I wouldnt buy something off ebay unless you know what it is. "Bike was running" could mean anything. - I would jump for an updated MOSFET part or a "series" type R/R. Grab a MOSFET from here: www.roadstercycle.com or series type from http://www.chrome-addiction.com/g-compu-fire-40a-3-phase-charging-systems-46974.php Compu-fire series # 55402 – last part on the list -- After heavy research I'm running the Compufire part. - It was designed to be a Harley part, but a lot of Triumph, Aprilia and Honda VFR guys are using it for a conversion. There is even a guy with an old GS1100 that is using it. (Yeah, it was funky to put a Harley part on my VFR, but screw it, I'm done. I have a slam dunk perma fix for the charging system now on the viffer.) -Series R/R have an advantange over a MOSFET part in that it only switches "on" when voltage is needed vs other is "on" full time and dumps excess voltage as heat. - Sort of just enough throttle on vs full time throttle and brakes on to control speed. - Other benefits is the stator lasts longer because its not "on" full time, and then because of the this, the bike runs cooler too. If you get where you need a stator get it rewound here http://www.customrewind.com/ Good luck

+1 --- Been going there 10 years at least.....

Were the parents fucking stupid? Gas cans all over the house? They let it go on for months? Unfucking believeable!

I'm running one of these in the VFR http://www.motydesign.com/ The last time it needed a charge I just stuck on my cheapo Harbor Freight bike charger, & worked out just fine. Generally the battery holds a charge for a long time. I like it so far. If you want to buy a charger for them, MOTY sells those too.

Welcome - my neighbor has a mint 70ish CB175 very close to your scramber bike. Is it a 175 too?

Thats some pretty good pics - hadnt thought about a leak, but you can see if you get fluid behind the plunger(piston) its not gonna be good.