Starting after 4 years covered up

[Andrew]

So I got the urge the other day to see if my 500 would start up after sitting covered in the garage for the past 4-5 years.
My garage is heated over the winter months just to keep the rust at bay .
And over the years that it's been standing, it's had the basic storage maintenance kept up, thinks like removing the plugs, then using a 50:50 premix sprayed into the bores, the motor manually turned over a few times, a wash now and then, that type of thing.

So Sunday morning comes along, I wip the carbs off and give them a quick clean, changed the engin oil, checked the coolant, bought some new fuel 35:1 premix, cleaned up the old plugs.... put it all back together... and it started on the 4th kick.... Result!!!! One kick for each year

So I'm booking a MOT, giving it 6 months tax... and just hoping I've not missed all the good weather for this year.

Ade... when we going riding???


Don't know why, but this Iphone video take a few secs to load...

[bolly]

opens up as a windows media player video but then won't play in windows media player no idea why as I don't know too much about computers

[Ronnie]

Worked fine for me! Sounds great. I was expecting to see the sidecar as well!

[Andrew]

Worked fine for me! Sounds great. I was expecting to see the sidecar as well!

The sidecar is under the blue covers you see outside the garage. Don't know about you Ronnie, but our Sunday was light rain the whole damm day! Otherwise I'd have taken a 'late evening' smokey ride




It feels soooooooo small

[Gary Papesh]

opens up as a windows media player video but then won't play in windows media player no idea why as I don't know too much about computers

I had problems with it too that way.
Right click on the picture, click "save target as" . This opens a box, allows you to select where to save it. Save it.
Then you can play it. I also tried to click on the picture after I saved it, and it played the video then too.
Hope this helps, Gary.

[Ade SYM]

Andy,

Bike looks great and is working aswell!

Get an MOT and have a trip over to see me.

Mine is nearly on the road now.

Ade