Picked one of these up today for cheap for a friend, anything bad to look for? Anything good to say about this bike/engine?
Problems so far, swingarm bearings are shot, rear shock does no damping, frame has a repairable crack, swingarm has a repairable crack, power valves are very carboned up yet the cylinder has to be removed to clean them (pain in the butt), the bike starts and idles well after we cleaned the idle jet, but it revs up and stays reved up if you give it a little throttle (I have to bring it back down with the kill switch), the kick start gear is hit and miss (I'll be wearing boots and shin guards next time I try to start this bike), and the tank petcock is stiff. This is quite a list of problems, most of them will take time and not money to fix. I figure we'll have this bike running strong for another $150.
Could someone take a picture of the curved side of their Keihin PWK slide to show me what it is supposed to look like?
Problems so far, swingarm bearings are shot, rear shock does no damping, frame has a repairable crack, swingarm has a repairable crack, power valves are very carboned up yet the cylinder has to be removed to clean them (pain in the butt), the bike starts and idles well after we cleaned the idle jet, but it revs up and stays reved up if you give it a little throttle (I have to bring it back down with the kill switch), the kick start gear is hit and miss (I'll be wearing boots and shin guards next time I try to start this bike), and the tank petcock is stiff. This is quite a list of problems, most of them will take time and not money to fix. I figure we'll have this bike running strong for another $150.
Could someone take a picture of the curved side of their Keihin PWK slide to show me what it is supposed to look like?