starting a "long stored" bike.......

[Sandy]

As for the carbs you can pull the float bowl off the #1 carb and have a look without having to remove the carbs. If it looks clean then the carbs were probably drained before being put away. If they're relatively clean I'd get some fuel in them and let them sit for a while also and then drain them. It might help to flush them out a bit for a good test start or run. They will however still need to be gone through with fresh o-rings. The fuel T and pipes where the fuel goes into and between the carbs are probably the kind that are rubber coated rather than having o-rings and will probably leak (remember note about fire extinguisher) due to the rubber shrinking, sometimes once they get wet again they will swell up and not leak after a couple days, sometimes not. You might have to buy new ones with the o-rings (ebay) and then rebuild the carbs at the same time. Good Luck!!!

[850 Combat]

On two occasions, I have had a failed a starter solenoid after jumping it from a car. Once with a CBX in '88, and once with a 1000G about 20 years later. I used to think it was a coincidence until it happened again.

I can't think of any engineering reason it would happen though.

Good thing someone is paying attention ! I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote that. My apologies.

Thanks for the "save"

Spyug