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Hilly's 1999 XL1200S

  • Hilly
    Hilly
    4 hours ago
    Got the bike Wednesday, boat was late, really heavy sea running, surprised it came at all to be honest. Gave the sporty a good bath to get the salt off, had a quick check over of the basics, fuel and oil ok, found gear lever was busted, thought it was loose down the wharf but nup, couldn't get it out of second getting it on the trailer, no rego sigh! I assume something fell on it on the boat, shit happens I guess.
    Front brake lever doesn't activate the brake light, I have a spare switch somewhere, engine light comes on but goes out when I wriggle the wires near the oil pressure sensor, dicky wires, love it, belts a bit loose as well, stuck it in the shed untill today.
    I bodged up the shift lever so I could get gears and took it for a blat around a "private closed course" to check rolling functions, the left grip spins on the bar, very disconcerting when laying into a left hander I discovered, goes like buggery, couple of carby snorts but nothing I can't fix there.
    Don't like the bend of the Tbars, I'll get some bars with a similar bend to the Slim ones, that suits my arthritic wrists better, I've got my eye on some already.
    I noticed on Wednesday after I washed it that it had been hot washed previously so layed down underneath it with a torch to see what old mate had tried to hide, all the oil lines are hard and cracking and covered in oily crud, they have been weeping under there for years by the look of it, I will change the lot of them, bound to fix the leak then aye.
    Overall I'm happy with it, will give it a full service, change the brake fluids and check the calipers, grease and adjust wheel and neck bearings, fix the other things I've found except the oil lines, I'll have to gather some stuff for that job, I'll chuck the forward controls that came in a box with it on, they are pretty rough looking but solid steel with grease nipples so I'll dress them up at some point and keep them. 



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    Pulled the air cleaner for a look, external venting job coming up.
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