Anything they can repair you should be able to see right now. Tape a 6" length of mechanic's wire to the front fender or fender stay. Bend this wire s...

Take the same Never-Seize compound that you use on your finned exhaust nuts and spread that liberally onto the inside of the new muffler input spigots...

BMW was one of the first to start complying with early Federal DOT standards. This means the jetting tended to be on the lean side on all "US models"....

• Nice project. Thanks for the JPEG photo !! • There are only 3 RED wires on the whole standard bike: Battery Pos to Starter Relay 87 Starter R...

Poop happens. One can set the needles distance perfectly, then the needles can get knocked down 1 or 2 notches if extreme care isn't used replacing th...

• 1) Unlike "wobbling", "weaving" or some other side-to-side movement, "up/down" vibration almost has to be generated by something mechanically loose ...

• In a laced wheel, there will always be small imperfections, if not from the factory, then after 40 years. This is the advantage of cast or machined ...

Scott - Buddy, we want to help you here, but you are still not telling us very much. If you want to take a casual approach to the solution and guess...

David has given you an excellent suggestion. 99% of your riding is done at mid-range on "the needle". The intake pulse basically takes the needle (whi...

I like James' suggestion of checking the drive shaft output flange bolts. • Modern "block pattern" tires do not tend to steer the bike like the olde...

1) No one said it was "garbage" or absolutely useless. Please stop mis-quoting others and/or blowing their comments out of proportion. 2) A lot of ...

An owner can't simply "pull the plugs" at any random time and expect to take a meaningful "plug reading". Before you go through the trouble of posting...

• The new style breather is preferred because the /5 version used a phenolic disc as the flapper. After opening and closing a couple of million times ...

Back in the 1970's and 80's all sorts of seat mods were made to make room for sidecars and extra tall transcontinental saddle bags. These were needed ...

Your bike is coming up on it's half-century birthday. Also, to have that low of mileage, the bike has had to do a lot of sitting. Agreed, that's not v...