Topic: The Hot-Tub Bike! "750 Virago"

[Pinhead]

I've worked on my friebd's '81 XV750 and had the same problem.

Two things:
Check all of the connections at the brain box.
There's a sidestand switch that runs a relay to "lock out" the starter. Most people bypass the switch.

EDIT: Nevermind; I didn't realize I was 2 pages behind.

[seaweb11]

 Crap. Looks like I lost the spring

[seaweb11]

It runs!
Today I finished the front brake rebuild.  It may be time to see if it will go down the road

[Jerry Rxman Griffin aka MuthaF'er]

No 90MPH blasts past that strange guy's place that wears the robe and lives in the small shack   

[seaweb11]

Hey now

 I was up their tonight having a taste

[Jerry Rxman Griffin aka MuthaF'er]

Dewd, you're gonna roll down yer hill side and end up in the friggen ocean one day  

ps plenty of bikes to rent but I don't think it comes cheap. Gotta put a rear tire on Tuesday. $220 at the local shop and they beat the others by $40-$50. That'll last 10,000 miles or 2 rides whichever comes first. Just put 4 on my car for $350 that will last 50,000. Who says it's cheaper to ride a bike! Lets translate that into 200,000 miles for $350 vs 10,000 for $220. Just doesn't seem fair but much more fun!  

http://www.eaglerider.com/denver/vehicle-list.aspx

[seaweb11]

ya, $1800.00 for 2 weeks

[Jerry Rxman Griffin aka MuthaF'er]

Hell, you could pick up a disposable bike for that or just ride that disposable bike home to that new fangled fancy motorbike house you built.

Unlimited mileage though and we intend on doing 6,000 this time. That's half a $220 tire 

[CycleRanger]

 That's why I walk away and come back later.

One of the best tools in the tool box! 

Not everyone has it and some that do never use it.

[seaweb11]

Put the last of the air filter stuff on and then lowered the bike down off the lift today.

Decided I had done everything perfectly or at least as perfectly as my skills will allow.

Put on my helmet, started it and headed up the driveway. Very Torquey motor in the loose gravel, but once on the street this thing really pulled.
Not my style, but I rode around the Island and had a hoot!
 

[axehole54]

glad you got it running! That shaft drive feels weird eh?

[seaweb11]

Not really, I used to have a Seca.

[Grnrngr]

Glad to hear you got it running! Virago wasn't really my style either, well, OK, I guess cheap non runners ARE my style, but it does kinda grow on ya....put about 1000 miles on mine in the last 3 days..

[seaweb11]

I rode it up to the owners house an hour ago.
My part of the deal is done
Another old bike back on the road.

[putnaja1]

Way to go seaweb!  I bet the owner was really jazzed?  I'm not really into cruisers either, but a bike is a bike, that one looked nice, and they grow on you even more after you bring 'em back!

Jason

[seaweb11]

He was pretty stoked. Said he heard me coming for 1/4 mile.