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Hello folks, it's been a few years since I've had a motorcycle on the road and I was starting to get a little too jealous of people I saw ridding around all summer. For the past few years I've been knee deep in modified VW's (old watercooleds to be precise) but I've wanted to work on something simpler lately so I though I would pick up a lightly wrecked sport touring bike to commute to work and take weekend trips with.
Long story short two weeks ago I bought a 94 750 katana whose previous owner decided to put the bike in a ditch instead of taking the life of an innocent beagle. The bike has been sitting for about 6 months and the picture pretty much says it all.
So far I've heard it turn over, did an oil change to be safe and did hear it sputter once or twice which was encouraging but it would not start. I pulled the carbs the other night and dropped the bowl and pulled out the slides, it all looked very clean and didn't smell at all of varnish or bad gas. I re-installed the carbs and manually held the choke on, (after I noticed that there was no cable and assumed that was causing the no start). Unfortunately I was still unable to get it to start. I pulled the plug, which looks like it's been there since the dawn of time and was getting a little spark, but I'm going to replace them and see if that helps.
Once I get it running I'll be on the hunt for fork caps, or maybe a complete used set of forks, as well as a GS500 headlight or perhaps a pair of early gsxr headlights for lighting. I believe I'll paint it white with some dark bronze accent pieces, or at least that's what my imagination is leaning towards.
At any rate, I figured I'd introduce myself to you folks. This place seems very tame and helpful compared to the VW sites. It's a nice change of pace to read threads with well written intelligent responses to problems.
Any comments or pointers will be gladly accepted,
Long story short two weeks ago I bought a 94 750 katana whose previous owner decided to put the bike in a ditch instead of taking the life of an innocent beagle. The bike has been sitting for about 6 months and the picture pretty much says it all.
So far I've heard it turn over, did an oil change to be safe and did hear it sputter once or twice which was encouraging but it would not start. I pulled the carbs the other night and dropped the bowl and pulled out the slides, it all looked very clean and didn't smell at all of varnish or bad gas. I re-installed the carbs and manually held the choke on, (after I noticed that there was no cable and assumed that was causing the no start). Unfortunately I was still unable to get it to start. I pulled the plug, which looks like it's been there since the dawn of time and was getting a little spark, but I'm going to replace them and see if that helps.
Once I get it running I'll be on the hunt for fork caps, or maybe a complete used set of forks, as well as a GS500 headlight or perhaps a pair of early gsxr headlights for lighting. I believe I'll paint it white with some dark bronze accent pieces, or at least that's what my imagination is leaning towards.
At any rate, I figured I'd introduce myself to you folks. This place seems very tame and helpful compared to the VW sites. It's a nice change of pace to read threads with well written intelligent responses to problems.
Any comments or pointers will be gladly accepted,
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