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I recently acquired a non running 1975 XS500, once I got it running, took a carb clean and swapping the old gas, it ran okay for about 50 mi and then started to freak out on me, I have all the symptoms of running lean (sporadic revving at idle, taking forever to rev down after stopping, engine...

Hi everyone. I recently picked up 2 yds3’s and I wanna get some more info on the bikes. What there worth where to get parts etc etc….One is a parts bike and one is complete. Here are some pics of the complete one. I got them both for 300$

I was wondering if someone with the knowledge or experience has rebuilt one of these stators for any of their bikes. It’s still a points and condenser system and I’ve replaced the condenser and re-wound the coils. I couldn’t get spark though and I was wondering if there was a wiring diagram for...

Hello all ! I’m new to motorcycles I wanna restore one as my first bike probably a bad move but wanna restore my wife’s recently deceased grandfather’s bike. The grandmother doesn’t really know what type of model the bike is and she’s still trying to find the title of the bike but in the time...

Background: Hopefully this will be useful to somebody, as I'm having a hard time finding any information about this bike online or in forums. I picked up this bike for 400 bucks at the beginning of August and had it delivered from Montana. I'm usually working on my 64 Jeep, but I moved to...

Was lurking around the net and found this pictures: Interesting to see how Yamaha has changed through the years.

Here are a couple of early 60's 250 models: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8VgU...A3B0F9&index=7