Thread: Help Ed's Incredible Honda Restoration 2025.

Originally Posted by Edmond

Name change alert!

You can buy it from me for 0.00067546435456535 Bitcons

With a btl of Laughing Bird wrapped in a bow. :-)

i never engage in business transactions when i've had a pint of malbec, nor advise prisoners on how to scale walls atopped with razor wire and watchtowers

How's the motorbike restoration going, Edmond?

It's going very well, cheers Neverna.

I'm taking me 650 to the dealership this week for a full service etc.

Then will probably take this wee project to a shop next week for the next stage of resto:

new front tire, electrics/lights/indicators/dash sorted as none of them currently work and I know fudge all about electrics, brake service as it only has one working brake, and oil and oil filter because why not.

But there is one thing I can't figure out.

I didn't start it for 2 days, and after that it wouldn't start with the starter, and took a few kicks of the kickstart to get it to turn over and keep running.

Even just over night it will be tricky to start and take a few tries.

Once running she's perfect, ticks along with no power issues.


The only thing I can think of is perhaps the battery is a crap cheap Chinese one that wasn't used for 6 months, so it loses power when not used for a day or two?

Or it takes a few start attempts to get fuel pumped into the carb?



#help.Ed

Could be any bloody thing. But yeah, it could be that fuel evaporates from the bowl over that shortish time. Dunno why, in this case. You can check for this by waiting a coupla days, then getting about 1/5 cup of fuel, taking off the air cleaner, and chucking said petrol down the intake.

Cheers. Will probably do something like that, maybe.