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Went to the vintage show again this year, took two bikes this time (had my brother ride one, too hard to shift two at a time). My '86XL600R (pictured to right of the wing) and my '86 aspy. I wondered how many people would be there this year because it was the same day as the Good Guys car show...

Time for another one of my rambling posts. I had the temp switch go out on the bike and was able to get it home before it boiled all the water out. I thought about buying a stock switch but then thought someday they may not be available so, I got the Duralast SW648 switch and went to wrecking...

Forgive me if I already posted this, but I could not find it. This again is from back in the tear down / build of my little cleaning project. I just want people to see that with a couple days, the wife out of town (if you have one of those) and a couple of your favorite beverages. You can make...

I was looking at another forum I am on, and found this from back when I was working on my bike still, (well, I guess I still am a little) I don't think I posted this here, so I thought it may help someone down the road, can't speak to the six cyl I don't have one - Howdy again all, while on my...

My friend wanted to go to the vintage bike show last weekend at the Lemay Museum in Tacoma Wa. I said sure it beats anything I should be doing, I thought, if we are going to the show, why not enter? we won't win anything because we actually ride our bikes but at least we get good parking. The...

I just happened to notice the last time any body posted anything was july 7th? does that mean all 1200's out there are all running problem free, or does it mean all the married guys wives have banned them from the computer until they get what she wanted done finished first........crap if that's...

I found one of these trunk light set-ups on ebay a while back for my Aspy clean up I just did. Cost was about 30 bucks with shipping I think. I had posted on some ones thread a picture of mine because they only had the light and needed to see the wiring. Then a couple guys asked if anyone had...

Well it’s been about 7 months since I bought Aspy and now it is finally done…..well the word “done” is never truly achievable. I have had a lot of fun working on this little project and now I can even buy food again. I have been through most anything I could take off, if it wasn’t repairable...

I wanted to wait until I was completely done.....but I can't. I started Aspy the other night after getting everything shoved back in place. I was very happy when just a few seconds of turning over (had to fill rebuilt carbs) was all it took to start and run like a top. I sync'd the carbs which...

One of my first posts was about crap wiring, it was also the reason I decided to clean and take a closer look at the bike I just bought because if the PO did crap wiring I wanted to find all of it. I am just about ready to put the trunk back on so while looking at the light bar I had fixed...

I got the aspy's fairing stripped down bare and cleaned all the dirt and dead bugs out of it. here it is with the main harness going back in- I bought the factory CB and assorted sundries to get it all connected, man does it get busy in their, but after trying a few times I got everything to...

So somewhere around the middle of November 2014 I bought the aspy. Just a little clean here, a little paint there, maybe polish that......sounded so easy. Most of you know things didn't work out that way, I have a little OCD problem that won't let a clean part be next to a dirty one. I hope to...

Still working on the bike, getting to the point it may start going back together in the next few days. I am close to putting engine back in but first had a few things to do, one of which was the clutch. I had a clutch socket but it was too small so I machined one from an old 1/2inch drive...

Still working on the bike, getting to the point it may start going back together in the next few days. I am close to putting engine back in but first had a few things to do, one of which was the clutch. I had a clutch socket but it was too small so I machined one from an old 1/2inch drive...

Howdy all, I bought what I thought would be a decent tire for my 86 aspy, it's a Shinko 777 HD 130/90-16. Looks good but too big, rubs the fender one side just barely at the fork depression. So now I want to get a different tire but now I'm spooked, what have you used that fits without rubbing?

So I am slowly getting to the "going back together" stage of my aspy's "clean up"....ha, clean up. Well anyway i thought if I was going to do the forks i should make it worthwhile while the bike is stripped down. I went through the parts fiche and bought all the parts available, new o rings...

Yeah it's me again. It's a job that I am sure we all can agree is no fun. Cleaning wheels up to look good again. I have found a way that is pretty easy and best of all doesn't cost a lot so you guys who answer to the wife won't have to lie about how much you spent this week on "that damn thing"...

I had to buy a new (used) final driven flange and final driven gear assy. I also bought a wheel to go with the flange because I bought a very nice '84 flange and my bike is a '86. I read a lot of posts about what fit what, some were contradictory to other posts so I thought I would research...

I have moved from the back to the middle of the bike on my quest to exhaust every penny I have. I have removed the carbs to rebuild, once that is done the engine comes out to get worked over and I'll see what I can get for my kidney. That is really not what this is about.....I just thought I...

OK, I bought this bike a few months ago and have just started playing with it a little. The first thing I wanted to fix was the mirror mount on the fairing, the PO had dropped it in the trailer he stored it in and broke it. I first cleaned out all the loose pieces, then marked where I could...