JAG_C70
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Hello, happy to join this forum.
I have had this 81 Passport for a few years, and I had to put it into storage for a year recently. Just got it out and got it running again, got it tagged and road-worthy, more or less. (New battery, some bulbs, cleaned the carb, etc.)
I just ordered a 15T sprocket to replace the 14T stock sprocket as recommended numerous places online, so I will update when I do this. My question is - do I need to do anything special to the chain? Chain seems to be in fine condition.
In fact the bike has only 900 original miles on it. But it sat for years and years before I bought it, so there was a lot of replacing anything rubber or plastic. I'm convinced the bike spent years on the side of a house or barn and never moved (in the southwest, with sun blasting one side and not the other) - so all the plastic on the right side was literally disintegrating, while on the left side, totally fine. (Battery compartment cover, shock cover, front fender right side was falling apart, legshield was so cracked the original owner had put aluminium body tape over the cracks...etc.)
I really want to find a new legshield for the bike, but the ones I've seen are expensive.
I don't know much about mechanical aspects of motorcycles, so it's been fun to learn some basics on this bike, and I hope to keep it up. i want to find an early 70s Honda CB350 for my next project. But I want to get this thing all sweet first.
Anyway, happy to be here and it's nice to have somehwere to come ask questions.
Also - is it just me or is the Speedometer a total liar?
I have had this 81 Passport for a few years, and I had to put it into storage for a year recently. Just got it out and got it running again, got it tagged and road-worthy, more or less. (New battery, some bulbs, cleaned the carb, etc.)
I just ordered a 15T sprocket to replace the 14T stock sprocket as recommended numerous places online, so I will update when I do this. My question is - do I need to do anything special to the chain? Chain seems to be in fine condition.
In fact the bike has only 900 original miles on it. But it sat for years and years before I bought it, so there was a lot of replacing anything rubber or plastic. I'm convinced the bike spent years on the side of a house or barn and never moved (in the southwest, with sun blasting one side and not the other) - so all the plastic on the right side was literally disintegrating, while on the left side, totally fine. (Battery compartment cover, shock cover, front fender right side was falling apart, legshield was so cracked the original owner had put aluminium body tape over the cracks...etc.)
I really want to find a new legshield for the bike, but the ones I've seen are expensive.
I don't know much about mechanical aspects of motorcycles, so it's been fun to learn some basics on this bike, and I hope to keep it up. i want to find an early 70s Honda CB350 for my next project. But I want to get this thing all sweet first.
Anyway, happy to be here and it's nice to have somehwere to come ask questions.
Also - is it just me or is the Speedometer a total liar?
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