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Mostly after the bike had sat overnight or even for a few hours but when I choke it a little and start it it shoots off a gunshot loud backfire.i imagine it has something to do with the carbs.ideas?

Help please,My 86 seems to be running fine under normal use but if I take off from a dead stop and really crank the throttle open it stumbles an acts like its not getting enough fuel to it.i drilled my brass plugs out and have been tweeting them(since this condition started)but it doesn't make...

we took a 1300 mile round trip from ohio to deals gap and back with some friends of ours,they had big comfy touring bikes but the max did just fine and we werent as sore as we thought we'd be.rode down the foothills parkway south down the dragon and across the cherohala skyway.

heres the bellypan i came up with after a couple failures.pretty happy with it.

do the front calipers on a 93-07 bolt up to an 86 ?theyre dual piston and my 86 is the single piston and was thinking it would be a decent low cost upgrade.thanks

finally figured out a decent looking spot to mount my switch to.just bent some .062 aluminum from work into an angle,notched it and rolled the ends around and tack welded in place,primed and painted and there it is.i bolted it in place with the lower two bar clamp bolts.

received my glorious poster the other day and finished my frame and its ready for the wall...lovin it

if anyones interested someone on craigslist in ohio has crash bars,the oem sport rack and the backrest for sale(the backrest is only the upper half with the pad not the lower half..he's asking 100.00 for all of it.heres his add,he calls the crash bars forward foot pegs(for sale yamaha vmax...

i just ordered my Jay Gleason autographed poster today,i gotta say im pretty excited about it..has anyone ordered one recently?Wendy seems to be really easy to deal with.im making my own frame for it and have a nice spot on the wall of my man cave for it.

got in what is probably the last decent roadtrip of the year to the flood wall murals in portsmouth ohio.just over 200 miles down and back.stopped at the portsmouth brewery and had a really good meal and a couple local beers.the blue and silver Vmax is my brother Dans.

took a trip to the new river gorge bridge in WV last weekend with some friends.made a number of stops along the way(kanawha falls,the hawks nest state park and some others.we had awesome weather for this time of the year,stayed off the interstates most the time and just did some nice easy...

finally made it up to national trails raceway to run the bike,really need to work on my r/t but overall it went ok..my first pass i had an r/t of .526 and crossed the line at 12.505 and 112.27 mph. the second pass i was at .515 and finished at 12.3 and 112.99 mph.the second pass being my better...

My friends 85 is still causing us grief.replaced all the intake boots and no air leaks now,all new diaphrams,I think the carbs are still pretty clean inside(I might be wrong).when I left him Friday after syncing the carbs it idled fine and was slightly lethargic on the throttle as far as coming...

saturday my buddy Paul(on his GSXR 750) and i set out around 9 a.m. for the ohio river.took 78 and 260 down and 255 back,along with a number of other roads.got back in lancaster around 7 p.m. and roughly 310 miles later.awesome day to ride as long as we were moving(temps were in the low to mid...

my friends 85 is having idle issues.it will idle then for no reason idle up to around 3000 rpm then eventually back down..and it doesnt idle well when it does idle.if the bikes off and u flip the throttle it snaps right back so i know its not binding but if its running and u flip the throttle it...

took my youngest daughter and my brother took his son and we went on our first ride since getting his 85 up and running.this is just a clip of him and his son ahead of us on rt 33 heading back into lancaster.no winding roads in this video,sorry lol. http://youtu.be/O7JWtuKt0Io

My brother just picked up an 85 that has a manufacture date of 1/85,the rear disc looks different than the reaar disc on my friends 85 that has a date of 2/85..my brothers disc has the pad surface basically floating and captured by a small plate on each side and the plates are held by rivets.the...

does anyone have an extra carb diaphram lying around they could part with for a fair price? thanks..Dave C.

driving down memorial drive the other day and saw an 85 vmax for sale(prod date on neck was 1/85)called the guy out of curiosity and hes the original 1st owner,it has about 23k on it,4 into 1 kerker,carbs are jetted and it has a dale walker baffle in it and looks like it has the t-boost and has...

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