Well, here are the plans for the bikes for the weekend.  First, I’m hoping for nice weather on Saturday and I’ll take the Kawasaki Vulcan 500 up to Mentor for the Western Reserve Harley test drive event.  Sounds like fun, aside from the loads of douchebags that will inevitably be there.  It’s right next door to the Honda dealer, so I’ll pop in and see if they have anything in stock for my CL200…probably not.

I’m also going to check out a 1989 Suzuki GSXR 750 basket case that someone offered to me at a very interesting price of $300….will post more about that later.

The CL200 is the big project.  The petcock still drips fuel into the lines even when it’s turned to off, so in order to get my carbs off to inspect the jets, I’m going to need to go get about 3 feet of fuel hose for each carb and run them from the petcock right into the gas can.  I tried looking at the carbs last weekend but the only way I could stop fuel from going all over the garage floor was to hold the floats up.

New floats and new jets – after that I think it’s in tip-top shape, cosmetics excluded.  There’s an oil leak from the tachometer drive housing, but that’s minor – just need to get a factory gasket or some of that crap that forms it’s own gasket…most likely the latter.

Hey – I’m thinking about organizing a 100 mile ride around the Hudson/Peninsula area for next summer – anyone interested?

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