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Thank you for your Service! Sweet bike! Welcome to the site from Tennessee!

When you cleaned the carbs, did you check to be sure the accelerator jets were clean?

Up to this point, you mentioned two different carb sets performing the same way. Can the needle get worn? Yes. Are they aftermarket needles? (Notorious for not working correctly.) If they are original needles, have the tips been sanded? Have the seats been sanded cleaned and reseated? (I...

Looking good Joe!

To take my caps off and reinstall ('82 1100), I took a 2 x 4 and cut a slot for the top of the cap. With 3' of length, I could easily get enough leverage on the springs to push them in and turn the cap at the same time. (Cave man tools.)

Tough one. That is a long trip. But your seals do not appear to be leaking. If you have the time, it never hurts to change the fork oil if never done. Change the seals at the same time though. Also, expect the oil to be thick and black. It can be quite the job.

It is your bike to do as you please, but that sure is a nice '82 standard and they are getting to be few and far between these days (really rare). There are so many different types of bikes that make great cafe style bikes that are readily available and in abundance. That unmolested '82 is the...

Assuming the fuel pump is working correctly, I would suspect possible issue at the fuel pickup inside the gas tank, or possibly even the fuel petcock seals being swollen. Easy way to check the pickup. Close the petcock, take the gas line off the filter, insert the end of an air pump hose...

Also, you noted that 2 different carb sets were used, both recently overhauled, so carbs might be able to be ruled out. Fuel delivery under load is a different story. The carbs can only put out the amount of fuel delivered to them. So, if you get into 5th gear and slowly raise the throttle as...

Check out Mike's article on air cutoff valves before you go and pay for new OEM ones: https://www.motorcycleproject.com/text/air_cut.html

Hoping this was the last issue and it worked?

FYI, what art of TN are you in? I am in Kingsport and have all of my 1100 tools.

An '81 1100 should pull over 4500 RPM hands down. Matter of fact, because it has slightly different gearing and wheel size, it tends to run higher RPM at highway speed that the '82-'83 models. With new coils and wires, did the spark color change to blue? Couple of quick questions: * Once...

Glad to see you got that much worked out with swapping the carb and the choke issue. Still not liking the orange spark though.

Is that an AGM battery? When my AGM batteries were ready to fail, there was no warning. Start up fine in the morning for the commute to work and at lunch time, nothing but lights. Battery was usually 3 - 4 years old when they would just stop working.

Welcome to the site from across the pond in Tennessee!

Glad to see you making progress Joe! Been a long time coming. I remember discussing the potential of getting a bus back in July of 2010! Pic of the beginnings of the doghouse. Shame it did not get used for the bus.

Check to make sure you do not have a crack in one of your coils. Also, check the wiring on the resistor that is on the coil.

Glad to hear you are back on the road. I have no experience with the original radios. My bike was a Standard that I added a modern radio system to afterward.

Hi Ernest! At this point, I have to say you have more than likely performed more engineering work on this than Honda did when they developed the system oh so many years ago! Always a good read and love the drive to get it right!