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I think I need to rebuild the starter on Stella, Charger says full charge on battery but you can almost count the compression strokes when she rolls to start. So I don't have any fear of rebuilding it but is it true that on 1986s 1200 that the starter gear in the chain will stay where it is or...

OK so I don't know if anyone has this problem or not but I have tried several types of gauges for checking the pressure in my tires and they all are a P.I.T.A. to use. :head bang: Seems like either the final drive is in the way on the back or the brake disc on the front, So what kind of gauge...

As you may know Stella got a flat on our last trip out last year so I bought a new Shinko rear tire over Winter and got it on. A couple or weeks ago I went out for a ride everything went good. Got ready to go out again the other day and both tires were down, I don't know yet what the problem is...

OK so on a ride yesterday Stella picked up a piece of steel while crossing a set of railroad tracks about 15 miles from home. :sensored: So I put in a can of fix a flat and got her home. :beg: It was a flat piece so I don't think a plug will work and I don't like plugs so I am looking at...

I snyc Stella's carbs last fall and to tell the truth it did not make much difference ( They were pretty close to start with) So I seem to remember back in the day when I was a teenager riding and racing dirt bikes (way back) one of the guys rode a 305 scramber with what I think were about the...

I don't know how but I think Stella gained weight over the winter season. I rolled her out from the back of the garage this morning as it is supposed to get into the 50s tomorrow. I swear not a day to soon as she needs the exercise I do not remember her being that hard to move or hold up...

Hope I do this right and maybe it has been posted before but I just seen it and laughed my butt off. :smilie_happy: You have to wait through about 25 seconds to get to the good part. Jerry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s33LeUIKyfg

My daughter leaves her 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt here when she is on duty overseas 50,000 miles on it 4 cylinder. So I have to drive it once in a while to keep everything moving on it. (somebody has to you understand). Anyway it has a digital temperature gauge and like today on the way home I see it...

While out riding last weekend I had a thought. As we were riding a lot of cars seemed to be testing their brakes and mine by coming up the stop signs as fast as possible before making their stops forcing me the let off the throttle and getting ready to apply Stella's brakes. :sensored: My...

Man today was in the upper 60's or lower 70's got together with the ex-sister-in-law and her son-in-law and put 75 miles on Stella today. :yahoo: It got a little chilly over by the bay (wind was off the water) but still nice and warmed back up once we got a few miles away. Sunshine all the way...

Ok so back in the day of dirt bike riding we used to just put the tie down around the handle bars and tie it down. But because that is not possible on Stella how do you guys tie your bikes down in front. You know like when up on the table. Last year when I had it up on the table for the alt...

I just got my latest H.F. sale paper the other day and they have this lift on sale for $299.00 Reg. price $599.00. https://www.harborfreight.com/1000-lb-ca ... -8495.html So I just have to ask as I have bought a lot of stuff from them and I know you sometimes get what you pay for and I could get...

One of my riding buddys has a new last year H.D. with hard bags and a trunk so I commented on how much it looked like Stella. And yesterday I get my new issue of wing world the gold wing magazine and it says brand new gold wing unveiled so I open to page 24 because I do not think the bike on the...

I looked and could not find a forum for exhaust and have a question (maybe I should have made the font bigger and looked again) but I will put it here for now. Stella has a small exhaust leak right side where header pipes go in right before the crossover after the two join into one. So I am...

Just wanted to let everyone who is going to do a external alternator conversion. Now I know maybe everyone will think of this already but I will say it anyway. When I did mine on Stella last winter I did not think ahead about what kind of job it would be changing the belt, I thought I was good...

So yesterday took a ride out to a friend's house 50 miles to visit and pulled in to the driveway and just as I started to turn the key off everything went dead. So I looked and sure enough the dogbone fuse had blown. :help: bummer But thanks to you guys talking about problems with it I had a...

OK I did a search on gas octane to find out if I was feeding Stella right and I am sorry but I am still confused. :read: Don't get me wrong she runs great and I have been giving her regular 87 on the yellow tag on the pump. :yahoo: But there is also a 89 and 93 grade on the pump, now I like...

Does anyone have a sidecar on their wing. I have been thinking about adding one to Stella to take the dogs along for a ride. Next question are they hard to handle? I have ridden two wheels and four and I know the trike riders will get after me for this but I don't do good with three wheels (I...

Today I took a ride about 125 miles through the Huron-Manistee National Forests Oscoda Township, MI with my ex sister in law she rides a 650 shadow we stopped at lumbermans monument and Iargo springs. Got some great pictures and walked down and up a lot of steps :help: (too old for that stuff)...

I just have to say when I got out of work today I got stopped by the red light :popcorn: But as I drove away ( after the light changed to green of course) I was slowly picking up speed up to about 2000 rpm and slowly pulling in Stella's clutch and stepping on the heel shifter and slipping her...