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Since the choke on these bikes does not actually restrict air like a normal choke, it adds more fuel without changing the airflow. When you start it cold get it off choke as quick as possible or the fuel enrichment could mask a plugged jet. It is even hard to visually check the plugs, I have seen plugs that looked just fine that would not run well.

So you are saying it stopped flashing??????

I'm in the same boat as GAWildKat. I have some ornaments that are many generations old. But I am not hauling out any Christmas stuff that I have to put up since I will not be able to take it down till April.

I am a Seenager. (Senior teenager) I have everything that I wanted as a teenager, only 69 years later. I don't have to go to school or work. I get an allowance every month. I have my own pad. I don't have a curfew. I have a driver's license and my own car. I have ID that gets me into bars and the whiskey store. And I don't have acne. Life is great. Also, you willfeel much more intelligent after reading this. Brains of older people are slow because they know so much. People do not decline mentally with age, it just takes them longer to recall facts because they have more information in their brains, scientists believe. Much like a computer struggles as the hard drive gets full, so too, do humans take longer to access information when their brains are full. Researchers say this slowing down process is not the same as cognitive decline. The human brain works slower in old age, said Dr. Michael Ramscar, but only because we have stored more information over time. The brains of older people do not get weak. On the contrary, they simply know more. Also, older people often go to another room to get something and when they get there, they stand there wondering what they came for. It is NOT a memory problem, it is nature's way of making older people do more exercise. SO THERE!! I have more friends I should send this to, but right now I can't remember their names. So, please forward this to your friends; they may be my friends, too.

These bike run so well on 3 that pulling a plug wire makes almost no difference in idle speed. Around 40 MPG is right in the ballpark of what you should expect. MPG will drop when you are on 3. To check for a dead cylinder at idle, when the bike is cold, start it up and check the temp of the headers at the head, they should all heat up at about the same rate. Careful, they do get HOT quickly. For a cylinder to fire it needs fuel, air in the correct ratio, compression, and a spark at the right time. Disrupting any one of these will make that cylinder not fire. It is possible for all cylinders to be firing at idle with no load but then have one drop out under load. The most common cause of this is spark related. How old are the plugs, these bikes are fussy about good fresh plugs.

At 70-80 it should pull pretty good. Any hill on the interstate should not be a problem at that speed even in 5th. Are you sure you are not running on 3 cylinders. That is what you are describing for performance. These bikes run amazingly good on 3 cyls. There are some that rode for over a year on 3 without knowing it. What kind of gas mileage did you get, The biggest indicator of running on 3 is bad gas mileage. Do not be afraid of revs on these bikes. 4th is safe for the engine to well over 100, 3rd is safe to 95 to 105 depending on who you talk to.

Just do not open the valve that lets the magic blue smoke out.

The 6601D is the controller for the solar cell. Leave that alone since you do not have a charger. The HL2503-1 is the flasher. If you connect a jumper from pin 1 to pin 8 that should eliminate the flashing. The catch is that the on off switch may also go thru this component and you may not be able to turn the lights off. If this happens then put a switch in the jumper, you will then have one switch to turn the flashing on/off and the stock switch to turn the whole thing on/off. This is my best guess with what I have to work with. The data sheets that I could find are all in Chinese so I am guessing at a lot of it. 6601D english.pdf HL2503-1_datasheet.pdf

Cool Even with a stick shift.

Have you ever seen anyone advertise a bike as a piece of crap? Who would bother to go look at it? I never take the sellers word for condition.

HID and incandescent are both an omni directional light output from the light producing element. A LED is at best 180° or less, some much less of light output and requires a reflector and lens designed for the different way that LEDs produce their light. A LED in a housing and lens system designed for it is a wonderful light source. But put that same LED in a fixture not designed for it and the result can be disappointing to dangerous.

Not yet but the blood is there waiting to be hosed. I will have to hose it out next spring....... I like to keep the blood there for a while as a deterrent to other deer that may consider messing with me.

Somehow I do not think that would last me long. But it does look nice, and I bet it does a good job of keeping stuff from sliding around. I just have the old fashion slid in plastic liner and then I put in a piece of indoor/outdoor carpet, the kind with the foam rubber backing. The carpet and foam rubber keeps stuff from sliding around and every spring I can take it out and hose it down to get last winters deer blood out. Once it gets to yucky it is real cheap to get another one.

I DO, I DO!!! I use my cassette player all the time. I have a cassette to 1/8 phone adapter that allows me to use my Ipod on the bike. One end plugs into the Ipod and the other end looks like a cassette tape. Works great. I do not have the aux jack to plug into.

Can you give us the numbers from the 2 IC chips (The black things with 8 legs), and the transistor (black thing with 3 legs)? Can you post pics of the lights and the other side of the case with the photocell?

Yes @eagleeye I know you have a station 3 blocks away :jealous:. But because of all the pollution that floats up here from Chicago we get stuck in the stupid gas category. And since I am just 3 blocks from the lake, it is a long way out of this no matter which direction I head. I am almost halfway to your house for the nearest gas station.

At the rate we are going, yes......

Welcome to old. But the trick is to never let the younguns know how much it hurts to keep up with them. That way they think you are superman. If your shoulder is still hurting that bad after a week, It may be time to see your doc. You have to get that shoulder back in shape before the comes.

Just wire the batteries to the switch then to the lights. Disconnect the whole circuit board and always use the external charger for charging.

Well it depends. Are you relying on the photo cells for charging or using the charger input. They are most likely flashing the lights to save battery power. continuous on may drain the batteries pretty quick. depending on what the lights are. Getting it to stay on continuous may not be hard, but the power draw may kill it. For a better answer we need more info on what the lights are. and what the photocell is.

Expensive but better. Any ethanol free gas will be good for storage. It is the ethanol that is really bad. The race gas and the Aviation gas are a great alternative to those that can not get ethanol free gas. I have to drive over 100 miles to get ethanol free pump gas. I can get the race gas locally So if you add in the cost of 100 miles worth of gas in my truck, then the race gas aint so expensive anymore.

All that good info is in the link I posted back in post #4

Nice I usually get the best presents from myself to. Somehow I always know just what to get.

One of the government TLA (Three Letter Acronyms) agencies just recently passed some ruling that airports can no longer sell fuel to walk in customers with a gas can. 100LL still contains some lead and there are no road taxes being paid. People were buying it for the 100 octane to put in their sports cars and bikes. My local FBO says they can not dispense fuel without a tail number. Now if you know a pilot and he can say that the fuel is for his aircraft.......... If you can find this gas near you http://www.racegas.com/fuel/21 it is designed for winter storage and infrequently used motors and has a storage life if 3 years. Sunoco also has several other race gas formulas that would be very good for winter storage, they also have a location finder on the website to find the nearest sales outlet for each type of gas.