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Re: Help - 1971 R/50 Barnfind
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 1:30 pm
by Bamboo812
One more link to deals on parts, this guy has great prices and free shipping in the USA, but limited variety:
http://www.eubmw.com/
Re: Help - 1971 R/50 Barnfind
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 5:15 pm
by audiowize
Sweet, I just nabbed a cable kit from him for Euro bars. It will make me rest more easily know that all the cables are fresh.
Now to grab some Euro bars on ePay...
Re: Help - 1971 R/50 Barnfind
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 8:51 pm
by bbelk
What kind of rack is that on the back of the car. It looks pretty neat!
Re: Help - 1971 R/50 Barnfind
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 1:05 am
by audiowize
bbelk wrote:What kind of rack is that on the back of the car. It looks pretty neat!
It's a cheapo motorcycle carrier from Harbor Freight. (99721)
My boss sent me an e-mail one morning last year with a link to a 1991 Honda 600 Hurricane (badly wrecked) and told me to go pick it up, and that he'd pick up the bill on what I needed to do so. It works really well because you roll the bike on one way, then keep pushing it that same way to roll it off. Even with flat tires, it's doable.
Now that I look at it, I was a little overweight hauling the R50 home, oh well.
Re: Help - 1971 R/50 Barnfind
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 10:11 pm
by audiowize
Well, I took the advice of keeping money in my wallet, and I went to Harbor Freight today to see if I could circumvent paying for chroming.
So far, polishing parts on this bike is working very well. I'm also replacing nasty screws along the way, as I'm lucky to live only a few miles from several fastener stores.
My battery also came in, and luckily most of the electrical functions work. The horn doesn't seem to work for some reason, and the starter only worked very briefly.
It's really fun to bring this machine back to life! I hadn't noticed under the dirt, but the ODO reads just over 17,000 miles.
Re: Help - 1971 R/50 Barnfind
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 2:34 am
by Duane Ausherman
The horns are very easy to sort out. I have an article on my website for troubleshooting the starter.
Re: Help - 1971 R/50 Barnfind
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 4:43 am
by Major Softie
yeah, it's really common for old motorcycle horns to go bad. Hopefully you can resurrect it with Duane's info.
Re: Help - 1971 R/50 Barnfind
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 9:45 am
by audiowize
Duane Ausherman wrote:The horns are very easy to sort out. I have an article on my website for troubleshooting the starter.
That's easy enough!
(Donation sent to your website)
Re: Help - 1971 R/50 Barnfind
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 10:44 am
by Duane Ausherman
Thank you for the donation. One of my goals is to get my site set up in a way that it stays around after I am gone.
Re: Help - 1971 R/50 Barnfind
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 6:18 pm
by Rob
Duane Ausherman wrote:Thank you for the donation. One of my goals is to get my site set up in a way that it stays around after I am gone.
I recommend you talk to Stephen.