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After a long fight with cancer my father passed away. He left me his 1982 1100 Goldwing GL bike to me. I feel blessed and am so happy he left it to me when he has 5 children to leave it to.
I remember riding on the back of the bike when I was 10 years old. I knew how to drive it before I knew how to drive our car. I was more excited about getting my motorcycle license then I was about getting my drivers license. After 5 years of fighting cancer my dad passed and left me the bike.
When he got sick he could not ride the bike anymore and it set for 5 years. When he drove it it was in great shape. It only has 86,549 miles on it. I got the bike home this week and it is in bad shape. My brother who is really good with cars said that I should just scrap it because its been sitting for so long but it only has 86k on it and I remember my dad saying that its not even broken in. This is why my dad gave me the bike and not him!
So I am going to try to fix it! I have done a lot of work on cars but not much on bikes. I have a repair manual; it’s kind of like a Haynes manual for cars. From what I can tell so far it will need new mufflers because they are rusted. I can get the Goldwing started which is great news but it stalls. It's choking out and the only way I can keep it started is when I reeve the engine, but I can only get the RPM's to 1500 or so. Yes it has new gas in it. It is also leaking gas! The shocks are gone as well.
What do you think? Does it sound like something that can be fixed? Is it worth it? If you have any ideas of what could be wrong or of things I should do after a bike has set for 5 years please let me know.
Thanks
I remember riding on the back of the bike when I was 10 years old. I knew how to drive it before I knew how to drive our car. I was more excited about getting my motorcycle license then I was about getting my drivers license. After 5 years of fighting cancer my dad passed and left me the bike.
When he got sick he could not ride the bike anymore and it set for 5 years. When he drove it it was in great shape. It only has 86,549 miles on it. I got the bike home this week and it is in bad shape. My brother who is really good with cars said that I should just scrap it because its been sitting for so long but it only has 86k on it and I remember my dad saying that its not even broken in. This is why my dad gave me the bike and not him!
So I am going to try to fix it! I have done a lot of work on cars but not much on bikes. I have a repair manual; it’s kind of like a Haynes manual for cars. From what I can tell so far it will need new mufflers because they are rusted. I can get the Goldwing started which is great news but it stalls. It's choking out and the only way I can keep it started is when I reeve the engine, but I can only get the RPM's to 1500 or so. Yes it has new gas in it. It is also leaking gas! The shocks are gone as well.
What do you think? Does it sound like something that can be fixed? Is it worth it? If you have any ideas of what could be wrong or of things I should do after a bike has set for 5 years please let me know.
Thanks