It was 11 months ago that I bought this house. The Intruder was brought here in Oct 2015 and there she sat till yesterday when I removed the cover of her. A little adjustment of tyre pressures and 30 minutes batt charging was enough to crank.
A lazy crank it may be but it was enough to fire the rear cylinder( as normal) and the front coming in later--no choke but then it is 36 degrees.
I was surprised that it stated so easily especially with old fuel and not much of it, but the front jug had a tap that I had not heard before it also had a noisy right pipe .
I was hoping it would go away and left it to a nice strong idle with no help from any throttle, --A Cadillac would have been envious of such an idle.
After shutting it down for a few minutes I could not help but listen to that idle just once more and pressed the button whoom immediate idle and what!!!! ----no tapping noise and no popping on the right exhaust, ---perfect.
11 months
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Re: 11 months
Been there, done that.Fred wrote:It was 11 months ago that I bought this house. The Intruder was brought here in Oct 2015 and there she sat till yesterday when I removed the cover of her. A little adjustment of tyre pressures and 30 minutes batt charging was enough to crank.
A lazy crank it may be but it was enough to fire the rear cylinder( as normal) and the front coming in later--no choke but then it is 36 degrees.
I was surprised that it stated so easily especially with old fuel and not much of it, but the front jug had a tap that I had not heard before it also had a noisy right pipe .
I was hoping it would go away and left it to a nice strong idle with no help from any throttle, --A Cadillac would have been envious of such an idle.
After shutting it down for a few minutes I could not help but listen to that idle just once more and pressed the button whoom immediate idle and what!!!! ----no tapping noise and no popping on the right exhaust, ---perfect.
No one could ever deny the facts about the reliability of these bikes. Lifelong fan, always have been, always will be.
Your story reads almost a little poetic
Keep the rubber side down...
Lee