I have a co worker who for the past 8 years or so has talked about selling this bike. Apparently the loan was in her name and when her and her ex spit she still owed quite a bit on it so she ended up with the bike. Now she is re-married, her new husband doesn't ride but last year decided he would get the bike running and learn to ride. So he took it apart and it has sat in their garage ever since. Now he has decided it needs to be stored out in the barn to make way for his new riding mower. The thing has 8K miles, still has a dealer tag so they never paid the excise tax on it, has back tags due back to 2010, needs tires and won't run. They don't have the money to drop it off at a shop to get it running and just want it gone, so she offered to sign the title over to me, see if I can get it running and tagged, sell it and split the sale price minus what it takes for me to get it running. So here it is:
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Yes, those are chickens in the background. I would have chose to start this project after my newly hatched chickens could move outdoors but they wanted it gone ASAP.
Battery is dead but will crank on a 50amp charge, fires when I prime it but its not getting fuel. I pull the fuel drain plug and find a nice collection of something that looks like roofing tar.
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