Possibly for the exact reason you were already given.... corroded contacts inside the ignition switch. The German ignition switch is not the simple ...

- Not sure what you mean by this. "Charged" meaning the bike will crank ? Or, that the measured voltage is up to a certain level ? Please explain. -...

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There was a discussion about this maybe 2 years ago. I think the general consensus was that official BMW cables do not need lubrication. And it was le...

If you are stuck on the R90S and feel like riding home from GA, I have a buddy in the next town over who has an all-original, 2-owner, never wrecked, ...

Step-by-step notes on carb tuning... At rest (throttle closed, choke OFF) you should have 1 to 2mm of free play in each of the outer cable sheaths...

Here's why... With a 3-sided column LED construction, 2 of the 3 sides light up on Low Beam. High Beam throws in the last of the 3 sides. Since the sa...

Just so you know, I'm about 100 miles north-northwest of you, so our riding environments aren't exactly the same, but not drastically different either...

On the road at 3500 RPM and higher... after ~10 miles when the battery has recovered from the drain of starting... you should be reading up around 13....

I'm not really knowledgeable on the R80, but my '79 RT got 150+ miles out of a tank. I would have just turned ON the Reserve at 150 miles of mountain ...

First of all, this all hinges on where you live and how you ride... none of which is given. In AZ you might be good; in cooler, wetter western NC not ...

I know Joel and he's been rebuilding Brit bike gauges for decades. I had no idea he also did Airhead gauges.

Whenever I see no steering dampener, the first suspect is always "cost cutting". Comparing a H-D to an Airhead is a loosing game. Let's not even go...