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Cost to Coast ... to Coast on 1977 GS750 and GS550

Came up 1 and then 101 to Portland. It was really cold the whole way up and super cloudy but the roads were pretty wind-y. It warmed up a lot once we got to Portland and were sitting in traffic and my bike stumbles and dies. I was able to get it going again enough to pull over for a bit to cool down. Made it to where we were staying and it happened again the next day under similar circumstances (hot out, in traffic). It seems to be fuel starved and when I turned the Petcock on prime and wiggled the fuel line could see gas going down/bubbles coming up as if I was priming it after sitting a couple days. It rides fine otherwise one were actually moving.

Also so changed out two rear tires and my oil at this gas station which was a new experience haha


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Pretty cool. Tire change at gas station. Bet you had a few onlookers. In post #12 you said new tires were installed. Did they wear out already?
 
Yep we've done about 5500 miles with extra weight on the back with all our gear and the three week old tires were bald haha.
 
Anybody know what oil dripping out of the airbox means??

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Its been doing this this for a few days now and my side cover was coated in yellow residue until I wiped it off
 
sam000lee said:
Anybody know what oil dripping out of the airbox means??

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Its been doing this this for a few days now and my side cover was coated in yellow residue until I wiped it off
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The breather hose from the valve cover attaches to the air box, which is your source for oil. Monitor your consumption real closely to determine how much your loosing. May not be to much. Keep it topped up but not over full. Check in morning and after lunch. Portland is a nice town.
 
If you hang around up Portland way till the weekend, come join us at the PNW rally in Vernonia.

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Unfortunately we've moved on! In Olympia until Tuesday when my new chain and sprockets arrive the heading east!
 
Well we have moved on through Yellowstone and are in South Dakota 100 miles west of badlands. The gs550 got a flat yesterday which we topped off with my slime pump (life saver) and managed to find a tube in the next city over. The chain on the 550 is also way beyond its wear limit an is eating the sprocket so we're stuck here for a couple days while we try to find/order a new one. Looks like Amazon is going to be the quickest option even given all the bike shops in rapid city/ sturgis.


Yellowstone and Wyoming were great and so is South Dakota so far. I guess we're here for the eclipse. Will post more pictures later but here's bright and early in Montana

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Here's one from the badlands. We're in Chicago right now been a very busy crazy few of days with lots of riding and cold hard nights camping. I'll give a good update in a couple days with pads of pictures when we're back in ma. 1,000 miles to go after six weeks on the road and sleeping outside pretty much everyday - we're pretty beat. Hope to be back in 2 days.



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"Making memories" that's what some older fella said to me at a laundramat in Libby Montana on my way to Michigan.

For sure you'll remember this trip.
 
Well we made it back! A couple of days ago actually but I've been decompressing. About 9,500 miles and six weeks total and both bikes are doing well...for the most part.
I'm getting all my pictures developed and then I'm going to go back and give a more detailed summary/pictures of the trip since my internet access and posting was pretty scarce while we were gone.

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Well done. Glad to see you gettin out on these old bikes. And home in one piece.

Did the same miles years ago on cb750 around Australia.
But took 2years:cool:
Steve
 
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