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DevanJones
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I guess I just wanna complain a little bit.
So in march I bought my first bike. I bought a 79 Suzuki gs850 for 1000 dollars. I went and got my learners permit and sold a bunch of xbox games to have money to buy a helmet (I'm a 19 year old barista, I don't make much money). I learned to ride on that bike and rode the hell out of it all the way until the middle of june.
One day in the middle of June I was in Sumner, pulled up to a stop sign and when I pulled away it started running really odd. Almost non-rhythmically (I'm not a mechanic, can you tell?). It seemed like one cylinder was firing real low. Well as long as I kept the RPM's high It was okay so I rode it home and parked it.
I checked my gas tank, petcock, etc. The easy stuff I knew to check. Well that didn't do it so I checked with shops and no one could fix my bike within the next two weeks and I met a guy here on the forum who would help me clean my carbs. Well clean them we did and the bike was still running poorly. I told the mechanic I had found previously and he said it still seemed like it was my carbs and that if I didn't blow them out with compressed air, then I didn't do it right so I had him clean them again.
He said he found stuff in there and so I hooked them back up and the bike ran better, but still not good enough to ride. It didn't idle well and didn't accelerate from a stop without way too much clutch as well as not being able to get above 5,000 rpms and losing power uphill with the throttle all the way maxed out.
Well I took it back to the shop in Enumclaw and did my two weeks of waiting before the guy could look at my bike. He went over everything. He checked plugs, swapped out coils, cleaned the carbs AGAIN, but he couldn't get it right.
So he checked compression one cylinder running at 90 with the others at 120ish but they would switch up so sometimes a cylinder that was at 120 would go as low as 75. So he put some oil in there and the compression got much healthier which he says means the rings are probably bad.
So he estimates it at a grand or more to fix a motorcycle I bought for a grand. I can't afford that much to fix the bike and the mechanic said fixing it would be akin to beating a dead horse anyways. But then he rode it around to see if I could ride it home at least and not have to borrow a truck and a trailer and he said (and I quote) "Well ****, I don't know what to tell you. It seems to be running alright now." He said maybe I can ride it around and just keep a spark plug wrench and an extra plug on me for a season or two while I save money to buy a new bike. So my bike is just haunted by a malicious ghost I guess.
Now I'm bored, out a bunch of money and I don't even have skyrim anymore since I sold it to buy a helmet.
http://qkme.me/3qj1xg
End of complaining
So in march I bought my first bike. I bought a 79 Suzuki gs850 for 1000 dollars. I went and got my learners permit and sold a bunch of xbox games to have money to buy a helmet (I'm a 19 year old barista, I don't make much money). I learned to ride on that bike and rode the hell out of it all the way until the middle of june.
One day in the middle of June I was in Sumner, pulled up to a stop sign and when I pulled away it started running really odd. Almost non-rhythmically (I'm not a mechanic, can you tell?). It seemed like one cylinder was firing real low. Well as long as I kept the RPM's high It was okay so I rode it home and parked it.
I checked my gas tank, petcock, etc. The easy stuff I knew to check. Well that didn't do it so I checked with shops and no one could fix my bike within the next two weeks and I met a guy here on the forum who would help me clean my carbs. Well clean them we did and the bike was still running poorly. I told the mechanic I had found previously and he said it still seemed like it was my carbs and that if I didn't blow them out with compressed air, then I didn't do it right so I had him clean them again.
He said he found stuff in there and so I hooked them back up and the bike ran better, but still not good enough to ride. It didn't idle well and didn't accelerate from a stop without way too much clutch as well as not being able to get above 5,000 rpms and losing power uphill with the throttle all the way maxed out.
Well I took it back to the shop in Enumclaw and did my two weeks of waiting before the guy could look at my bike. He went over everything. He checked plugs, swapped out coils, cleaned the carbs AGAIN, but he couldn't get it right.
So he checked compression one cylinder running at 90 with the others at 120ish but they would switch up so sometimes a cylinder that was at 120 would go as low as 75. So he put some oil in there and the compression got much healthier which he says means the rings are probably bad.
So he estimates it at a grand or more to fix a motorcycle I bought for a grand. I can't afford that much to fix the bike and the mechanic said fixing it would be akin to beating a dead horse anyways. But then he rode it around to see if I could ride it home at least and not have to borrow a truck and a trailer and he said (and I quote) "Well ****, I don't know what to tell you. It seems to be running alright now." He said maybe I can ride it around and just keep a spark plug wrench and an extra plug on me for a season or two while I save money to buy a new bike. So my bike is just haunted by a malicious ghost I guess.
Now I'm bored, out a bunch of money and I don't even have skyrim anymore since I sold it to buy a helmet.
http://qkme.me/3qj1xg
End of complaining
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