It's Alive!!!

After slowly picking at Black Magic for about a week, with some resistance, the bike decided to start.

Over the past few days, I've been doing some real tuning on the bike. The valves are adjusted and I changed the oil to Shell Rotella-T synthetic oil, plus changed out that shitty oil filter for an K&N. The old oil was looking awful black and it looked like it was way too full!! The bike has new NGK plugs and the air filter is clean. I was careful to adjust the throttle so it was perfect! I spent two days scrubbing the bluing off the exhaust system- it's not all gone, but it's much better than it used to be.

The battery was fully charged, but the bike didn't want to run. I basically drained the battery once. I started to worry about if the fuel wasn't getting to the carbs- I was starting to thing that maybe the wiring wasn't making good contact. Maybe there wasn't enough gas in the tank? Maybe the gas was too old? When it was recharged halfway again, I tried it again. This time, it limped to life. After a minute, it was running more smoothly. That Delkevic exhaust is LOUD!!! When I jerked on the throttle, the sound actually scared me! It burned off some oil and other contaminants for the first couple of minutes, then it was fine. I'm so happy that the bike isn't a brick!

I still have to sync the carbs and adjust the idle, but I'm confident that it's going to be an awesome bike! Lastly, just for peace of mine, I'll do a compression test. It was a good da