Soviet Steeds

In my case the reason the non-terminal ends were failing was the central carbon fibre conductor. It's like a very thin ribbon. Repeated insertion spread out the fibres leading to poor contact with the coil terminal. This is why I want to go to copper core! I hate that stuff. Always have. :gahhh: Th...

AH!! They're getting too clever!

You know what, that did occur to me when I was looking at the pix. I have had other tankbags scuff paint, especially the straps. Not on the Ural, on other bikes.

I answered this topic then noticed it is nearly 1 & a half years old. The original "new post" seems to have disappeared.

I'd pull the carbs for examination and cleaning. Voice if experience here, as it concerns similar running issues on a motorcycle that ran poorly after a period of storage. I would drain the carbs if it was going to sit for several months. http://livinginthepast-audioweb.co.uk/imagex/misc/hand-point...

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"Murder log"

Didn't know that, or not noticed before or forgotten.

You got electrical connectors and the fuel hose there tho, so still not 100% safe IMHO. Only one way to find out I guess.

For me, when I have Avoid Highways turned on, it treats anything that might be a highway like it has the plague, routing me through 90 turns to travel 5 miles before it will just say "OK, take Highway 16 and be done with it". The ONLY way it will put me on a highway is if there is absolutely no way...

Lovely idea, but immediately occurred to me wind blast could be pulling on the compliance fittings, just a thought.

Sorry don't understand the last bit. Generator output is permanently connected to battery so is always live? Or are you talking about a fuse or link in the battery negative lead? (Which I don't have, and I'm not sure that any EFI bikes do.) But yes pulling fuse #1 should do it. I disconnected mine o...

The guy also owns an Ariel Square Four that was featured on American Restoration years ago.

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That's hysterical.

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Mon Oct 14, 2019 2:41 pm

Interested in the answers. I too use google maps and wondered about garmin or other gps systems

Ditto. But I suspect this might develop into a "satnav thread" with different people having their own favorites

https://sovietsteeds.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=49705&p=626184&hilit=coil#p626184 There's a good picture of the screw in this thread, along with how I got rid of that :bs: Thank you! :bow: OK so one can kinda see why they think they need to have some weird screw-on metal bit instead of... as n...