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Coughing Life Back Into the CBR

Well, we went around to try and get the CBR started last night with mixed results.

There was a simple issue of re-routing a choke cable and then we tried starting her... With less than impressive results. With the bike sitting for almost a year, the battery had lost most of its charge and cranking it didn't do much to help it.

To be honest, a lot of the time was spent sitting around waiting for the battery to get some charge, but once it had a few hours in it we decided to try and start her up again. With again, less than impressive results. As the battery started to die, we figured we might as well try to push start her and it was here that she coughed up the faintest bit of life, and then promptly died again. So she ran for a few seconds after we'd been pushing her all over the garage, which is fairly good considering her carbs probably need to be cleaned right out and the fuel drained.

Sitting around a bit out of breath, we were discussing what to do about the rest of her once she was running. She needed to be roadworthy in order to be registered and that meant she'd need at least the front cowling for mirrors and to cover any jagged edges. I'm thinking a front end Tyga conversion, but money is a serious consideration as well.

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