I have been too busy with other work to do much on my stuff. Carbs are rolling in as people are taking advantage of our carb cleaning service. Bikes are coming in and going out too. The cafe is on the back burner for a minute. The California II developed a clicking noise in the rear drive so I stopped driving it and it is looking more and more promising that I will use it as a donor for the cafe. I did pull the CL100S in the shop and cleaned the carb, ran a compression test and checked for spark. It has an intermittent spark that is very weak when it does fire. The compression is like 165 or so (working on memory). I put pics of bit the bikes at the end of this post. The CL has 159 miles on it and doesn't appear to have been registered in this state because it doesn't have an inspection sticker. The CB has 604 miles on it and has a sticker on it from 1979. The bikes look rough because they have been sitting in a basement for 11 years. I got more of the story from the second owner. He bought them both out of a barn in upper New Hampshire and managed to get the CL to crank. It got 2 new tires (which have since dry rotted and need to be replaced again) but it wouldn't run good enough to put on the road. It really needed the carb cleaned. (see the pic on the carb cleaning service page of the carburetor with all the varnish in the bowl) I hope I can at least get it going good enough to ride a few feet before it gets sold.
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