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Hi Guys, Been working on my cb900C(1981) and am about to "wind up" the rolling restoration...there is one kink,and for the life of me,I cant figure it out...should be simple....Bike had no center stand,and the "ears" were bent up. Straightened them out,and installed a center stand(ebay of course)...While the stand itself works well,I can find NO attaching point on the frame for the spring.Dont know if its been ripped off,or is this a brain fart.The stand came with a spring,and a "1/4 moon" bracket(for lack of a better term)...one hole on each end. There IS a spring ear on the stand,but nowhere on the frame I can see to attach the other side...Can someone give me some ideas here?:witsend:

I find that the sooner the stores put out the christmas stuff, the later I want to do it. It's normally the "thing to do" to put up all of our decorations on black friday when my wife is out of the house shopping and not bothering my boys and I. I have a 6 year old and a 4 year old so when they say "Can we put up the decorations, we'll help" it means "daddy can you do it". Put up the tree and can't bring myself to do the rest. I got the ladder out, got out my staple gun and my boxes of lights, then sat down and logged into bike-talk to put off doing anything else.

Anyone else feeling the lag this year? Also would like to hear from you insane people that spent 47 straight hours making your house look like Clark Griswalds house from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, maybe that'll...

Im having a problem with the kicker gear on my 78 shovel the 2 gears seam to be hitting each other any suggestions

John was a salesman's delight when it came to any kind of unusual gimmicks. His wife Marsha had long ago given up trying to get him to change.
One day John came home with another one of his unusual purchases. It was a robot that John claimed was actually a lie detector.
It was about 5:30 that afternoon when Tommy, their 11 year old son, returned home from school.
Tommy was over 2 hours late. "Where have you been? Why are you over 2 hours late getting home?" asked John.
"Several of us went to the library to work on an extra credit project," said Tommy.
The robot walked around the table and slapped Tommy, knocking him completely out of his chair.
"Son," said John, "this robot is a lie detector, now tell us where you really were after school."
"We went to Bobby's house and...

Hello, I'm new around here. Here's my problem, I've got a 96 1200 sportster and my headlamp and front directional; signals go out at random periods of time :gah:. I've tried tracing all connectors and grounds everything seems tight and dry. anyone got an option to try

thanks