07-17-2017, 01:03 PM
I just sold one of my older motorcycles, a 1993 Kawasaki ZX11, to a friend who will appreciate it more than I ever did. It's been in storage just sitting for 14 years, unridden and largely neglected, ashamedly, in a manner not at all consistent with my recommendations whenever I'm asked how to store anything with an internal combustion engine.
Good news, my collection of motorcycles with carburetors is shrinking. That means one less bike on which I will have to spend between 8 to 10 hours cleaning a varnished fuel tank, fuel valve, carburetors, and fuel pump. It is a tedious, time consuming, and unbelievably malodorous task. The most effective cleaner formulated for this will permeate your clothes, your skin, and your very soul while it lingers for a week afterward.
It turns you into an outcast, fully ostracized from any human contact or interaction until it slowly goes away. I swear, you can take 20 showers and it's still there.
Any time I spend performing this noxious task I will never get back and would be far better spent riding instead.
Good news, my collection of motorcycles with carburetors is shrinking. That means one less bike on which I will have to spend between 8 to 10 hours cleaning a varnished fuel tank, fuel valve, carburetors, and fuel pump. It is a tedious, time consuming, and unbelievably malodorous task. The most effective cleaner formulated for this will permeate your clothes, your skin, and your very soul while it lingers for a week afterward.
It turns you into an outcast, fully ostracized from any human contact or interaction until it slowly goes away. I swear, you can take 20 showers and it's still there.
Any time I spend performing this noxious task I will never get back and would be far better spent riding instead.