How long has your CB sat

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My bikes get ridden fairly regularly, even in the winter, although my full fairing bikes get the call on most of the winter rides. All of the winter rides below freezing lol. The longest my CB has sat is 26 days and I felt guilty letting it sit that long, but the longest I have gone without riding is 3 days this winter. The FJR getting the call most of the time.

It's funny but a conversation I had onetime with Dale Walksler the owner of Wheels Thru Time Museum in Maggie Valley N.C. was an eye opener. He regularly gets in bikes that havent been run in nearly 100 years. I asked him how he prepped a bike that hadn't seen the light of day in years. He told me gets the old bike on the bench, puts fresh gas in them, makes sure there is oil in the crankcase, and then fires them up. He said motorcycles are mechanical things, that have no idea if they were turned off yesterday or 100 years ago.

Thinking about that made me wonder how long some of our CBs sit with out that little spark arcing in their 4 little spark plugs ignigting fuel. Like Teamvicegrip. Understand the circumstances, but can't imagine hi bike sitting there without breathing life for almost a year and a half.

While going to college in Phoenix, early 70's, I hung out at a local custom motorcycle shop. On one visit, someone had found a Harley that had been sitting it the desert for over 20 years. They flushed it out, put new oil and gas in it, and it cranked right up. Guess the bike didn't know how long it was out there!

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Heck of a reliable battery.

Heck of a reliable battery. Probably didn't have one. I believe it was a kickstart with a magneto. That was the setup on my 1960 Sportster.

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