Outstanding Dean. That red Honda Hawk was my second choice for a new bike when I bought the FJ. I still sort of want one, but I wonder if it's a bad choice for my aging body.

I'm actually debating about putting the flatslides on my 1350r. He gave me all kinds of spares. When he took the stock carbs off. He completely rebuilt them. Put RPM's stainless bolt kit. Replaced every single seal. And all jets. Cleaned them in his ultrasonic cleaner. They are so clean they  look brand new. Then he wrapped them in plastic and put them in the original box for the flatslides. I was going to use them to convert one of the gravity bikes. But I'll probably put them back on the 92.
He even gave me all the jets and screws he took out of the original carbs. And a new feul pump he had just in case.

That's a nice showing of bikes Dean. I'm always amazed at the participation levels of all your local events.
  Over here in the states green is the standard color for diesel . When we switched cars over to unleaded gas the car manufacturers put a plate with a hole smaller than the nozzle used to dispense leaded gas and a spring loaded door that stayed closed until pushed  aside with the smaller nozzle used for unleaded gas.
 

My home town (for the last 20 years) hosted its annual BikeFest day on Sunday gone, and what a great day it was. Our local section of the VJMC organised a display stand right in the middle of the town centre and had 27 bikes on display for the day.....including 7 FJ's from our "Splinter Group" (6 white 3CV FJ 1200's and 1 Blue/White FJ 1100. We had actually planned to have 10 FJ's but illness, a slow painter and stupidity, prevented 3 from making it.

What I find amazing is that all of these FJ's except the one missing because the bodywaork was still at the painter's, are all owned by friends who live withing 20 miles of my house (and only a couple more than 6 miles from my house.

We seem to have our own little enclave of FJ lovers 

The BikeFest opened with a mass ride-in, of a couple of thousand bikes, from a meeting point just outside the town - with engines roaring, riders waving and plenty of burnouts to entertain the crowds. The town was packed for most of the day, with 3 stages for bands, club stands, accessory stands and the usual food/clothing/tat stands.

The Police were in attendance and were great fun, happy to talk to anyone and totally ignoring any minor "infractions". Their display stand was the second busiest of the day - beaten only by our VJMC stand.

Anyway, here's a few photo's from the day, mostly taken before the event opened, as once the ride-in happened, there were people everywhere and it was difficult to get clear photo's of any bikes on display 

For those interested in the "stupidity" issue, one of our group, Graham, got fooled by the green dispenser handle on the "super" diesel pump at the filling station (unleaded petrol normally has green handles and diesel black ones) on Saturday evening. Once he started to ride away, the engine started to smoke terribly and make awful knocking noises - as a new FJ owner (only 3 weeks) he didn't have enough faith in the bike to think that it could not possibly be a bike failure, so he got it trailered home and started to strip it down, starting with the carbs. It was only on Sunday morning that his 92 year old mum said "you haven't put the wrong fuel in it, have you" at breakfast, that he realised what had actually happened. At least now, the FJ's unburstable reputation has been restored. Carbs cleaned, fuels system cleaned and it ran perfectly on Monday morning with fresh petrol in it    - in his defence, it is apparently something that has happened quite a lot recently and the filling stations are being blamed for their confusing and ambiguous pump configuations.

If you even think you "might" want it - grab it before it's gone.  This is the second one I've seen for sale in 17 years.  First one I had to buy an entire bike to get!

Rebuilt and Rejetted Carbs by RPM
RPM Oil Cooler
Steel Brake-lines
Corbin Seat
Spare Carb and other parts
-Does have FJ second gear slip but runs strong otherwise
56k Miles
$1750 Obo
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Good news! I've spoken to Simon at Jobo's and the dyno is booked in for early next week, hopefully Tuesday, but maybe Wednesday.

I've been riding my FJ so little that maybe I should just park it among the flock at Dan's place.

I think the vent hose(s) is routed down so it drains to the street. 

Quick question, the two white "T" fitting vent tubes between #1/2 and #3/#4, do they need a hose coming down off of them? Or are they ok to run with no hose ran anywhere? They weren't on mine when I took the carbs apart (along with another piece, thanks RPM for sending me one). I'm ready to put it back on the bike, just want to make sure first. Thanks in advance