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No title "due to age." Right. Even I have a birth certificate, and I'm damn near salvage.

Finally completely done with the restore. Just got the tank back from paint,

Just wanted to say thanks to the forum, for providing me the level of detail I needed to get my Bird back up and running. bought her as a non runner, with the ebay seller telling me it had been dropped static, and on restart, the throttle stuck open long story short, i found the rh bar slightly bent preventing the throttle closing, I also found a level of strip under the tank, and used the forum info to reconnect the fuel and vacuum lines successfully. she ran up perfik last night, albeit I had changed the plugs and air filter while i was under the tank Oil change next! Bird is the word!!

Might not be a big deal to some of you.. or any lol. But: im 48. I have never in my life had upper body strength. Legs and stamina I got - but even when I was swimming alot I had no strength. When I really started pushing myself a year ago one of my goals was to be able to do a chin up/pull up. Even in my best days in the military I couldnt do this. I had been working towards this with certain exercises but hadnt made an attempt in nearly two months. Monday I was at a play ground with my 10 year old and on a whim tried it hanging off the damn monkey bars… and I did it! Cold - in street clothes. So today Im back in the gym. Warmed up a bit and then grabbed the bar - banged out 3 good ones in a row. Relaxed for a minute and them banged out 3 more. Flat foot, full stretch chin ups. First time in my whole damn life.