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Help is needed if anyone has a very good idea what the noise is coming from my engine. A little background, on monday May 10 I started all 4 Eli's while they were sitting in my trailer. Wanted to run them 10 minutes or so 'cause they hadn't been operated in about six months. All bikes started...

Well, I recently got the newly acquired ZL1000 to run. Still needs some work to be road worthy and lots to do cosmetically to suit my tastes but at least it runs - how good - I'm not sure yet. Hopefully I can get enough of it together to do some test runs around the driveway this weekend. In the...