Hello, I'm no mechanic by any means, so please pardon my ignorance here... I'm having issues with my 1980 CX500. My lady was cruising it down the road when I noticed her lights weren't on. I had her stop and noticed the battery was boiling over and smoking pretty bad. I replaced the...

Hey guys, So I got a 79 CX500 and another parts bike I'm hoping to combine into one nice running tracker/scrambler. I cleaned and re-jetted the carbs for pods and a MAC 2-1 exhaust. New oil. Full tank of gas. I installed the Ignitech and carbs without the headers attached and fired it up...

Let me preface this by stating that I am a complete noob regarding this sort of trouble shooting. So please bear with me. Since I purchased my bike (about 1.5 years ago), I noticed that I would experience a loss of power after riding for about 20 or so miles. Initially I thought the problem was...