I'm getting the bike ready for a 1000 mile road trip up to Canada this weekend, and hope to have some good pics and tales of mechanical woe to share. The bike was new to me as of a few weeks ago, so I've been racking up miles trying to ferret out the gremlins prior to leaving. I have put 250 miles on over the last week, and already found issues.
It's a G2 cased, Indian "restored", Bullet 500. I have no idea of the history, so anything is possible. So far I've bridged the alternator outputs to get full charging and overcome the DC spliced headlight. After overheating in traffic, I've advanced the timing and switched to full synthetic 20W50. There was quite a bit of blueing on the exhaust, and it was down on power. I broke and replaced the clutch cable already, and have a spare riding along now. All other fluids were changed. I've got a 15lb tool kit coming with too (to support mine and other vintage bikes riding along).
Does anyone else have recommendations for things not to leave home without? The other bikes coming along are a 40's era BSA M20, Norton Commando, two BMWs, and a newer cruiser of some sort. With the M20 along, I don't have to worry about being the slowest bike. I'll update this post with pics from the road.