[Lx]

I'm still running the original crank seals on 70s and 80s and 90s two-stroke trail bikes. Been lucky that way.

Let em sit dry for a year and get back to me heh heh. The absolute worse ones were the Kawa triples, I think if you didn't start em once a week they'd stop running out of spite; but man they could haul the mail in a straight line and that was stock, add chambers and the correct jetting and they would scream except you could walk faster if it was below 6k rpms.

[steve86]

They’ve gone much longer than that — sat unused for as long as ten years.

I’m restoring a new-to-me Suzuki TS185 right now.

[wjcsux]

I had a 70 H-1. I know EXACTLY what you mean!