Hrm.

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So, I replaced the battery this afternoon. And the bike started right up. Yay! Except it died as quickly as it started. And then I tried it again, and it did a little better, though it still needed revving to keep it from stalling. One of the pipes was also backfiring or popping some. I revved a bit and it seemed to stop doing that. Okay. And then I realized that gasoline was spewing from somewhere below the tank. Eek. Engine on the whole seemed much much much happier when the bike was upright instead of on its side stand, so... fuel line problems of some kind? I really have no idea. Gasoline stopped spewing (at least that I could tell) when I stopped the engine.
Any ideas, oh ye more mechanically inclined than me? Echoegami mentioned it sounds like I may need a new fuel filter, which might also explain the low idle. Blah.

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Hmm. Maaaaybe. There's a section set up in the basement as a bicycle shop type thing. I'd feel a little weird about it as we don't even rent a storage space currently, but I could always ask. Or rent a storage space, in which case I don't think they can really tell me what I ought not store in it. :)

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Oh, to answer the other question, no, I couldn't tell where the gas was coming from. It was running the best while I had it upright, and I couldn't hold it up and rev it and inspect the inner bits all at the same time. I thought about rocking it onto its center stand to take a look, but that's kinda tricky anyway, and even moreso where it's parked right now as its kind of on an incline.
Glad the windshield's working out at least.