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[CouldBFaster]

You fellas are free to call me a dumbass for a while. I deserve it.

Hell, you bought a bike from Trent. We didn't need another reason to call you a dumbass.... 

I took real good care of that bike. I just did not wash it very often. 
riding it hard is ok. it got even ware. lol

[rbrown]

Ditto on the ground fix. I have an 02 1800 R and I just did my ground fix in April. The main ground under the engine was fine - no corrosion. The ground under the seat was okay but I still sanded off the paint and applied the dielectric grease. The real problem was when I got to the front coil. There is three different types of metals in that grounding point and talk about corrosion. It's a good thing I sanded it all off, put the grease on and tightened everything back up. You're actually suppose to do this once a year so I was lucky to have gone as long as I did without problems. It wasn't if but when I was going to be broken down.

The link to the steps is http://tech.vtxoa.com/index.php?sid=222011&lang=en&action=artikel&cat=14&id=33&artlang=en. The pictures aren't showing up but they might for someone else. The ground fix is easy to do and definite must for all X owners. Better to spend 30 minutes than being stranded on the side of the road with a dead battery.

[ViciousNoob]

I tried to do it, but all the directions referenced the 1800, and I couldn't find half the crap they were talking about. the fix sounds bad Cranberries, I just can't find all the stuff!!

[rbrown]

Do you have a shop manual for the 1300? I don't know enough about them to offer any advice but I know that you have to have a main ground that runs from your battery. You can trace that with the wire. Then you might look to see if you have any bolts that are screwed into the frame with a black wire coming off of it. If so then this would be a grounding point. If there is still paint on the frame then that's what needs to be sanded and greased. I would guess that if you look from your spark plug wires then they should terminate into coils. The front and rear coils are bolted onto the frame under the tank - guessing from the 1800. The place where the coil is bolted is the corrosion point. Just take the coil off, sand the frame, sand all the negative wires attached to that bolt, grease it up and that should take care of the ground fix. If I had pictures of the 1300 then I could probably point you to where the grounding points are. I'm sure someone on this board with a 1300 has a shop manual or has done a ground fix that could help with the ground locations.