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« Reply #2460 on: June 20, 2018, 06:47:39 PM » |
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I'll fire it up before I go home, but the engine needs a damn good scrub to get rid of 38 years of grime, so every time I work on it I'm going to attack a small area with wet n dry paper. Eventually it'll sparkle!  |
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« Reply #2461 on: June 21, 2018, 12:09:44 PM » |
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Hope you are feeling a lot better today Andy. JJ |
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« Reply #2462 on: June 22, 2018, 10:45:58 PM » |
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Yes thanks JJ, just not a hot weather person, so struggling a bit at the moment.
New speedo cable arrived today. I bought a new one from Ebay for 4 quid & sent it to Speedy Cables in Wales, who shortened it for me.
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« Reply #2463 on: June 22, 2018, 10:55:19 PM » |
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Took s ride over to Guildford this afternoon. No speedo fitted yet cos I'm waiting for the mounting bracket to come back from the powder coaters, but Google Maps told me it was bang on 40 miles each way, so an 80 mile round trip, stopping off at JackHammer hotrod shop in Farnborough on the way.
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« Reply #2464 on: June 22, 2018, 10:57:52 PM » |
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Has it stopped popping and banging now.
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« Reply #2465 on: June 22, 2018, 11:12:48 PM » |
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Yup, I seem to have fixed the popping & banging from last week, but now it's developed an oil leak from the other side of the cylinder head.
It also got very hot & irritable riding through the middle of Guildford's Friday evening rush hour, stalling several times & getting a bit clunky when changing gear. Having to paddle it to the side of the road & kick start it, with a queue of car drivers behind me, revealed a talent for swearing I didn't know I had.
I was heading for a circular "Moon Door" in a road in Cranleigh to take some photos, but the Cranleigh road was shut & I eventually gave up fighting my way around the town in the heat & headed home. I stopped for these pics on the way back.
The bike ran quite happily once I was back out on the open road, but doesn't like slow town traffic when the engine's hot. I've already ordered new inline fuel filters as they look pretty mucky already, but any other suggestions? -apart from "Don't go to Guildford"?
After only a few miles of motorway speeds, my bum was already getting numb. This isn't a long distance hauler.
I'm trying really hard to like the thing, but maybe I'm just not the biker I used to be.
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« Reply #2466 on: June 22, 2018, 11:13:22 PM » |
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« Reply #2467 on: June 22, 2018, 11:14:26 PM » |
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« Reply #2468 on: June 23, 2018, 06:16:49 AM » |
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I've always found short rides are the best way to break in the union betwixt man and beast..it's a hodgepodge of bits and pieces..and you know you have to check everything before and after you go out..( hard tails  ) Your out and riding on a sunny day..I can only dream of that ,like so many of us ? I'd be grinning like a Cheshire Cat and so what if it breaks down..we live on an island, never far from home or help  You should pop into to some fellow monkeys and show off the the Bike with PRIDE mate..  |
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« Reply #2469 on: June 23, 2018, 07:59:27 AM » |
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Electric start - god send in traffic
After the first xs I swore I wouldn’t run kick only (definitely haven’t gone back on my words) after having the same wound up problems time and time again of having to get it going again
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« Reply #2470 on: June 23, 2018, 09:13:31 AM » |
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A nice ride to Plymouth would sort it out, tea and cakes this end, I could sit and admire your bike (drool) |
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« Reply #2471 on: June 23, 2018, 06:50:41 PM » |
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And I could catch the train home.
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« Reply #2472 on: June 23, 2018, 07:05:56 PM » |
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Nope you'd get stranded at the notorious Dawlish !!
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« Reply #2473 on: June 23, 2018, 07:41:56 PM » |
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« Reply #2474 on: June 23, 2018, 08:43:28 PM » |
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