A picture a day....biker banter (Vol 4)

[legzr1]

That looks very clean!

[Cfnteabag]

rat840771 said:

I went to Finchinfield for the 1st time yesterday, the roads were decent, good trip back from there to Haverhill.

There were some top chavs there on there Gixxers with slash pipes and the thonged up birds on the back.

Photos?

[gareth_r]

Gunk said:

Old school bike, old school garage. MOT passed today, no advisories!

You must be feeling glad all over.

[Justices]

Pulled over to salute 9,999 completely troublefree miles on the 899 the other night.

Edited by Justices on Tuesday 28th March 04:01

[curlie467]

gareth_r said:

Gunk said:

Old school bike, old school garage. MOT passed today, no advisories!

You must be feeling glad all over.

[Gavia]

Justices said:

Pulled over to salute 9,999 completely troublefree miles on the 899 the other night.

Edited by Justices on Tuesday 28th March 04:01

And then it wouldn't start?

[andyr30]

Was nice during the day yesterday, not so nice after work and down at the coast. Hands were freezing!

[Gunk]

curlie467 said:

gareth_r said:

Gunk said:

Old school bike, old school garage. MOT passed today, no advisories!

You must be feeling glad all over.

It's always touch and go with a 23 year old bike, so it was a relief all was well!

[epom]

Gavia said:

Justices said:

Pulled over to salute 9,999 completely troublefree miles on the 899 the other night.

Edited by Justices on Tuesday 28th March 04:01

And then it wouldn't start?

haha talk about tempting fate

[LiamB]

Fleegle said:

LiamB said:

Rode this little 2 stroke supermoto today and forgot how much I love them.. I miss the riding position!

Liam - do you work for OF? Can you tell them to let me know when they are out of stock of parts of our order rather than having to sift through the delivery notes. It's a piss boiler!!

I'm afraid I don't! I've just left a gardening company to start up my own (hint hint to anyone in NW London)

[podman]

The house has smelt like a forecourt since Sunday, when the Mrs started to complain of headaches, I knew I had to have a ganders, turned out the 500 was tricking out fuel from 2 of the overflow pipes so I took off the tap this afternoon, the vacuum diaphragm looks very delicate but im not sure a new one would be much different from what ive looked at online, rest of it looks A1 to me, what do you think?

Toss up now between buying a (pattern) fuel tap rebuild kit or a new genuine fuel tap..

Not sure...

[Biker's Nemesis]

I've had bother with pattern fuel tap on both my 50 and 125, both Yamaha taps were around £20 ish each.

My 125 emptied most of its fuel when I was away on a foreign TD a couple of years back.

[podman]

Biker's Nemesis said:

I've had bother with pattern fuel tap on both my 50 and 125, both Yamaha taps were around £20 ish each.

My 125 emptied most of its fuel when I was away on a foreign TD a couple of years back.

Yes, they do seem hit and miss John , sometimes they work, sometimes they dont I think, I managed to successfully repair (with a pattern rebuild kit) my 350 tap over Winter but that wasnt a vacuum tap with so many seals..

Id imagine the 125 would empty its tank pretty quick on and off track at a TD!

Cheers

[Justices]

epom said:

Gavia said:

Justices said:

Pulled over to salute 9,999 completely troublefree miles on the 899 the other night.

Edited by Justices on Tuesday 28th March 04:01

And then it wouldn't start?

haha talk about tempting fate

Still going strong. Adding an Alfa 4C to the mix might change things somewhat..

[Origin Unknown]

theshrew said:

hebegb said:

Lovely long hard day in the sun on the newly " refreshed" stroker....reed valves replaced and starting cold / hot on a half prod of kickstarter, breathing and fuelling beautifully so now predicatable and consistent on its delivery....should make me oh so much better on it .....it doesn't !
However , new hard Enduro circuit tested , Parkwood/Tong, near Bradford,great set up huge wooded streams , uphill wet rock climbs etc ....the lad parked next to us was up from Milton Keynes to ride it !
First time I've ever somersaulted off a bike today , dropped the front into a proper deep gully and it stopped but the rest , the arse end of the bike and me , didn't ...wet and messy ....
But - stamina and progress improving ....slowly

Edited by hebegb on Sunday 26th March 20:29

I did the same on my mountain bike a few weeks ago. What looks like a puddle can sometimes be a hole the depth of half a wheel

Good fun gave everyone a laugh

Was it quick and winded painful or slow and comedy painful? I'm an expert in both.

[Scraggydog64]

[quote=podman]The house has smelt like a forecourt since Sunday, when the Mrs started to complain of headaches, I knew I had to have a ganders, turned out the 500 was tricking out fuel from 2 of the overflow pipes so I took off the tap this afternoon, the vacuum diaphragm looks very delicate but im not sure a new one would be much different from what ive looked at online, rest of it looks A1 to me, what do you think?

Toss up now between buying a (pattern) fuel tap rebuild kit or a new genuine fuel tap..

Not sure...

I bought a pattern rebuild kit for my 350N2 and it was a disaster. Ended up buying a NOS fuel tap.

[Yoda400]

Gunk said:

curlie467 said:

gareth_r said:

Gunk said:

Old school bike, old school garage. MOT passed today, no advisories!

You must be feeling glad all over.

It's always touch and go with a 23 year old bike, so it was a relief all was well!

Not so much when it's a Honda

[myvision]

New seat for my Thundercat.

[Biker's Nemesis]

Hopefully a slightly longer end can should finally stop any issues with noise on track.

[rat840771]

Is that on the r1M?

i recall a couple of years ago a chap was on the new R1 at snetterton with the akra pipe and it passed noise testing, that is some feat at Snetterton with Mr Grumpy.

Biker's Nemesis said:

Hopefully a slightly longer end can should finally stop any issues with noise on track.