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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #275 on: 22 April 2014, 09:14:03 pm »
Respect, Rich.  :thumbup

Finally got round to doing the tyre pressures on the Pug - should have been 33PSI, was actualy 26.  :eek

It might actually handle well on the way to work tomorrow! Or I'll be posting from a ditch....
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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #276 on: 22 April 2014, 09:17:34 pm »
Took the R1 lump over to have a new 2nd gear fitted  :'(
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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #277 on: 22 April 2014, 09:39:55 pm »
nice chop super monkey, I bet your nuts ache when you get of the bike though, a proper nut cracker.
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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #278 on: 23 April 2014, 06:54:20 pm »
Postie stopped by today with a package from japan......carb rebuild kit for my suzuki x7......I can already hear the microns and smell the castrol R.... :D :D :D
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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #279 on: 23 April 2014, 09:37:41 pm »
I saved a pigeon from behind a gas fire today and I used my trusty screwdriver :rollin


Hope that's in keeping with this thread  :lol

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #280 on: 24 April 2014, 05:02:26 pm »
changed the fuel hoses on the Honda ST 70 and gave the wee bike a polish up. :pc

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #281 on: 24 April 2014, 05:29:49 pm »
Quiet day , notified jobs on NICEIC site and sorted out a glitch on computer , sent off claim form for faulty sofa , and set the ball rolling regarding PPI claim .

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #282 on: 24 April 2014, 07:29:33 pm »
Went for a 130 mile blast on the thundercat into the lakes to see my dad.
Forgot how tiring it is screaming a 600cc bike to 13k on the twisties, I'm knackered! :-[
Stop polishing it and ride the bloody thing!!

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #283 on: 24 April 2014, 08:06:15 pm »
Went for a 130 mile blast on the thundercat into the lakes to see my dad.
Forgot how tiring it is screaming a 600cc bike to 13k on the twisties, I'm knackered! :-[
Your getting old :lol

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #284 on: 24 April 2014, 08:13:31 pm »
Went for a 130 mile blast on the thundercat into the lakes to see my dad.
Forgot how tiring it is screaming a 600cc bike to 13k on the twisties, I'm knackered! :-[

Your getting old :lol

Your not wrong! I was eyeing up my dads Harley earlier, that's how bad it's getting!
Stop polishing it and ride the bloody thing!!

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #285 on: 24 April 2014, 08:22:07 pm »
 :eek Wash out you your keyboard for typing such a thing.

Did you know the 98% of Harleys are still on the Road somewhere in the world

The other 2% actually made it home :lol

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #286 on: 27 April 2014, 05:47:03 pm »
Changed the Oil and filter on the Mazda 6.
Checked all the suspensions and roll bar bushes for wear and the gaiters for cracks. All ok :)
Going to need new rear tyres shortly :(

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #287 on: 27 April 2014, 06:08:53 pm »
Did Mersea Island to Molesworth in a little over an hour on the FJ ratfighter & I think a certain motorcycle magazine editor wants to steal her from me..... Aint gonna happen!
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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #288 on: 02 May 2014, 04:58:25 pm »
Got nearly £ 400 CCP compensation this week , so have put it good use and booked Ron Haslam track day ( my first ) for 30th july , Already booked campsite at Fort William for the 4th August , so gonna find a Travelodge near Donnington and make it part of my summer holiday .
 

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #289 on: 02 May 2014, 05:52:07 pm »
Thought I would try out my sisters Karcher pressure washer-No NOT on the Fazer! Have scoured 10 years worth of grime/slime off slabs in back garden/side path-most of the s**t ended up on me but the results are good. :lol Finished off with some builders sand in the cracks-jobs a good one & will feel a lot happier back pedalling Fazer out of shed on terra firma! :lol

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #290 on: 05 May 2014, 05:07:14 pm »
Took the wife to Fowlers for breakfast and had a look at the bikes in the showroom , liked the look of Aprilia Shiver , the Moto Guzzi Norge and the Bonneville Scrambler .
Also bought new  trainers from DW , had a go on the treadmill to make sure I get the right ones ,  gonna start going running with my daughter .
went to Mumand Dads .
 

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #291 on: 05 May 2014, 05:21:51 pm »
Fiddled with the FJ 1200 - got a Thundercat 17" back wheel which after measuring seems as though it'll be a simple fit. Wheel spindle is the same diameter (although the 'Cat one is hollow), just 8mm to take off the spacer on the chain side and 8mm skim off the caliper carrier on the other side. Sprocket is the same offset from the wheel centre-line as the FJ and the FJ sprocket even fits straight onto the 'Cat carrier. Rear FJ caliper also fits directly onto the 'Cat carrier and the torque arm mountings are the same. Woo hoo!

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #292 on: 05 May 2014, 08:20:20 pm »
Fiddled with the FJ 1200 - got a Thundercat 17" back wheel which after measuring seems as though it'll be a simple fit. Wheel spindle is the same diameter (although the 'Cat one is hollow), just 8mm to take off the spacer on the chain side and 8mm skim off the caliper carrier on the other side. Sprocket is the same offset from the wheel centre-line as the FJ and the FJ sprocket even fits straight onto the 'Cat carrier. Rear FJ caliper also fits directly onto the 'Cat carrier and the torque arm mountings are the same. Woo hoo!

I think you'll find the T-cat back wheel is the same as the Fazer 600 back wheel.

I think.  ;)
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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #293 on: 05 May 2014, 08:27:08 pm »
Fiddled with the FJ 1200 - got a Thundercat 17" back wheel which after measuring seems as though it'll be a simple fit. Wheel spindle is the same diameter (although the 'Cat one is hollow), just 8mm to take off the spacer on the chain side and 8mm skim off the caliper carrier on the other side. Sprocket is the same offset from the wheel centre-line as the FJ and the FJ sprocket even fits straight onto the 'Cat carrier. Rear FJ caliper also fits directly onto the 'Cat carrier and the torque arm mountings are the same. Woo hoo!

I think you'll find the T-cat back wheel is the same as the Fazer 600 back wheel.

I think.  ;)


Don't think so mate, thought the T-cat ran a 180, not the 160?

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #294 on: 05 May 2014, 08:33:04 pm »
Fiddled with the FJ 1200 - got a Thundercat 17" back wheel which after measuring seems as though it'll be a simple fit. Wheel spindle is the same diameter (although the 'Cat one is hollow), just 8mm to take off the spacer on the chain side and 8mm skim off the caliper carrier on the other side. Sprocket is the same offset from the wheel centre-line as the FJ and the FJ sprocket even fits straight onto the 'Cat carrier. Rear FJ caliper also fits directly onto the 'Cat carrier and the torque arm mountings are the same. Woo hoo!

I think you'll find the T-cat back wheel is the same as the Fazer 600 back wheel.

I think.  ;)


Don't think so mate, thought the T-cat ran a 180, not the 160?

Haynes says the rears are the same, but the T-cat ran a 120 front (I think). Punkstig is the man to ask!
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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #295 on: 05 May 2014, 09:17:39 pm »
There's a very slight difference in the numbers cast into the wheel from the 'Cat and the wheel on my son's '03 Fazer. I've checked out the brake elements as well and they're all different - but I haven't taken the Fazer wheel out to check the wheel unit itself.


As luck would have it, I can't lay my hands on the spacer for the brake-side (the one that sits between the bearing and the caliper carrier) - so I think I"'ll have to trawl for one - as the caliper mounts are different, I can't use a Fazer spacer.

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #296 on: 06 May 2014, 01:16:07 pm »
Checked the MOT on the car as I knew it was due this month... It expired in mid March :|

Apparently I got rather confused - March is sort of like May... they both start ma-

Managed to book it in today so now sat in a reception waiting on the verdict...

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #297 on: 06 May 2014, 01:20:39 pm »
Checked the MOT on the car as I knew it was due this month... It expired in mid March :|

Apparently I got rather confused - March is sort of like May... they both start ma-

Managed to book it in today so now sat in a reception waiting on the verdict...

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #298 on: 06 May 2014, 02:46:35 pm »
And it passed *phew*

Many many more advisories than last year which isn't so great, but nothing I can't handle once I have a garage :)

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #299 on: 06 May 2014, 04:48:44 pm »
Damn those advisories.

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