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« on: 05 December 2016, 08:07:25 am »
cbr 125 while I was on L plates, then...
FZS600 fazer which I still own.
Not much of a journey... haha!
Chris
Yeah but you ended up in the right place (Fazer) without all the foccing about. 
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« on: 05 December 2016, 07:56:53 am »
Oh! And mothballs.
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« on: 05 December 2016, 07:55:19 am »
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« on: 04 December 2016, 08:50:14 pm »
Should be easy to find your man anywhere, just ask any local, they're all related............................
And most of them have 6 toes. Its the old joke: What do you get if you cross Hull with a push bike? Mugged
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« on: 04 December 2016, 07:37:48 pm »
Well busy afternoon for me, removed the mono-shock/pogo stick from the back of the 600, removed the dog bones and the shock linkage, good clean up of all the parts, washed all the needle/roller bearings out with W/D40 and gave then a really good clean and dry, repacked them with red grease (more resistant to water than regular grease) and fitted the new Nitron shock.
I did the work with the bike on the centre stand but slipped some thin planks of wood under the back wheel so it did not drop when removing the bolts, new shock and all the bits just slipped into place no lifting pushing or pulling involved.
Jobs a goodun.
Before I started working on the old girl I put a sticky label on the seat fairing vertically above the centre of the rear wheel and measured up from the centre of the rear wheel spindle 400mm and put a line on the label, with the Nitron fitted it now measure 403mm.
The unladen (Just weight of bike) sag is only about 15mm so I will set that to about 30mm in the morning it might just drop the measurement back to 400mm as well.
Then in a week or two will start on the front forks, I still need to source some linear springs. I have 15 weight fork oil and the YSS Emulators and a pillar drill in Terry's workshop (Wild Plum's) so almost ready to go on that.
Will take the bike out and try the new shock after setting the sag adjustment tomorrow.
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« on: 04 December 2016, 07:08:37 pm »
Retired brickie here, I'm with Sharpie and Red also. 2 inch number 8 screws times 2, brown rawlplugs.
I personally would put the screws 3 or 4 inches in from either side of the mirror in the place you wish to hang the Mirror, that way the forces will be almost straight down,
(Also helps reduce the seesaw/swinging action associated with centre hanging)
Make sure that the fixings in the mirror frame itself are good.
Using 2 inch screw will ensure that the screws go into the brickwork or blockwork and not just into the plaster.
Another thing you can do is put a washer over the screws before screwing them into the wall they help stop the hanging wire lifting off the screws so easily.
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« on: 04 December 2016, 06:26:41 pm »
They say 'Time is a great healer' Trouble is while we are waiting it still pains. I shot my old cat a few years ago, he had kidney failure and I felt that it was my responsibility to send him home. Stupid I know but I got really upset about losing the old boy, we do get very attached to our pets. Keep riding Bro 
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« on: 04 December 2016, 06:16:34 pm »
....or if not, does anyone know of a backstreet bike bodywork / paint place, manned by a guy called Paul, off Newland Avenue (opposite Lloyds bank IIR) in Hull? I lost his number, can't find him on T'interweb, and need his services again. I'd like to know he's still trading at least before making the journey....
Come on Wharfe who is going to admit to living in Hull
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« on: 04 December 2016, 06:14:51 pm »
Wasnt the best year of my life the worst of it was my bike insurance went from £80 fully comp to £550 3rd party only with only 2 companies insuring riders with criminal convictions and I had to pay that for 7 yrs until I was classed as rehabilitated , oddly didn't affect my car insurance though ... go figure
Bloody heck I am conversing with criminals 
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« on: 04 December 2016, 09:46:28 am »
Just a thought, would welding the sprocket and retaining nut onto the driven shaft from the gear box cause the welded parts to lose its tempering and soften the steel? There is a problem when welding on cars, so assume it is the same with motorcycles, with the alternator/generator, the voltage from electric welding can fry them, I believe the alternator should be removed from a car before welding , don't know if the same rule applies to the on-board computer, might be wise to ask the question of someone who really knows before going ahead, cos, you just might make your situation worse. As mentioned in here earlier their has been incidents of the front sprocket coming right off the shaft causing the drive chain and back wheel to lock up, not good. The original sprocket retaining nut was 9mm thick and Yamaha recognised this was an issue and produced a replacement nut being 12mm thick, this is supposed to cure the problem, well that's OK if the nut has come undone and has been noticed straight away but if the bike has done sufficient miles with the sprocket and nut chattering away it trashes the threads on the end of the gearbox shaft, then it seems you are left with two options a strip down of the engine and replace the gearbox shaft (Expensive and time consuming) or weld the new sprocket on. So my guess would be the shaft in your gear box is f----d, hence the welding that's been done. 
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« on: 03 December 2016, 03:24:34 pm »
"...While the date of the incident is unknown, it appears to have taken place in the summer, due to the riders lack of gloves..." Wow, another sharp shooting reporter. I'm gonna hazard a guess that it happened during the daytime as well, due to the lack of darkness. They don't call me 'Columbo' for nothing.
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« on: 03 December 2016, 03:15:27 pm »
Hi Slappy,
My understanding is that it is not so crucial on a 4 stroke, but, on a 2 stroke removing all the baffles is the kiss of death because the 2 stroke does not have exhaust valves and relys on the restriction of a baffled exhaust to retain back pressure, I know that there are very noisy expansion boxes for strokers but their design/shape helps retain the back pressure.
As back pressure is not so important on a 4 stroke because of the exhaust valves doing the job I would think that it would do very little to the mixture to Petrol/Air ratio. I know with my race can (PipeWerks) it says in the bumph that come with it, that no mixture adjustments is necessary with or without the baffle in. The only real difference then if that is true is the sound and maybe, just maybe, the exhaust gasses clear the system a tad quicker, where or not that would impact on power I don't know if it did it would be for the positive i would imagine.
If anyone knows different to that please do say as I am only going on what I have heard and read and not through any real knowledge or experience.
Other than removing the baffles with a 2 foot long piece of galvanised water pipe and a club hammer many many years ago on a 250cc Ambassador Villier 2 stroke twin, it made a huge difference to the way the bike performed, with baffles in 82 mph with baffles out 72 and absolutely gutless, reverse tuning I believe its called.
Anyway Miniear & Bruce of Guildford ordered me to new silencers that cost me 23 quid, it don't sound much I know but it was in the late 60's.
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« on: 03 December 2016, 12:52:21 am »
I had a similar thing happen to me back in the 70's I pulled into a garage in Milford Surrey gassed up went in and paid for the fuel and bought a pint of oil as I knew the old Hillman Minx needed a drink, without thinking chucked my wallet on the roof while I replenished my oil slammed the bonnet jumped in the car and shot off, about a min later I had a car up my arse flashing and tooting at me so I banged the old girl down one (4 speed column change) as gassed it I started to pull away from him but he kept on flashing his lights and i was not going to lose him so I jammed on the brakes jumped out the car slammed my door and walked aggressive up to him and he handed me my wallet and said it came off the roof as you pulled out of the garage, my faced glowed like an electric fire I felt about 2 foot tall (Mind you I am only 2 foot 6 anyway ) I thanked him he did a 3 point turn and disappeared back the way he came, he must of been chasing me for about 4 miles after he initially caught me up, so I guessing he went about 4 or 5 miles out of his way to return my wallet and I acted like that towards him.  Thinking about it now my face has gone red again, what a twat.
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« on: 03 December 2016, 12:25:21 am »
Well I have never ridden the 1K but I love the retro look of the Gen1 am seriously thinking about it, seizing up Exups and all.
But with saying that I would never get rid of my FZS 600 even with the quirks on the handling front.
(I'm in the process of sorting that)
But the 600 is great on the back lanes and roads[/size], not too heavy and accelerates nicely between bends, power is not too harsh and the blue spot front brakes are brilliant on the lighter 600, OK back brake leaves a bit to be desired, but, I understand that the blue spot 1K back brake caliper fits, maybe when I have finished my suspension project.
[/size]Everyone seems to think that going down the Renthal bars route is also worth while by adding a bit off leverage, [/size]is this fact or fiction I ask, do all the cables and switches and lever and throttle twist grip still fit.
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« on: 02 December 2016, 11:59:53 pm »
Can't remember the years but
1983 RD50 MX
1984 RD125LC ( stolen)
1985 RD125LC
1985RD350LC ( stolen)
Then RD250 E
RD 500LC ( stolen )
Kwak Z750H write off
Kwak Z250 scorpion
RD 350LC (stolen)
RD 250LC
RD350 ypvs gauloise replica
Foxeye 600 current
Gen 1 thou current
Suzuki GS425e barn find been in garage for 25 years now rusting in my shed instead !!
Shed full of old 125lc parts that I'll probably never get round to turning into a bike
Like the previous post by red fox I'd love another RD but have you seen the foccing price of a 2stroke now, you can't beat the smell of a 2stroke or Castrol R
Graham you will have to start taking the keys out of the ignition at night and in the car park during the day.
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« on: 02 December 2016, 11:44:56 pm »
Years ago I blasting up the road that was then called the A3 (Before the bypass was built) which at that time went right through the centre of Liphook in Hants, well just before reaching Liphook going Northbound heading towards Guildford there is a railway bridge that is on a sharpish S bend by the Golf Course I was entering the first element of the S bend(its a sharp flick left then instantly right and under the bridge) and had a rabbit run right through the front wheel of my BSA 650 Super Rocket that had wire spoke wheels. I did not realise a rabbit could spread so far and make so much mess all over my legs, it was like 3 pound weight of blood and mince meat all over me, stop, turn around and back home to change.
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« on: 02 December 2016, 05:29:01 pm »
Unfortunately it was the fire at Reeves furniture shop that put Croydon on the "burning" map.If that hadn't occurred then the rioting in Croydon would have attracted no more attention than Tottenham,Clapham etc. All of it carried out by total scumbags.
I bet it was Frosties, he went into the furniture shop to buy an old persons riser chair and they asked him to remove his helmet but couldn't undo it with old arthritic fingers, he got a bit arsey and torched the place. That's the way he rolls. Don't foc with Tiger 
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« on: 02 December 2016, 06:10:29 am »
Ever since fitting the Pc3 and mapping my bike I developed a major exhaust leak at the join between link pipe and end can so took that apart today and used some liquid gasket to seal it. Figured I'd give it a clean and polish while I was there and replace the bolts with nice new stainless ones. All in all quite productive 😊
Tidy job
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« on: 01 December 2016, 09:45:19 pm »
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« on: 01 December 2016, 09:33:18 pm »
Seriously though I have heard of attendants refuseing to enable the pump until the biker has removed his or her helmet. Trouble is nine at night 25 miles from home with the fuel light been on for the last 20 minutes of your ride. Take your bucket off pay them 20 quid on your card and make sure you put in £20-49 pence, go back in to the kiosk and offer them your card to pay the extra 49p and grin at them, it costs usually 50p for every card transaction, and most garages will not let you use a card for any sales less than £5. Oh! Sorry mate never carry cash as I find I don't need to in a world of plastic. Make sure you have the broadest grin on your face, really exaggerate it. It makes them scratch their heads, if they say you will have to put in another £4-51 to round it up to the minimum £5, sorry mate the tank is full would not hold another drop, they then say they will have to charge you the minimum of £5 for the transaction refuse to put your card in the machine, see if they are going to call the police for 49pence, and what a twat they are going to look when the police turn up and you explain what has happened. Especially as you have NO CASH, I don't think the police will search you. Fuck them all. I hate the stupidity of the garages as much as anyone else, go along with them then turn it around and laugh at them. I wouldn't mind betting the copper puts his hand in his pocket and pays the 49p for you, then bollocks the attendant for wasting police time.
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« on: 01 December 2016, 09:09:43 pm »
I personally i think it is fair enough, I mean would you trust someone who rode a blue motorcycle. Most of them have all black clothing on and wear a mask and go under the name of Dick Turpin. Lol
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« on: 01 December 2016, 01:53:48 am »
Oh yes! I remember another but I am a little hesitant calling it a bike. It was a Norman Nippy, we used to call it 'The Quick 50 RUNBESIDE' cos my mates could keep up with it by running, but I used to always win cos I never ran out of breath. 49cc twist and go with bicycle pedals. 15 or 16 mph on the flat about 25 down hill, had to pedal going up any hill or slight gradient. Battleship grey. I had that little beaut when I was 14, the local Bobby was always threatening me, but, never actually did anything about it. Thank you PC Shopland XXX 
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« on: 01 December 2016, 12:07:47 am »
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« on: 30 November 2016, 09:50:32 pm »
1959 175cc BSA Bantam Red 2 stroke single 3 speed (£32) S/hand 1966 175cc BSA Bantam D7 Silver 2 stroke single 4 speed (£123-19 shillings) Brand new from Pascals of Guildford, Passed test 3 months after purchase, why oh why! 1953 500cc BSA Star Twin, plunger frame, single seat, handled like a ruptured camel. 1949 350cc BSA ZB32 Single (Brilliant Bike) plunger frame, single seat, handle OKish once used to it. (350 Goldie, wish I still had it, worth a Kings Ransom now)1957 350cc BSA B31 Single. swinging arm rear, but swinging arm bushes were rubber sandwiched between two metal tubular sleeves, not good with chain oil about. ???? 250cc Ambassador 2T Twin Viliers engine, leading link front forks, swinging arm back end. was OK, went quite well about 82 MPH 1959 BSA Super Rocket 650 A10 Twin, great bike, handled OK, RRT2 close ratio gearbox, top speed 103-105mph, (Slower than the Bonnie) 1969 Honda SS 125cc, Bloody brilliant bike, died after hitting the back of a Austin Healey Sprite on the A3 at Stag Hill, I had few day in Guildford Hospital. 1974 Honda 350 twin K4 (Shite) I have nothing to say. 1976 Honda 400cc 4F (Brilliant Bike) ???? Honda 250cc Single (Bought in the 70's dont recall the model number semi off road) Bit of fun. I'm sure there are a couple more in there but it was along time ago and many dead brain cells since then. Stopped riding in 1977 Then TADA 2003 FZS 600cc Fazer Foxeye. (Bought it three years ago £1900-00, 26K miles, after being out of the bike scene for 36 years) Woo woo! Old Bastard  And I love it I, honestly believe my Fazer is the best all rounder that I have ever ridden, does all I ask of it, and more, and it is always willing to please.
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« on: 30 November 2016, 09:18:16 pm »
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