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« on: 27 June 2020, 07:47:55 pm »
[quote author=YamFazFan link=topic=17546.msg317003#msg317003
As for the chap who couldn't string together a coherent sentence, on a technical bike forum, I can't help him either, although he did get his question answered. As for him coming back on bleating like a child 'I'm being chased away because I can't write properly' , rather than just saying sorry about, that I meant, it X or Y and thank you, quite frankly his loss.
That is just what this forum needs, new members being ridiculed for grammar and spelling, just another nail in the coffin. Another example from Gnasher that his opinion matters more than others just because of the length of time he has been a member, for all you know he could of been dyslexic but that does not matter, you tried to humiliate him instead and just drove him away. Well done , you must feel so proud of yourself.
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« on: 21 June 2020, 06:23:37 pm »
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« on: 19 June 2020, 06:42:18 pm »
[quote author=slappy link=topic=26267.msg316636#msg316636 date=1592587456 Any kind of grease can affect torque values. I work on final assembly of offshore oil and gas trees, we regularly torque in excess off 600 ft lbs and we use a specialist grease on the threads. The torque values are calculated with this grease on as it does differ from a dry thread and at these high values it means the seal, which could have to cope with massive working pressures, will leak and when the tree is sat on the bottom of the ocean that could be catastrophic.
Get real fella and in your application these are specially cut threads to take that kind of pressure and are effectively blind holes working under extreme pressure, i.e. 600ftlbs of course grease isn't going to compress This is a bolt on a motorbike
Wind your neck in, And they are not blind holes.
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« on: 19 June 2020, 06:40:04 pm »
Gonna have to agree to disagree with you there Gnasher.
That's your choice mate But your way is bad practice and at some point it's going to leak, when it does just pray you've not damaged the mating surface and/or stretched the threads as it will. New OE washer is £2.60 ish last I bought one, or copper £5 for 10.
I'm guessing there is some sort of different version of a torque wrench that fits onto this bolt allowing things to be torqued properly but as you can imagine i would reckon that 99% or more of people won't have this gadget available in their tool box. Nope, crows foot spanner
I just noticed you can get a couple of washers for about £2.60 on Ebay.
That's very weird you should mention a 'crows foot' spanner because i stumbled on them early this morning (not even sure how?) and i was trying to think of a scenario where they would be useful? Are you saying there's enough room so you can use a torque wrench with with one of these ends on, because if so i will happily buy one right now just for that job alone?
Those crows foot spanners can be handy, just remember that to use your normally calibrated torque wrench with one that you have to put it on at 90 degrees to the wrench. If you put it on in line with the wrench then you are increasing the length of the torque wrench by up to two inches, this means the calibration is now out. A rough guide is at a setting of 100 lbs ft the now extended wrench is now really operating at 110 lbs ft. Just something to bear in mind when torquing up something like a sump bolt.
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« on: 19 June 2020, 06:24:16 pm »
I think it should be mentioned that Copper Grease messes with torque settings as well, although using engine oil keeps torque settings very accurate, but it will obviously depend on what job the nut/bolt is doing for this to be taken into consideration.
Not really mate no. As mentioned threads don't provide seals any grease or oil will be either pushed out or sit in the free space in the threads. The only time it's possible is when the bolt is going into a blind hole, but its very unusual as the grease/oil will escape past the threads.
Any kind of grease can affect torque values. I work on final assembly of offshore oil and gas trees, we regularly torque in excess off 600 ft lbs and we use a specialist grease on the threads. The torque values are calculated with this grease on as it does differ from a dry thread and at these high values it means the seal, which could have to cope with massive working pressures, will leak and when the tree is sat on the bottom of the ocean that could be catastrophic.
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« on: 19 June 2020, 06:09:48 pm »
When you see the amounts they owe it makes you wonder what their overall earnings really are, not begrudging them it though.
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« on: 19 June 2020, 10:36:15 am »
He needs the same lawyers who Max Biaggi used in 2013, 2015 and 2019 and Valentino Rossi in 2008 and 2015 and Carmelo Ezpeleta and Forward Racing boss Giovanni Cuzari.[/size]They do like a bit of tax evasion in the MotoGP paddock.
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« on: 16 June 2020, 08:23:48 pm »
Is it possible to " own " a forum?
It's a question that no-one seems to know a definitive answer to. I am a member of two other forums, one bike related and one a general forum that is associated mostly with people I have worked with overseas and here in the UK. Both seem to get revenue from ads to keep going and both have been running for over 18 years. When the work associated forum went off line about 4 years ago I thought it was because it was not getting any revenue to keep it going, but after two months it suddenly came back on line as if nothing had happened. Questions to the admins, who are known personally by most of the members, were met with silence or evasive answers. The forum is still running but we still don't know what happened, who ultimately " owns " the forum, what revenue it gets from ads, and who really controls the forum. I had always assumed it was owned by the 4 admins as they started the forum and sent invites out to people to join but they deny ownership and say they are just running the forum voluntarily.
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« on: 10 June 2020, 12:31:55 pm »
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« on: 04 June 2020, 09:45:53 pm »
as title just checking in....ive had 6 wks of furlough and been back at work for 3 weeks now,a full week next week and then over the next 8 weeks i will be taking another 4 weeks on furlough due to lack of work, half the work force on the other half off...that will take me into august, cant see orders picking up by then so iam guessing that will be extended with my employer picking up part of the furlough payment...only two of us in my department, the other guy is coming up for retirement in 8 weeks time, hes been in this trade for 51 years and could well finish his time on furlough...not the best way to finish 51 years of service...
I had to go back on Monday, the guy they temporarily promoted to take my place had a massive heart attack at home on Friday , and sadly died. Only 55 years old and seemed to be in good health, life is just shite sometimes.
WOW I have been reading that covid may well turn out to be a cardiovascular disease or at the least have big links to it, wonder if he had Covid
I don't think we will ever know if he had Covid or not, he wasn't showing any noticeable symptoms at work, we get our temperature taken before we are allowed into the facility , anything over the norm and you are sent straight home. Anyway this thread is meant to be for people checking in that they are ok, as VNA says there is another thread to discuss other Covid related issues, so good news only from now on I hope.
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« on: 03 June 2020, 08:03:41 pm »
Austria is imposing a 95db limit on motorcycles on 100km of Tyrolean roads. The fine is 220 euros. Cars are excluded from this ruling.
A lot of standard bikes are going to fall foul of this legislation Aprilia V4 Tuono 1100 Factory 96 dB(A)[/size]Aprilia RSV4 1100 Factory 105 dB(A)Aprilia RSV4 1000 RR 96 dB(A)BMW S 1000 RR 98 dB(A)Ducati Hypermotard SP 97 dB(A)Ducati Multistrada 1260 102 dB(A)Ducati Diavel 102 dB(A)Ducati SuperSport 98 dB(A)Harley-Davidson Dyna Street Bob 97 dB(A)Harley-Davidson FXDR 14 97 dB(A)Harley-Davidson 1200 Custom 99 dB(A)Harley-Davidson Sportster Forty Eight 99 dB(A)Kawasaki Z 900 97 dB(A)KTM 890 Duke 96 dB(A)( Disclaimer : the above list is copied from another source so may not be totally accurate but looking at the type and make of bikes it is probably very near).
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« on: 03 June 2020, 07:52:07 pm »
Retire. My original plan when I was 18 was to retire at 50. Now I am nearly 52, it is looking more like 70 will be when I can retire though I would like to do it sooner.
That was my original plan as well, but my wife's hobby of spending on our 7 grandkids , fancy holidays and seemingly permanently ongoing house improvements put paid to that. Could have retired at 60 , but instead reduced my hours to 30 a week, but now thinking of just retiring in July when I am 63. Only trouble is now the wife is now talking about moving house , she wants to either move back up to somewhere near Largs where I was born or near Lyme Regis in Dorset. I just want peace and quiet to mess around with old bikes, I have a 1971 YDS7 sat in boxes in the loft that is my first retirement project.
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« on: 03 June 2020, 07:37:11 pm »
as title just checking in....ive had 6 wks of furlough and been back at work for 3 weeks now,a full week next week and then over the next 8 weeks i will be taking another 4 weeks on furlough due to lack of work, half the work force on the other half off...that will take me into august, cant see orders picking up by then so iam guessing that will be extended with my employer picking up part of the furlough payment...only two of us in my department, the other guy is coming up for retirement in 8 weeks time, hes been in this trade for 51 years and could well finish his time on furlough...not the best way to finish 51 years of service...
I had to go back on Monday, the guy they temporarily promoted to take my place had a massive heart attack at home on Friday , and sadly died. Only 55 years old and seemed to be in good health, life is just shite sometimes.
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« on: 03 June 2020, 07:28:13 pm »
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« on: 30 May 2020, 12:39:15 pm »
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254602366473
Seems like we have all just been outed Seems like a weird thing to put in advert for bike leathers. Says it again in his other items for sale.
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« on: 29 May 2020, 03:57:55 pm »
About half a mile from where I live there is a bypass, I occasionally hear a bike or two but by far it is cars I can hear mostly, booting it out of the 30 zone. I think with bikes it is how a lot of people perceive them, noisy dangerous machines ridden by outlaws ![Smile :)](https://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/smile.gif) . I had a Bandit 1200 with a short open Quill can on, I sold it and bought a ZX6R that was completely standard and my wife said she thought the ZX6R was noisier.She said the Bandit sounded deeper whilst the ZX6R sounded "shrill", like It revving really high all the time.
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« on: 29 May 2020, 03:41:51 pm »
As well as the bike I'm a very keen clay shooter, not competition just at club level
Starting doing some clay pigeon shooting two years ago, been about a dozen times, quite like it but my aim could be better ![Embarrassed :o](https://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/embarrassed.gif) . I only got into it because a mate got a job at a gunsmith.
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« on: 28 May 2020, 09:00:08 pm »
https://www.visordown.com/news/industry/bmf-calls-quiet-amid-complaints-noisy-motorcycles?amp
With Germany , like a lot of countries, clamping down on noisy motorcycles and even talking about banning motorcycles from certain roads at weekends, do you think the days of race exhausts and modified bikes are numbered in the UK? I know I myself now find some exhausts way too loud, but in my younger days it was the louder the better, I had a CB750 when I was 22, very similar to the one pictured in Ogri48 's latest thread, and after the original 4 into 4 exhaust rotted away I fitted a 4 into 1 exhaust, it was LOUD, my old man said it sounded like Lancaster bomber, but I thought it was the dogs bollocks.
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« on: 27 May 2020, 01:25:22 pm »
That CB750 is beautiful, bought a second hand one of a mate when I was 22 , loved it, and even a crap rider like me could get those exhausts scraping.
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« on: 20 May 2020, 08:03:42 pm »
No helmet or gloves, that's a good idea for first time on bike, but then again I doubt very much it was her first time.
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« on: 19 May 2020, 07:52:08 pm »
I love the look of that KTM. A really good looking bike, brilliant styling job to my eye.
The styling is brilliant I agree, too many of modern motorcycles seem to have been designed to the same templates, this template is for sports bikes, this template is for cruisers etc. The only thing that really let's it down is the quality of the fasteners the bike is one year old, garaged , only used in good weather and has only covered 1000 miles and the state of the fasteners is terrible. When get time I will replace them all with stainless from the local nut and bolt supplier.
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« on: 19 May 2020, 07:43:15 pm »
Its incorrect, I cannot find the option that indicates how much you think that all people interested in politics are all swivel eyed loons. Yes, this is a thread about politics, but how your politics compare to others, rather than actual issues.
Hopefully it won't degenerate into the sort of slanging match that other threads have, but I hold out little hope...
Anyway, if you don't like politics, please ignore this thread and don't post messages in here saying "Oh gods, another foccing political thread, because you'll just make it worse (I know, you're already reaching for that reply button to do exactly that...!)
Also practice what you preach, the number of times people have asked to you and your left wing cronies to keep politics out of the bike threads have been totally ignored so foc off.
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« on: 17 May 2020, 07:22:53 pm »
Well I've been taking full advantage of being able to use my bike my bike for leisure again. Just short of 100 miles on my MT09 on Wednesday, then another 70 on Thursday. Took my sons Street Triple 675 R out on Friday for a short run , great brakes and suspension but uncomfortable as hell, bars are too flat and pegs too high, just felt sat on top of bike and not in it, much prefer my MT09. Had a go on his KTM 390, if I had to commute through town / city I would choose something like this, nice punchy torquey engine, very light and chuckable, so easy to ride .
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« on: 17 May 2020, 06:59:29 pm »
Actually did mine yesterday. Was previously with MCE but they sent me an email saying that they would not automatically renew my insurance and I should go to their website, fill in my details all over again to get a quote. Seemed a bit strange, as if they did not want me to renew with them.
Went on compare the market and MCE came up for £137 but Bennets was just £90.64, so went with them.
That's interesting you say that about them, because GoCompare have always saved my details in their system for years, yet this time I had to fill in all my details again from scratch? Wondering if they have all been asked to do that?
I forgot about The Bike Insurer, maybe i used them last year instead of GoCompare, which is why my details may have been erased?
Went to pay the insurance yesterday, due on June 3rd, and it's now £124 instead of my quoted £110. I'm curious as to what has changed in the last 10 days to warrant a price increase? Then after i paid the new fee, they send me a receipt email, and it says it starts from June 1st ? Their reminder said June 3rd, as it always will do, as it's also my birthday so it's not something i really forget or mess up. Very shoddy service. That was with Carole Nash, via The Bike Insurer comparison site. GoCompare had the same new higher price as well. I've emailed them now, as i tried phoning but they're on reduced working hours due to you know what.
My son insured his KTM 390 on Thursday, to start at midnight, got quoted £450 by Devitts on one of the comparison sites, clicked on the link to go to Devitts website it asked him to check his details again, then requoted him at £370. If, as some else has already posted I think, that the closer to the renewal date you renew the price goes up is just more proof that vehicle insurance is not risk based anymore but only on what they think you will be willing to pay.
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