Lofo ride Sun 4th Aug.

[alexanderfitu]

I think the lack of work is confusing Punkstig as to what day it is

heheh

[bozboz]

Keeping fingers crossed its guna be good weather and my bike doesn't break down! Cant ride fast for this one, cam chain on way out and fuel pump regularly failing above 65mph! (ordered parts from wemoto last week still not arrived!)

[alexanderfitu]

Keeping fingers crossed its guna be good weather and my bike doesn't break down! Cant ride fast for this one, cam chain on way out and fuel pump regularly failing above 65mph! (ordered parts from wemoto last week still not arrived!)

Got to be careful with the fuel pump, don't want to run lean at high load!

[Dead Eye]

Keeping fingers crossed its guna be good weather and my bike doesn't break down! Cant ride fast for this one, cam chain on way out and fuel pump regularly failing above 65mph! (ordered parts from wemoto last week still not arrived!)

Your bike is slowly but surely getting worse as time goes by! I'm surprised to hear about Wemoto. Practically every order I've placed has arrived the next day - depends on the parts of course, some are special order only

[Exupnut]

Yeah chaps lookin forward to seein u all monday

[Punkstig]

Saturday, Sunday, Easter, its all the same to me!

[ChristoT]

Saturday, Sunday, Easter, its all the same to me!

Some say that he thinks he's at home while delivering...
That he has an atomic clock reciever in his head that tells him the time to the millisecond
All we know, is he can't use a calendar!!  :lol :lol

[kitcrazy]

im in if its dry.anyone going from this end blackheath?

[Punkstig]

All we know, is he can't use a calendar!!  :lol :lol

Calendar, that's what's used to do sums right?

[bozboz]

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Keeping fingers crossed its guna be good weather and my bike doesn't break down! Cant ride fast for this one, cam chain on way out and fuel pump regularly failing above 65mph! (ordered parts from wemoto last week still not arrived!)

Your bike is slowly but surely getting worse as time goes by! I'm surprised to hear about Wemoto. Practically every order I've placed has arrived the next day - depends on the parts of course, some are special order only
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I see it as 1 step forwards, two back....BTW Deadeye ive got that blue rear grab rail if you wanna do swapsies for your black rail (Foxeye yeah?)
Parts arrived this afternoon, no time to fit so fingers/toes crossed! :\

[Dead Eye]

May be a plan - I plan to respray the bike over the winter anyway I think. New front fairing purchased from Fuzzy plus the tank and rear really do need to be cleaned up. Probably going to switch to a red / black combo so we shall see what I come up with

[ChristoT]

Can't make it now after all - had an unfortunate incident with a ditch!  :'( :'( :'(

Have a good ride, LoFos.

[nick crisp]

What, crashed the bike? You ok?

[ChristoT]

What, crashed the bike? You ok?

Afraid so. Just been doing a dammage assesment. Not as bad as I though (if the rattling I heard was just paranoia and / or coolant pump as it dumped its load on my foot). As it is, I have few to no tools, and will need public transport for a minimum of a week. Lucky me.  :'(

I'm OK, apart from a few bruises and severly dented pride. Very, very pissed off at myself.  :'(

[nick crisp]

Well, glad you're alright. What happened?

[ChristoT]

Well, glad you're alright. What happened?

Riding back from work, I was joshing around with a coworker who rides an SR125. We'd been talking about backfiring at work, so I was showing off, doing killswitch backfires. I'd just done one, was coming up to a junction (so slowing down). He was on my right, yelled out "I saw flames on that last one [backfire]!". I was looking over my right shoulder at him just long enough to drift to the left, right into the patch of cracked tarmac on the side of the road. The bike went further left, sideswiped the high grass/mud kerb, fell over (onto the left), and sent me headfirst into the ditch. I was only doing 20 or 30 though, mind.

Pulled it out, faring's buggered, mirror's hanging off and coolant's pissing out of it. As I was in the middle of nowhere, I decided to ride back to Andover very gingerly, so crawled along, with my foot getting covered in coolant. Got back without drama, the bike's now in the garage being looked at by me.

I've buggered the fairing, put a hole in the left rear cam cap, snapped the mirror at its base, bust a coolant hose, and dammaged its link pipe. Hopefully, there's no internal dammage. There's a slight grating, but for the moment I'm keeping my fingers crossed, and calling that camchain/paranoia/coolant pump. I suspect the forks are slightly bent, but might be an easy fix (slacken everything, then retighten). Of course, I have very few tools here (basically, the contents of the bike's mini kit), so am going to have the devil's own job fixing everything.  :'(

[nick crisp]

Wonder if you might get a claim out of whoever's responsible for road maintenance where it happened? After all, they don't need to know you were distracted at the time?!
If forks just need realignment, then probably as you said - loosen off, or just give it a judicious wrench through the front wheel, realign. But if they're actually bent, they'll need proper re-straightening, which should be ok as long as it's not so bad that they've creased. Take a good look where they go into the yokes, common place for this to happen.
Cam cap holed? Did it lose any oil?

[ChristoT]

Wonder if you might get a claim out of whoever's responsible for road maintenance where it happened? After all, they don't need to know you were distracted at the time?!
If forks just need realignment, then probably as you said - loosen off, or just give it a judicious wrench through the front wheel, realign. But if they're actually bent, they'll need proper re-straightening, which should be ok as long as it's not so bad that they've creased. Take a good look where they go into the yokes, common place for this to happen.
Cam cap holed? Did it lose any oil?

I could try, I suppose. The road (a back road) has been marked for repair, but hasn't been done yet. I don't want a long legal battle for a relatively small repair job.

As for the cam cap, it's the round, aluminium cap that makes the rocker cover look prettier - nothing structural.

Doesn't look creased anywhere, but looks like both are leaning right slightly, so praying it isn't the headstock.

[nick crisp]

Steering turns ok with front wheel off the ground? Lock to lock? No binding/roughness? See if you can post a couple of photos showing fork misalignment etc.
Might be an idea to put it on a new thread.

[Punkstig]

Didn't quite swerve enough eh!
You're ok and that's what matters.
Shame cause I was looking forward to saying hi!