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by freeridenick
Tue Oct 17, 2023 10:11 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Engineering group idea - thoughts please
Replies: 14
Views: 1670

Re: Engineering group idea - thoughts please

Thanks for the feedback. My thought was for something more general than something centred around the forum but I can easily see forum members feeling the benefit. Basically exactly what Tony said only probably just a lathe and MIG and/or TIG as a starting point. My dad is into woodwork & woodtu...
by freeridenick
Tue Oct 17, 2023 1:30 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Engineering group idea - thoughts please
Replies: 14
Views: 1670

Re: Engineering group idea - thoughts please

Thanks for the feedback. My thought was for something more general than something centred around the forum but I can easily see forum members feeling the benefit. Basically exactly what Tony said only probably just a lathe and MIG and/or TIG as a starting point. There have been a few repair days sta...
by freeridenick
Mon Oct 16, 2023 1:54 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Engineering group idea - thoughts please
Replies: 14
Views: 1670

Engineering group idea - thoughts please

Hi all, I've been thinking about this for a while and feel like it's a good idea but I also feel as though, if it really was, someone else would have done it by now. So what am I missing where should I go with this? The idea is to form a sort of informal group of people with an engineering interest....
by freeridenick
Mon Oct 16, 2023 1:20 pm
Forum: Items For Sale
Topic: Jamie's Storm up for sale...
Replies: 23
Views: 1820

Re: Jamie's Storm up for sale...

Gone to a good home by the looks of it. What's the tail tidy mounted to? Just the undertray?

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by freeridenick
Sun Oct 08, 2023 7:33 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: what have you done to your "bike" today
Replies: 22439
Views: 1796461

Re: what have you done to your "bike" today

Sorted the steering and refitted the headlight and stop/tail light. I also checked for a parasitic drain on the battery and the only drain was the Reg/Rec. If I'm reading the multimeter right it's either 4 or 40 milliamps (when set on 20m it read 3.8ish, on 200m 38ish). Not massive either way. I che...
by freeridenick
Sat Oct 07, 2023 1:54 pm
Forum: Pimp Your Ride
Topic: From 107 to 128
Replies: 368
Views: 101679

Re: From 107 to 128

Thanks Chris. I'm still not sure it isn't too black but that can be sorted with time.

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by freeridenick
Fri Oct 06, 2023 9:23 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: what have you done to your "bike" today
Replies: 22439
Views: 1796461

Re: what have you done to your

fabiostar wrote:
freeridenick wrote: Fri Oct 06, 2023 6:03 pm MOT passed [emoji16]

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no problems at all? [emoji106] [emoji106]
Advisories for no lights. That's it. Didn't even mention the exhaust [emoji344]

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by freeridenick
Fri Oct 06, 2023 6:13 pm
Forum: Pimp Your Ride
Topic: From 107 to 128
Replies: 368
Views: 101679

Re: From 107 to 128

That's it, it's finally been to the MOT station and actually went and passed. The weather was closing in so I couldn't get anywhere for a prettier photo unfortunately. No issues with the MOT, just advisories for no lights. I'll be running with headlight and stop/tail until I can work out where to fi...
by freeridenick
Fri Oct 06, 2023 6:03 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: what have you done to your "bike" today
Replies: 22439
Views: 1796461

Re: what have you done to your "bike" today

MOT passed [emoji16]

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by freeridenick
Tue Oct 03, 2023 5:05 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: what have you done to your "bike" today
Replies: 22439
Views: 1796461

Re: what have you done to your "bike" today

Cheers lads [emoji106] as far as vehicles go the last two years :sad2 iv never had such sh1t and its wearing thin to be honest. aprilia.. crash LC sh1t itself. car. sh1t itself yamaha FZ8. sh1t itself. actually the only one hasnt give me a hard time is dori................ well there we go i put my...
by freeridenick
Tue Oct 03, 2023 3:27 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Old man eyes
Replies: 9
Views: 839

Re: Old man eyes

Contacts and pinching my partner's reading specs is one option but I don't wear my contacts very often. More use on the mountain bike, especially map reading [emoji361]. I've been looking at Anglepoise-type magnifiers and there are loads of them. I can decide whether to get one on a stand or with a ...
by freeridenick
Tue Oct 03, 2023 3:21 pm
Forum: Workshop
Topic: Removing choke.
Replies: 18
Views: 1868

Re: Removing choke.

Good news [emoji122][emoji122]

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by freeridenick
Fri Sep 22, 2023 1:35 pm
Forum: Workshop
Topic: Removing choke.
Replies: 18
Views: 1868

Re: Removing choke.

Great news. If you didn't recheck your TPS after balancing it's worth doing it. Generally balancing ends up with a change to the idle screw setting, which has a knock-on effect on the TPS. I'm not aware of any carbs that don't have adjustment. I thought all the TPSs we're slotted. The bolts might be...
by freeridenick
Thu Sep 21, 2023 6:03 pm
Forum: Workshop
Topic: Removing choke.
Replies: 18
Views: 1868

Re: Removing choke.

Right, so the choke went back on. Starts much better. The flutter when you blip at tick over has also gone, so I’m happy that this was likely from a vacuum leak before I tightened up the carb rubbers. I had also switched from 45 to 48 pilots, and the engine revs nicely. The new symptom is this tick...
by freeridenick
Wed Sep 20, 2023 9:39 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Old man eyes
Replies: 9
Views: 839

Re: Old man eyes

Readers would work if I wasn't so short sighted. I've tried my partners and I'm better off without. They'd work with contacts but I can't be arsed with them for half an hour on the bike. Maybe a stronger magnification will work though. I'm thinking some sort of magnifying glass on a stand might work...