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fabiostar wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2019 9:30 am finished, i win, step away from it Robert

Looks bloody superb too
Much better being a biker than owning bike bits
Looks like you built yourself a genuine head turner !

Beef wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2019 2:33 pm

freeridenick wrote: ↑Mon Aug 12, 2019 8:59 pm

Beef wrote: ↑Mon Aug 12, 2019 3:09 pm I wanted to get the bike right for Cadwell Pk in Sept!
It's sorted now

Ah! It's you. I knew there was someone else going. PS weekend job right?

Yup, you got it 15 & 15 Sept

Be good to meet you

Yes, both days. I'll look out for you.

Can't ride for a few weeks so decided to pull the forks for paint, k-tech springs and the rebound needle mod. Learned that 1mm drill bits are delicate and seal doesn't slide hammer out with the stanchion if the internals are still bolted in place . Still, seems no damage done.

Took it to Oulton and had a crap time. I had a slide on the sighting laps, off on the grass in the second session then had a guy bin it in front of me in the third, I ended up in the gravel. Sat out the four session then packed up and went home. The only plus was I didn't drop it.

Had a new rear installed on Custurd...

Many miles of A2 squared the oldun off somewhat...

Got back from holiday last night, so decided to get the bike MoT’d. It was due on the 7th but we travelled then so it didn’t happen. Normally I’d do the normal minimal quick checks, tootaling the horn tunefully (as per Honda owners handbooks circa 1965!) flashing the lights etc. I know the bikes sound after all.
Anyway get to the testers and he’s just bought a nice 1956 Matchless 500 twin jampot, pretty little bike in nice nick, lots of chatting about his other 14 bikes and eventually my bike gets looked over. “The horns not working” says he, I bend down to reconnect the leads and “that’s because it’s not there, it’s fecked off!” Christ knows how or when, but it’s dropped off somewhere.
Luckily I had a spare at home from when I swapped out the Storm front end for the blade. So a nice simple fix. The bikes getting like me, bits dropping off!

took the blue one out a spin. new engine new blah blah blah the whole nine yards...


you wont believe this but.................................its jsu the same as its been the last 5 months. same problems same revs running like a bag of shite even tho nothing from the bike before is on it......

WTF?


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Duffy1964 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2019 9:00 pm WTF?


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is right. the only thing now thats the same is the tyres. and it cant be them. it run for two days and back to the same ... this has finished me this time,,,,, of to scotland in the morning on the aprilia to have a ball riding my bike....beer already strapped on and good to go

fabiostar wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2019 9:09 pm

Duffy1964 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2019 9:00 pm WTF?


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is right. the only thing now thats the same is the tyres. and it cant be them. it run for two days and back to the same ... this has finished me this time,,,,, of to scotland in the morning on the aprilia to have a ball riding my bike....beer already strapped on and good to go

No way

Whats left the only thing I can think of is the fuel tank

Chris.

sirch345 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2019 9:48 pm

fabiostar wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2019 9:09 pm

Duffy1964 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2019 9:00 pm WTF?


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is right. the only thing now thats the same is the tyres. and it cant be them. it run for two days and back to the same ... this has finished me this time,,,,, of to scotland in the morning on the aprilia to have a ball riding my bike....beer already strapped on and good to go

No way

Whats left the only thing I can think of is the fuel tank

Chris.

Good point, didn't all this start not long after finishing the tank Rob ?. blocked breather, insufficient breather, no breather ?




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in the past its had 3 different tanks from 3 running bikes on it.... i just pulled the carbs and they did look a bit dirty but fook it im of to Scotland in the morning and with any luck somebody will steal it before i get back

its Aprilia time..

Fabiostars' problems make my cam timing headscratching after a case split look nothing. Does sound like fuel supply. Could a pipe be collapsing when hot, getting partly crushed?
Finished the forks rebuild and they do feel nicer, can't wait to road test them.

I got my previously cleaned bike out of the van in Leeds and hot it very very dirty.
What's the point?

fabiostar wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2019 10:59 pm

its Aprilia time..

you know it makes sense