Its got a ticket !!!!

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BrianC
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Its got a ticket !!!!

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At long last ive got round to getting an mot on storm 2, which is the one i brought back from the brink after it suffered a cam adjuster failure with its previous owner.

I have sweated blood on this one fixing the adjuster damage and also completely refurbishing the rear suspension, brakes, replacement rear subframe - to be honest ive lost sight of all the jobs ive done on this bike to get it to where it is now. I havent gone for concourse just a usable machine and after a quick blat around to and from the mot station i just love it !!!!
The only thing the tester spotted was a slight crack on the right hand link pipe by the bracket and not a word about those deep tone titanium cans.

So i need to check all fluids when its cooled down - the rad fan did kick in at the end of the ride as the temp gauge headed towards 3/4, but it did its job
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Happy days big man, another one saved from the scrap heap :thumbup: :thumbup:
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Excellent news mate. Now ride her 😁
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Good to hear Brian, well done :clap:

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Great news Brian,I'll get the red flag ready for when we roll out....... :lol:
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Well done Brian. It's good feeling when one gets an MOT pass.
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BrianC
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Im sure there is lots of tuning i need to do but ill run it and see how it goes,

The me hanics at the garage kept blipping the throttle as it makes such a sweet noise with those titanium race cans.

And it seems to have so much grunt!!!!

I saw 90 on the speedo and coming strong

Strangely it seems to turn in quicker than the blade, but i have the rear jacked up a bit so maybe its that.
And i think i need to get used to the tyres as well - michelins

Anyway ill try and find some time next week to get a few more miles on it and report back.

Like graham(taxi driver) im indebted for all the help and encouragement i got, especially in the early days when i was doing storm 1 as a therapy to the mental issues i was facing.

And its been a real pleasure to help a local stormer like graham, and it wont be long before we need acred flag man :wink:
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BrianC wrote: Thu May 10, 2018 8:08 pm And it seems to have so much grunt!!!!
That's what still gets me after all these years. I was out the other day and thought how you could pull up trees with all that grunt!
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