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A mouse who hasn’t got a house, has carped all over my VTR.
He’s not a very nice mouse, I don’t know why I call him Gerald.

the tank is new and of a Honda CG 125, and fits well, just a bit of adjustment needed. it's nice quality, can with a locking cap and a petrol tap... £38 delivered! how do they do it! https://jtccc.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/53443460707_86cb7353dd_o-copy.jpg Not saying they saw you coming, I bought...

Thanks for 61MBB06.
Much difference, Superhawk/Firestorm?

I wondered if anyone knew the part number for the manual.
Fancied a paper manual.
I know Suzuki manuals are listed on the bike microfiche, I assumed Honda
manuals were but can’t find them on on line parts thingies?

Maybe I need aVTR microfich!

buzzer wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 11:32 am I will try the vacuum bag approach.

I made a lot of parts from wet lay up carbon.
I alway bagged laminates.

Does anyone want five pairs of -2.5x and five pairs of -4.0x glasses? I rather stupidly bought - instead of +, I didn't have my glasses you see[I clearly didn't] When I first started to wear specs I think the quickest I broke a pair was a few seconds: put a new pair on, looked at a rule, put the gla...

Fuel light came on when I rode it around the block on the day I got it and I filled
it up. The light came on as I turned into the drive today.

Took my VTR for an MOT. Tester suggested I do more than 80 miles in the next 12 months!

Thanks for looking.
I had a look online and couldn’t seen any thicker wall than 16swg.
I really wanted around 12swg maybe 14swg.

zakisbak wrote: ↑Tue Oct 05, 2021 10:12 am Have used a similar product to no effect,but the shocks I used them on were cheapos so maybe poor chroming to begin with!

I was’t impressed by it.
It didn’t seem as good as way oil on steel measuring gear.
The wax based ambersil, ensis or rustilo are far better.

Carbon fibre, you can get a kit and make a mould for pennies. It's come down a lot since I made anything then, resin ~ 20 quid a kilo and fabric ~ 30 quid a metre. You can get fabric much cheaper by contacting a mill that weaves it and buying parts of damaged rolls. The worst bit is the time taken ...

tony.mon wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 10:45 pm Try All Bike Engineering, (ABE), they used to stock replacement stanchions for Storms.

I haven't bought any fork legs since the 1990's.
Slingshot legs were £150 to have rechromed by Philpotts, ABE sold a pair of new legs for the same price.

I bend and form tube for a living and have worked with titanium occasionally. The softer, more malleable grades are quite straightforward I have a 6al4v oil filter housing machined all over, it turns nicely, but the tap stuck when threading it, no way is a tap going any further. Tube us good for th...

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On the off chance full face lids were better I bought one, it’s no better.
So either I youthify the old neck or I fit some He Hebos.

I am not finding clipons uncomfortable. But my riding is limited by my necks endurance. As the collar of my jacket is pushing the lid over my eyes I am having to channel my inner tortoise and try and see where I am going. I am hoping full face lids are better with clipons, better be I have just boug...