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I`ll Bet you get the timing wrong though?
Pete
Thanks for that Jaws.... that must be a nightmare when you are riding long distances, just 100 miles and you are looking for another filling station. I find it a pain having to stop every 400 miles.Buttons.. it is SOOOOO obvious you aint ever ridden a serious bike mate
When I was dispatching there was at least one car driver every single day who would try and drag you at traffic lights, or think they were faster than you ..
Sure, they were drier and yes, warmer during the winter, but not a hope in hell of being quicker than you
Having said that, travelling time was usually about the same in car, small van or indeed bike.
Why ?
Cos a car might average 200 - 300 miles inbetween fill up, while a bike might average 120ish between fill ups**
The time it takes to pull off, fill up pay and get back on the road very quickly swallows up any advantage the bike has in traffic etc
** Yes a lot of bikes and indeed cars have far greater range,, I am using figures based on when I was working in the game
I have said it before on here but driving on an Italian motorway south of Milan an ambulance flashed past me being tailgated by a Porsche using his headlights in an attempting to make the ambulance move over and let him passed.Italian drivers have all got the pedal stuck on the floor, it was the determination to get passed me that was amusing, he had to do it He would have ending up in Rome had I not got bored.
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The time it takes to pull off, fill up pay and get back on the road very quickly swallows up any advantage the bike has in traffic etc
Dream on you lot.......car drivers don't give a shite how fast your two wheels can go, your fiat driver probably had his gas peddle stuck. If we had any interest then we would have duel racing on the tele. It just wouldn't have any audience......We just don't care...........dream on
Just for you buttons.
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I have said it before on here but driving on an Italian motorway south of Milan an ambulance flashed past me being tailgated by a Porsche using his headlights in an attempting to make the ambulance move over and let him passed.
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Why try, .....
I feel safe enough .............
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I know I'm not what you might call mechanical, but can some of you please let me know I'm not the only one for whom this is a foreign language?
I never owned one but looked after it for a friend. Given the usual problems with bikes of the time it did him proud. I rebuilt the engine at 70K and he went on to do another 50K+ before selling it (read that & weep parallel twin owners). It did succumb to the weirdest fault I have ever experienced on any engine. When first bought (S/H) he used it to travel from Manchester to Kendal and back when doing his teacher training course. One weekend he came to see me with the thing wheezing & popping & I eventually found the camshaft wasn't timed to the marks. When I came to re-time it the marks made no sense so I did it from scratch. He went away happy but I was at a loss to understand how a geared cam drive could suddenly be mis-timed. Anyway he made it back to Manchester but the following weekend it stopped completely about 5 miles from home. He asked me to recover it & (as you might have guessed) the cam timing was out. This time when I removed the camshaft to examine it the cam fell off the shaft. IIRC the shaft & drive gear were in one piece with the pair of cams pressed onto it. The interference fit had failed. There were no marks on the shaft or inside the cams and, when reassembled (hand push fit!!) it was difficult so spot the fact that that the assembly wasn't one-piece. Anyway a new cam+shaft etc cured it leaving me to try to understand how the egine had not only travelled 100+ miles after I re-timed it the first time but had also completed around 30K miles in his ownership with no issues. It was a Venom incidentally rather than the Thruxton in the pic.
I am getting some next time I go to the chainsaw dealer, The misfiring was a a gummy carb primary jet. Petrol is not petrol nowadays but something they make from a chemistry set with booze in it. Avgas is still good though, and 100 octane. I might drain my plane filter to check it out and not waste it.Petrol does go off pretty quickly on occasion
I have it go duff in less than a year, on the other end of the stick I just drained a tank down that has had fuel in it for 7 years and it is still perfect
If you think the bike ( or genny or anything else that has petrol in it ) is not going to be used for a long time, it is worth investing in a bottle of fuel stabilizer
It's OK: I just made it up ............I know I'm not what you might call mechanical, but can some of you please let me know I'm not the only one for whom this is a foreign language?
YEAH! YEAH! it would lead up the plugs but you can add it to unleaded to keep it alive over winter, premium does not have ethanol in it and lasts a bit longer.LOL !! I think I would be a bit careful using 100 octane fuel in a 125 !!! You may end up with an extra lump between your legs.. one that is sort of piston shaped LOL !!
( and afore anyone starts, this is only a joke !! )
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