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taken fairing, tank, airbox and carbs off ready to start delving in and find out if the engine is completely goosed or not.........

lloydie wrote:Set it on fire (feels great ) !!
Hope you get sorted tho

as tempting and as much fun as that would be, there wouldn't be much left to learn from

I'm thinking of using it as a work tool, teach myself the basics as I've never been any good with mechanical sh1t so yeah I'll probably strip it, and learn how to play about with the carbs etc

VTR Phoenix wrote:
Have you found out what's wrong with it?

no not yet, but given the noise when I got it running for a few seconds I'd say it was pretty much terminal

walked past on way to shop and kicked it.............

agentpineapple wrote: gutted for you mate. I think we've been cursed hahaha

Told Matt I'm thinking of cancelling Spain cos at this rate bikes are gonna be jumping off the road trying to hit me by Sept.............

Getting the bike mot'd and taxed and less than an hour later breaking down on way home with the engine sounding like it's imploded

is this where Mac, myself and a few others sit smugly at the side and say that our first impressions were correct and we were right to stay right out of that circle? :D :silent: Strangely enough the topic of first impressions came up in a surprise phone call last night from a very good lad on here,...

So is the post on the appreciation group or was it removed by admin ? Surely if tracy and dave have done nothing wrong and the bike was fine when it went back to Neil there is no problem with the post being on the page as it's just a brought as seen bike posted up by the new owner . BUT : If the wo...

anyone is welcome to come look through my phone and see the original messages

Mav617 wrote:I feel sorry for Playerone (Neil) in all this. Seems he got so fed up he jacked biking in altogether. I can imagine if it happened to me I'd do the same.

Fortunately my reaction wasn't quite that severe, I do still have my other black vtr

Roll on Sept........again

bald_pig wrote:

yip, that more or less covers the entire saga.......

well that saved me a job...

Its held at wrong time of year now I'm always abroad with my daughter in Sept, gonna have to get to another meet at some point