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The bacon or sex?

It makes no difference, definitely an improvement!

btw i don't do any of that halal nonsense!!!
mind you i don't think there's such a thing as halal pork..............

Well today was great/shite!

Was in the mancave until 1am last night/morning, fitted new mosfet rr, motobatt, quick action throttle, sator/generator, heated grip elements and complete new wiring, dash mounted voltmeter, Sp1 calipers/master cylinder, fresh fluids all round, tweaked my carbs and refitted bodywork...

Met up with Bazza at 8:30 this morning, talked bikes while eating a bagel for the first time

Then zipped into London to see our favourite prickly fruit agent, more chat about bikes and more bacon and coffee

Headed home at 2:30, then as I was nearing Braintree on the 120 it felt like my backend came out in fact it did... quite far left/right/left/right etc etc! until i scrubbed off a few mph and pulled onto hard shoulder, fecking flat rear tyre!

AA came out after 1.5hrs, to confirm it was indeed a flat tyre, then after another 1.5hrs the second AA guy came out the plug the tyre...

Finally home after a 20 mile dash in the dark with a black visor

On the upside:

Sp1 brakes: Awesome!!!!!!
Electrics: Sorted!
QAT: AWESOME!!!!!!
Hands: Toasty!
Friends: AWESOME!!!!!

Lesson learned... don't get punctures?

bacon sarnie.....awesome!!!!
yeah so much for getting home before dark....
the fecking AA are useless some times.
but by far the weirdest part of this story, is that you've never tasted a bagel before....
next time you come to the east end, I will treat you to a real bagel, at the 24hr bagel bakery in brick lane, you can't beat a salt beef bagel from there...

Jamoi wrote:Well today was great/shite!

Was in the mancave until 1am last night/morning, fitted new mosfet rr, motobatt, quick action throttle, sator/generator, heated grip elements and complete new wiring, dash mounted voltmeter, Sp1 calipers/master cylinder, fresh fluids all round, tweaked my carbs and refitted bodywork...

Met up with Bazza at 8:30 this morning, talked bikes while eating a bagel for the first time

Then zipped into London to see our favourite prickly fruit agent, more chat about bikes and more bacon and coffee

Headed home at 2:30, then as I was nearing Braintree on the 120 it felt like my backend came out in fact it did... quite far left/right/left/right etc etc! until i scrubbed off a few mph and pulled onto hard shoulder, fecking flat rear tyre!

AA came out after 1.5hrs, to confirm it was indeed a flat tyre, then after another 1.5hrs the second AA guy came out the plug the tyre...

Finally home after a 20 mile dash in the dark with a black visor

On the upside:

Sp1 brakes: Awesome!!!!!!
Electrics: Sorted!
QAT: AWESOME!!!!!!
Hands: Toasty!
Friends: AWESOME!!!!!

Lesson learned... don't get punctures?

I would have thought the lesson is to carry a pump and puncture kit. I did one for a rider the other day on the side of the road in 10mins.

agentpineapple wrote:bacon sarnie.....awesome!!!!
yeah so much for getting home before dark....
the fecking AA are useless some times.
but by far the weirdest part of this story, is that you've never tasted a bagel before....
next time you come to the east end, I will treat you to a real bagel, at the 24hr bagel bakery in brick lane, you can't beat a salt beef bagel from there...

I'll hold ya to that
Ah well, great day despite ending.

NZSpokes wrote:

Jamoi wrote:Well today was great/shite!

Was in the mancave until 1am last night/morning, fitted new mosfet rr, motobatt, quick action throttle, sator/generator, heated grip elements and complete new wiring, dash mounted voltmeter, Sp1 calipers/master cylinder, fresh fluids all round, tweaked my carbs and refitted bodywork...

Met up with Bazza at 8:30 this morning, talked bikes while eating a bagel for the first time

Then zipped into London to see our favourite prickly fruit agent, more chat about bikes and more bacon and coffee

Headed home at 2:30, then as I was nearing Braintree on the 120 it felt like my backend came out in fact it did... quite far left/right/left/right etc etc! until i scrubbed off a few mph and pulled onto hard shoulder, fecking flat rear tyre!

AA came out after 1.5hrs, to confirm it was indeed a flat tyre, then after another 1.5hrs the second AA guy came out the plug the tyre...

Finally home after a 20 mile dash in the dark with a black visor

On the upside:

Sp1 brakes: Awesome!!!!!!
Electrics: Sorted!
QAT: AWESOME!!!!!!
Hands: Toasty!
Friends: AWESOME!!!!!

Lesson learned... don't get punctures?

I would have thought the lesson is to carry a pump and puncture kit. I did one for a rider the other day on the side of the road in 10mins.

I was just being kooky

Yeah, the kits look good. A few friends have used the kits with mini air canisters, with good results, I must make the investment at some point. Cheers

agentpineapple wrote:bacon sarnie.....awesome!!!!
yeah so much for getting home before dark....
the fecking AA are useless some times.
but by far the weirdest part of this story, is that you've never tasted a bagel before....
next time you come to the east end, I will treat you to a real bagel, at the 24hr bagel bakery in brick lane, you can't beat a salt beef bagel from there...

Surely thats a baigel AP? Had one last week, great bagel (baigel) - sh1t hole place, guess they don't reinvest the profits.....

Mav617 wrote:

agentpineapple wrote:bacon sarnie.....awesome!!!!
yeah so much for getting home before dark....
the fecking AA are useless some times.
but by far the weirdest part of this story, is that you've never tasted a bagel before....
next time you come to the east end, I will treat you to a real bagel, at the 24hr bagel bakery in brick lane, you can't beat a salt beef bagel from there...

Surely thats a baigel AP? Had one last week, great bagel (baigel) - sh1t hole place, guess they don't reinvest the profits.....

you say baigel I say bagel, baigel, bagel, lets call the whole thing off.........
on brick lane, you're paying for the taste, not the surroundings, and they taste fecking great!!!!!!!!

Got the bike partly stripped and made a key for the CCT's.

It's laid up now over the winter so tomorrow gonna swap out the original CCT's for manuals and also at some point set about stripping it down and greasing & cleaning all the linkages and bearings so all is ready for next year

Richy85 wrote:Got the bike partly stripped and made a key for the CCT's.

It's laid up now over the winter so tomorrow gonna swap out the original CCT's for manuals and also at some point set about stripping it down and greasing & cleaning all the linkages and bearings so all is ready for next year

It's good getting your hands dirty

i can't even see it in the garage due to the Fecking new kitchen being in there!!! I am fitting it this week so hopefully a ride later in the week!. It was dry yesterday and 14 degs i would have been out if i was ny bloody decorating. Only 5 rooms to go though

Richy85 wrote:Got the bike partly stripped and made a key for the CCT's.

It's laid up now over the winter so tomorrow gonna swap out the original CCT's for manuals and also at some point set about stripping it down and greasing & cleaning all the linkages and bearings so all is ready for next year

if you need grease for the swinging arm and shock linkage etc buy a tube of "Klubber" its the dogs dangles and far better than anything else.

bigtwinthing wrote:i can't even see it in the garage due to the Fecking new kitchen being in there!!! I am fitting it this week so hopefully a ride later in the week!. It was dry yesterday and 14 degs i would have been out if i was ny bloody decorating. Only 5 rooms to go though

Why would you want a kitchen in the garage ?
Think you need a word with the wife "she's taking over you man space"

bigtwinthing wrote:

Richy85 wrote:Got the bike partly stripped and made a key for the CCT's.

It's laid up now over the winter so tomorrow gonna swap out the original CCT's for manuals and also at some point set about stripping it down and greasing & cleaning all the linkages and bearings so all is ready for next year

if you need grease for the swinging arm and shock linkage etc buy a tube of "Klubber" its the dogs dangles and far better than anything else.

Tbh, I've always used red rubber grease on stuff like swingarms and linkage bearings etc.

It might sound somewhat unorthodox and I've always had people jumping up and down going YOU DO WHAT?! But actually, it's not that crazy.

Firstly, it's actually a bloody good lubricant. Secondly it has a very good chemical resistance to pretty much anything and doesn't degrade like other greases and most importantly it's water resistant so doesn't tend thin out and disappear/go all watery like LM grease and such.

It's so water resistant I've actually use it smeared all around the axle hub covers on my shogun to stop water ingress to the bearings for when I go wading through rivers and deep water

What always makes me laugh though, is most of the people that criticise me for using red rubber grease are often the sort of people that use copper grease on everything and woe betide anyone that tries to tell them copper 'grease' isn't actually grease at all!

But yeah personally, I've just found red rubber grease to be the holy grail

if its cheaper than "Lube' you've sold it to Lloydie beware red bums!