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lloydie wrote:
The bird has standard exhaust fitted at the moment.
I can't wait to get a full akrapovic fitted and some air horns lol .
It's one thing I miss about the vtr is the sound , just just don't get any better than a v2 with open cans at 3k boom boom boom boom. Boom boom

Lloydie I have a Nautilus Horn if your interested.

Bought it years ago to fit to 'Ole Red but never fitted it due to size.

As you can see it's a big lump...



I'll test it prior to sending if your interested, It was working fine & is bloody loud ! But it has been sitting in the Cave for a long time hence the test.

I'll happily send it up to you if you want to test fit it...

Open to a sensible offer...?

That's huge Mac . The only place that could be mounted on any bike is behind the rear mud guard .
I'll have a think ! Thanks Mac

agentpineapple wrote:finally managed to remove the chain from the silver bike, thoroughly cleaned it, smothered it in chain lubricant, massaged it, hoping to work out any tight spots, i'm now in two minds whether to refit it, or soak it over night in old engine oil, would that do it any harm, or would it help with the lubing process?
i'm about to refit the undertray and a few other jobs. before heading off to work.....

soak it in paraffin Marty, Wash off and then lube it.

I ended up degreasing the chain with surfex hd, the smothered the hell out of it with a chan of chain lube that mac gave me for nothing a year or so ago. worked the links back and forth if they were tight and then refitted it, i ran it in first gear on the abba stand, and it sounded ok, I won't know for sure until the morning when I run it round the block.

agentpineapple wrote:I ended up degreasing the chain with surfex hd, the smothered the hell out of it with a chan of chain lube that mac gave me for nothing a year or so ago. worked the links back and forth if they were tight and then refitted it, i ran it in first gear on the abba stand, and it sounded ok, I won't know for sure until the morning when I run it round the block.

its a bugger to push a chain Marty leave it on the bike

bigtwinthing wrote:

agentpineapple wrote:I ended up degreasing the chain with surfex hd, the smothered the hell out of it with a chan of chain lube that mac gave me for nothing a year or so ago. worked the links back and forth if they were tight and then refitted it, i ran it in first gear on the abba stand, and it sounded ok, I won't know for sure until the morning when I run it round the block.

its a bugger to push a chain Marty leave it on the bike

Very good BTT but Marty running ? Yeah right...

Had a interesting ride to work this morning in the wet !.

Head butted a pheasant at 50mph .the silly thing was on the left side of the road and walking to the other side , so I moved over to the left expecting it to run in its current direction, but no as I got within 20 metres it turns and jumps up to fly off but directly into my path . I slam on the brakes but not enough .
So now I'm face to face with it and I try to duck down but it still hits me in the forehead .
I keep the bike and myself stable and carry on to work .

One mile later the bike cut out like its ran out of fuel but the gauge was showing half a tank , luckily I was on a one mile down hill stretch of road .
I kept it rolling , tried popping the clutch but wouldn't start ,
Tried the choke but still wouldn't start .
As I'm getting closer to the bottom of the hill , still a bit dazed from the pheasant it dawned on me to take the keys out and open then tank (whitest still rolling)
I opened the tank cap and I'll I heard was pisssss !.
Closed the tank and put the keys back in the ignition and turned it on.
Pressed the starter and it started first tap !.
I knew then the tank breather pipe was blocked .
Luckily I was only 2 miles from work and it made it there ok without cutting out again .

I checked the breather pipe when I got to work and it was blocked with old chain lube and water .
Only a pin size hole left clear ,so very easy for it to get blocked.
I cleaned it out for now till I get home and route it somewhere else .

Best thing about it tho !, I had my gopro running so its all on video .

SOLDT IT

that was quick duffy...
and lloydie, upload the footage to youtube....

The wonder of ebay Marty, plus I write a good advert

Duffy1964 wrote:The wonder of ebay Marty, plus I write a good advert

you can get cracking finishing the street fighter now....

Yep that's the plan, I can't move in the Duff cave with 2 storms a Fazer and all the spares

The Blue one goes Tomorrow so I can re focus............Again

Good news Duffy .

I will marty once I've edited it

Yep get some pics on, The blue storm was a good un though.

Not very exciting but here it is