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Meester-Jeff came round last night & we spent a few hours stripping & fitting a new chain & sprocket set...

All the fun of a crud infested bike that looked like it hadn't seen a sponge in its life...

Supplide a new set of cush drive rubbers & noted the the rear pads were down to about 1/2 a mm of material so swaped those as well & finaly re-bled the clutch through with nice fresh Dot 4 as what was in there was black...

Next job for you Jeff is is strip the rear end all down again & check the linkage's ! Oh & give the thing a bloody good clean ! Then do the brake fluid as well...

Nice one mac... Helping a fellow stormer

Is he aware that while you were helping him, your accomplice, frank the spider, was cloning all his bank cards

AMCQ46 wrote:Nice one mac... Helping a fellow stormer

Is he aware that while you were helping him, your accomplice, frank the spider, was cloning all his bank cards

No but he will do after reading this...

Did the full bafflectomy today.

Massive thanks to mac for all that yesterday couldn't have done it myself.
Frank the spider i can deal with, marvin the mozzie and all his barsteward mates on the other hand now thats a different matter!!
I'll get those parts ordered today mac and once they're in my hands I'll let you know and sort out meeting up to do the hand over and buy you a beer or 2.
Also just as a side note you seem to have cured another problem. Over the last few months after riding for about 30 mins or more i would get numb fingers on my right hand.
I'm guessing it was the cush rubbers as despite the rain last night the ride home was lovely with no numbness at all and again this morning i thought I'd ride into work and it was a lovely ride again despite the weather.
Thanks mac.

Well the cush drive rubbers were a bit past the sell by date but the wizzrads sleeve chain was probably adding to the vibes...

The rear brake OK ?

Strangley I don't seem to have any bites from Marvin the Mozzies & his mates, may be you tasted better... zzzzzzz splat....

Oh & I just had a look on the Bay of Evil for a side stand...there is only one at the mo...£74 + postage from Aus ...

I have a few bites on my back which are just out of reach!
They always seem to make a beeline for me or a mozzie line before you say it
Let me know what you want for the side stand mate and we'll sort it out.

Rear brake is fine ta

Whilst on fleabay did you find the black bike being broken over in colchester?

mr-jeff wrote:Whilst on fleabay did you find the black bike being broken over in colchester?

hahaha I've just bought a part from that guy in Colchester, mike something or other. well done mac....

mr-jeff wrote:Whilst on fleabay did you find the black bike being broken over in colchester?

No I didn't you got a link ?

Fitted racetech springs today one slight problem the rebound screws won't turn any more I'm sure I bolted the rods back in the same place any ideas

chippy 55 wrote:Fitted racetech springs today one slight problem the rebound screws won't turn any more I'm sure I bolted the rods back in the same place any ideas

I've txt you

spent a good few hours today cleaning my old exhaust and getting it ready for it's new owner.
bloody tricky work for a one armed bandito....
the headers were really dirty and stained, but good old alloy acid cleaner and some scotchbrite pads got the crap off, with loads of rubbing....
then I used a cheapy set of polishing pads that attach to the end of a power drill and set about polishing the whole lot with mothers metal cleaner.
haven't got any real before pics, but you'll see in a few pictures that a section hasn't been rubbed down yet, that's pretty much how the entire exhaust was barring the end cans.






i'm sure the new owner will be very pleased....