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bigtwinthing wrote:

lloydie wrote:

bigtwinthing wrote:Got some new Red levers given to me, i will fit them tomorrow.

NO there tat

i agree really but there not as wide as the standard one,s, when i first got my Storm, i was very impressed with there build quality ( normally a Yamaha man) and i was impressed with there levers and adjustment. This just fit through 1 door so easier to get the bike out.

However on another note were selling up and moving! i may get a "Garage" at last. Its on the priority list. Car ports been great but only 7 ft wide.

Movings meant to be stressful, but knowings there a garage coming it will be more than welcome.

Agree having a garage is great , I could do without one again .
Tho I hate moving house and it always happens in summer on the hottest days and that adds to the stress !!!
Good luck with it all

I probably will Marty ya tight feker !

He'll bring you a half eaten packet of biscuits next time he sees you. He would have eaten the other half by the time he gets there.

(:-})

cybercarl wrote:

I probably will Marty ya tight feker !

He'll bring you a half eaten packet of biscuits next time he sees you. He would have eaten the other half by the time he gets there.

(:-})

I should probably bring the biscuits once my storm is back how Honda intended (not all naked and embarrassed and hiding from other riders as it is at the moment ).

That assumes I can still afford biscuits after going round to see agent pineapple this afternoon and have bought many shiny things

Our garage used to be decent, then they took some of the space and built a bathroom so that was like 6 foot of space gone, then they put a washing machine, tumble dryer, fridge / freezer / chest and a chest freezer in the garage, with two bikes and storage stuff not a lot of room to do any bloody work now :-(

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I met up with Geoff from plumstead, a real nice guy, he is now a valued customer....
I think he ended up spending a bit more than he thought he was going to....
then upto meet kev at an undisclosed petrol stn, it's been a busy day, oh and kev's been a naughty boy, and got told of by a bald police officer....
I've just found out I've spiked my datatool veto alarm....
to de-spike the bloody thing you have to remove all sorts of things for over 6 hours.....
deep joy!!!!!!

dropped mine off for it's MOT, small No plate, Micron race pipes, OH dear could it be a fail???

[quote="agentpineapple"]I met up with Geoff from plumstead, a real nice guy, he is now a valued customer....
I think he ended up spending a bit more than he thought he was going to....

Thanks for the bits today mate (and the good write-up ) and thanks for the advice and letting me look at the famously yellow storm

Did spend a little more than the £30 I expected but hey ho money is there for spending

Test fitted the fairing today. All seems to fit. Will sort it out properly tomorrow and run around on it for a bit before to make sure there are no problems before struggling to decide what colour to paint it. At the moment though red fairing on orange storm =

no worries Geoff, keep us updated on your progress, start a thread in the pimp section so we can advise you and take the piss a little bit...
let me know if you need anything else fella...

agentpineapple wrote:I met up with Geoff from plumstead, a real nice guy, he is now a valued customer....
I think he ended up spending a bit more than he thought he was going to....
then upto meet kev at an undisclosed petrol stn, it's been a busy day, oh and kev's been a naughty boy, and got told of by a bald police officer....
I've just found out I've spiked my datatool veto alarm....
to de-spike the bloody thing you have to remove all sorts of things for over 6 hours.....
deep joy!!!!!!

Good. More sales commission for me then...

agentpineapple wrote:busy day to day, did my bit for care in the community, by collecting the cyberman for his yearly day out in cab.....
found out a few new things about the akra bike, it's all good tho, thanks for your help today carlos....
thanks mac, geoff's been in touch, should be sorting him out tomorrow....

All good? With that downpipe?
What did you find under the rust and mud, then?

Or were you really just after the classy topbox.......

BTW, thanks muchly for the stick coil I needed, the petcock diaphragm arrived today, I'll nail it back in place Saturday.

tony.mon wrote:

agentpineapple wrote:busy day to day, did my bit for care in the community, by collecting the cyberman for his yearly day out in cab.....
found out a few new things about the akra bike, it's all good tho, thanks for your help today carlos....
thanks mac, geoff's been in touch, should be sorting him out tomorrow....

All good? With that downpipe?
What did you find under the rust and mud, then?

Or were you really just after the classy topbox.......

BTW, thanks muchly for the stick coil I needed, the petcock diaphragm arrived today, I'll nail it back in place Saturday.

no worries tony...
and mac theres a pack of quality biscuits coming your way dude.....
haven't got as far as cleaning the exhaust yet, but we did find the plastic tray under the carbs was missing, my guess is that when it had it's cct's replaced(with poxy oem auto's again) the mechanic forgot to put it back on, and decided not to bother taking the carbs off again, still it's been replaced, the bikes also had a new filter and plugs, just waiting on the oil, tony have you checked to see if the new/old petcock is a good'un???

What did you find under the rust and mud, then?

More mud and grime. It's well mancky under the hood. Nothing a bit of degreasent and TLC wont sort out though. There was so much grime and grease on the front breather pipe my hand kept slipping off getting it back on the airbox

(:-})

cybercarl wrote:

What did you find under the rust and mud, then?

More mud and grime. It's well mancky under the hood. Nothing a bit of degreasent and TLC wont sort out though. There was so much grime and grease on the front breather pipe my hand kept slipping off getting it back on the airbox

(:-})

you love a slippery pipe.....

Stripped the sliders off my original bent forks, they can go to powder coat tomorrow and go 'Fast black'.



Should be good for another 10mph!

Knew there was something else I had to do to the bike.... I riveted the end of my cans in place after I launched one of them down the bypass earlier today. Came around a roundabout and joined a dual carriage way... first bit of space and opened her up and.... well tbh i didn't even notice, at least not until about a mile later when going under a low bridge and realised something didn't sound right lol Luckily my mate who was a little way behind me in his car saw the launch and managed to pull over and grab it for me.