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by darkember
Sun Dec 20, 2015 7:27 pm
Forum: Bike Chat
Topic: long lost nortons
Replies: 18
Views: 1688

Re: long lost nortons

Talking about lucky finds. Had the opportunity when fitting a water treatment system to walk through the Metisse workshops and the owner even fired one up the parallel twin sounded awesome :thumbup: :thumbup:

http://www.metisse-motorcycles.com/
by darkember
Sun Dec 20, 2015 7:19 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Faulty CCT pics if you have them...
Replies: 42
Views: 10354

Re: Faulty CCT pics if you have them...

First time seen the internals of a cct and what were Honda thinking using such a thin coil especially on a Vtwin :thumbdown: :thumbdown:
by darkember
Sun Dec 13, 2015 10:17 pm
Forum: Bike Chat
Topic: Finally bought a 'classic'
Replies: 36
Views: 2340

Re: Finally bought a 'classic'

Must smell awsome :thumbup: :thumbup:
by darkember
Wed Dec 09, 2015 10:39 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Happy Birthday Oh Ancient One...
Replies: 27
Views: 2678

Re: Happy Birthday Oh Ancient One...

:beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :thumbup: :thumbup:
by darkember
Wed Dec 09, 2015 10:30 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Change of life!!!!!!!
Replies: 27
Views: 3096

Re: Change of life!!!!!!!

So right to be happy in what one does :thumbup: :thumbup:
by darkember
Sun Dec 06, 2015 1:07 pm
Forum: Workshop
Topic: Struggling to sync carbs
Replies: 31
Views: 2627

Re: Struggling to sync carbs

The front hose from the airbox to the rocker cover can be a pig to seat properly give it a check
by darkember
Sat Dec 05, 2015 2:14 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Bike damaged over night
Replies: 13
Views: 1513

Re: Bike damaged over night

That sucks M8.
by darkember
Fri Dec 04, 2015 9:32 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Lloydie...
Replies: 16
Views: 1281

Re: Lloydie...

LOL Lloydie will always win cause he writes baldrocks :lol: :lol: :lol:
by darkember
Sat Nov 28, 2015 10:53 pm
Forum: Bike Chat
Topic: Untaxed UK vehicles double after paper tax disc abolished
Replies: 10
Views: 1410

Re: Untaxed UK vehicles double after paper tax disc abolishe

If you use the DD option it will auto start a new year. Not sure if it checks Mot before doing so.
by darkember
Sat Nov 21, 2015 10:11 pm
Forum: Pimp Your Ride
Topic: Finally got the JE High Compression pistons put in
Replies: 57
Views: 20275

Re: Finally got the JE High Compression pistons put in

I guess I need to add more qualifiers to my posts for you guys...... Yes of course you will get gains in the top end when you up the compression ratio. You should have power gains everywhere, though if you want the engine to breath at the top of the rev range with higher compression, you need to ch...
by darkember
Sat Nov 21, 2015 5:32 pm
Forum: Pimp Your Ride
Topic: Finally got the JE High Compression pistons put in
Replies: 57
Views: 20275

Re: Finally got the JE High Compression pistons put in

I guess I need to add more qualifiers to my posts for you guys...... Yes of course you will get gains in the top end when you up the compression ratio. You should have power gains everywhere, though if you want the engine to breath at the top of the rev range with higher compression, you need to ch...
by darkember
Fri Nov 20, 2015 7:36 pm
Forum: Pimp Your Ride
Topic: Big bird
Replies: 114
Views: 18061

Re: Big bird

Got a little nippy this morning on the ride to work . With the temperature due to drop over night I thought it best to get some heated grips http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/11/20/da3f51430033be02fc3e4ba63f090c89.jpg . Only took 30mins to fit , they get hot fast ,let's hope they last a few years a...
by darkember
Thu Nov 19, 2015 8:53 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Brilliant forum!! THANKS
Replies: 7
Views: 1205

Re: Brilliant forum!! THANKS

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
by darkember
Wed Nov 18, 2015 9:46 pm
Forum: Workshop
Topic: Spark plug popped out
Replies: 10
Views: 2554

Re: Spark plug popped out

Before going the new head way why not try a Timesert.



http://www.timesert.com/html/mtrcsert.html