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Pete.L
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tony.mon wrote:And those with Storms can be grateful that they have a nice smooth throttle transition- bloody fuel Injection is good for power but fairly shite at being smooth.
If the SP2 is an improvement on the Sp1 for fuelling, they must be a real handful round town. Dunno, never ridden one round town.
I'd forgotten about that :lol: You get used to it...eventually :wink:
But learning on Shitty rds and in the wet is a bit of a trial by fire.
Well done!
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got the bike outImage
missing the noise, not the vibes. However never say never!
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love the white rear wheel paul, ties in the bellypan, which didn't look right with the orange rear wheel.
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agentpineapple wrote:love the white rear wheel paul, ties in the bellypan, which didn't look right with the orange rear wheel.
:thumbup: I agree that was my point, if the front goes red that will match the red bit !
missing the noise, not the vibes. However never say never!
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Fitted my mirrors found on ebay by AP,
Thanks again, they are in quite good nick !! :thumbup:
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Nearly dropped it.... on the carpet.

Abba stand with "swingarm removal" fitting attached just below the footpegs. "Front wheel removal" arm fitted. Axle stand under the crankcase (just in case). Took the rear wheel out and over she goes, frontwards. Managed to grab it as the rear wheel went flying. Hmmm, on my own, holding the back down. Managed to kick some lumps of timber under the front wheel long enough to get the back wheel back in.

Back to the drawing board. Need to figure out some way to keep the front up while I get both wheels out. Given up now and pouring myself a scotch to cool down!
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if your in a garage I use straps to the joists as insurance
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countrymick wrote:if your in a garage I use straps to the joists as insurance
It's in my lounge!
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countrymick wrote:if your in a garage I use straps to the joists as insurance
I'm going to use a front paddock stand and leave off removing the forks until the wheels come back.
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I squandered" (George Best, RIP)
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haha class.no cold nights spannering for you this winter then :clap: :clap: :clap:
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Not to mine but my little brothers lexmoto 125 street pile of crap .
New Chan & sprockets , crush drive rubbers ,rear wheel bearings, new rear spindle , new exhaust gasket and to finish a new front brake lever .
It's only 3 years old and you'd think it was a 70s model .
What a pile of crap
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lloydie wrote:Not to mine but my little brothers lexmoto 125 street pile of crap .
New Chan & sprockets , crush drive rubbers ,rear wheel bearings, new rear spindle , new exhaust gasket and to finish a new front brake lever .
It's only 3 years old and you'd think it was a 70s model .
What a pile of crap
And we started the service on my new shiny forks :biggrin only to be let down by the halfords near you because they didn't have to correct fork oil.

Oh well. Oil is on order so we can build them over the weekend and hopefully the calipers will turn up so we can service them too :thumbup:

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Yer that too lol
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Ragged the shite out of her over my favourite mountain road.

Still not 100% happy with the mixtures but it is running well.

Gets awful light in the front end under hard acceleration out of corners.

Am waiting for a new camera and will post some vids when I get it.

My contour roam 2 sh1t itself and now won't work.
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Just fitted some bar muffs to complement the heated grips [THUMBS UP SIGN]
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