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cybercarl wrote:Paid a visit to AP's valeting service and raided the stores. Washed and polished it and replaced a couple of nuts and bolts that where missing/lost/worked loose and lost Why is always the 10mm nuts that go walk about, well....apart from the front sprocket bolt that I discovered missing the other day after getting home from down south. To think I was doing silly speeds possibly without it a few minutes earlier The funny thing is I did feel a little bump like I had run over something on the way home. I wonder if that was the bolt falling out, but that was back in E-Sussex Anyway that's fixed now good and proper!

What else have I done to my bike today. AP fitted a Blue sidelight bulb. Not sure yet if I like having it. I was a little bit para on the way home and clocked the copper outside parliament giving me the eyeball when passing. It was dark when coming home though so looks blatenly Blue. Then later I clocked plod along the embankment on the other side of the road suddenly turn the Blues on. They most likely got a shout but I thought I would get a shifty on anyway in case they turned around. I'm thinking I will have to go back to a white bulb, don't need any more reasons/excuses for a tug.

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Carl, I thought it was impossible for the sprocket bolt to come fully out as there is the thick rubber pad on the inside of the sprocket cover only a few mm from the bolt head! Also would have thought the direction of rotation would keep it in place as the head comes in contact with the pad

cybercarl wrote:

Carl, I thought it was impossible for the sprocket bolt to come fully out as there is the thick rubber pad on the inside of the sprocket cover only a few mm from the bolt head! Also would have thought the direction of rotation would keep it in place as the head comes in contact with the pad

It's never happened to me before but it not impossible otherwise I would still have the bolt. It's my own fault as I remember not fully torquing the bolt, I used loads of threadlock but as I was tightening it down It did not feel right. You know that feeling that a bolt is going to snap or thread itself. There was a look of shock horror on my face when I found it missing.

It has made me think about some kind of safety mechanism on the bolt which surprisingly these don't have. Maybe a washer that slides over the spline before inserting the bolt with a tab that can be bent over onto one of the sides of the bolt head.

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agentpineapple wrote:or maybe just torqueing it up to the correct figure......

MacV2 wrote:Picked up mk2 revamped oil lines & some cam covers I had cleaned up ready for a bit of paint...

AMCQ46 wrote:Maidstone Motoliner have trued up and painted the 6 - spoke front wheel. sister in law should bring it back Friday evening and then I can get it to the tyre fitter on Saturday and the bike will be ready for Scotland for the next weekend.

£72 as I managed to avoid all postage cost, not too bad compared to a new wheel

AMCQ46 wrote:Maidstone Motoliner have trued up and painted the 6 - spoke front wheel. sister in law should bring it back Friday evening and then I can get it to the tyre fitter on Saturday and the bike will be ready for Scotland for the next weekend.

£72 as I managed to avoid all postage cost, not too bad compared to a new wheel

Kev L wrote:

agentpineapple wrote:or maybe just torqueing it up to the correct figure......

Mechanical hints and tips!,.... really

MacV2 wrote:Well not strictly ''done to my bike...'' but today I finally got round to seeing to the MacCave...



Several hours later...




It will need a 2nd coat but that will have to wait till I get more paint & me wrist recovers...
Then It needs the sofits fitting...It's only taken me two years + to get round to doing this so don't expect an update ant time soon...