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Went up to the office for a meeting re my return to work on The Custard Crumble...

All good, I do need to learn all the new pot holes...theres a few... but the good news is a big bit of the A2 has been resurfaced...so I missed all the road works...

Red VTR looking more like a bike it's on it's wheel off the blocks, going on it's holidays down at the lads unit it'll meet the blue rusty bucket from the Isle of Lewis then in a few week it'll be back home into the new man cave

Took Nue Red for an MOT...Passed with flying colours...Hip Hip...


Only 2281 mls tho in a year...In my defence I have done 12k odd on Custard since last march...

put brakes on. taken brakes of, put some others on. taken them of, then put a mix of the other two. then taken them of. i then put more brakes on. bleed them. got a brake and walked away. im now gona open a beer or ten.

ps. i hate fecking brakes.

Went for a blat on the LC earlier today as it looks like the weekend isnt going to be that great and she needed a run out, hands still ruddy frozen..

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podman wrote:Went for a blat on the LC earlier today as it looks like the weekend isnt going to be that great and she needed a run out, hands still ruddy frozen..

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god dam you man. that is purdy..

fabiostar wrote:

podman wrote:Went for a blat on the LC earlier today as it looks like the weekend isnt going to be that great and she needed a run out, hands still ruddy frozen..

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god dam you man. that is purdy..

Thanks mate, it rides as good as it looks now, especially on those sorts of roads.

podman wrote:Went for a blat on the LC earlier today as it looks like the weekend isnt going to be that great and she needed a run out, hands still ruddy frozen..

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That is a beaut podman. I had a Candy Blue 350 LC back in the early 90's, superb bikes (when they actually work!).

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podman wrote:Went for a blat on the LC earlier today as it looks like the weekend isnt going to be that great and she needed a run out, hands still ruddy frozen..

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That is a beaut podman. I had a Candy Blue 350 LC back in the early 90's, superb bikes (when they actually work!).

Candy Blue was always my fave colour, apart from a couple of age/wear realted minor niggles and a chain snapping, ive done a few thousand miles on it now without it leaving me stranded, a standard LC is in a pretty soft state of tune eh?

My friend has just bought a tricked up 250M like in your very smart avatar pic..You still own that?

podman wrote:

davebonline wrote:

podman wrote:Went for a blat on the LC earlier today as it looks like the weekend isnt going to be that great and she needed a run out, hands still ruddy frozen..

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That is a beaut podman. I had a Candy Blue 350 LC back in the early 90's, superb bikes (when they actually work!).

Candy Blue was always my fave colour, apart from a couple of age/wear realted minor niggles and a chain snapping, ive done a few thousand miles on it now without it leaving me stranded, a standard LC is in a pretty soft state of tune eh?

My friend has just bought a tricked up 250M like in your very smart avatar pic..You still own that?

My 350lc blew up on the ride home from the shop I bought it from! In their defence they had it fully rebuilt by a specialist and it was great after that apart from the horrible front brakes

No, don't have that RGV anymore, it ended up under the back of a lorry (driver turned right without indicating)! I owned that back in the early nineties, got it after the LC. I had knee sliders sewn on to my jeans as I couldn't afford leathers at the time I embarrassed a number of litre bikes with the RGV, absolute weapon that thing was

I am having a quiet, restful day, so checked the valves on the SP2.

The little plastic dust caps are still there, so all good. Next week I may go a bit further and test the pressures.

tony.mon wrote:I am having a quiet, restful day, so checked the valves on the SP2.

The little plastic dust caps are still there, so all good. Next week I may go a bit further and test the pressures.

Don't go over doing things Tony

Chris.

steering damper fitted...walk away robert if all went well

davebonline wrote:

podman wrote:

davebonline wrote: That is a beaut podman. I had a Candy Blue 350 LC back in the early 90's, superb bikes (when they actually work!).

Candy Blue was always my fave colour, apart from a couple of age/wear realted minor niggles and a chain snapping, ive done a few thousand miles on it now without it leaving me stranded, a standard LC is in a pretty soft state of tune eh?

My friend has just bought a tricked up 250M like in your very smart avatar pic..You still own that?

My 350lc blew up on the ride home from the shop I bought it from! In their defence they had it fully rebuilt by a specialist and it was great after that apart from the horrible front brakes

No, don't have that RGV anymore, it ended up under the back of a lorry (driver turned right without indicating)! I owned that back in the early nineties, got it after the LC. I had knee sliders sewn on to my jeans as I couldn't afford leathers at the time I embarrassed a number of litre bikes with the RGV, absolute weapon that thing was

There ya go Dave, met up with my mate with the RGV today, its had a full chassis & engine rebuild, with some mild engine tweaking ,JL exhaust , all set up for the engine...the thing really does fly between 70-110..Handles beautifully as you know and looks just like Kevins!

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I also had a fab 90 mile thrash on the storm, not missing the GSXR one bit....except for the tank range..!

Bloo has been losing charge & wont start...

Bump started it on Tuesday...Neighbour Andy was going to go out on it today. I spoke to him last night & said it may well be the battery is fecked...I have a spare we'll swap it over & see whats what.

So this morning I hear him trying to start it & it's abject failure...We faild to bump it so I said grab some jump leads...Started fine jumping it off his truck.

So off he rides & comes back amn hour or two later...Reporting that it failed to restart at his destination...

I'm thinking it has to be the battery as if it was R/R it wouldn't have got that far either way...

So we sticks the freshly charged batt on...meter it 13.5...14.5 running...rev it up & it drops to about 4...!

So he says I'll get my works meter as that gets callibrated yearly...Meanwhile I think I've got a spare R/R I'll swap it over just to check that...

So starts taking off taking off the seat fairing to get at the R/R...Bloody things hanging loose, bolts have gone AWOL which means the earth is not earthed...So the Electrickery is not flowing as it should...

Got some bolts & some locktight...bolted it up...fired it up...bingo all is good...