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MacV2 wrote: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...

podman wrote:

davebonline wrote:

podman wrote:
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..!

MacV2 wrote:Rode it to work & back ...In the bloody rain on the way home...

Still on the bright side...
a/ In tomorrow then off till 3rd April...

b/ Today is the spring equinox...Equal lenght day & night today from tomorrow the days get longer...Hip Hip...

AMCQ46 wrote:Well I cant complain about my post crash aches and pains after reading about Macdee's brother.......... but when I said minibikes were way safer to race / crash I might not have had all the facts

out of the 3 times I have been on track, I have had a crash each time
first was a low speed lowside and hence my assumption they would all be like that. 2nd two outings have been highsides and I can confirm that even with bodyarmour and leathers they still hurt...... on the plus side, the bike survives well.





I am third in this photo, but I got past them both in the next 2 laps --- green is almost as fast as yellow... and this was post crash.



I wont show you the bruises on my butt and hips

AMCQ46 wrote:Wilton mill kart track is on the national championship event list, plus it has just launched its own 6 race series all at Wilton. As it is close for me I will be trying to do a few of those in the Vet class.

will post up any dates That I will be doing