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Weird flavour.

You are thinking digestive

Twat

Chocolate or raisins?

This is the thread for submitting pictures for June’s Bike Of The Month. Everyone gets to entry, you get to entry with one picture of a motorcycle or scooter you currently own, out on a ride this June. It has to be an horizontal picture, too. Feel free to post multiple pictures, I will consider the last one posted. Submissions close friday evening and the vote starts then.

Fine like a rich tea biscuit, I'll post a pic when the new one comes and I swap them over.

How does the plug look?

See you have made me paranoid now so I have just been out for a 5 mile run on it. Running without fault dragging my fat arse around. May have to raise the idle slightly but that is as far as I reckon it needs touching. Fuck riding a ped though what a horrible thing to do

No way of doing so at the moment. I think it has decent compression though as it pulls pretty well when running like all peds it gets of the line well for 11bhp, I imagine if it were down on compression it would be very obvious. Also it's a 4 stroke can't imagine running out of fuel would damage the motor like a two stroke.

Did you check compression? If he ran out of fuel while flat out …

The boy came home last night complaining his ped keeps dying. He had been for a long ride to Tavistock and back and run out of fuel during the trip. It’s done 15,000 km and has only had oil changes whenever I do one of my bikes as there is always enough left over to do his ped. So the oil is always pretty clean. Apart from the first service I don’t think it has been touched otherwise. Anyway it was really difficult to start and wouldn’t tick over. Not an ideal situation in a twist and go. First thing I did was check the valves which were tight. Less than 0.005 mm when they should be between 0.010 - 0.015 mm I set them loose on the max measurement. It started fine then but would still not tick over. No idle screw that I could find (fuel injected ped) so I adjusted the cable to raise the idle enough so that it wouldn’t stall. All seems good now. Rideable at least so he can get to work. I’ve put a shot of Redex injection cleaner in the tank and will do it a few more times when he fills the thing. I have ordered a service kit for it which fuzz nuts will be paying me back for also I think it will need a new drive belt in the near future so I will look into that as well. Learning stuff about peds I never wanted to but if it keeps my useless boy in employment it sort of makes sense.

Good idea Maybe a sub section for "Planned rideouts" for people to join, I know currently we are few and far between but if you want to change that, you need to change that

Top marks for the work but not exactly a looker.

3 colours darling ...it means 3 colours

It’s what Italians call a thing with four colours.

R 100 X....

TT 600....

Lunch Time....

Just heard back from the guy who is doing my valve check. All well within spec and reckons they have been checked before so that is good news. Something less to worry about

Seriously sticky shit that Lanoguard, the swinging arm on my CBF was covered in it when I got the bike, still some on there now 12 months and 6k later.

The inventor Arthur Davidson, of the Harley Davidson Motorcycle Corporation, died and went to heaven. At the gates, St. Peter told Arthur, "Since you've been such a good man and your Motorcycles have changed the world, your reward is, you can hang out with anyone you want in Heaven." Arthur thought about it for a minute and then said, "I want to hang out with God." St. Peter took Arthur to the Throne Room, and introduced him to God. Arthur then asked God, "Hey, aren't you the inventor of women? "God said, "Ah, yes. " "Well, " said Arthur, "professional to professional, you have some major design flaws in your invention." God was somewhat taken back, and when He asked what the flaws might be, Arthur Davidson produced a list for Him to read. 1. There's too much inconsistency in the front-end protrusions. 2. It chatters constantly at high speeds. 3. Most of the rear ends are too soft and wobble too much. 4. The intake is placed way to close to the exhaust and finally, 5. The maintenance costs are outrageous. "Hmmmm, you may have some good points there and it may be true that My invention is flawed... " God said to Arthur. "But the last time that I checked, more men are riding My invention than yours."

dont be so facetious

I could probably get some Lanoguard in there through the drain holes.