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Had a leaky fork at work yesterday so I tried making one of those seal cleaners out of an old milk bottle and had a bit of a scrape last night. It seemed to stop the leak, but the ride to work tomorrow will let me know for sure. Gave the Kriega fork cover things a clean up and refitted them, quite a bit of grit loose inside the one on the leaky fork, but clean as a whistle on the fork that is behaving, so I'm hoping that was all it was.

I think I posted on the 'other' forum yesterday , apparently my post has to be verified or something first ............. Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible. Is that your department @Six30 ?

Just had a FaceButt memory from 2014 turn up.........

The bike had an oil and filter change yesterday, so today it got fuelled to the brim and then went through the Jet Wash! Next stage is a good polish and then clean and lube the chain. Plenty of time to do that though.....cos it's not going anywhere soon!

So it's double gay then

There are bigger.

That’ll do nicely but things are a bit tight money-wise at the moment so I may just have to sit tight……….I could always sell my body to get the extra cash, that way I could probably afford the mirrors after a couple of months.

They've put you in the sin bin solely because you're a member here?

Great choice of tyre! Bob will say it's gay though!

I had one of those on the front of my Himalayan and it worked just fine.

That looks like our weather forecast, I hope ours is better for Saturday or iam staying at home too.

Maybe you can only use chinese oil on it?

How can that be nice , look at the monstrosity on the back of it ..............

I thought the same thing after looking at what I wrote, but decided to not delete all that work

New tyre for the rear of the XR arrived today, Only trouble is i think i need a new wheel to put it on, there's a broken spoke a bent one and a few loose ones on the wheel to replace which i have but the rim is in poor condition inside so may go for a rebuild

You're right @Marcel , it's an oversized lump dressed up to be trail bike , stick to your gay tyres ...................

He likes them, he rides a lot of the lanes around Devon so they must be pretty good

It's very simple , Honda and the oil barons have a shit load of 10W30 to get rid of. I'll stick to the 10w40 for now

@Slowlycatchymonkey, have you hacked @Pedro’s account?

Fuck that, I don’t care how good the new TA is meant to be that is one boring looking bike. Honda have out-done their sensible tag.

I’ve been busy being a cockney wanker. However, you’re correct about the Tracer. Lovely bike and a blast on the roads but man-o-man do I miss the ability to head off into the great unknown. Can’t bring myself to sell the Tracer and dirt bike options are severely limited by my available budget. I’m not going down the route of buying a shit heap with the aspiration of making a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. Currently looking at a cheap-ish e-mountain bike………….who knows.

Wasn't the bike a bit unstable on one leg and crutches, i thought you had a ramp LOL

I’ve serviced my bike on one leg and crutches

I thought 3000km's is when you changed bikes

He knows shit! Nothing gets thicker with heat except you and him! will type properly later when not on the phone.

It's 10-30 right across the board Pedro!

So @XTreme: Viscosity is how thin or thick an oil is, like honey is thicker than olive oil when pouring out of a bottle. 10 would be olive oil, 60 would be honey. Weight in oils comes from a time when you couldn't engineer oils to be single weight, they would be a 10, a 20, etc, but all thicker cold than hot. Now they can engineer oils to act like a 10 when cold but act like a 30 or 40 or 50 when hot. The first number, 10W, means viscosity of 10 at W which means Winter, cold temperatures. A 10W30 and 10W40 will act the same at start up when the engine is cold at the same cold temperature. Usually, a motorcycle manual will allow for weather and ambient temperatures, meaning the manufacturer might adjust advisement that the same engine will make oil run hotter being raced hard on 40º Spain than going for a bimble on 15º England, hence they sometimes recommend a 10W40 for 5º/20º temperatures but 20W50 for 15º/40º ambient temperatures. If Honda says Loncin makes that engine to be used with 10W30 in all uses in all temperatures, I would respect that. No modern engine benefits from using thicker oils than recomended except in very extreme conditions, however, do check if Honda doesn't recommend 10W40 for warm temperatures. It's a light engine, with tight clearances and meant to run with little internal frictions to aid economy and performance, makes sense that it uses a light oil. Does not make sense that it doesn't want a fully synthetic oil, though.

T700 could be an option! Luis Contreras in Almeria has got a nice one!

Out the Tracer and get a new TA!

Where's @Skippy.....haven't seem him for a while? Looking for another bike I bet.......cos he's got no offroad capability with the Tracer!

Reading that back it sounds like some of the fuckers on here

I can do oil changes you twat! But when you're nearly 70 and suffering with a Hernia you really don't feel much like doing it.

I found this on the CB500X forum.......the guy seems to know what he's talking about! 10W30 is a multigrade oil. When it is cold it has a viscosity of 10 (the weight of the oil) which means that it is thin. Exactly what you need in a cold engine. When the temperature is +100°C the oil has a viscosity of 30 (somewhat thicker). Again: exactly what you need with a warm engine. Switching to 10W40 is not a disaster: your cold engine runs with the same thin oil (viscosity 10) but when it has +100°C, it will run with a thicker oil (40). A thicker oil could be used when the engine is somewhat worn out as it offers a bit more protection. Remember: thicker oil is harder to pump around.

was the toilet closed ?

They advise not to use full synth in them! And anyway, with my oil changing routine of 3000 kms it wouldn't be worth it because longevity isn't a factor in my case.

If you care enough to use specific oil then use fully synthetic. It’s probably 10w30 to make less drag on the engine and make it that tiny bit better on fuel, some race engines are the same and you can feel the difference at really high rpms as they turn more freely.

I had Castrol Power 1 semi-synth!

Not sure but that's what the book says so that's what it has. The Beta is 10-50 so i have to buy 3 different oils for the bikes. Before the new bike's i got, everything took 10-40 semi so i just had one 20l drum it was so simple. Now i have to buy expensive stuff as well

Same on the CRF Pete. stupid thing is i couldn't buy genuine Honda oil from a Honda dealer but i can buy it in M&P's Swansea

So that's where @Six30 is working now.

Never would have happened if @Six30 had got the mod gig.

Maybe there was a mix up at the hospital and they got the kid of a family of inbred mother fuckers.

Just beat her parents up in front of her … don’t even say hello to em , just get your mrs to fly in with a couple of quick head butts and when they hit the floor you run in and start kicking em in the face

Seems to me they might be in the same boat as you, trying to offload her but tied into the drama.

Think of all the energy I've saved since I stopped washing my bikes/pants in 1997.