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I don't think I have mentioned it but it is Fowey Regatta Week at the moment. Tis sort of a big deal for us Yokels. Anyway spent my day across the water in Polruan yesterday with some life long friends. Good day if a little pissed and sung out by the end of it.

I just had a seance with @XTreme , he spelt out a message for you ............... YOU'RE AN ANNOYING CUNT !!

I drove the grils to Paris for a concert last night. What a nightmare place to dive, eben if you know where you're going. The concert wa sat the salle "Pleyel" which is only a few hundred yards from the place de l'étoile (Arc de Triomphe) so I knew I had to be on my game, driving wise. The Place de l'Etoile, for those who have never had the pleasure, Is a big roundabout, it has 11 roads coming on and off and as many lanes on the actual roundabout as you can fit cars into cos there's no markings on the road surface ( which is cobbled, by the way, so real fun in the wet...) ans it is "priority to the right. This means that vehicles coming ONTO the roandabout have right of way. Parisiens know this, but as about 40% of vehicles there at any one time are not parisien, or even French, this adds an interesting dimension to the circus.... It is, I would argue, one of Frances finest examples of fuckwittery. On the way home, having succesfully negotiated the clusterfuck that is the Place de l'Etoile for a second time and mad it as faroutas the peripherique I discovered that the outer ring (the one I needed to use) was closed. No signs, no warning, no deviation signs, nothing. Just a line of cones acroos the entrance ramp with a signsayng "peripherique exterieur fermé" and 8 million cars tring trying to figure out WTF do do now. Obviously any gps is useless because they all systematically send you onto the peripherique. I ended up navigating through the parisien suburbs at 1 in the morning by compass FFS! untill I found a link through to the the A6. Also, Paris sticks of piss.

Maintenance on the Beta tonight. new pads front and rear and a new Michelin Enduro medium tyre on the rear, re-lubed the front mousse and that's not the kind of moose lubing Marcel does

See below. If this wasn’t next level moderating by me, I don’t know what is. I hope you two have a lovely time. You’re just weird. And you come across as you giving too much thought into Buckster’s parts. This was a nice motorcycle workshop thread too, with pretty pictures and everything. You lot should be ashamed, bots are starting to complain!

That’s true, I will endeavour to gently coerce him into a inclusive and loving situation that may involve a bat and a disused coal mine.

What the hell, you can’t say that! Harley is woke now, you will have to make love to him. And cuddle.

She's got the hots for you @Saul ............

I’m with VW, what do you or the people at your work know about electricity and cables? Better leave it to VW

Aren’t you due a flounce?

I'm sure he's looking forward to your arrival already ............

Well it rides well, vibration is back to normal and hot starting is no problem, the hot starting was definitely becoming a problem and is classically caused by the compensator binding up. Will go on a long run tomorrow. I might go down south and rape @Six30.

and formed your own crowd...

Is that all the locals avoiding the regatta? Something similar happens at cows week.

It just seems to be a casting lip, earlier bikes don’t have it.

How did you guess?

It's not rape if his pants are down and he's bent over all lubed up when he hears you arrive

He just said he might rape you , he didn't say what with and where .......

surely threats of forced anal and getting bummed into the middle of next week is a yellow card

It's a lease hire car so we are already looking for compensation for not being able to use it until sorted, we wont mention we have another lead we can use

Bloody stupid, play up and you'll get a result.

It's probably the charging point we installed at fault not the lead

AI is getting crazy!! I found a site where you create videos from an image. To test the thing I used this picture and added as a prompt : "rider takes his hand of the handle bar and waves to the camera" This is the result : I wasn't expecting it would make the tree branches move nor the bike!

Don’t know. Here is a diagram of the old one.

Sort of, the Regatta is in Fowey so we all went over to Polruan for a bit of relief from the crowds. It happens every year.

dont think thats a very christian thing to do....

It’s amazing how some people get so much inside their own bubble that they forget a big part of society doesn’t share their opinions. And it’s even more amazing when some of those people are in charge of companies that would do well to stay way clear of having an opinion on those type of issues.

What was the point in the lip in the begining ?

The old one is springs in a cup and ramps on the cogs, the new one uses a set of eight cushions of two different densities.

Is there only springs in the old and new compensator? Prob better than the dual mass fly wheels they're fitting in cars as most of them shit themselves and throw the inners all over the bell housing and in the starter motors.

It will be more of a red card if you get my drift.

Of friends. We all know each other that's the point.

One of the company vehicles in work is an all electric VW car and we had to phone up today because the charger cable has stopped working and is still under warranty, they said they can't do nothing about it for two months and need the car at the garage to check it out even though we told them it works with a borrowed cable but not with the one it came with so our option is to not use the car for two months or buy another cable around £200 at our cost fucking useless bastards and while talking to them they said there's a few minor recalls on the car one of them being a software update for the door handles WTF

It's the BBC over here, can't wait to look good for the younger gen

My brother will be in Romania for a few days, and my dad is having some issues with his stair platform lift so I’ll be riding north today. Also good to take my bike for a service on monday, and get it ready for the trip in a few days. It’ll be a motorway ride today, but still nice since finally the weather is not very warm.

It is very pretty. And very cool, if my alternator goes it’ll be open heart surgery to replace it.

Is this where you ground the lip out ?

At this point I checked the crank runout, Dark Horse recommend a maximum of .008 of an inch, although that is with the original chain tensioner, mine is .006 so all good either way. I also had the check alignment in case any shims were needed, alignment was perfect without shims. So I put it back together. Ain't it pretty? I will put the case back on in the morning.

All new compensators require a new stator as the basket for the belville spring is welded to the old one. This being the weakness all newer types use a different system. I went for a Dark Horse motorsprocket as they are regarded as the best plus they will survive performance upgrades which I will do in the future. The inner primary case has a cast lip on the inside which prevents removal of the stator without removing the inner primary, I decided to grind this lip off as many others have done as it makes ongoing servicing of the alternator a lot easier. Here we are with the original stator removed. With the new one fitted.

So here we go. The original setup. Despite what Marcel le manchild says, 60k is good going for the original compensator on this model year, the compensator is the cog on the left. Pre 2006 compensators last a lot longer as do post 2013although the standard self racheting primary chain adjuster can be a problem, as you may see i fitted a Hayden M6 tensioner many moons ago which may be why mine has lasted so well. On inspection there was not a lot of wear on the compensator except for the peaks but the belville spring basket was pretty well shot, this is why it was noisy and i was getting vibration.

I’m more worried about Triumph. The word on the street is that it’s too imperialist of a name and they’ll have to change to Modest Success