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All i can say about the KTM's i worked on, and there were enough to buy me a now bike about two year. I used to do jobs on my machinary lathe, Mill, Boring. Lots of little jobs that used to get me a credit ( at the time i thought i was just helping out my Local Dealers) as he was Honda also..i ride Honda cos i like to get to ware i set off to go at the start of the day.. Anyway two years into repairing these KTM's that TKM would not warranty ( but the dealer did ) i ended up with a young lady from the dealership asking if i was going to spend this account i had biult up...(Me) what account? the dealer had put money into an account within the dealership for me for all the work i done for them. Seems kT thingy would not warranty the items that were failing at an alarming rate..i later found out the rear swingarm was over a grand to replace...and i fixed them in 40 mins.. It ended with me getting a part ex ( cash in hand ) plus a new bike from my acount....Local family run Motorcycle dealer...buy you bikes and bits from your local dealers before we loose them all...shit will happen then.

Dude, you can't find your way from the paddock to the track.

Nah he is fine and he hasn't smashed up his helmet so hopefully only pride and ear bending to deal with.

I told them not to make fun of you, that you are too dum to understand, but they keep doing it.

Does work, i had an 8foot iron pipe on my last one across the wall...not nice if you forgot and put your hand on it.. Like a dick i started to hang tools on it in the summer, winter came and i just went to lift a rat-shit from it..I can say it did not stay in hand very long But as a heater it worked well.

Definitely, you know where all the best ditches are ...........

eeeesh, yep that's pretty grotty. Well worth doing

Flounce alert!

Here we go let the tears and swear words commence. Time to get the carbs off

How long did you spend on Google to arrive at that?

Let me think about that ..................

Got over the grumps and been out and got the Kwacker Death Trap rideable again. Freed off the throttle as it had just been pushed down the bar and jammed against the Bar End. Took the front brake lever off Shadows bike and used that to get him mobile again. He works she doesn't, at the moment. She's not to bothered given the weather. The front master cylinder is serviceable although has noticeable road rash and could do with being replaced. The front brake switch is broken but cheap to replace. The bar is bent but it's really not much maybe a degree or two so that can wait. I think he will need new fork seals come next MoT so I will sort the bars, both sides. out when it is stripped to do the seals. I still have his original serviceable front right indicator in the shed so that can go back on once I have patched the fairing panel. It's going to be an ugly repair though but as I said to him I can get it serviceable for nothing and he can get a new panel if and when he wants to. Personally I don't think the bike is worth it as it is a shed cosmetically but that is up to How High.

The last time you thought no meant yes, shall we talk about what happened?

Has you can tell , was kinda lazy and didn't make room for the car...wind is still howling....haven't gone out yet...

Plus i could maybe even have a few or more bits that may or even could be of use to some nut sorry i mean well meaning person to help one's Little Lady and her high sidding mate.

Most things are.

Yeah bit dirtier than I expected to be honest, they bike seemed to run pretty well. The tickover issue developed after I messed with it but before it was fine. But now I am in might as well do everything, I have a full rebuild kit including floats and jets so seems silly not to do it properly now.

Well the carbs came off without to much drama. Throttle cable was a bit of a pig but ok in the end. Initially took the float bowls off and there was some sludge so have cleaned them all out. Gonna re watch some carb cleaning vids before going any deeper. On a side note the carb rubbers are not old at all. Both airbox and motor sets. All pliable and in great condition. I’m fairly sure that have been replaced at some point. Also the air filter looks in very good condition and must have been replaced recently in mileage terms. Good to find out but sort of wish I didn’t have a new one sitting on the bench, that is a few quid I could have saved as are the new set of rubbers. I intend to keep the bike so they will be used at some point.

Looks like you're going to get a snow dump in Wales today. Could you kindly all blow hard and send some over the channel, I have the WR250 primed and ready for snow action ......

fuck

No chance, that would be eating Harley dust.

You started it you woke lefty twat!

my workshop is the lower level of my house, so it is literally as big as my house too. That is also a very distorted view of it through what is basically a fish eye lens.

I forgot I posted anything about this here. I got the bike out in the spring, put enough miles on it so I could get the first service done... and then rode it one more time beofre putting it back in storage. The tires were bought but never installed. Never did a track day. The regulator got repalced uner warranty but they left the old battery in there so the one day I tried to ride it again, it woulnd't start. A buddy loaned me a battery (that was also junk but not quite as bad) so we could do the ride, but I never shut the bike off because I didn't trust it would restart... A few weeks later the same buddy gave me a brand new lithium battery to replace the one I had loaned him so he could ride his 888 one afternoon, and then didn't want to screw with pulling it back out so he just bought me a new one. Lot's of battery swapping going on here in the 'burbs. I did spend a stupid amount of time making camera mounts for it last winter though! Insta360. It mounts where the passenger peg used to go. Also has a rear mount to stabilize it. If you replace the pink post it note with an Insta 360 you can get video from this perspective. I probably should have mounted it at an angle to get more of a side view? I also made one for the front that mounts over the mirror base, but I'm not sure why. I highly doubt I'll ever use it. No mirror in this shot, I don't have bolts long enough to mount everything yet. All of the mounts were printed using carbon fiber infused nylon. The turn signals were also moved into the headlight so there are blanking plates there, side reflectors have blanking plates, and I may also put a Mighty Mouse sticker on the plastic behind the windscreen. ANYWAY... it wasn't a great summer for riding. The bike now has something like 700 miles on it, needs the new battery installed, and is still on it's no-name original tires. Maybe next season it will see some use.

I wouldn’t bet on it, the U.K. has become spineless, they just opened a Palestinian embassy in London, Palestine isn’t even a country or state, the U.K. is marching towards islamation.

Hey, you got one in two right, nice job!

My old 5 kw heater used to heat my 16x10 shed ok...it lasted 3 years....the new one was sposed to be 5kw but i think the barstuards sent me a 3kw as it takes forever to warm up now. I am on my last galleon of red at the moment, you can use central heating oil if you put a couple a table spunes worth of oil in it to lube the pump..

Bloody autocorrect Lookout the grammar police is here

He’s not a CBF, it’s his CBF

I assume his age allowed him to bounce and not break.

They found the brain of the operation in that big tax fraud in Minnesota...

You're right, Marcel. I believe you're being targeted and victimized.

Probably wondered why the turkey was trying to escape.

There was something about furniture and the spare room, computer being on a high shelf and there was a kangaroo.