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Out shopping on the Tidler. Got some L plates as Shadow is going back on the road . But apparently I have to take the dog shit top box off first

Happy birthday old mate

He would have been 72 today and probably getting bummed by a dago midget in an abandoned building.

I believe it was Pete’s birthday today (according to Facebook). Hopefully he’s misbehaving wherever he is.

The makeover of Miss America was completed today . At last I found a yellow tank , it's a Clarke tank from USA. Now she's all yellow, much better than boring grey

I had a free day today to spent it in the garage. I'm on my 4th iteration of the under seat tray to hold the battery, ECU and other electric bits I want to hide. I miscalculated the measurements for the battery connector mount positions so had to re-drill some of the fixing points. Couldn't face making a 5th iteration so filled the holes which were in the wrong place with weld. It all finally fits in place, still need to weld the side plates on, but the seat clears all of the bits and pieces. Indicators and lights all work except the headlight but not fitted that yet. I'll tidy it up a bit tomorrow. If I have time I'll put the rad back on and start on the headlight wiring. Turns out there is a loose connection on the original engine cut off button, couldn't work out why the ignition final stage wouldn't come on, took me a frustrating hour to find it.

Already immortalised on the front page, the world press will be going wild!

Strange to think he's been dead nearly 2 years already

you could always change the Resistors for an LED relay.. sold on many E sites and the Bay of E,s

You should put some in the busa seat.

Congratulations @busabeast.

I've heard he was wearing his wife's pvc suit

I agree with her.

Miss America arrived yesterday and after sorting the swap and quick cup of tea Sarge headed off on the T700 for his homeland (Wales) for the night........... I had a couple of hours getting au fait with my new (to me) Donkey. First thing to come off was the O/E seat which I replaced with my 15 year old corbin......... I also fitted my sacrificial side panels as the O/E panels are too tidy to leave on and get rubbed by my luggage. Then I removed the O/E rack and pannier rails and fitted my Scaggs rack and copy pelicase...... and last job before it got too late was to fit the JNS headlight..........

Resisting loads.... the clues in the name

21c here today at 3pm..very very unlike Welsh weather..bet it will snow weekend

So in the end you settled for the tighty whities then.

It was nice to sit outside for a while today, and I nearly put my shorts on too.

Two Irishmen walk into a pet shop in Dingle, they walk over to the bird section and Gerry says to Paddy, 'Dat's dem.' The owner comes over and asks if he can help them. 'Yeah, we'll take four of dem dere little budgies in dat cage up dere,' says Gerry. The owner puts the budgies in a cardboard box. Paddy and Gerry pay for the birds, leave the shop and get into Gerry's truck to drive to the top of the Connor Pass. At the Connor Pass , Gerry looks down at the 1000 foot drop and says, 'Dis looks like a grand place.' He takes two birds out of the box, puts one on each shoulder and jumps off the cliff. Paddy watches as the budgies fly off and Gerry falls all the way to the bottom, killing himself stone dead. Looking down at the remains of his best pal, Paddy shakes his head and says, 'Fook dat. Dis budgie jumping is too fook'n dangerous for me!' THERE'S MORE.... Moment's later; Seamus arrives up at ConnorPass. He's been to the pet shop too and walks up to the edge of the cliff carrying another cardboard box in one hand and a shotgun in the other. 'Hi, Paddy, watch dis,' Seamus says. He takes a parrot from the box and lets him fly free. He then throws himself over the edge of the cliff with the gun. Paddy watches as half way down, Seamus takes the gun and shoots the parrot. Seamus continues to plummet down and down until he hits the bottom and breaks every bone in his body. Paddy shakes his head and says, 'And I'm never trying dat parrotshooting either!' IT IS NOT OVER YET... Paddy is just getting over the shock of losing two friends when Sean appears. He's also been to the pet shop and is carrying a cardboard box out of which he pulls a chicken. Sean then takes the chicken by its legs and hurls himself off the cliff and disappears down and down until he hits a rock and breaks his spine. Once more Paddy shakes his head. 'Fook dat, lads. First dere was Gerry with his budgie jumping, den Seamus parrotshooting.... And now Sean and his fook'n hengliding.

They give more consistent oil pressure especially at low rpm and I'm prove scavenging which reduces oil pressure in the heads to improve valve timing. It's worth a couple of hp but the real benefit is the improved lubrication which means I can run the more aggressive cams.

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So with the forks back in it was time to see if I could remove anything to shave some weight. First to go was the luggage support rails , I can always fit these back on if I need them later. I dug out the original tank for this bike but it had the locking cap fitted and I never got the keys with the bike. I tried a few tips to remove it but in the end it needed drilling out ........... Then I needed to flush the tank as it had 9 year old fuel in it and now a load of swarf .............. I left the tank to dry out for a couple of days and ordered a new cap , once it arrived I fitted it to the tank. The Suzuki comes with a Mikuni BST carb and a fuel tap that has a vacuum line so I had to block that to get fuel to run from the tank to the carb Johnny Jiggler was employed to run the fuel from the oversize Acerbis tank to the Suzuki item .............. Next I fitted the original side panels in place of the sacrificial panels I'd been using, now it was time for a short run to check everything ................ By time I got the end of the lane the fork seals were leaking which didn't really surprise me, so they came back out and I fitted the Cogent forks by moved them up through the top yoke by 50mm. I will strip the other forks in time now and see what needs repalcing . Today I rode it into work and was well chuffed to find out that it handled fine. I'm chuffed as I really like this bike , it gives good performance for a single and is one of the best carburatting bikes I've ridden .

I think that's probably it for quite a while now, I hope I've got it as I want it now

Heat and WD-40 wins again .................... and loud FMF silencer removed Tomorrow I'll try to fit the new Delkevic system

Miss Australia got the pannier rails as I don't want them...........

And no Subs to pay either! Why can't all forums be like this?

It's only been there for two years!

Keep posting Alan Partridge gifs!

Absolutely, less enticing to the thieving scroats

So your first job was to make it look scruffy? WHAT?

This morning I rode it into work so we could see if the header bolts would free up as I have a new exhaust system to fit, I think we caught them just in time before they became welded to the head........ We replaced them with some Ducati items (temporary fix) as we will fit studs and copper nuts when the new exhaust system goes on .............. The bike rides really well, it has a strong mid range with the TM40 and the suspension soaks up all the pot holes nicely