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And why exactly do you need another bike pete... you've already had 900 bikes in you're riding career

That's unleaded fuel for you, that the problem with the ethanol content of the current fuel it gums up everything very quickly

Yeah they really don't like sitting do they, this year I have to get out at least twice a month

See we don't have the grandparents feeding her up on sweets and we don't let her have loads of sweets. She just can't seem to listen and when she is spoken to she just looks elsewhere, she keeps repeating the same things over and over again like are we going to the shops/park... no/no its raining. Then a couple minutes later exactly the same question, we ask her to repeat what we told her just before she reasked the question and she can't repeat what we said to her. I'm starting to wonder if she's got problems

Bet you had to pay millions of euros didn't you, did you remember to hide the super yacht and all you're private jets this time?

Yeah its injection, id guess it just wants using abit more than 3 or 4 times a year! It may sort itself out with a few tanks of fuel through it

To be fair I opened it up a few times yesterday and I didn't shit myself, could well have been from the first ride of the year though

Haha well yeah point taken

I don't know what it is with skye she just literally can't seem to listen or react appropriately to what is being asked of her

Do you want a 3½ year old supposed deaf child aswell for the Easter holidays, we've got one to rehome

Ahh ok mate no bother

Well just ran the bike for a while and it's still hunting all over the place and running on 3 cyl, I think new plugs are in need and maybe a bit of balancing of the throttle bodies. Bob how much would you guys charge for balancing?

Well he's certainly not planning on taking my offer up and putting his riding abilities to the test against me so I'd doubt he'd plan a trip to idaho

Standard day for you then

Yeah I put the optimate on it for a few hours and it recovered the battery no problem, when I fired it up last night after cleaning the air filter and other bits it didn't struggle at all so it must be sensitive to a low battery. I'll get it out today and run it up to temp to see if the idle has returned to normal

Not a bad shout I'll add it to the list of things to check

I'll take them off tomorrow and give them a quick brush up and as Bob said check out the earth and reg/rec and see what happens after

I shall have a check over them tomorrow I've shut up shop for the night now

Just checked the battery terminals and they are tight and appear to be sound, I've just started it now and there was no hesitation at all so I'm thinking the optimate must have done it's thing and recovered it. I only ran it for a couple of seconds mind you given its getting late and it echoes in here so I'll have another ganders at it tomorrow morning and see how the idle is, if its steady away then the bike must be very sensitive to a slightly wonky battery

Well that's some horrible looking cruddy shite, not so sure it's meant to look like that looks to be from the crankcase breather

On the battery you mean or on the connector blocks and the like under the tank?

Well im not sure why it would be damp in that recess but it sits over the top of that wadding and it is soaked but with what feels like water instead of fuel so unsure what thats all about it does indeed have a pippercross air filter fitter and the airflow facing side just needed a quick brush off and it's as good as new I've had a good look over the trumpets and there's no visible cracking and they feel as I'd expect them too and opening the throttle there's no visible hindrance in the bores and everything appears tight. I don't think I like the idea that there seems to be no inline fuel filter fitted though

Let's get to investigating oh and before you say owt no i cant see a fucking thing with this shit single light in here, id be better off using a candle... What I can tell you is it appears by the sticker at least to be running a pipercross airfilter and the optimate says the battery is good too