Saul

I can imagine it would, never needed to, a few hours left in white malt vinegar does the trick normally. Looks like the sun is accelerating the process today as well

Vinegar gets everywhere mate, will probably give it a session on the wire wheal as well. Bubbling away well out there in the sunshine at the moment

When I had the wheel bearings done the other day the chap who did it mentioned that the CBF600 had odd chain tensioners. Now it has been bugging me to the extent I got another set from a breaker. Only a tenner. Put them in white vinegar overnight to clean them up and get rid of any corrosion. Will thoroughly rinse them off degrease and paint them tomorrow. Get them on Friday hopefully. Only a small thing but it’s the sort of shit that makes me happy

Well new tyres fitted and rattle diagnosed. So some progress with Shadows Bike. Tyres were £175 for a set of Metzler Roadtech 01’s fitted which apparently are the mutts nuts in CB125F terms. I’ve been out on it and they do feel much better but then again new tyres always feel better than old tyres. Definitely the best Shadows bike has felt. Also picked the Tech’s brains about the rattle on her bike. Cam chain for sure and he told me how to go about fixing it which was decent of him. Told me not to fuss just do it next oil change as you have to drop the oil to get the tensioner out.

Don't feed the Troll

Bloody sad loss. Made a good age considering how he lived. Sabbath were part of the soundtrack of growing up for me.

I think she is quick and a pretty good rider better than most you come across, but you could see and almost feel that off coming. Plus that Speed 1200RS is a beast of a bike, definitely top drawer of what's available at the moment. Fine margins when pushing something like that.

Beast of a bike though. I like the faired version. Wouldn't get one, would kill me. Cool machine just the same.

You can see her getting carried away and overconfident as the vid goes on.

Fecking quick bike though. Did you see Usernamekate chuck one down the track a few weeks ago. She was lucky not to properly hurt herself

I did that this morning to check it. Sprays fine in a pretty good even pattern as far as i can tell. Starting is fine it just stalls at tickover once warn and off fast idle.

Totally agree with that , I am going to explore the extra drag from the variator/drive belt first idea as that spins with the crank all the time. I don't have a way to check the pressure from the fuel pump but it was pretty cheap so I bought it just in case.

True with a capitol W

Without doubt. I think it's the Bikini Faring and black red yellow livery that had me. Has hints of a Kawasaki ZRX about it to. Also looks a bit like this to but with a proper engine.

it's a public school thing, think David Cameron, Boris Johnson class of fella.

Soggy biscuit is a male group masturbation activity in which the participants stand around a biscuit (UK) or cookie (US) masturbating and ejaculating onto it; the last person to do so must eat the biscuit.

Fuel sock not wank sock

Nothing between the tank and injector the only filter is the sock on the fuel pump.

I won't answer that in detail because he is at the age where I would rather thump him than look at him. Probably not but he hasn't got much sense.

I don't think there can be much in the tank, I will of course check and do have a low mileage second hand fuel pump to put in just to rule out the current one failing, parts are pretty cheap for these things second hand. Also I cleaned up stream from the injector but not the tank so it does need doing. Only thing that is expensive is the throttle body and CDI unit. I am going to do the drive belt and variator first though just in case that is causing drag, enough to stall the bike at very low revs. And seeing it should have been done at 6k and the Ped is on 12k tells me it would be smart to do. Lean't allsorts about these fecking things the last few weeks. I wish I had gone with my convictions and bought him a second hand Honda ped or cub type thing in the first place. His mother insisted he had something new but in the long term I reckon he would have been better off with an Innova 110 or something of that ilk. But what the fuck would I know.

Not yet

I do love the look of these. Never gonna sell them at £10K but look cool as hell in that Black livery.

Lovely, but Shadow would slit his throat if he had that Plus he hasn't got two pennys to scratch his arse with. I bought the Ped for £2500 for him, gave him a grand towards it and it took him 3 years to pay me back the rest. Bank of dad is closed to him.

It runs absolutely fine just dies at idle. Only way to increase the idle is to adjust the throttle cable to keep the butterfly open a fraction like an idle screw would. It's what I have done and it seems to be fine at the moment but I don't think it's an ideal fix. The sad thing is Fuzz Nuts has had this Ped from new and it's been a good servant, but not looked after. The only reason it has not blown the motor is I change the oil every time I service one of my bikes. Other than that it's not touched. He expects me to pay for it to be serviced, but he can feck off, the piss taking twat earns more than I do. I don't mind helping, if asked, but I am not good with teenage attitude, I could go on but won't

Soggy Biscuit = Chase the Biscuit. Apparently.