Saul

Any good? Too noisy?

I did it on the 600. I did wait until I had got over the annoyance about it before sharing. I'm over it now I remember those Enfields, I think it was originally a water pump engine.

Not here, you do see project bikes going for that sort of money quite often. The point was this one was just down the road from me. But by the time you did, battery, tyres, forks seals, brakes plus whatever else you can get a tidyish one for £1500. Plus I don't really want a sports bike either.

My Mrs spotted a CBR600RR on FB marketplace nearby yesterday for sale for £450 and offered to buy it for me. I was flabbergasted, she is after something, newer car I reckon It wasn't really the bike for me as it the sort of deal where I would have had to spend £1000 plus sorting it out when I could buy a tidy one ready to go for £1300 to £1500. I do like them but I doubt I would ride such a thing much unless I wanted to tear it up and that isn't really my thing anymore. Plus Shadow would be obsessing over it and make my life a misery. But it was nice of the Mrs to offer though.

Oh dear, I thought you could do better than that. My Mrs was calling me DiseaseSaul for a couple of days.

Remember this post when I was all chuffed with myself for sorting the bike out. It's been long enough now and I have got over what happened on the first run out after the service. Shadow was still off the road so we went up to Damerells for her favourite Sausage sandwich then for a bimble about for 60 miles or so. Ran like a dream but when the fuel light came on I dropped in the garage and filled it up. About a mile later the it conked out. WTF. Anyway turns out I filled it up with diesel. Bloody self inflicted disaster. Only about 3 miles from home so I got the Mrs to collect Shadow and called the AA. I talked to the dispatcher and explained what happened. He said I was in luck as they now offer a refuelling service where they drain the tank and put 10 litres of E10 in. I was interested but not at the £190 they charge for doing it. So I said no thanks and asked to be recovered home. The dispatcher said fine but there maybe a charge for that if the Patrol man has to go and get a trailer to put the bike on. I said there better not be as I already pay for my bikes to be covered. Patrol man turns up after an hour, which I thought was pretty good, and surprisingly he was already equipped with one of those fold out transformer type bike trailers. A fiddle to put together but clever bit of kit. He was a biker, good as gold and offered to drain the tank for me gratis if I signed a disclaimer form. He checked with his control who said he wasn't allowed to do that anymore. Of course not money grabbing B'stards. So he dropped me home and advised me to syphon out the trank, drain the float bowls and let it smoke out with some fresh fuel. Which I did. His off the book advice was that the worse that was going to happen was the carbs/fuel system would have a bit of a flush type passive clean through. Very helpful guy. So now a few weeks later and a fresh tank of fuel and it's running lovely so all ended well. I'm over the embarrassment and annoyance at my stupidity now, enough so to tell you lot about it. Of course my mates haven't mentioned it at every opportunity since. Also still a bit pissed off with the AA's upselling stance when you call them. I pay £20 a month for their service to cover me and the Mrs, bikes included. I expected better. And yes it's the first time I have ever done that

He's alright, just besotted with Shadow. Working and treats her right, all I could ask for at their age.

Pick tells you all. Even has to park his bike behind hers.

That’s probably all you can ever want for your kids really. I have two daughters, I worry about the older one but I worry more about Shadow as she is scary in her focus and singleminded approach. I’m sure she will make a success of whatever she does I just hope it’s not contract killing.

I will talk her into lightening up, just gotta make her think it's her idea.

Fixed it She is only 17, she doesn't know anything about that sort of deviance. She is just an angry little young woman determined to get her own way in everything. He went out with his mates last night and she marched him home, forced him to drink pints of water and take paracetamol then threw him a pillow and blanket and told him to sleep quietly on the sofa. Poor little fucker isn't allowed to breath. And I don't know what she has told him about me cause he wont look and me in the eye.

Tain't good enough for her now she wants a Sports Bike. Some how I have been roped into fixing the boyfriends bike now as well. I don't mind helping him out, he is a good lad, and she is Bullying the fuck out of him Me and the Mrs have been calling him "How High" cause he is jumping on her command.

Took the CBF out for a 90 mile shake down today. Running sweeter than it ever has in my ownership. Also the forks are dry so the seals are holding, shouldn't have been in doubt but on the third attempt doubts creep in.

This video demonstrates why I paid someone to do mine. The Video is of a Yamaha which is Bucket and Shim, my Honda is Shim and Bucket which I think is one step worse.

Just to close this up I ordered two new stanchions from Wemoto. Both of the originals were just to rough so grasped the nettle and sorted it.

Well after much polava the bike is now finished. The second set of fork seals I fitted also leaked and to be honest I sort of knew they were going to the stanchions were just to rough. So I bit the bullet and ordered new stanchions, bushes, oil and a third set of fork seals. Spent several hours fitting it all today. Dry so far but to be honest I will be completely flabbergasted if they leak now it is practically all new out of the box. Hopefully I won't have to touch much until the next oil service now in 5000 miles time. I was going to use my hydraulic cable oiler to do all the cables today but ran out of will in the end. Especially when I managed to blow a fuse changing a sidelight bulb. And guess what I have hundreds of fuses except for the right one for my fucking bike. Off to ebay in a minute. Will have another tinker around tomorrow to button everything up then thinking about a trip to Sammy Millers later in the week, maybe.

I know they were shit high. Most of the bike was like that when I got it, I have been cleaning nooks and crannies for the year I have owned it. Nearly there now . Also part of the reason I got someone else to do it I know it was shit high in there.

Got the bike back yesterday with all the new bearings fitted. Bike feels much better/quieter and steers well. Funny thing was I hadn't realised how much the steering was affected by the bad bearings. Because there wasn't any notch when riding I just didn't notice it deteriorating over time, but there was a noticeable notch when I put the bike on the main stand and moved the front wheel side to side. It feels much better now though and that may also be going from ball race to tapered bearings as well as the old bearings on their way out. Also had a good look at the old bearings, one of the fronts was noisey and two of the three backs were stiff to turn. So it was due time to change the lot.

Busa found, rare high speed footage

Yeah I’m obviously going wrong by not voting for my own bike

That's no so bad given his age and the fact that your tribe lives in the equivalent of Gaza.

I kept a couple of the better shots back so may very well be

It is mate, there are parts of Bodmin moor that are practically never travelled, only 5 miles from the main road but unknown. I would love to live there, just so peaceful and quiet. . You would want a 4x4 though.

Went out for a ride this morning, went to Damerells then Padstow and then followed the A39 (Atlantic Highway FFS) to Camelford then onto Bodmin Moor at Davidstow. Just a stunning place to be. Got lost for 30 minutes or so but knew it was all good when I found St Breward. Onto Blisland then down the A30 to Bodmin.

Especially if the Dildo is in the back of a van