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Last pictures of it finished. Only a little tinkering around but it keeps me entertained and helps preserve the bike. Also helps use up all the fecking silver wheel paint I bought Before After

Washed out the vinegar Wire brushed Painted

The scale is different in the US and Canada, you can travel for hours and not see much apart from the highway. They aren't as tightly packed in as us.

Tis working

I have a spare with 291 miles on it . Look up the thread

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.