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Sir Fallsalot

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  1. I've been up it from south to north but it stops at the farm didn't look like a through road which is a shame as it is a nice lane
  2. His birthday is tomorrow so i have to survive tonight and talking of possible freedom the wife has taken him to Bristol Uni today to look at a course so he might be living in Bristol for a while
  3. You don't have to go to Spain for that i have a strong welsh accent and whenever i work in north wales people hear my accent and they start speaking to me in welsh and i can see the disappointment on their faces when i say i don't speak it
  4. No its just fields no structure there at all
  5. not seen him in years he sold the bikes as he was having a few health problems but got that under control and as far as i'm aware he's still around and back on the bikes. I did hear he has a CB500 now bought it with over with over 200000 miles on the clock
  6. I'm no expert but this is my understanding of it, honing is just to deglaze the cylinder wall to help the new rings bed in which is usually all you need to do if there's no wear or damage to the nikasil coating. A lot of people say not to ball hone a two stroke cylinder as the balls can catch in the ports just enough to flake the edge of the plating. This can't happen in a steel bore as there is no plating to peel up not sure if there's any truth in this though. Re plating will need to be done if there's damage to the cylinder walls as in scratches you can catch your finger nails in or if the coating has worn out Unfortunately if you want it done properly the following is the only way you need to have a professional determine the bore size and the piston to cylinder clearance and they will advise you on what you need to do whether it be a hone or re plate and what piston or rings to buy if needed
  7. I'm ok but everyone below me is fucked
  8. I see their starting to build electric dirt bikes but keeping the clutch and gearbox which is something I've been bleating on about for a while. i have also read all the major motorcycle manufactures had agreed to use the same battery design so could mean a battery you can swap like you would with a battery power tool making recharging a lot more convenient
  9. Ok Bob will have to fill in the exact location of this one, All i know is It was in 2011 and on a ride through the french/Italian alps with Bob and the rest of the moobs, we had spent a night or two in a small village a great place and real friendly people, when we were leaving it seamed like the whole village had turned up to see us off, as they were waving goodbye it felt like when you see those old films of loved ones being waved off to war on a train station and Freddy boy here pulled off so proudly on his Africa Twin and then ripped the pannier off his bike on a bollard, I turned around to see the horror on everyone's faces but within seconds the attention was off me as Steve pulled off on his KTM and cold stalled stopping dead and falling off, in this commotion i slammed the pannier back on and made a sharp exit, it was like a scene from laurel and hardy
  10. Yes the ride started like this with just a bit of frost on the ground The snow came in heavy when we got to Builth wells which is where we should of turned around and headed home but both decided to head on, when we got to the Elan Valley the heavy snow had stopped so we rode up though it and over the mountain pass from Cwmystwyth to Llangurig by that time it was dark and the temperature had dropped below freezing so we we suffering, by the time we got back to Rhayader we were so cold we decided to book into a B&B and got pissed for the night and headed home in the morning which was even more interesting because the snow had now frozen, good memories of a great weekend
  11. Boys 18th birthday this weekend so i'm the taxi for him and his mates but on a more interesting note when looking for a photo for bike of the month i found some photos of what i was doing on this very day and date in 2010 it was an interesting ride though the Elan Valley on the dog and with my old mate Gary
  12. Yes but in the Rhonda version instead of shagging we beat each other up
  13. I think i like this one for this month
  14. So panic buying and creating the problem for others this weekend then
  15. Funny enough Bob i just put a new Mitas C02 on the back of the dog ready for the mud again
  16. There's some strange birthday gifs on here
  17. Yes lots but it's more a full on race bike than a trail bike. A guy in the TRF has one says he feels beaten up after a day trail riding on it because its too aggressive and prefers his CRF250L for trail riding. its basically the same bike as the CRF450RX my mate traded in for the beta last weekend. Its not the L model that Honda normally produce and never will be because they don't have a road bike that uses a 450cc single cylinder engine
  18. Very poor fueling making it hard work to ride and needs money spent on it to get it to run right, it's also got low service intervals and needs rebuilding after 20000 miles if you go by the book and a £10000 price tag when it came out
  19. Back in the late 80's i had a VFR750 and was having a few problems with it cutting out at random times but it would always get going again, after spending a lot of time trying to find the fault i came to the conclusion it was the CDI but wasn't wiling to spend money i didn't have on something i wasn't 100%sure about so carried on riding it. Anyhow i was riding down to ogmore when the thing cut out but this time it wouldn't restart. so ended up walking miles to a payphone to phone my mate who then had to hire a van off someone he knew to come and get me. The next day after getting it home i tried to start it but it still didn't want to know so started to strip it down, when i went to remove the tank i though hold on this is light, no it cant be i put it back on turned the fuel tap to reserve and the fucking thing fired up my mate then told every fucker
  20. after owning the 650 for a while i decided to take off all the safety switches that would stop it from working if damaged off road, so it was off with the clutch and side stand switch. The next day i was in the petrol station after filling i like to start the bike so it runs when i get my gear back on, I pressed the starter button and the bloody thing was in gear with no safety switches now fitted it drove itself off the side stand and landed on the floor it was up and and i was out of there before anyone could ask if i needed hand
  21. Nothing has ever happened to me like that honest
  22. Yup but i got the non smart one which means i have to operate it myself
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