Sir Fallsalot

Where's the photos

I was thinking how it compares to my old 650 which holds 1.8L of oil and has to be changed every 2000 mile but try to do it every 1000 mile as it has a hard life

@XTreme do you know how much engine oil it takes and how long the service intervals are yet

I did manage to drag myself out of bed and change the oil and filter on the 650 today, I also got the forks off flushed them out and refilled with new oil. It was a mess in there i fitted new fork bushes 2000 miles ago and this was the first oil change i think i should have done it earlier like you do with a new engine. There was literally no damping from the forks and thought i might have to strip the forks right down to see what's going on but the new oil has made a huge difference. This is a little story of why i wanted to check the forks out The last time i was out on the bike i was motoring along a mountain track i know well, there is a big dip from subsidence on it which i usually just fly over with no problem, there were some kids standing by the dip this day talking, they were up there on their little dirt bikes, great time for a pose i thinks so i kept the gas on going over the dip when i landed i just about bottomed out front and rear suspension as i normally do but this time carried on with a power wheelie as i rode along the track, must have looked cool from where the kids were standing. But on board the bike was a different story the 650 doesn't have enough go in it for power wheelies and what really happened was after compressing the front end it rebounded so fast the front end catapulted into the air where i was doing my best to keep on the the bloody thing and kept going so the kids didn't see the look of fear in my face LOL

I have found with screens bigger isn't always better, my CRF1000 had terrible buffeting with the standard screen, i tried a bolt on adjustable thingy and it made it much better but it was splitting my view which i didn't like so put a short screen on mainly for looks and was surprised it stopped all the buffeting i now get a clean wind blast which is much better

I honestly cant remember @boboneleg i think it was the standard 5w. I have a gallon of fork oil up the shed and whatever weight that is I'll be using

Tomorrow I'll probably change the engine oil and filter on the 650 and maybe rebuild the front forks see what's going on in there after fitting heavier springs a while ago

Nope I've been working from home all week, luckily I've let the office side of my job pile up as its been so busy on site and used this week to clear it, after this week i think if i hadn't had this time at home i would never of caught up with it. I thought i could see the light at the end of the tunnel today but it turned out it was some fucker with a torch bringing me more work

So it came off ok then

Weather is looking good here to but no good to me as I'm in quarantine for another week, So if i start typing more incoherent shit than normal the lock in is getting to me lol

Got to say you never lube throttle tubes it creates a paste that wears things out and makes the throttle action slow. Also the same with cables modern cables are Teflon lined and are self lubricating if the cables are stiff throw them away and buy new ones

Don't it work like this at 1.35

What's his address I'm going to get the wife to cough in an envelope and send it to him

That will work as well

sand it back and try some vinyl wrap on it

My Daughter has no symptoms at all the wife is still suffering but hard to tell if its the normal moaning or something new

All test results back now, me and the boy both tested negative but my daughter came back positive so looks like its the women in the family who are riddled with disease LOL

I cant think of one bike i owned that i would have done this to, even my brothers ETZ125 i used for a year or two to commute to work was worth saving. But the little prick scrapped it without asking me if i wanted it

Thanks Bob she seems to be getting over it now

https://www.advpulse.com/adv-news/rider-destroys-his-yamaha-tenere-700-due-to-government-red-tape/?fbclid=IwAR37T2SkQLXcfk_O9C3-QVQQ0Z8Lezo4VFD4pG_9cXsR2wQeN9-nocGB68A

Well that's the million dollar question, i have heard the test can't tell the difference between covid and a virus you already have such as the flu how true that is i don't know. so we're all off work now

Nope nothing from me or the kids only the wife, she has had a really bad flu all week, she had a test on Wednesday and it came back positive. The hospital she works in had been on the news lately with a lot of new cases (royal Glamorgan) Because she works there the family can get a test without having symptoms. I'm only having the test because work asked me to see if i could get it because it could impact the site i work on but i think its pointless as the test only says you have or haven't got the virus the day you took the test not when you got it or how long you've had it

Well I'm now on total lockdown the wife's got covid. tests for me and the kids today

I want the bike he's inspecting because he missed the other 100,000