Sir Fallsalot

Aber mag rally in Aberaeron. hic! Buuurrp

Good sky here tonight and no Pete I didn’t use photoshop

And so it begins

Nice one Bob i haven't done those, in years this one they are trying to close

It's not rape if he gives himself willingly

MOT on the dog ran out today, i won't be able to get it done until a week today.

I wanted to put a laughing emoji on that for the bus comment but couldn't because it's quite disturbing, Just seen it on the news and they showed a picture of a man they want to find, when i saw it my response to the wife was why am i not surprised

There was talk of type approval being forced on us here in the UK years ago but luckily it didn't happen

Did you find them outside a bike shop asking for a friend

At least the scooters are running

What about this one then its for sale £6k what a bargain

Slowly

Yes I can see the resemblance

Photo's

I want to know what you were doing to it for it to end up like that i have a cheap vice in work and haven't broke it yet, blatant abuse in my opinion

Looks like the Autobots gang raped the 1250 and this is the abomination that got shat out

And when it was dirty he always made sure it had a good wash

I've seen Bob take that bike places i was thinking twice about taking my XR

I've had what i thought was a flat spot off idle for some time now on the XR, tried re-jetting but made no difference and it's put me off riding the bike as its a bit jerky to ride on the slow stuff could never remember it having this issue in the past. The flat spot seemed worse when going down hill with a closed throttle and it suddenly dawned on me what the problem might be, so Yesterday i decided to take a look at the carb, i have a spare carb for the bike off an earlier model so dug that out to compare and after inspecting that carb my thoughts on the issue seemed to make sense, so last night i fitted the spare carb and took it for a test ride, sure enough the problem has gone, so you want to know what i think it was well the original carb has an unknown mileage on it and the throttle slide or carb body is worn so when closing the throttle the vacuum created by the engine was pulling on the throttle slide which was making it stick closed so you had to twist the grip harder to break it free making it feel like a flat spot lovely and smooth again now just like i remember, Had to do some fine tuning with the jetting tonight the older carb runs larger jets than the carb off my bike and it feels a bit more responsive. Another test ride tomorrow night as its pissing down tonight.

Unlike Bobs bike lol

Check the seals are good this caused premature failing of one wheel bearing on my Africa Twin it was letting water in

Great didn't want to know why he wasn't here just wanted to know he was still going

I only use E5 petrol which has 5% Ethanol, the E10 has 10% Ethanol. I read somewhere the older version of E5 could contain up to 5% ethanol but but not all of it did but now it does have 5% which shows when the bike is left for a while. The bike will still run on the same fuel that was in the tank it doesn't go off as in your engine wont run on it,

Only since this new fuel came out

No i haven't not sure if that will help or not the pilot jets are really small so doesn't take much for them to gum up, it doesn't happen on the XR or the dog and they have been left just as long on times