The Bikeshite Thread

[Dave_Q]

58 minutes ago, Sham said:

The engines won't be that different, neither will the frames and mounting points - presumably you'd just need the UK exhaust system with the emissions control gubbins in to get it approved.

 

You'd have to do an IVA/MSVA unless it was over 10 years old.

I guess to manage the export bit you just ride over the border and tell them you are coming back?

Even if you ended up in the UK with no paperwork at all, you'd still be able to get it registered.

[Jerzy Woking]

Foreigners cannot buy a new bike from a dealer in India. It has to be purchased in the name  name of a resident. This fact can complicate things at border crossings. See Itchy Boots on YouTube on her ride from India to Netherlands.

Nothing stopping you buying a second hand bike out there though.

[MiniMinorMk3]

Random Pic of the Day

[Stinkwheel]

Anyone know the name 'British' Bob Adkin? or remember his really quite quick alcohol powered british bikes based sprint machines at santa pod in the 70's/80's? 

The posts above remind me of his bikes 

[doug]

Guzzi selt. Bringing on first reserve XT600 that I got off @castros_bro over 3 years ago. Mot today no problem. Road tax tomorrow and back on the road.

 

[castros_bro]

1 hour ago, doug said:

Guzzi selt. Bringing on first reserve XT600 that I got off @castros_bro over 3 years ago. Mot today no problem. Road tax tomorrow and back on the road.

 

Bloke I got that from and myself would both be interested if you wish to part with it. 

[doug]

 

4 minutes ago, castros_bro said:

Bloke I got that from and myself would both be interested if you wish to part with it. 

No plans to sell it just now but when I do I will keep you in mind.

 

[Jerzy Woking]

Been watching the videos of La Bresse (France) hillclimb last week. Nutters.

Honda CR1000 2 stroke anyone?

[Dave_Q]

On 8/30/2023 at 3:17 PM, Jerzy Woking said:

Foreigners cannot buy a new bike from a dealer in India. It has to be purchased in the name  name of a resident. This fact can complicate things at border crossings. See Itchy Boots on YouTube on her ride from India to Netherlands.

Nothing stopping you buying a second hand bike out there though.

Kinell that's reminded me of when I went there for work, trying to buy a pay as you go SIM card. 

You needed ID and proof of address to activate it so I brought my passport and messed about getting a letter from the hotel we were staying at, and they still wouldn't accept it as it wasn't on the list. 

Ended up getting a colleague to do it for me with their ID. They do love a bit of bureaucracy there.

[Snake Charmer]

On 8/20/2023 at 9:08 PM, Fat_Pirate said:

Couple of pics from Sammy Miller's museum today, an AJS/Matchless meeting was going on. 

I've got a hankering for an old 50s/60s oily-rag bike I can tinker with and slowly improve, thinking about maybe a Bantam as parts are easy to find?

There you go, ready to ride and oily rags aplenty. 🙂

Available in Woking, belongs to a friend who built it.

[scdan4]

On 8/31/2023 at 11:12 AM, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Random Pic of the Day

That chop's pretty much perfect. Gorgeous looking thing.

[twosmoke300]

The odd couple out on the lanes . 
Few dodgy moments in the mud on the original tyres and the bash plate got its first bashing but overall the 500 is quite enjoyable on the dirt. 
 

[twosmoke300]

Took the other half’s z400 out to take it for its 600 mile service at the local Kwak dealer . All very pleasant until I got back to work with it and realised the chain was bar tight . 
Went back to them and the tech applied far too much force to the chain then said - it’s within the 25-30mm . I replied that if he got a pry bar on it I expect he could get 50mm movement .

Then he tried saying it was because of the new front sprockets with the rubber dampers on . So I said “ oh yeh like Honda have used for about 40 years ? “

Why do people have to bullshit ? Just accept they over adjusted it and apologise .

So they adjusted it again - I was in a hurry to get away to go to a funeral . 
Just noticed the alignment marks are about half a mark out on the adjusters so I guess he just slackened off one side . Jesus wept 

[Sham]

How will they sell you a new chain in a couple of thousand miles if they do the job properly?

I always inspect work these days, especially from main dealers. Too many times bitten to worry about what they think.

It takes a proven record of doing things right for me to trust any garage, but dealers are by far the worst.

[Jerzy Woking]

23 hours ago, twosmoke300 said:

The odd couple out on the lanes . 
Few dodgy moments in the mud on the original tyres and the bash plate got its first bashing but overall the 500 is quite enjoyable on the dirt. 
 

Is the 500 fitted with Dunlop Trailmax D609's? 

They may be fine on dry dirt and gravel tracks, but if the D609's on my NC750X are anything to go by, they rubbish in anything resembling mud.

[twosmoke300]

Yeh got a bit slippy in places 😂

[bezzabsa]

VERY nice, but my back is aching just looking at those bars!!!! 😮

[Fat_Pirate]

Saw this at Netley autojumble (which was pretty poorly attended), this morning:

Fantic Koala, the novelty factor was STRONG.  Apparently only 50cc but it's much bigger than the photo suggests.  I didn't ask about the price in case I did something stupid.

[andyberg]

15 minutes ago, Fat_Pirate said:

Saw this at Netley autojumble (which was pretty poorly attended), this morning:

Fantic Koala, the novelty factor was STRONG.  Apparently only 50cc but it's much bigger than the photo suggests.  I didn't ask about the price in case I did something stupid.

I was going to go. I hear it's not as good as it used to be?

[Fat_Pirate]

2 hours ago, andyberg said:

I was going to go. I hear it's not as good as it used to be?

First time I've been, and it was disappointing - relatively few traders, fewer still punters.  Beaulieu is also on though, maybe it's all gone there.

[Rustybullethole]

On 9/1/2023 at 2:50 PM, Sham said:

How will they sell you a new chain in a couple of thousand miles if they do the job properly?

I always inspect work these days, especially from main dealers. Too many times bitten to worry about what they think.

It takes a proven record of doing things right for me to trust any garage, but dealers are by far the worst.

This is pretty much why i DIY. Never had anything that was main dealer service record reliant to be fair though i like to know exactly what has been done to my (especially motorcycle) as i can guess which lash up has failed better. 

[Cavcraft]

The C200 broke down the other morning. Thought it was fuel, but there was enough in it. Luckily the walk of shame was on a couple of hundred yards and it's not exactly heavy, so was no biggie. It started again later after I arsed about with the fuel tap (the main one doesn't work properly and seems to mostly put fuel through even when off), and bizarrely  enough had ran about the best it ever had prior to conking out.  

Nothing exactly exciting happening with it, just managed to fit a small LED light on the mud flap for a touch more visibility. Annoyingly though, it swings about and dings on the mudguard which is yet another noise to conetend with, along with the exhaust which needs to be bolted on properly. That's actually an arse of a job due to the way the PO mounted it, the back wheel will have to come off. It needs new chain and sprockets anyhow, so might as well do it at the same time and see what state the rear shoes are in.  Current set up is 16T front and 39T rear sprockets,  although the acceleration is reasonable, I'm considering 15/42 (or near as) to try and get a little better cruising speeds.  It'll do 45 (and no doubt more) but is quite vocal and I don't want to blow it up. 

The ultimate plan is a miniature tour of North-Mid Wales, possibly in a day but probably have a stop over half way round. Need to do some sort of longer distance reliability runs  on it really, including a few decent hills. There's a good one about 4 miles from here that's not the longest but is steep enough and there's place not too far from there that climb for quite a way.  There's only 3 gears to play with, so will have to get the balance right.

 

Anyhow, here it is pre-break down the other morning...

 

...and the snazzy* new back light...

 

Not fitted the wind shield yet, will have to get some brackets made up for that somehow. 

[andyberg]

21 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

The C200 broke down the other morning. Thought it was fuel, but there was enough in it. Luckily the walk of shame was on a couple of hundred yards and it's not exactly heavy, so was no biggie. It started again later after I arsed about with the fuel tap (the main one doesn't work properly and seems to mostly put fuel through even when off), and bizarrely  enough had ran about the best it ever had prior to conking out.  

Nothing exactly exciting happening with it, just managed to fit a small LED light on the mud flap for a touch more visibility. Annoyingly though, it swings about and dings on the mudguard which is yet another noise to conetend with, along with the exhaust which needs to be bolted on properly. That's actually an arse of a job due to the way the PO mounted it, the back wheel will have to come off. It needs new chain and sprockets anyhow, so might as well do it at the same time and see what state the rear shoes are in.  Current set up is 16T front and 39T rear sprockets,  although the acceleration is reasonable, I'm considering 15/42 (or near as) to try and get a little better cruising speeds.  It'll do 45 (and no doubt more) but is quite vocal and I don't want to blow it up. 

The ultimate plan is a miniature tour of North-Mid Wales, possibly in a day but probably have a stop over half way round. Need to do some sort of longer distance reliability runs  on it really, including a few decent hills. There's a good one about 4 miles from here that's not the longest but is steep enough and there's place not too far from there that climb for quite a way.  There's only 3 gears to play with, so will have to get the balance right.

 

Anyhow, here it is pre-break down the other morning...

 

...and the snazzy* new back light...

 

Not fitted the wind shield yet, will have to get some brackets made up for that somehow. 

You are the HMC of the bike world on here without the selling, just buying! 

[Rustybullethole]

On 8/30/2023 at 12:30 PM, Stinkwheel said:

This is amazing news, do you feel a buy new in India and ride back caper coming on?

So sounds like buying new and spending ten years riding home is a good plan. 

[twosmoke300]

19 hours ago, 83C said:

That the place in Lanner?

Yeh 

[Rustybullethole]

Family down at a caravan in Romney marsh si went to join then Friday after am early finish. Hot footed in as fat as Ashford (well luke warm footed it but you get the idea). From there I found some lanes and meandered literally across country not necessarily in the right direction though was lovely.

Fish and chip supper then a day in the beach

Similar deal in the way back in reverse. None of these lanes ive rode before so was all a treat. 

Did the purple bit on way down and the red on way home. 

Need to work (spend) on the suspension and either accept that the exhaust is a consumable item or find a better skid plate though heading in the right direction with this one I feel.

 

 

 

[twosmoke300]

I’ve always seen front pipes as consumables on any dirt bike tbh 

[Rustybullethole]

4 hours ago, twosmoke300 said:

I’ve always seen front pipes as consumables on any dirt bike tbh 

Words of wisdom there thanks. Three sets of headers ko'd in the old cb and only took that off road a bit! Once the abs bollocks goes in the bin and i've mashed the down pipe i can route a high level through the frame ala proper dirt bike too. 

Proper bash guard on the cards mind as engine could do a bit more protection. I will case it into logs, rocks and indeed anything blocking my way. 

Hand guards/bar risers/proper renthals/and suspension to dod though for now petrol and a chain and sprox sooner rather than later is all it will get. Oh and an mot as thats out in three days.

[Dave_Q]

We found that CB500F we were looking for for my wife.

Honda fans will spot that it erm isn't. We struggled with every passable looking CB being Darn Sarf and this came up in Leeds. Bought from a nice man who put a new test on it and it's had tyres, chain and sprockets in the last year.

As it's above the A2 limits it needed restricting, check out the £65.79 restrictor kit*

Yes that really is just a laser cut plate that stops you opening the throttle past about half way.

The bike was being sold by a chap who'd had it as his First Big Bike and now needed something faster as his missus had a CBR600RR and he couldn't have a slower bike than her.

I have no such qualms about the size of my penis so if we do go out together, I'll probably be on my Grom.

[Iamgroot]

My mates got one of those (not restricted) and to be fair it goes well and loves a corner.

The restriction kit for my CBF would have been washers on the carb rubbers, I've still got the certificate for when I sell it on, handily.