Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[Snake Charmer]

53 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Sunshine, café, railways and cars.........

😎 Just need a couple of planes in there!

[Zelandeth]

...And I as usual completely failed to realise this was on.  Probably because I look at Facebook about three times a month.

[Six-cylinder]

It is nearly spring and a young man’s thoughts turn to Pink Scooters!

Yes, I am now the owner of a pink scooter and I am very grateful to @catsinthewelder for organising it. At the very least it will provide spares for the black Direct Bikes 125cc already at the FoD.

The question is can we make it run?

I have been thinking about dates for the FoD this year and for early season opener 26/27 March seems a good start if the weather will cooperate.

[Crackers]

Tasteful.

[richardmorris]

16 minutes ago, Crackers said:

Tasteful.

One word for it.

[beko1987]

The question is can we make it run?

I'm sure that question gets asked about all the bikes all the time 🤔

@hairnetknows about bikes, he used to ride one. He'll sort it

[AnthonyG]

Up for a late March meet if the weather co-operates. Can’t promise to fix the scooter though! 

[bub2006]

Snap except mine is black. Very comfy little scooter. Mines the 152 gy6 engine and 125. Have a fair bit of knowledge on these gy6 lumps. Parts and tuning bits are readily available. As standard they are rathe restricted by small carb,inlet manifold and exhaust. Also some have smaller valves. 

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, bub2006 said:

Snap except mine is black. Very comfy little scooter. Mines the 152 gy6 engine and 125. Have a fair bit of knowledge on these gy6 lumps. Parts and tuning bits are readily available. As standard they are rathe restricted by small carb,inlet manifold and exhaust. Also some have smaller valves. 

We could make it pink fairly easily... 

[Six-cylinder]

1 hour ago, bub2006 said:

Snap except mine is black. Very comfy little scooter. Mines the 152 gy6 engine and 125. Have a fair bit of knowledge on these gy6 lumps. Parts and tuning bits are readily available. As standard they are rathe restricted by small carb,inlet manifold and exhaust. Also some have smaller valves. 

The current one we have at the FoD is black if a bit of a Frankenstein!

125cc feels fast across our field! 

[bub2006]

38 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

We could make it pink fairly easily... 

No...

[bub2006]

12 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

The current one we have at the FoD is black if a bit of a Frankenstein!

125cc feels fast across our field! 

They are good for around 60 anyway. Windscreen aids aerodynamics especially with a slightly* larger chap like me on board. 

[Six-cylinder]

43 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

We could make it pink fairly easily... 

This is what Mrs6C wants done to our black one!

[Six-cylinder]

1 hour ago, bub2006 said:

Snap except mine is black. Very comfy little scooter. Mines the 152 gy6 engine and 125. Have a fair bit of knowledge on these gy6 lumps. Parts and tuning bits are readily available. As standard they are rathe restricted by small carb,inlet manifold and exhaust. Also some have smaller valves. 

My aim for this year is to do my CBT and start riding my Aprilia 125cc on the road, fair weather only you understand.

[bub2006]

Thats the thing when you have a car licence. You can pick and choose what to use and when to ride. Before I passed my test I worked in care,domiciliary, nursing and brain injury and I had to use a bike in all weather.

[chaseracer]

On 25/02/2022 at 22:13, richardmorris said:

That would have been the executive package. Sadly you went for the Arfur daily aftercare deal.

Is that roughly equivalent to the world-famous @Cavcraft 'line-of-sight' warranty? 😀

[catsinthewelder]

Chris isn't even getting that with this one.

[Six-cylinder]

Round 2 of get the BX out ready to take for MOT took place yesterday afternoon. Once again @slowsilver was harnessed to help and did his tight squeezing into a car trick and then got the BX to breath in to get it out!

The only issue was my new rechargeable tyre pump was saying the pressure not attached to a tyre was 50+ psi and would not add air to an obviously low tyre. This morning it is reading 0 psi at rest again.

The number plates are a treat for @LightBulbFun  The BX was pre registered by Citroen UK and retains it's original number plates from Sep 1992.

[hairnet]

Who is the old man trying to steal the hubcaps

[hairnet]

You can do this with cbt

[Six-cylinder]

27 minutes ago, hairnet said:

You can do this with cbt

I was thinking more about riding to Buckingham, Milton Keynes if the weather is beautiful!

[hairnet]

5 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

I was thinking more about riding to Buckingham, Milton Keynes if the weather is beautiful!

421 I'd be avoiding on a.scoot

[Six-cylinder]

3 minutes ago, hairnet said:

421 I'd be avoiding on a.scoot

Even a 125cc?

Also as it is an Aprilia they will realise it is a race winner!

[wuvvum]

Given the average speed of traffic on that stretch of the 421 I would have thought a 125cc scooter would be fine - an Aprilia should be able to buzz along at 60.  Not sure I'd want to tackle the MK roundabouts on it mind.

[hairnet]

On 3/3/2022 at 9:25 AM, Six-cylinder said:

fair weather only you understand.

 

100% will buy you a handbag 

[hairnet]

On 3/4/2022 at 9:48 AM, Six-cylinder said:

I was thinking more about riding to Buckingham, Milton Keynes if the weather is beautiful!

google dromara destroyers

also there are people that do what ive done there on c90s

you have no excuse

smallest bike entered last year was a ct90

[Six-cylinder]

11 minutes ago, hairnet said:

google dromara destroyers

also there are people that do what ive done there on c90s

you have no excuse

smallest bike entered last year was a ct90

Yes I did google it as I didn't have a clue what you where referring too.

[Six-cylinder]

21 minutes ago, hairnet said:

100% will buy you a handbag 

Where will I hang it it?

[hairnet]

5 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Where will I hang it it?

ACTUAL FUCK!?!??!?!?!?!

[richardmorris]

45 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Where will I hang it it?

Own up. Is that a recent photo?