My motorbike got wet

Now it wont go very well.

It rained on it while I was going along and then it started to cough. I
thought it was the petrol so I twisted the tap onto reserve, like my friend
in India told me to, to see if I was low on petrol.

The spluttering is still there.

I have tried drying it out with my cousins hairdryer on the engine and
around the sparking plug but there is no change.

Would the engine need removing for looking at?

I am not that clever with engines, but I know a man that is and he might be
able to help.

Has anyone got any ideas please?

It's a CG125 and has one sparking plug.

 

It may be fuel vapour lock. Remove the petrol cap and burn off any excess
vapour with a lit match or cigarette lighter, then get back to us and let us
know if that made any difference. If it didn't, we may have other
suggestions.

 

Put it in the bottom oven of your Aga. Works every time.

 

I ask for sensible replies from people that might understand such technical
things.

All I get is nonsense.

Are you *all* inbreeds or just plain thick?

I need some help here and I don't seem to get any...Perhaps the question was
too technical and I should resort to asking my friend in India again as he
is far more clued-up than you appear to be.

 

Do that. And ask him for a pint of lager and some more puppadoms, while
you're at it.

Oh, and a side helping of sag aloo.

 

I've go an airbrush made by Sagaloo. It doesn't appear to be in any food
groups that I know of though.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

That's a fucking serious bit of improvement in your English over your first
post in this thread Mt Furriner. It almost seems like it could've been
written by a native of these lands, but that couldn't be the case, could it?


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Drain the curry from the auxiliary tank and make sure your turban isn't
fouling the air intake.

You're about as Indian as I am, you fraud.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:32:04 -0000, "Rajabin" <Rajabin

You're rumbled, son. Try again when you have less time.

 

Yes, yes it's only got one sparking plug, but it's a *four* stroke
engine and it sounds to me (and I have 15 years of experience of
broken motorbikes) like one of your strokes has fallen you out.

IIRC it's normally stroke 4 that works loose and drops out on the CG
because it's the one on the end, and that will cause the symptoms you
desrcibe.

Your options are:

1. Buy a new stroke from your local dealer. If possible go to a
Kawasaki dealer rather than a Honda one because Kwak strokes are
bigger and will deliver more power. However new strokes are expensive
and most dealer will try to con you in to buying a new bike. You're
best bet is to walk right in to the dealers and tell them, in your
best comedy Indian accent, "I no want new bike. I give you £200, you
give me stroke 4 my piston!"

2. You could try to get a spare stroke from a scrapped bike. Bike
breakers in the UK can easily be judged by how rough they look and how
big a dog they have guarding the place - the bigger the dog and the
rougher looking the owner the better the chance they have the parts
you need. So find the roughest looking bloke with the meanest looking
dog and explain to him that you're after a 2nd hand stroke and willing
to pay top money.

3. Try retracing your route and see if you can find the stroke lying
in the road. It may be slightly dented, but you can hammer them out.
If anybody asks you what you're doing explain about the stroke and
your plan to beat one out.

4. The final option is to simply take another stroke out of your bike
to make it a 2-stroke. Stroke 1 is the easiest to take out (because
it's at the other end to stroke 4) and you should be able to get £50
for it on eBay. Once your bike is a 2-stroke make sure to run it on
oil and not petrol. Just fill your petrol tank with the most
expensive oil from your local garage (it's false economy to use cheap
oil) and then crank it over until it's working properly.

Hope this helps.

 

To paraphrase wot I heard on the wireless the other day: "Welcome to
Britain. Mind the gap."

 

"Welcome to the newsgroup. Mind the cunts."

 

That would be the gap between reality and technical answers in this
newsgroup I expect.