... it wasn't the stroker ...
No, no bins involved. Sudden and catastrophic failure of XS electrics. Traced, after an hour in the fucking freezing fog this morning, to a broken inline fuse holder. Fuseholder replacement under way following coffee and fags. ****, it's cold.
That'll be the vibration, that will. Nice big 650cc 360 degree vertical twin, with none of them fancy balancer shafts. You don't actually feel the vibes much as a rider because everything, but everything, is rubber mounted. Bars, seat, footpegs.... Nice one. What do you think of the XS, btw? It is indeed. I've got to give Jamie some riding tuition today. he passed his CBT yesterday. Yay!
That'll be the vibration, that will. Nice big 650cc 360 degree vertical twin, with none of them fancy balancer shafts. You don't actually feel the vibes much as a rider because everything, but everything, is rubber mounted. Bars, seat, footpegs....[/QUOTE] There is indeed a profusion of rubber mounts. The vibes were not to blame in this case - it was FAP. Fat Arse Problems. The fuseholder containing a 20amp fuse on the primary power line had been squashed under the seat, against the battery cover, The spring-loaded contact could not then press against the end of the fuse and a gap appeared, cutting power completely. Fucker to find, easy to fix. 'S a cruiser. Sounds awful, to my inline-four-accustomed ears - has a nice exhaust note, though. Good lad. Credit to him for sticking at it and making a go of it - especially at this time of year.
I seem to remember that they made a lovely "Blat-blat-blat" noise when the throttle was opened wide. Not ridden one for about 20-25 years...
Blimey, they're stripping it already? The front brake needs attention, I'm sure. They were never *that* bad. Well, just got back from a nice quiet disused industrial estate where he'd been going round and round the block. Apart from one lap when he went into the corner *way* too fast, and drifted onto the wrong side of the road, he was pretty good. He wants to take the bike to scool tomorrow but I've vetoed it because (a) if the weather is like it was last night and this morning, it'll be bloody icy and (b) I don't have faith in his ability to cope with London rush-hour traffic yet. We called it a day when my teeth started chattering at around 4pm, and came home, and he insisted on doing another couple of laps round our block, with a huge shit-eating grin on his face.
Strange that. I've absolutely no desire to see either of mine on an underpowered moped. I'd also be happy if they never rode a motorbike in their lives; I'll take them pillion happily but I really don't want to have the worry from my children that I put my parents through (with regards to motorbikes.)
Champ said... The first time my dad caught me pulling wheelies on my bicycle he took it off me and make me walk everywhere for a month. When I caught my son doing the same I taught him how to keep the front wheel up.
Actually, I feel much the same way. For his birthday, he had the choice of the DT or a computer. He chose the DT.
Champ wrote The pride is little more than selfish glee knowing that the achievement might, just might, help them earn enough of a living to **** off somewhere else and earn it. Nothing more. The *real* pleasure comes when they actually do.
(The Older Gentleman) wrote in Well, I didn't give my daughter the choice. And next time around I'll consider a car but there's no way I'd look at a bike. I mean, those 125s barely move and traffic's so fast these days. She can do direct access once I'm dead.
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, The Older Stripping? It's stripped mate. It's not too bad, but I'll let Hog and Lozzo give the full SP. My workshop smells of two-strokes. :^) -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - There are few things in life more sinister than a public toilet with the lid closed. WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big" Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000
Wicked Uncle Nigel said... It came apart easily, far too easily in fact. The reason why the RD nipped up on the M25 was apparent once we got it in the workshop - the right spark plug was finger tight and the left one was winding itself out....ooops. It was running fine and wasn't making any untoward noises, so I didn't suspect a thing. Added to this was a huge split in the right hand silencer joining rubber and you've got a recipe for disaster. Far too many of the screws and bolts holding casings and other items onto the engine were no more than finger tight, someone was obviously paranoid about stripping threads. The whole job of stripping the engine was made relatively easy by this, and the fact that I own a proper clutch holding tool, which meant that things like the primary drive nut, clutch centre nut and front sprocket were a doddle to remove. How it made it back from Surrey to Bedfordshire without blowing up completely is anyone's guess. Damage to the engine is limited to one piston which has a melted crown but it hasn't yet holed itself, the crank has far too much sideplay on both rods at the big-ends but the big-ends are not noticeably worn. On the gearbox side of things we discovered a semi circular section of metal sitting in the bottom of the cases, christ only knew where it came from. We search high and low through the box looking for missing bearing retaining sectioons and circlips to no avail, until Hog took a look through the Yamaha parts book I supplied and compared each gear cluster to the diagrams. He eventually found where it had come from, it was meant to hold the 6th gear from sliding up and down the shaft. As it was the 6th gear was sliding so far that it was trying to engage on the other side with the 5th gear, hence the horrible jumping effect it gave. At some point this offending circlip had caught itself square between two gears as there was a perfect indentation in it that corresponded exactly with the width of the gear teeth. On examination the gear engagement dogs and teeth look perfectly useable with no work needed there. Hog decided to have the cases vapour blasted, so we stripped everything off them and started a shopping list. obviously it starts with a full crank rebuild, new seals and gaskets and a set of pistons and bore hone. More will undoubtedly be added as we go. As is right and proper -- Lozzo GSX-R1000 K1, GPZ500S, GSF600W BOTAFOT#57/70a, BOTAFOF#57, MIB#22, TCP#7, ANORAK#9, DIAABTCOD#14, UKRMT5BB, IBW#013, MIRTTH#15a/16, BotToS#8, GP#2, SBS#10, SH#3, DFV#14, BONY#9, OMF#18.
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lozzo Well, some bits put up a fight. Which was nice, because we got to play with some of my slightly more advanced tools. LH drill bits, you gotta love them... Fortunately, I've forgotten all about spotting the missed crankcase bolt, so no one else will ever know why the cases wouldn't part at first try. Ahem. Ho yuss. <wanders out for a quick surreptitious sniff> -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - There are few things in life more sinister than a public toilet with the lid closed. WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big" Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000
