Praise the mighty ACF50

I've just cleaned the bike as much as I could before it got dark and
it's cleaned up really well. I'd blathered it in ACF50 before leaving
but looking at the state of it when I got home I doubted if it would
have survived without some kind of damage but first impression is that
it's fine.

The same can be said for Scottoiler's low temperature chain lube. I've
given the chain a wipe over with some paraffin on a rag and it looks
like new again. Even though they'd said the oil was good to about -20c
it had frozen in the bottle when I went to top the reservoir up at
Grong on the way back so I wasn't sure if it would have made it to the
chain but my fears were without foundation.

Admittedly I had to turn the dial up to prime to keep things moving
when it was really cold but that's only a minor detail so I'm well
chuffed. We'll be filing our reports to Scottoiler in the next week or
so and I'd expect them to be selling the new oil next winter so when
you decide to go out in the cold and use the thinner oil you'll know
who tested it for you.

Now who can I blag things from next?

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14379133/ns/technology_and_science-science/

 

I'm not here to sort out your problems.

 

Ranulph Fiennes?

 

I used GT85 on my BMW F800GS for a whole winter, it never got washed once,
just blathered it on after every days riding. I did it from Oct to March &
used the bike pretty much every day.

I cleaned it to sell it & it came up just like new, the only corrosion on
the whole bike was the inside of the chain.

I found the ACF stuff too claggy to apply in awkward areas.

That F365 stuff is utter shit though.

 

It's fucking good shit is ACF 50. I've used it since I first heard of it and
I wouldn't consider using anything else (Snotoiler 36 being its biggest
competitor)

Gibson, Fender and Martin would be my choice.

 

I've used F(S)365 for the last couple of years of winter riding and
it's done a great job.

 

I overlooked Waxoyling the Armstrong before we left [1] but after I
changed the tyres to non-studded yesterday I jetwashed it at Sainsburys.

Looks exactly the same as it did before we left - albeit now with a
stumpy mudguard.

Hail the preserving qualities of Nato Green.


[1] I use my petrol stove for warming the can of Waxoyl - discovered the
jets were blocked so got sidetracked getting the stove running rather
than waxoyling the bike.

 

<snip>

Cleaned mine up yesterday too, took bloody ages. A little damage to the
paintwork on the tank panels from the bags rubbing against them I guess
and some to the pannier racks er... due to the surfing activities
mostly.

Apart from that it cleaned up well and is now back on lovely Tourances.

Top tip; the radiator core was full of salt, had to jet wash it to clear
it.

And, interestingly, the radiator is marked 'KTM'. How strange.

What a trip.

 

Was it made by them, or is that simply what you spelled out in the salt
with your pressure washer?

 

I spent ages trying to get the crud out of the radiator yesterday and
now I've had another look in daylight it's still clogged. Ah well,
time to go and spend some of my hard earned cash on a pressure
cleaner.

It looks like there's a lot of shit caught under the skid plate and
around the shock linkages and I can't be bothered to spend all day
stripping it down so cash is the only answer.

Indeed.

 

Made by them. Must look at another to double check. Not sure why it
matters.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Andy Bonwick

There's one here that you're more than welcome to borrow.

 

I've been meaning to buy a new one for ages so it was a good excuse but
thanks for the offer.

 

"The mature human brain cells were extracted from epilepsy patients
and coaxed into other types of brain cells in a lab."

Coaxed. An interesting choice of words. Did they offer free beer and
pretzels? A naked hottie? A political appointment?

 

KTM supply a number of manufacturers with coolers, such as Triumph.

--
Veggie Dave
http://www.iq18films.co.uk

"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim
that Jesus was not born of a virgin." Cardinal Bellarmine

 

it's the outer plastic sheath that makes it possible to achieve such
penetration.

 

ISTR XR660s are made in Italy at the Belgarda factory, so some parts
would be sourced in Europe.

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Inter-Continental Hyperbolistic Missile , CBR600F-W racebike
in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)

 

even Jap made Yams have some European sourced[1] parts. My TDM850 had a
rear master cyclinder made by Brembo. Does Yamaha still use Ohlins, since
the Swedes bought most of it back?

[1] and then outsourced to China by Brembo, probably

 

Plenty of current Yamahas have that same Brembo rear master cylinder,
the R1 and R6 used it for years from the very first models. I don't see
any current Yamaha road bike using Ohlins suspension, but their race
teams still do.

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Inter-Continental Hyperbolistic Missile , CBR600F-W racebike
in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)