Today I.

scared myself silly on a bend in the wet.

Sulk.

 

I'm sulking too. took the turbo for an MOT.

got to the end of the road and realised it needed air in the tyres
(only pumped up last week) as it was cornering like a BARGE.

got to the garage, topped up with air, realised an indicator wasn't
working.

got to the MOT station, replaced the bulb, didn't work, got Andy to
fix the wiring.

it then failed the MOT on the anti dive appearing to be on all the
time.

I'm beginning to think the damn thing is cursed.

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Easily done. Practice helps.

 

Bugger off, then I'll end up wishing for rainy periods to practice in,
and that is NOT a healthy mindset.

I'm almost tempted to get a couple of lessons in the rain if that's
possible to do.

 

Sounds good to me. Let the weather dictate whether your ride is fun in
the dry or, as Champ would say, twice the fun at half the speed in the
wet.

I'm sure it is.

 

It failed because it's using up all bar about the last inch of fork
movement before you even consider braking. The mechanic in the
workshop next door suggested the anti-dive *can* cause an identical
problem and the quickest way to eliminate it from any fault finding is
to remove it and blank off the ports.

The only thing I found wrong when we were at home was that it had
absolutely no air in the forks which means the initial pre-load was
missing.

I suspect it's a combination of incorrect fork oil level and no air
because if the anti-dive was sticking on then the forks wouldn't be
sagging.

I think that Adie's asked Lozzo to have a quick look at it but if I
had any time spare I'd check that the oil level is correct, stick a
couple of 1" spacers on top of the springs to load them up a bit and
blank off the anti-dive. They're forks ffs, not jet engines.

 

If the anti-dive is on all the time this could translate as not having
any fork travel which would be a reason to fail.

However, anti-dive forks should not be tested with the brake applied.
The front wheel should be placed against a solid object (like a wall) to
test the damping.

 

That's what he did.

He was very apologetic about having to fail it but he was concerned
that with most of the fork travel being awol hitting a bump mid corner
could spit Adie off the bike.

I'm pretty certain it'll be easy to fix but I've only got two days off
before we head to Chimay so I can't even start to look at sorting it
out.

 

It's wet your way? Fucking gorgeous over here.

 

Cool, I seem to have got it right.

 

Sure is, spinning up the rear in the wet at speed is desperately
little 'fun' too.

Wet leaves in the autumn are even better as the bike kicks out
disconcertingly at the same time.

P.

 

Ooh. Did madam get the arse end all waggly with the rear wheel going
all spinny? Good innit? After, not during, obviously.

I'm definitely not used to a working clutch on the Wing.

In its defence, it was over a white line, in the rain.

In my defence, I was riding like I'd stolen it.

 

# Welcome to my world ...

 

Madam did not. Madam was on a medium throttle at about 40mph, felt a
twitch as if the front had slipped an inch or so and like a moron, she
shut the throttle. Schoolgirl error by all accounts.
I don't think er5s DO spinny.

 

Eh? What about that run from Sedan to Verdun?