What would you do?

You're 850 miles from home, and you realise that the funny noise you
can hear is being caused by the tyre rubbing on the inside of the
swing-arm.

Do you?

a: return to the mother-in-law and attempt a repair?
b: phone Carole Nash International Rescue?
c: smear some grease on the tyre and ride it home?
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a) if there's time on my hands and it's a weekday so all the factors are
open.
b) if a) is not true.
c) **** no.

 

@news.zen.co.uk:

of course not, fitting a Scottoiler would be much more efficient

 

Abandon the bike and carry on for a weekend on the piss then worry
about it later.

Worked for me when my 9R decided to eat it's swinging arm.

 

Yebbut was it rubber grease or just common or garden?

 

<raises hand>

Top quality silicon grease, too.

It's all over the rhs of the tyre now. Bloody centrifugal wossname.

Wasn't a problem, really: over 70, with the stereo on, I could barely
hear it.
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Er, if he was on the 'wing?

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whoosh

 

But then you'd have to grow up all over again.

Oh, wait, I get it now...

 

Smear some grease on Carole Nash and ride her till the MiL comes home.
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GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

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

 

So what was wrong? You've had time to look at it by now.

 

.... but not the inclination.

I suspect it's the standard "swing arm reinforcement gone rusty and
expanded" problem.

It's easily solved, either by taking a bfo hammer to it, or fitting
the new swing-arm that's sitting on the shelf in the garage.

That'll be after re-acquiring a clutch on the Blackbird.
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| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/CBX1000Z
|_\_____/_| ..93550../..25068.../..31928.
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 WG*
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 PM#5
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 YTC#4 two#11
'^' RBR Clues: 69 Pts:0960 Miles:3899

 

File away some of the swinging arm to give the tyre more clearance.

 

Just dump it in the out-tray.