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Welcome Niall, great choice for a first bike (wish I’d chosen Ducati all those years ago), what are your thoughts on the bike?
[ATTACH] The only 2 stroke I have now is a 1955 James Captain 197, bought it for my 84 year old father to ride around his garden and tinker with,...
Yes, one big problem is getting decent quality points, most sets are pattern and of lower quality than they used to be, occasionally NOS ones...
The only issue I had with mine was constantly having to mess with the points, if I’d kept it I’d have fitted electronic ignition.
Motorbatt AGM are very good, someone above said it might be difficult to access the battery with the fairings on?, as I’m sure you know it’s easy...
You may have already checked but it’s worth taking the silencers off and baffles out to check for carbon build up, mine came with silencers like...
It would be fine, but even better would be Motul 7100 15w50 https://www.opieoils.co.uk/c-784-15w50-motorcycle-engine-oil.aspx
Once you have gotten used to the rattle you’ll like it, the main thing to remember is that it doesn’t mean anything is worn, it’s absolutely...
Blimey, I’ve been nuked again and it wasn’t even Chizel that did it this time :0, somebody called Dave Slevin, never heard of him!
Btw, if you look carefully at the diagram in my previous post you’ll see that the “O” ring seals between the plates so trying to get chain lube...
[ATTACH] Motul Road C2 is the best I’ve found so far, goes on thin so stands a chance of getting into the rollers and it hardly flings, its clear...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I had one of those until a couple of years ago, great little bike, front brake is hopeless by modern standards though,...
Fireblade would make my wrists ache from Monday to Friday , then I’d get back on it at the weekend and start the cycle off again, did that for 2...
Welcome, 22500 you say, only another 60000 before there’s any appreciable wear in the motor then!.
What a stunningly beautiful machine, definitely a design classic, how does it handle with only three wheels?
Thanks Sam, I’ll have a look later, out on the M900 at mo for a bit of old school charm.
There’s nothing wrong with slow Steve, interspersed with moments of quick for a tad of adrenaline the back to slow before the inevitable happens...
Rotten luck, get well soon.
Yes particularly painful on the ear when you hit a circular recess at just the wrong angle and it whistles at around 800 decibels!
Animal! :)
