Motorcycle Forum / Country Specific / Classic (UK Group) / September 2004

Got me new battery for the Trident on Wednesday.  It's exactly the same
make (Yuasa) and model (forget) as the old one, though the box had Honda
printed on it.  Turns the engine over very nicely now. I hadn't realised
how knackered the old battery was.  In fact when I last used the ...

I'd like to post these lyrics to the one I love...
by the Bee Gees
Oh, girl I've known you very well
I've seen you growing everyday

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=2491500415
Just in case someone's tempted...

Feck

I would like to obtain an engine need help sourcing it
the engine I need is a
Taiwanese equivalent of a CG125 honda engine with a 170cc capacity
Standard motor corporation in Taiwan produces on called a CHP 170 or CHS 200

    Wondered why I was getting all posts to ukrmc killed the last few
days.  Seems that in order to avoid some cross-posting I'd added a rule
to my score-file for Newsgroups; *motorcycle* to kill all posts with
'a.s' in the Newsgroups: header...

http://www.kryptonitelock.com/inetisscripts/abtinetis.exe/templateform@publi
c?tn=urgent_update

After watching the bike raceing from Japan
and Ollerton last weekend I got to wondering.
On the same track in a head to head race who
would win between the fastest bike and the the

Gentlement and Ladies,  If you have not heard the news.
Most Kryptonite locks can be opened by removing the plug from the top
end ( not the writing end ) of a bic pen and pushing it about inside
the round lock hole.   Takes a few different size pens.   All the rage

TOG, my Trident 900's battery - about five years old - seems to be giving
out.  Even after being kept charged on an Optimate it feels as if it's
about to run out of steam if the engine doesn't fire within a few seconds
(often the case if the bike hasn't been used for a few days). ...

Kawasaki Z250 Scorpion. Good condition 7 months MOT. £350
malwhite AT blueyonder DOT co DOT uk
--
Malc

Does anybody have experiance of these, and even better a brief setup
procedure for one? - it is the 38mm model on a 500 single
TIA

(I just posted this in uk.rec.motorcycles but had forgotten about ukrmc!)
I wasn't much interested in classic bikes until I 'met' this rather special
one today at Aintree...
http://www.robdunsford.com/Img_7399.jpg

... a visit to the Mosquito Museum near Colney hatch kinda puts that
back into perspective again.
Like, trying to solve the problem of fitting two RR Merlins back into
an airframe that you can't really move around, plus the engine