Motorcycle Forum / Country Specific / UK Group / July 2008

What does the FOAK think?
Visorshop wanted £39 for a clear anti-fog visor for my Suomy
RaceVisors wanted £26 incl. p&p for the same OEM item.

You could save paint by halving the number of chevrons and keep one
chevron apart.
--
Mo

Anyone have any idea where I can get a slide pin for the front brake
caliper for a '90 xv535 virago?
A quick search online of the yamaha microfiche shows no part numbers
for the slide pin or the rubber boot - what is that about, all the

Sold on Ebay, and now it won't start, will it? Not a bloody thing except
for the odd backfire. I didn't know strokers could go bang like that.
Fukkit. I've given the buyer his money back and I'll break it for parts.
Unless sweller wants it for £150?

9pm tomorrow night (thursday) on Nat Geographic
"Megastructures - Large Hadron Collider"

As subject.
Beer, bikes, sun, rain, wind, racing, bullshit, bravado, international
incidents, pyromania, wood-chopping, lavvie desecrating, al fresco
defecation, burnt animal products, more beer, and some more, with

Filled the tank at Morrisons Bristol road. Brum. Sunday (111.9p) and headed
off to the Aberystwyth sun and pulled into Morrisons when i got there, to
top up the tank and do a little sightseeing - 115.9p ??? WTF -
Commented on the price difference and received a dumb stare !!

Set off Westward around 4pm Saturday.
Made reasonable progress to the M4, and settled into a brisk cruise.
Once through the narrow lanes section, the traffic slowed while the
"Traffic Wombles" closed the outside lane in response to an accident

I've read here that Sat nav actual speed displayed is very accurate,
so I was surprised to see a large difference in displayed speed to
that of my speedo.  I was given a Garmin Zumo 550, which I've only
stuck in the car at present.  It's a nice bit of kit, well made, but I

Yesterday I travelled by motorcycle...
...and sidecar.   Burnt turned up with his K100 and chair, so we went
for a spin.  Blogged here : www.champ.org.uk/blog/

Can you answer a question about speed limits in la belle France? At
lunch today we were at odds about when the 110kph when wet and 130kph
when dry limits came into being? Also prior to that was it a blanket
120kph limit?

Cleaning out the shed, and found my rear paddock stand wot I haven't
needed since I got a bike with a centre stand
Dead useful for lubing chains, inspecting rear tyres and all that sort
of 'maintaining' stuff I'm supposed to do.

All,
For those of you who have either never attended, or haven't for a
while, details are:
Mu puts on a huge spread for us on Saturday night and breakfast on

I think the GT750 is fixed.
No empirical fuel consumption data yet but I took it out for a 30 mile
run and the fuel gauge didn't move.
I rebuilt the (replacement) carbs with new jets and needles, rebuilt the

Having moved yet again, I'm on the lookout for a reputable place to
get a service/MOT on the Bandit.  It'll be it's first MOT, and given
the abuse it's had over the past couple of years, it'll likely need
bits doing to scrape through