Motorcycle and Scooter appreciation

If you need a hand? Do we get tea and bacon sandwiches if we help?

If you don't can I ;) They are great do all bikes. Usual honda cam chain issues.

Also suzuki's have the nicest gearboxes, IMO. Even the Duc needs you to be asertive but the 'zuki box just a brush and the gear change is done an missed changes and false neutrals are rare

Has it been garaged? If it's only a couple of bills and not rusted to buggery, you can't really say no....

@lynx felt like the rear shock was working for the first time. Couldn't quite believe how supple it felt compared to 0 static sag. I am a disciple and will go forth and spread the word.

@Jung these for me are the most tempting at the moment: ZXR400, RSV Mille and K5 GSX-R750

It'll be endless bacon butties!
You're right about Suzuki boxes, it took me practicing clutchless shifts like a champ about 20k ago and still shifts like effortlessly.

@Jung Apparently under a tarp. About to go back to work so will have a chat with the colleague to see what the deal is. I kinda want this to happen.

My mate just scored this for £850. He's rather chuffed. Not bad at all for a first bike!

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ER5?

That looks well clean! Nice going. I'd get a mudguard on that though; spray is gonna be a right bastard.

Seconded on the mudguard. Looks a good laugh though - excellent first bike!

my bike suffers from needing a lot of power for a cold start

My Triumph (air-cooled twin) had the same. I went for a motobatt battery which is meant to have more cranking amps(?). There is also a way of making a bypass starter, which might have an equivalent for the T-bird. https://www.triumphrat.net/threads/the-dreaded-click-when-trying-to-start.760994/

Sadly, after I fitted my new motobatt the other day, the sprag clutch (that had been a likely source of a sketchy sound) gave up the ghost. Engine out job to fix, so I'm told...

Will be checking the crank sensor as apparently this can give the same symptoms but I'm not hopeful. Fingers-crossed Triumph will still be able to provide the replacement part and eventually I'll be able to do the work.

Ah that sucks.

Fingers crossed.

Yep!

I'll pass on the word on the mudguard!

I badly want a Curtis bike frame but DAMN! I want this!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CAP3bisHM1J/?igshid=1aqlosc11y40t

Niiiiice.

That wasn't me.

ER5 are IMO the same as the gs5 and the cb5. Nice enough, but they do get abused alot as first or learner bikes. I prefered the earlier gpz 500 for some reason. Think it was with the infill it looked like a fully faired bike compared to the others being naked or semi faired. It was something different in that market.

Hope he has fun with his bike.

I was going to do this next year but with lockdown thought I'd attempt the starter upgrades on my to-do list:

• Shido LTX14-BS lithium battery
  
• Starter solenoid upgrade (150 amp)
  
• Upgraded starter cables
  
• Noco Genius G3500 smart battery charger
  

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Little bit of Salisbury Plains with a local... gravel, grass tracking, ruts, mud and marshland, and a few water crossings! Definitely punishing this little bike (was a little cleaner at the start than the end). Addictive as hell.

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Lockdown reading just arrived.

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Nice book, now I have a list to check out!

One lockdown project is getting this TZR in shape or ship it out. I have 4 boxes of parts and a shed full of fairings which I've photographed, now to try and get it running one more time.

So many jobs to do I think I'm going to let it go, either that or I have to get it through my flat to the back garden in pieces, fix it all and then break it apart to bring it back out again. Tempting but mad.

I do have the matching sets of wheels!

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I feel ya on the flat thing. I managed to snag a key to the big bike shed that gets very little use. Only got weekends so working of swapping the front end.

Don’t sell that. How many are left in the country?

@jambon how’s the mod going?

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@jambon how’s the mod going?

Other than resetting the odometer great, don't ask, it's an RSV gen2 thing. Bike is much eager to start and went for a short blast this morning without cutting out, so much better.

Was going to ask about the SV, nice progress. Love how thin the originals look compared to the new units.

Oof. I hate odo specific jobs. No idea why manufacturers make instrument work so bloody difficult.

Went out for an Essex spin this morning as well before I went spanner mad. Feels good to be rolling again. You forget the the nice rush approaching a corner and tucking into it.

What’s next on the RSV, you eyeballing any track days?

So nice of you to do all that work for me
;)

What’s next on the RSV, you eyeballing any track days?

Indeedy. Had my May date cancelled so now booked on for July, fingers crossed.

At the moment 'How Many Left' doesn't even have an entry for TZR 250 so they've got a lot rarer than I thought. Going rate for a jap import in good condition seems to be £3.5k. 3XV's are probably more especially if they are well looked after. This is the earlier 2MA.

I'm going to try starting it and will probably offer it with all the spares. I have stored it long enough and not got around to running it again, its maybe just time to let it go.