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^^ Very pretty indeed, I wonder how far it will go before breaking down - at least it looks relatively light to push.
In other news I have not 1 but 2 sickly motorcycles. The Kat's battery is not playing ball so I've had it on charge now for 3 days and am hoping this will have brought it back to life so I can take it for an MOT. If not I'll have to stick my hand in my pocket for a new battery.
Plus the Dommie has developed an incredibly irritating fuelling problem, whereby it starts suffering from fuel starvation before cutting out completely about 5 miles into a run.
At the moment the fuel filter is an inline one and gravity fed, not a vacuum carb so flow is probably reduced anyway due to this system. The reason it's running like this is where the old petrol in the tank had turned to treacle the fuel filter that sits at the back of the fuel tap inside the tank was shot so it was cut off.
I've now picked up a second hand tap with filter for a few quid off eBay. In taking the tank off naturally I've managed to break a lug from a fairing panel, so this has gone off to be repaired along a side panel that was badly cracked. Once they come back (hopefully soon) I can put it all back together again.
I have a theory about the poor / unreliable fuel flow, I'm pretty sure it started after I cleaned a load of dirt and crud out from the recess where the fuel cap sits in the tank. If a few stray crumbs of crud have found their way into the fuel cap breather hole this would compromise the flow because a vacuum would form in the tank if the breather is blocked...