Motorcycle and Scooter appreciation

Sister's new bike

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That's lovely.

Love this Motto Guzzi, saw it outside Highbury poolhttp://24.media.tumblr.com/0a1c0e82953f35a662cc83809547a9a4/tumblr_mpoi8kJz1Y1ruj68jo1_1280.jpg

pologies for massive rubbish phone pics

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It is a sunny weekend, so bikes.....where will you be going?

Went from Birmingham west to the Elan Valley on Wednesday, a nice 200 mile spin on my Bandit. Roads in Wales are so much better than English ones!

Ah what bindit you got?

600 k1

I hope you've all been out enjoying this weather when I've been working 75hr weeks, plus my tanks been getting repaired for the last fortnight so no two wheeled frolics.
On the plus side I realised my bike has one too many fuel filter's fitted, so hopefully that should make the fueling more immediate. While I'm mentally purging, having serious temptations about dipping into the house deposit fund to get a CBR 600 RR, I can't.

New Norton Domiracer

gonna take the lammy out tomorrow for a spin

^^ 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...

Markyboy, seen a version of that Guzzi modified parked up on Brewer st looks very nice, geezer wanted to know whose it was as he wanted to buy it, owner wasn't selling unfortunately...

casablanka, that looks super similar to the one that passed me.

VU, get angry with the Honda, and do this;

^ That's great!

Forks need cutting and the front wheel is too big. Dead cool apart from that.

I had a great spin up and down the Mulholland snake and Piuma and Stunt canyons on tuesday after work...may try again today but likely all the squids will be out.

Bill Warner. RIP.

http://t.co/fwBRDNaWv0

Motorcyclist Saves Cup - YouTube

I saw that the other day. Quite funny, but I'm not sure I'd risk mingling with an SUV to do something funny on YouTube.

Sparky you need to keep this in perspective and remember that with the Interweb we all have the possibility to be famous. I mean say it went badly wrong, just imagine how many hits and likes you'd get posthumously.

This is true. Hold my beer and watch this...

I'd love to hold your beer but I'm planning on donning a helmet cam with a meltdown share default to FB and YouTube before riding the Katana straight through the front window of Ann Summers in Soho at about 90mph.