Well, just driven from Norwich to Lyminge on the South West coast near Dover then back home to via Calne in Wiltshire to pop in on @RWD3M for a cuppa on my way home to South Wales (nice to catch up again if only for a short visit) and I’m now the proud owner of a Fireblade track fairing along...
Just bought a £400 Fireblade! Head gasket gone and been Street Fightered. It looks a bit of a n uncared for pig but it’s taxed and motd and still runs and rides.
Thinking of getting original fairings for it but that plan may change bc I’ve been offered a Ducati 1198 Chinese fairing kit for free...
@The_Yellow_Ardvark I don’t suppose you have any Sykes Pickavant body hammers you’d like to sell? You regularly seem to get a good haul of used equipment and pass to good causes like men in sheds, and I’m in need to proper bodywork hammers not the usual Chinese rubbish. Already managed to snap...
Anyone fancying a Mini Cooper project? As usual, space being a premium here and my love affair with these things being on and off I’m having thoughts (just thoughts mind you….) of clearing some space, one side is pretty much complete, heritage panels fitted, still needs both a panels fitting to...
I’ve used this motor twice to Norwich from South Wales, a journey of 288 miles each way, and due to the majority of roads being either dug up or having speed restrictions or cameras, I’ve taken my time getting there, sitting at 60-75 in 6th and using the retrofitted cruise control, and rough...
Belly pan almost there, nose cone ready for paint and tank now stripped.
Weirdly the paint on the tank had bubbled from leaching ethanol through the nylon tank, and where I popped the bubbles I found the paint very brittle but if I used a hot air gun set to around 450’ the paint would peel...
TBF this one has 34k and 16 owners and it’s CatD from back in 05 which is a lot of negative, but it is 26 years old, but the sustained damage was just a cracked airbox, and cracked top fairing and a hole in the bellypan and a bubbled tank needing paint. All of which will be sorted by the time...
No frame damage or anything else obvious. Just a cracked and repaired fairing.all lugs still in one piece, brake lever has a bend in it too but that’s it.
Just sold it about a month back. Still got the pile of spares thought. 2 engines, looms, swingarms, tanks, wheels, levers, calipers, controls, fuel pump, cdi, carbs and much more. Guy was gonna give me £400 for the lot but radio silence since.
I’m gonna throw some PlastX-6 plastic filler in that before I’m done.
So upon removing the panels it was clear that there was an issue up front as someone had taped the upper fairing to hide a repair and the replicated the black stripe on the other side to match it :laughing: not very...
With that sorted I thought I’d get stuck in.
So, tank removed and as it was popping whilst being revved, I decided first to get attention was the IACV which controls the idle and the rubber was always prone to cracking and drawing air causing it to weaken the mixture and as I had 3m of 6mm...
With a view to clearing some space I thought it was time to find out the status of the cheap SPARE T595 I bought. Tank is fecked due to ethanol and needs paint. I also lost the keys for it which p’d me off. Got the seat barrel out and got a local locksmith to cut me the correct profile and a...
Although I still have my Porta mig and Parweld tig but just been offered this by a mate’and he’s not sure on the price.
It’s new and virtually unused. His mate set it up and it’s not been used since.
New these were £860+vat, gas and gasless, large bank of capacitors for low end stability but to...