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Mississippi Bullfrog

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Mississippi Bullfrog last won the day on March 20

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About Mississippi Bullfrog

  • Birthday 16/01/1961

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    Honda CBF500 ABS Triumph Bobber
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    Near Oulton Park

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    Sailing. Beekeeping. Classic cars. Trying not to fall off motorbikes

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  1. That's a strange thing to happen by the bike just falling over. Usually the forks get more force on the whilst riding. Are you sure no-one messed about with your bike? For all four clamps to be loose enough for the forks to slide up is very odd.
  2. I popped into J&S and bought a Cardo Spirit HD. It seems to work fine with my usual Eggz earplugs. The guy fitted it to my lid whilst I was there which was handy. I really only need to hear satnav directions.
  3. I have tinnitus so always wear earplugs. What sort of system would work that would enable me to hear satnav directions but also block out wind noise?
  4. Use a bit of copper assembly compound on the new bolts. I've never had a bolt seize using it. PlusGas is good at freeing off crusty bolts.
  5. They are springs TEC sent me for the Bobber. Other Bobber owners say that they have found exactly the same issue. I'll check the details at Brookes.
  6. And yet my car being a 2010 Astra is getting harder to insure because car insurers don't like older cars. Sometimes just a change of bike whack the premium up no matter what it is you're looking at.
  7. One of my mates has one and loves it. The only issue he had was power loss which the dealer couldn't find the cause for. He was fine round town but as soon as we got onto open road he'd disappear behind us. It turns out the glue holding the heated grip on the throttle had come undone so he was twisting the grip but it wasn't opening the throttle.
  8. I'm looking for a name for my new boat....I'll add that to the shortlist.
  9. I could but since TEC supply new spacers with some of their Triumph spring kits I'm suggesting they need to supply them with the Bobber kit. TEC actually said the the preload caps would offer no negative adjustment because they need to be fully wound out to install them with the progressive springs. So they know there's an issue. Still waiting to hear back from them.
  10. If you had to wet the spark plug ( which is a bit pointless anyway) then I'd assume it was looking dry after you'd tried starting it. After cranking if an engine doesn't fire the plug should usually be wet from unburnt fuel so it sounds like a fuel related issue.
  11. Honda of that era were well built but all the same you need to check carefully. You want to know mileage and service history. 1k is cheap but if the seller wants rid of it there's probably a reason.
  12. Despite a weather forecast it is actually dry here this morning. So I wheeled my lawn mower out, poured in some fresh fuel, and it fired first time.
  13. Yes, the caps were fully up. There's only one slim washer between the spacer and the spring. The spacer then sits directly under the cap.
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