Mr Fro

Stuck in the house with the baby.

Yeah, 100psi is lawnmower territory. I would have thought it to still fire a bit though. Is it points ignition?

Buy an Ignitech unit!

I am the nob of the day. "Surely not!" You may exclaim. But really, I assure you I am because last night when I arrived home I got out of the car and went in the house. Somewhere in the getting-out-of-the-car procedure I fully wound down one of the rear windows. It rained last night. It rained lots and I only just noticed my error. The door pockets... full of water. Cup holder things... brimmed. Carpets, door cards and (leather) seats... soaked. I've spent the last half an hour trying to extract as much water as possible with various towels and dumped the dehumidifier in there for good luck. /nob

Are you using the heated grips all the time?

Sounds like a jiffy connection somewhere is the starter circuit. I had something similar on an overdrive unit once - all was well when it was cold but once things warmed up the overdrive would start messing about and cut out. After all sorts of buggering about I found a crimp connector holding on by one strand of wire. I re-made the connection and it was fine. /olden days story. Have a look at the starter solenoid - take the connector off and on a few times as a first go and see if that sorts it. Failing that, check the continuity of the earth lead from the solenoid and the starter switch when it's closed.

Don't forget that if you really can't find anything you like then you can get armour systems that go under your normal clothes.

He's been active on other websites since whatever it was happened so I expect he's fine. Edit: In fact, he's on-line elsewhere now - maybe on here too but he hides his activity so...

Why don't you watch it? Chances are the owner would have switched it on or off at home.

I saw this documentary once where a bunch of elderly people were shot up to a comet to divert it from a collision course with earth. After a romping success, the majority of them made it back to earth so why don't we just give them a call to go and take a look?

Thanks for the help good people of motorcycle world. Sounds like Netflix will be the one to try first. Super bonus that it's the cheapest too! I priced sky and it's way more than I'm willing to pay. It came out as £40/month for movies and box sets so there's really no contest. Plus I don't want child getting in to shite American TV. Edit: Apart from Colombo because that's always good.

Dudes, I need help again... Wife and I watch mainly films and box sets on the tellybox and as such we have zillions of DVDs cluttering up the place. Prime and Netflix seem really cheap at sub £10/month. However, Prime looks like a fair bit of stuff has to be purchased as an "add-on". The Netflix website doesn't actually give much info so I can't tell if it's a similar deal. Has anyone got any experience of either of both of the above? I don't want to sign up for something then find I rack up a huge bill to get the decent stuff! I'm also considering Sky but don't know how on-demandy that is. I'll take a look at other stuff too if I'm missing something. Cheers, Fro

Unsatisfactory clunge.

Well... yes - having just refreshed my memory of what you said. Don't think I disagreed with you in the first place though!

Centrifugal. As the wheel spins, the force acting on the valve is in an outwards direction. As the wheel speed increases, so does the centrifugal force (g) to a point where it overcomes the rubbery bit and the metal bit moves towards the rim. High enough wheel speed will give enough centrifugal force to exceed the shear limit of the rubber and off it goes. The force is quite large - if you consider those spinny things used in astronaut training - the person gets quite badly squashed down and pass out under single digit g. Assuming a 17" rim and a 10 gram valve, your valve will undergo somewhere in the order or 350-400g at 70mph.

We had this discussion at uni the other day. Bloody ages it took too! If a wheel is spinning then centripetal force is essentially the tension in the spokes which prevents the rim flinging off in to the distance. Centrifugal force acts in the opposite direction i.e. outwards to counter the inward centripetal force of the spokes.

Ow-do. Have a look at http://www.gearingcommander.com to figure what your new ratio will give you. You're only really constrained by what will physically fit on your bike. Down gearing a small capacity bike is well worth doing as it'll make top gear useful rather than a speed losing thing.

Doubt it but it is a sound business model! Just sand a bit off one of the fins and you can proudly state "Hand finished in the UK". Come to think of it, for £40 it would be a chuckle to see if it's any good...

The nuts weren't anywhere near tight enough - neither was the spark plug. I've ensured it won't happen again by not letting Ollie do it. I tell you what Bob, for £40 it's bound to be good!

I'd like to submit exhibit A m'lud: Notice the lock nut on the inlet valve on the right? The gap should be 0.08mm... that's got to be at least 100 times that! Ah well, that was a piece of piss to fix. I set both the valves correctly even though it was a little warm and the noise has completely disappeared. It even starts easier too.

Good point chaps. Now Ollie is an American I can probably sue him for all sorts of stuff - I don't even want to get started on the mental trauma it's caused me. I think you're on the right lines Tim but being a single it wouldn't run with a bendy one so I'm thinking broken spring or rocker nut - something like that (hopefully).

That's right ladies and gentlemen, I have done the unimaginable and broken a Japanese bike! (Ollie's old CG) There I was, riding home in the pissing rain on the upside of a hill. I was giving it full beans on the red-line in 3rd - just as I approached the brow I stuck it in fourth. Moments later, on the downside of the hill, it started making an awful clanky, rattly noise and lost almost all of it's miniscule power. I did think about stopping, walking home, getting the trailer out etc but it was monsoon style rain and I was getting a bit peckish so I nursed it home. It nearly touched 30 at one point on the 2-3 miles back... When I got back I let it idle which I'd does fine but it makes a bast*rd noise. I got of bit of ali bar and listened round the engine - it sounds very rattly near the exhaust port and a bit noisy on the cylinder so with any luck it won't be too bad a fix...

I've used those on a set of coilovers - not good - the jaws are too wide for the spring and even trying to use one set of hooks scratched them up. It's alright for the wife's car but I wouldn't use them on my bike.

wot dem sed. If you do find your cables won't quite stretch, you can order the appropriate connectors from RS components (or similar) and make up a bridge loom.