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Mississippi Bullfrog

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  1. Occasionally I win things for going round in circles rather quickly.
  2. People forget how dangerous seafaring is. Its one reason we observe Sea Sunday every year in July. Virtually everything we rely on daily is shipped into this country.
  3. My boat is 48 kg. I'll keep quiet about it.
  4. And just for fun one brand's weight of oil isn't the same as other brands. You have to find one that works for you and then stick with it. I had Putoline W10 in my CBF, switched to Smith and Allan W10, totally different ride. The S&A gives a much firmer front end.
  5. That's poor. A lot of modern cars don't have spare wheels, just a can of repair spray which is useless if you've hit a pothole. Someone on here put me onto Gem and we've been with then for a few years now. Never had to use them though.
  6. I would like to record my appreciation for little Billy (not his real name) who decided to have an altercation with little Sammy (also an alias) in the playground at lunchtime. This meant my dear lady wife had to intervene and was therefore late home. So enabling our postie to deliver my new suspension parts undetected.
  7. Having served with the US military I am acquainted with some of the things they do very well, and some of the things they really shouldn't be let loose with.
  8. Considering how they mangle words like 'lever' and 'vitamin' I don't think they've got much to complain about.
  9. If you've got roads 4s then I'd stick with them because they're a good tyre.
  10. I put a pair of Pilot Road 4s on my cbf. I'm very pleased with them, especially in the wet. I live in a rural area where the roads are covered in mud, gravel and have water running from fields. They cope with those conditions fine. If they've only got 2k on them they'll do 1200 miles no problem.
  11. I try to avoid using new tyres in the wet. When I fitted the last set I went out one evening and put about 70 miles on them before starting to give it the beans round bends.
  12. I had a Zoom meeting booked this morning for work, except they messed up regarding the date so when we all logged in nothing happened. Leaving me unsupervised used in front of a computer is expensive. I've ordered a springer seat from COC Customs in Australia and a set of Tec front springs and adjusters, both for the Bobber.
  13. I haven't been there in years. I bought a bikes there back in the late 90's when I dropped in for a brew and wander round and found something I liked. It was an expensive cuppa.
  14. The Bobber forum is hosted in the US, but I suppose the guys in the US who buy Triumphs tend to be a bit pro-British to begin with. Never had any issue with any of the American members. The only pillock who was picking a fight was a Brit.
  15. The Triumph Bobber forum is generally very well behaved and very helpful. You get the occasional nutter but they get banned pretty quickly. To misquote an old advert - You meet the nicest people on a Triumph.
  16. I agree - it does sound like the timing chain.
  17. Sorry to hear about your bike. My experience with insurance has led me to try to avoid involving them if at all possible, but it may be too late if they have been notified already. Even for a 'no fault' claim you are now statistically more likely to be a higher risk so your premiums will go up. Protected no claims is a bit of a con since whilst your percentage NCD is retained the actual premium isn't. So even with protected NCD your costs can rise. Also - you say the bike is valued at £1200. Is that what you put in the insurance form? If so that's not what they will value it at. Their offer is usually what you might expect to get if you traded it in, not what it would cost you to buy it now. So the offer they make is usually in line with what the trade in price is, not the retail price. Hence it is often even less worth going through the insurance for older bikes. I hope you can find parts and get it sorted cheaply.
  18. Does it have an immobiliser? If you've bypassed the ignition but the chip is still in the barrel and you haven't got the coded key then it may be an immobiliser issue.
  19. If you can't dismantle it thoroughly then any treatment can only slow down the rust. You can rub down and treat with various rust treatments which slow it down but won't stop it. There are various paints that will cover rust and are quite good at slowing it. One of best I've found is Ronseal NoRust, but I've only found it in black. Hammerite is often suggested but I've found it to be pretty useless when there's already rust present. But you can get it in silver.
  20. I have an old dishwasher in the garage. It's just a bit of pain getting the plumbing in.
  21. I shall be spending the day wielding an angle grinder and cutting lengths of scaffolding to make new dinghy berths at our sailing club. ️
  22. I saw it on a bike when the guy got a friend to paint his tank and really liked it. Then it came up for sale. This is it on his bike. I like my red and silver tank but I also love yellow on bikes. So now I have a choice.
  23. So if iron kills moss then will scattering bits of discombobulated motorcycles across the lawn* do the trick. * lawn is used in a vastly over-optimistic description of the state of my garden.
  24. In theory you could have stopped on the slipway but in reality that's stupidly dangerous. 1....you'll have cars coming up behind you doing 60mph not expecting to come across a stationary vehicle And 2.....you're then trying to accelerate into moving traffic from a standing start. You were in a no win situation created by a system that isn't perfect.
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