Mickly

Happy Birthday @KiwiBob Hope it’s going just as you hoped

I had many cycling fails as a yoof The worst was coming home from school & cycling through the subway, at each end there was a 90 degree bend so I used to do a pretend speedway turn at each end by touching the rear brake .. all so good so far, on this particular day there were 2 coppers around the corner looking to collar anyone doing anything dodgy and I ran into one of them as he stepped out - his own bleeding fault as he should have made himself more visible, this argument didn’t seem to work and I got into a pile of shit at the station, at home & at school. I took to getting free rides on the school coach as no one ever checked who was getting on or off

Small update. A lot of the fairing fixing points were fcuk’d, so I thought I’d do something about it: This is supposed to look like This So I made a thing That fits like this I tried the plastic welding with melted zip ties trick and it seemed solid enough But since then, I decided to reinforce it with epoxy glue. I also reinforced the broken fixing holes with washers - glued in with epoxy glueThere were also some big cracks that I wanted to fix before they got any worse. Next up an engine flush using this, before adding new oil.

Did it cost you extra to have the massive BMW badge photoshopped out of the picture?

Got snapped a few times on the start line at a RWYB at the old Stratford Raceway drag strip, didn’t buy them as they showed I popped a cherry. Again on entrance to BSB at Donnington Park, bought a hard printed copy - it was that long ago

There are some options detailed on a couple of online forums that show a way of fitting a separate filter & regulator, I am however a little wary of believing some of the stuff you read on the web.

The idea is to get it sorted rather than pretty & then go trail riding, maybe a bit of easy green laning when the weathers a bit iffy

Update: Various dodgy wiring repairs attended to eg: Igniter switch wires, Before, after peeling back sticky insulation tape After, wires cut back, new pieces soldered in, shrink wrapped & bound together with self amalgamating tape: Removed the tank to clean out the yellow bits of plastic, an absolute git of a job as it’s under the seat so the rear subframe had to come off & one of the fixings obviously missed the hardening process when it was made so had to be drilled & nutsert used. With the tank back in place with fresh fuel I was able to start it but it would only run for about 10 seconds then cut out … having checked all the electrical connections as best I could, I reckoned it must be fuel related.. My suspicion turned to the solid state fuel filter/regulator this part is considered a consumable & should be changed every 20K miles, they are £70 new but managed to bag one for £17 off eBay, don’t know how many miles the replacement has done, it came off a working bike with 50K miles but obviously isn’t the original as it came with Jubilee clips on all the pipes rather than the single use crimped BMW ones. Typically the fixing holding it on was also made of cheese so a large bracket had to be removed for decent access. The new (to me) item was then fitted and after much swearing it was in place. Lots of engine turning overness to get the fuel pumped through & hey presto a running bike - absolutely stoked !! No wonder it didn’t run for long, I sawed apart the old bit & look at the state of the old filter. Think it’s supposed to be bright orange. That is for now folks, gonna service it & get it Mot’d next.

Yep, free to air & all sorts of unique insights and odd sports.

Happy birthday @Pie man Enjoy your day

A Very Happy Birthday Hope you got some lovely prezzies

Hope you had a good one, clue … if you can remember it, you didn’t

Yeah, it’s a single spark 650, although fuel injected not carbed. Lots of signs of years of neglect eg remote ABS switch as the wirings fallen off the OE switch also heated grip switch has no wires attached at all missing fixing on fork brace, cracked plastics, air filter housing held in with wood screws etc etc

So … an over excited Ebay moment has seen me as the owner of a non starting 2002 BMW F650GS … I know, I know Any how apparently the guy only had it for 5 weeks, running fine then jet washed it & it refused to start after that. I obviously take this with a pinch of salt as there was also other stuff wrong: LH indicator wire adrift, horn wire adrift, and a rubbish repair to the timing sensor wires. I’ve repaired stuff, especially the sensor wires, replaced the battery as despite it showing a full charge it’s cranking voltage dropped to 4.8V, which span it over but wouldn’t even cough. I’ve now got it to a point where it will start, idle nicely for about 15 seconds before cutting out. I now think the fuel supply might be at fault, so I took the fuel pump out of the tank … And found this attached to the pump. This inside the tank Managed to fish this out Any ideas what and how ?

Got a new motorcycle project, it’s a non starter, so this weekend I have been mostly swearing at it - which as everyone knows is 100% in effective Just had a thought, as it’s a BMW, maybe I should learn some German swear words

Try the Thermostat first. Remove the thermostat & hang it in a saucepan of water, as the water gets hot you should see the thermostat open. If you’ve got a thermometer you can see what temp it opens at.

Let’s us know how you get on, I’ve got a new project that needs a seat recovering.

Don’t know anything about that actual bike, but a couple of things come to mind: Is the water pump working? Is the radiator thermostat working? both are reasonably easy to check.

We have a winner @Stu The manual says to put the bike on its side stand when removing the generator cover to minimise the loss of any oil. The gasket ripped when I removed it so I promptly ordered the wrong gasket Correct gasket is now on the way.

I have no idea if we’ve got one or not, the only kitchen appliance I have any interaction with is Mrs Mickly. This of course is a joke & if she ever found out I said this I would end up down A&E having an air fryer removed from an intimate area

I think I may have found the answer - see item #2 (Reason for screen photo is coz I used my prehistoric I-Pad 2 to look at the online manual and it can’t do anything else but surf t’internet coz it can’t accept any of the iOS updates to run anything)

I’m waiting delivery of a Haynes manual & hopefully it will become clear. Tried looking at on line ones but gave up having to scroll through only for it to shoot back to the top

Thanks @Stu It does have a gasket. There was a little oil in the air box and there is a vent from the generator cover into the air box which made me wonder.