billy sugger

Clutch now rebuilt and engine back in frame.. Managed to break the connector off the thermo switch in the radiator in the process, new ones are £67!. Found a cheaper version, same part number online so ordered one. Now need a new chain slider and all side panels, because I can't find the underneath seat ones and I managed to melt the front ones when I accidentally set fire to the garage. I charged the battery up, and the bike actually turns over, so I must have got something right so as soon as the switch arrives it will get coolant and oil added (also need new oil filter, on its way from SBS, via this forum)

I'd rather go on my bike

My bike manual said "grease nipple". Now I can't get the stain out of my T shirt

Stay away from Mississippis Bullfrogs' pushbike then

Fig rolls and garibaldi biscuits should both be consigned to the deepest depths of hell (or Bradford, if they can't afford the bus fair)

I'm saving this to read tonight if I can't sleep, as it seemed to work with the book I was reading last night

Now you know why they are also called "pushbikes"

It is called the market cafe, a little place on the far corner of a square area that is a car park come seating area withe 2 or 3 little eateries on it, and a Cafe Nero. There is a bridge over a river/canal just before the place, if you go into St Neots via Kimbolton you go over the bridge and the square is on the right. Bikes just park out front on the square. 48 Market Square, Saint Neots PE19 2AA

It is called the market cafe, a little place on the far corner of a square area that is a car park come seating area withe 2 or 3 little eateries on it, and a Cafe Nero. There is a bridge over a river/canal just before the place, if you go into St Neots via Kimbolton you go over the bridge and the square is on the right. Bikes just park out front on the square.

Back home from a nice bimble to St Neots. Bacon butty evolved into this, and by eck it was nice

Have decided to go for a bimble through Kimbolton towards St Neots for a bacon butty and cuppa on the square (near the bridge) so if anyone fancies it see you there, just look for the red Cbf600sa8

I appear to have lost the dialogue box for clearing notifications

Me! Put the 500's engine back together today after the remaining bearing journal's arrived. Put top and bottom crankcases together, torqued most of the bolts down, only to spot I had left the chain tensioners on the table. Cue lots of swearing and taking it apart again. Get it all back together correctly fitting the clutch and this happens

Some seem to think I'm called oi!

If certain members of the population cannot have enough pairs of shoes then us bikers cannot have enough biker kit

3 helmets 3 textile jackets and trousers 2 leather jackets 2 leather trousers 3 pairs boots 1 pair shoes 1 waterproof oversuit 4 pairs of gloves Various types of snood/headwear to keep helmet clean inside

Engine builders used to believe the partial vacuum from a piston returning to BDC was enough to draw the fuel mixture in, but its way more complicated than that. Even the inlet/outlet ports shape can have an effect on the flow, fluid dynamics is worth researching when it comes to uprating your engine, as I learnt in the early eighties working on my 125 single

Remove spark plugs and check electrode colour. You are looking for a coffee coloured tip to see if mixture to that cylinder is correct. Black means burning oil or not enough air, light grey to white means rich mixture so burns hotter

All 12 pages I reckon

When I learnt about gas flow it was taught to me that a certain amount of back pressure helps to improve the flow of aireated fuel into the cylinders and the removal of exhaust gases afterwards. Its something to do with vortexes, and how they affect the movement of air/gases in a enclosed environment. I worked as a Air conditioning unit builder for a few years, and had to travel to a massive IBM facility near Portsmouth (Havant) to help fix a flaw in the sub-contractors installation of the units I built. They used the wrong sized ducting to spread the cooled air throughout the facility, so the air just wasn't moving. It was cheaper to modify the AC units than to change the ducting, so I spent three weeks atop a cherry picker, ( bloody high up as well) changing fans and their surrounds to create back pressure and get the system working properly. On the same track, I have a 250 that has a balancer pipe joining two equal length exhaust pipes on a twin cylinder engine, and due to its position it gets covered in crud and rusts badly, so I tried two unconnected exhausts and the bike would not run properly, especially at low revs, so had to revert back to a linked system. A twin with equal length pipes should not need a balance tube unless there is a issue with the exhaust gases expulsion from the cylinders

Happy Birthday @raesewell

More bikes than exes

Kill switch issue?

When I started working at BB there was a closed shop, you had to join the AUEW to work there. I refused, on the grounds the union wasn't employing me, BB were, and why should I pay, via union fees to work there in the end I joined (if I wanted the job, no choice), but point blank refused to take part in any industrial action unless it involved a H&S issue, and my membership would not be used for block votes at election times

Yay, happy birthday @rennie