billy sugger

Got stuck in a long stretch of cars this morning, all doing just a tad more than walking pace. All because half a dozen middle aged, overweight and unfit lycra clad tossers were struggling to get up a slight incline, and all except 1 were in middle of the lane. Whoever thought up the new rules needs lynching. It may have helped if they actually selected the right gear ratio so they weren't peddling furiously but getting nowhere fast

If it ran OK fof 6 miles, but then died it could be the reg/rec packed up so not charging battery

I still snod to other bikers, whether they respond or not. I also will stop to help stricken bikers, and others at the side of the road

As the title states my CB125 twin is up for sale. It is a 1980 T-a version. It is a runner, but needs MOTing, which I cannot afford to do. There is a bit of history on here about the bike if you care to look. I am looking for £450 to £500 for it, just to get it out of the garage, and this is nowhere near the outlay I have on it. I bought it to take MOD 1 and 2 on it, and after passing I went back to using my 250 and began doing the 125 up. I did have the fuel tank resprayed to its' original blue, but some ar*ehole took exception to it being parked where it was and knocked it over and the leaking fuel destroyed the new paintwork so I ended up doing a rattle can job on it. The brakes, lights, indicators etc all work and it has a new 6v gel battery instead of the old top up with water job. If the paperwork I have is true the bike has only done 16k, though judging by the state of the original barrel I'm not sure, (if wanted I still have it) If interested please PM me to arrange a viewing, etc

Is onesea a bachelor perchance?

Are we jealous? No not really

I can see mamils causing problems on the road from Rushden to Kimbolton /St Neots for us bikers, especially on the way out of Kimbolton where they all seem to ride 4or5 abreast

The arm travels downwards by about30% before it engages a gear and turns engine over. I never touched the kickstart mechanism or the gears when I worked on the bike, I only did the top end, so I have no idea if it's fitted correctly

I have just had a gander at different pics of the bike online, and they have the same settings as mine, with only a small amount of travel on the lever before it hits the peg

Not quite sure what you mean in your first post, Bianco2564, and MB, if you look at the two holes in the hangar behind the lever that is where the footpeg fits, and the lever only has limited travel before it hits it, hence why its not fitted, so I get a better kickover. My CB125s was a similar footpeg/lever set up, but I don't remember that hitting the peg, in fact I think most kickstarts I have had the lever travelled half a circle. Just found a pic online of the 125s.the footpeg is in front of the kick-start, not behind like the twin. Will need to look into this some more, as I'm convinced something is not right

Not quite sure what you mean in your first post, Bianco2564, and MB, if you look at the two holes in the hangar behind the lever that is where the footpeg fits, and the lever only has limited travel before it hits it, hence why its not fitted, so I get a better kickover. My CB125s was a similar footpeg/lever set up, but I don't remember that hitting the peg, in fact I think most kickstarts I have had the lever travelled half a circle

I was a race Marshall for 15 years, 9 of them as a chief marshal. My first aid training was via Warwickshire Air ambulance service, to a higher standard than your everyday first aider. I was what is known as a BOB, of black overalled bast**d, due to our fireproof overalls being black and orange. I got invited to Marshall at the BSB at Silverstone but wasn't needed, though I did get free tickets so went. The only protection those guys had were straw bales to stand behind, bugger that stopping a bike

Here are the pics I promised I noticed the frame is now going rusty after standing for over a year, so need to get the brushes out. All I really want to do is get it running and sell it

I will take one tomorrow

I have a CB125 t2, (twin cylinder, 1980) The issue is the kick-start. When I bought the bike the sellers bought it out running. I handed over £880 and stuck it a van to bring home, and that's when the fun started. At home it would not start, no matter what I tried, so I had a good look at it, and discovered numerous faults, among them timing was out by two teeth, there were no rubbers connecting the carbs to the air box, (they no longer make them, and they are a special shape) and it burnt oil. The rubbers I fashioned out of 40mm car hose and I redid the timing, fitted new points etc, and eventually got it running, enough to take mod 1+2 on it. Once that was out the way it meant I could use my 250 again so the 125 had a big strip down. I ended up needing: new barrels as one badly scored, hence the burning oil, new valves, guides, seals, pistons + rings. Eventually I had it sorted, but one niggle remains. The damn thing is a pig to start, though once going it ticks over nicely, and I think it's linked to the kickstart lever. From what I can assertain the lever is the correct one, but it hits the footpeg on the downstroke, so it's like only getting half a revolution out of the engine. If you remove the foot rest the lever travels further down, so engine turns over more. Due to the lever shape it only fits on the splines in one place, so the lever can fold back out of the way, in a recess next to the clutch cover, so, my question is after all the rambling, what is wrong? PS, the pegs are original, and just bolt to the engine and have a dowel that fits in a hole so will only fit in one place

RIP Meatloaf

Done too

I suppose as long as you are happy/OK with that then good luck to you for the future

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Ha Ha, you just read my answer

It's called Trick of the tail, and I have it on their platinum collection

It's got no horn and it's got no tail, and it's never heard of our existence Can you guess the song?

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Firewood?

I was 17and had moved out of the family home so basically could do as I pleased. Within a year I had a mobylette 50cc moped, a Honda c50, c70, then the cb125s which I took my test on in 1978