xMachina

Do me a favour. Who’s hiding? Anyone is free to read anything I post, is that supposed to be an insult or a veiled threat - I can’t work out which and I don’t care much either way. No, I don’t have a ‘build’ thread as I’d hardly call riding and maintaining a build so guess what, I don’t post it! Also, I don’t need to ramble on for 5 paragraphs to make my point. So far all you’ve done is drone on about running with no battery and a half arsed repair and shout ‘Murica.

Maybe I didn’t spell it out clear enough for you, I’m not the one who feels I have something to prove and needs to tell everyone how to do stuff. Don’t throw your toys out the pram because you got called on your shitty ‘repair’ and then your sly ‘probably just a rider’ dig backfired. I may not know the engine but I sure as hell can recognise a bodge when I see one. You accuse these parts of being dangerous or defective yet you then go on about how you’ve used cheap, untested parts to cobble something together. You’re delusional mate!

Touch a nerve? Unlike you, I don’t try to make everyone think I know everything. I’m not familiar with that particular engine and without having one in front of me to actually look at and take measurements from it would be impossible to say exactly what I’d do but it wouldn’t involve the cheapest crap available that’s for sure. For starters, I’d look at the installation procedure used for the other 2 tensioners, given that sort of failure rate it’s likely something you did or overlooked caused them to fail. But no, clearly because you can turn a spanner you have also appointed yourself as an engineer and decided that it’s the parts fault clearly. Like I said, it’s your bike, fix it how you want, just turn it in with the high and mighty crap. If you are trying to troll it’s a seriously weak attempt- if your not, well, I’m not even sure what to make of that.

You banged a bolt in bit of scrap metal and then slapped a load of sealant over it nothing more, then (just like all your other posts) you came spouting about how awesome you are and well, if any one calls you on, they don’t understand. It’s your bike, do what you want, but quit pretending you are the only one who knows which end of a ratchet is which.

Yes I do. That’s were you are wrong. I’m a motor mechanic by trade although I no longer work in the industry. That ‘repair’ is crap, and if you take pride in turning out turds like that then maybe you should re-evaluate your perceived skill level because no mechanic I’ve ever worked with would want to put there name to it, let alone plaster it all over the net. Maybe you should stick to just riding, eh?

That my friend goes beyond a bodge, hammered dog sh*t is what that is!

Playing devils advocate here you have to keep in mind that the 'B' in CBT is for basic - and it really is basic. If you need training beyond this level it isn't (nor should it be) included in the price of the CBT, equally they can't hold people of greater ability back to focus on 1 person. My personal opinion is that the CBT arrangement isn't fit for purpose and really should include an initial assessment and then be tiered like the DAS training based on what would be required to get you up to a reasonable standard. That aside, don't be put off, unless you have medical balance issues its just a skill that requires learning!

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I'm commenting to quote Six.

I did CBT and figured I'd ride a 125 for a year and then do DAS - I lasted 3 months before I was sick of it! I'd also been driving 20 years and I could ride a geared bike as I had a crosser as a teenager, I was genuinely shocked at how little the CBT actually teaches you, it really isn't fit for purpose. If you intend to get a full license anyway then I'd say crack on with it, you will only waste time and money on a 125 and the experience you will gain is nothing that can't be gained on a bigger bike.

If you have done 6k on a 125 you will be fine on a bigger bike, I think generally they are much easier to ride and you don't need to be constantly wringing its neck to get it going. The extra weight disappears once moving and just makes everything feel more stable. I'd never ridden a big bike before my first lesson, when I got there they asked if I had any experience and I told them I'd been riding a 125 for a while. The instructor asked me if I was happy to get straight on the 600 and I said yes, and that was it, we went straight out on the road. If you are confident on your 125 there is absolutely no reason not to transfer that confidence onto a bigger machine.

I have one of these because they look cool. They do very little with regards to measuring oil temp though, at best its a guestimate of the crankcase air temp as its only really being splashed with oil rather than sitting in it.

At the risk of stating the obvious, you have checked you haven’t got a brake that’s binding?

They should concentrate less on making smart motorways and more on making smarter drivers if you ask me!

I hate the transformers, I had to order new ones to fit LEDs into my under cabinet lights. New ones looked identical in every single way except for the 240v and 12v being the opposite sides - guess what I did?

The flicker and buzz is most likely caused by having LED bulbs on halogen transformers. The transformers have a minimum wattage (as well as maximum) and LED's won't draw enough to meet the minimum so they will flicker, buzz, not turn on or get delayed turn on etc.

PM'd you fella.

They do! I'm really happy with them, would definitely recommend them.

YouTube has some seriously weird suggestions going on.

5’s. Because they are 1 better.

Brush is a Razorock 400, it’s synthetic and I was highly dubious about it. I got it thinking I’d stick a silvertip in it. It never happened and it’s now one of my favourite brushes.

There's 2 parts of that statement that are debatable.

Not wrong there! (Well maybe a little)

1992 called, they want you to return their comeback.

I looked at buying a new Lexmoto Adrenaline when I was coming back to bikes, I ended up buying a used Yamaha WR125X and thank god I did! 2 months down the line I was bored of a 125 (and the style of bike) and wanted to move on to bigger things. I sold the WR for more than what I paid for it, something worth keeping in mind.