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On 02/03/2022 at 18:02, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

I get very little rust but then it's a 2006 Honda when the metal used was better quality.

It's not "better quality metal", it's simply metal instead of economical Swiss cheese  

Ok, i should've been clearer 

The fogging is on the outside of the pinlock-visor sandwich, there are no problems with the pinlock seal and cam pins.

I found somewhere on the web that soaking pinlock in water and then drying out will "reactivate" it. Haven't done a diddly squat of difference 

I just wonder if these things are single use?

My pinlock started to fog. It usually happens in the lower middle part (where I keep breathing on it) and I've no idea how to fix it. I tried soaking in water and then drying - no change.

How can I revive it?

On 23/11/2021 at 16:03, Blackholesun said:

Any tips for me...just passed and have a Fazer 600 hand me down...

My first bike was (well... still is, but now finally looking for replacement) XJ6, so not much different. Take it steady, start thinking about 2nd bije when you do at least 5000 miles of practice.

4 hours ago, Gerontious said:

what he said... don't waste anymore time. CBT then DAS.

 

(assuming you can afford it. obviously)

 

 

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What he said!

I did DAS, wanted to compress learning as much as possible - no value in dragging it out.

School suggested (very gently) that I needed an extra session before MOD2 (hesitation on roundabouts), passed with no problems.

This is just begging for an extra button on bike's satnav - take me to the lost key

Surely it can work out where it's been lost

On 09/09/2021 at 17:42, manxie49 said:

Have a look here, these guys do the same training and from all accounts are pretty good https://i2imca.com/?fbclid=IwAR0cU_Jurb08MFdNhbMekmZFVS-paxo-V5PFicq9jJmgL-AoBLHfIwufYYQ

Ah yes, Tom is fantastic. I took his first two courses - a very real eye opener onto the mechanics of both slow and fast riding.

On 31/08/2021 at 20:32, Pie man said:

Yamaha have it sussed when it comes to great little budget bikes, which is what the XJ6 was in its day and it ticked all the boxes. Just like the little MT07 now. 

Which makes it sooo much more difficult to change my XJ6...

Or, get approval from the boss to keep it

On 30/07/2021 at 22:01, husoi said:

Depends on the SS grade.

For sure that is nothing close to SS 316 or SS316L will be the most common grade that have a higher resistance to corrosion and that provides a good durability.

These are known as Austenitic steels

 

https://www.ulbrich.com/blog/overcoming-saltwater-corrosion-with-stainless-steel/

 

further info

https://nickelinstitute.org/media/1667/designguidelinesfortheselectionanduseofstainlesssteels_9014_.pdf

IMO depends more on galvanic potential voltage than SS grade. On it's own A2 will rust with time in salt water, A4 (316) will stay for long. But if you connect it with any other metal, it just depends on galvanic corrosion. IIRC its ok to have SS and Al (most of masts are done like that), but you don't want SS anywhere near zinc. I suspect that's the OP's problem.

If you use PTFE wires, you're measuring capacitive coupling between them. What's the Df of petrol? Will it work?

Also, have at least a cursory read of ATEX - you don't want to be trapped in a situation with an empty tank, some oxygen inside, a wire sparking because of some little inductance somewhere... It's not nice!

I remember my first day of DAS. A little apprehensive, but ok. There was an overwhelming feeling that I don't have seatbelts on - I only got rid of it 2 months into riding.

Go figure...

6 hours ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

 I don't like companies that penalise existing customers.

They don't penalise existing customers, they just don't care about them. They make money at the point of sale, after that what can happen? They can only lose money on you

That's simply outrageous...

Enjoy! 

I have an odd problem when changing gears on my XJ6 (2010, 20k miles). Once in a while (once, maybe twice per tank of fuel, sometimes good for 2-3 tanks) when changing up, the gear lever doesn't come back to the position to put the next gear up - gear lever stays up and is a bit "floppy". Usually it happens on clutchless changes, I don't remember now if it happened when changing using clutch.

On 14/06/2021 at 16:00, Stu said:

If it has an immobiliser from factory but no extra fob then I suspect you will need a key with a new chip in 

Long time ago I had an N-reg A4 and needed a spare key. Went to Timpsons and they cut me the new key and also programmed the immobilizer chip with a box they had.

13 hours ago, Stu said:

 

I don't think 6 months laid up will pose problems to be honest 

 

Just serviced my 2 stroke outboard (15hp Mercury) in preparation for half term. To my horror I learnt that I left it full of fuel in July last year. Mentally I was preparing for a carburettor Armageddon...

Fired up on 2nd pull, on old petrol ,

I'm assuming 2 stroke oil doesn't make and positive difference here.

11 hours ago, Bender said:

Apple air tags are going to be widely available, if your not up on these they are low power Bluetooth devices that use apple devices to share a location.

 

The good 

 

They are cheap and small, have a built in speaker, battery can be replaced and can last upto a year.

 

The bad

Can be used for stalking, your I phone or apple device will pass on the location of any air tag that it picks up and you won't know and can't stop it.

 

The speaker can be disabled or positioned so it can not be audible, all security warnings can be disabled on the owners phone paired to that device.  If you have an iPhone it will warn you after 3 days you may be being tracked, it won't give any more details.

 

They will not work with android so no warnings to those.

 

 

So a great cheap way to protect stuff long term with some huge glaring security issues, you can use a Bluetooth scanner on Android but the air tags roll the device string so as to make it harder to track.

 

Other devices like tile are available but I think the apple network is going to make use much greater.

 

So someone sat in a cafe might be responsible for locating your stolen bike or they could be a link in a murder all without knowing....

11 hours ago, Bender said:

 

So a great cheap way to protect stuff long term with some huge glaring security issues, you can use a Bluetooth scanner on Android but the air tags roll the device string so as to make it harder to track.

That's a feature of BT, Apple didn't do anything. Until you get paired with a device, MAC address gets randomised precisely for that reason.

For really expensive bikes someone should start working on trackers using LEO  satellites. Some IOT sat com offerings are cheap enough to do that (few tens of $ per year for ability to send 50-150 bytes per day). That hardware is also cheap, nothing even remotely approaching costs of Iridium and the likes.

Locus Maps, Sygic. I think both have some sort of free (but usable) demo.

On 21/05/2021 at 10:13, onesea said:

 

You could get it to work with multiple people if done right.

 

 

No bloody chance!!! If Zoom calls infect my biking then I'm hanging the keys, two fingers up and it's the sea only for me - enough offshore for mobiles not to work!

How would that zoom/sleep Skype work? You still need some helmet headsets, just wired headphones won't cut it for microphone when riding?

So, if you have a headset then use its DMC and everything works ,

On 27/04/2021 at 06:05, onesea said:

 

If you want to see the end result, look at sailing gear, £600 for a water proof jacket. That's not even insulated and has no armour...

That's simple with Musto: £50 for the basic jacket, £50 for waterproofing, £50 for some padding and £450 for a yellow fluorescent hoodie made out of bicycle hi-viz jacket. 3M retroflective strips and a pocket for PLB are added for free to sweeten the deal.

On 17/04/2021 at 18:27, bonio said:

rying Sygic right now. I like the way you can plan a route on a laptop and then send it to your phone.

Sygic is ok for that, had it for many years. For a very fine point-by-point I am super happy now with Locus maps - dead easy to plan 50-points route and play it both forwards and back.

Doubles up as bicycle satnav wired to my Garmin watch.

1 hour ago, Troy said:

 

I maybe better off going for the Freecom 4+ in this case.... it just seems silly money though when I’ll need to buy 2.

FWIW you only (want to) buy it once, you'll be using it forever.

On 29/03/2021 at 17:12, EricWo said:

 It only accepts the two blue circular pins (circled in the picture). I have been trying to figure out what they are called but don't know where to start finding the answer to that question. Do you know what they're called? Thanks again

Look in RC model shops. This connector type is called EC3.

2 minutes ago, Ian Frog said:

You weren`t heading along the A6116 near Corby about 2.15 were you?

Cheers

Ian

That's not me, honest!

I went zig zagging to Colchester and back.

7 minutes ago, Troy said:

It seems there are hardly any buttons.... is it all voice controlled?

Cardo's fault is that they don't read minds! At the beginning you should RTFM to be able to use them for more than just comms. Once you do that, the rest is easy. It is voice controlled, I simply don't have patience to talk to the thing