fredc

they also made a turbo version 

The only way to tell if it will run on UNLEADED fuel is to remove the cylinder head  and examine the valve seats to make sure they are hardened.

With the bike being so old there is a good chance it has been done but since you are asking you obviously don't have the documentation .

The best bet is to use an additive until you have checked the valve seats are hardened 

2 hours ago, MaxK said:

Cheers for the help guys

 

For the person reading this in 5 years time with the exact same issue, my recommendation is to go to a garage and pay someone to do this for you but if you’re in too deep this is what I did:

 

- With a hydraulic car jack lift the left side of the swing arm and insert the bolt, this part should be semi easy

- Knock it in until it hits the swing arm on the other side

- For this part you NEED 2 people minimum, 3 if you can. For 2 people: Rest the left side of the bike diagonally against a wall so you can access the rear of the bike (Front handle bar/tyre touching the wall)

- Have one person on the right side of the bike, he has to push the rear of the frame towards the wall trying to line up the swing arm

- And the other person has to be on the left of the bike lifting the rear by holding the underside of the seat and pulling it up, adjust until lined up

- Now when the person on the right decides its lined up, the person on the left has to smack the bolt a couple of times to get the bolt to partially go in (Do not use much force if the bolt can it will go in)

- If its in, first of all hoorah, second of all you’ll now realise the left side isnt lined up and the little cylinder isnt going in

- You now have to slightly lift the left swing arm with a hydraulic jack until the bolt looks straight and smack it with a hammer, adjust car jack until it works

- After all the faff you should be able to put the nut on the thread and celebrate

after all that  you take it all off again and put the spacer in place 

don't ask how I know

32 minutes ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

In theory you could have stopped on the slipway but in reality that's stupidly dangerous.  

 

1....you'll have cars coming up behind you doing 60mph not expecting to come across a stationary vehicle

 

And

 

2.....you're then trying to accelerate into moving traffic from a standing start.

 

You were in a no win situation created by a system that isn't perfect. 

spot on

20 hours ago, Gerontious said:

Tucked it up for a couple of months. Priorities can be tough. (Especially self imposed ones)

MOT expired yesterday. Too bad. So sad.

insurance expires next week. Ditto.

don’t forget to put it on sorn  with no insurance 

23 hours ago, Auld Jimbo said:

I'm interested to know where one obtains this "Scotch winter" beverage though? 

just whisky and antifreeze

do you still have play in the cable, it may just need adjusted

What you need is a pillion with a sponge in his hand

8 hours ago, Fozzie said:

Did my CBT in August 2006 to get on a 50cc to college, 2 years later when the CBT ran out and I wanted something bigger than a 125cc 2-stoke. I did my restricted 33bhp test in 2008 after a 3 day intensive course for about £400. 

But my license today says I have held a license since 2010, because when the format changed it didn't know how to interpret my 33bhp restriction. That really stung as it effectively deleted 2 years off my license holding history, and insurers interpreted me as a new rider... Even though I had the same bike insured with them for over a year already.

I think at that time the 33hp restriction was only for 2 years then unrestricted after

I may be wrong, not sure about the dates 

2 hours ago, S-Westerly said:

Jesus. I'm not putting nitrogen in my tyres. My bike doesn't have a nice warm garage to live in so the air it gets is put in at ambient plus the slight rise in temperature due to compression.

I checked tyres yesterday and they were quite low so pumped them up to recommended pressure. Turns out gauge on pump is reading high as when I started up this morning the TPMS had a hissy fit as the pressures were way too high and I had just backed out. Got a separate gauge and both tyres were about 20% over recommended cold pressures. Adjusted them accordingly and rode 297 miles to Northumberland without any further issues. Once they warmed up they were consistent and recorded as 39 psi front (36 psi cold) and 46 psi rear (41 psi cold). 

 

air is 80% nitrogen anyway

remove the connection marked and its fine  other wise the ignition will be on all the time

I won the scottish childrens lottery and all I got was a bunch of money
.... turkey again this christmas

so its not heated up red hot and hammered as forging normally means

edit spelling 

how do you “forge” carbon fibre 

17 minutes ago, janinej said:

I don't get it why would he wish for a giant chicken?

 

JJ

You'll get it when you get older

12 hours ago, RideWithStyles said:

You can tax the bike and insurance before hand, like today if you wanted, doesn't have to be after or in a particular order. foremost a live insurance policy is first to get sorted and that has to be done as a copper let alone a courts view of people lacking of insurance very dimly.

 

You cant tax a vehicle without an MOT (if its old enough to need one )

I have found several sprocket and chain sets  on ebay for my shaft drive bike

12 hours ago, husoi said:

2 stroke engines don't need valves because they work differently from 4 stroke engines.

2 stroke are much easier and cheaper to maintain although they don't have the same power as the 4 stroke ones.

The number of strokes are the piston's movements during a combustion cycle.

I was under the impression that 2 strokes were more powerful because they have a power stroke every 2 strokes rather than every 4