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I am sure you already know this, but I am going to put it out there in case, you can get hold of carb jet cleaning tools for square root of bugger all, from, £2 to £7, some thing like : CARB JET CLEANING TOOL - Matt Pope Motorcycles Have fun

Hi Piers and welcome, is the T25 the S US model or the SS UK model, I have a pal who has a SS he got from new in 1970 something, still his daily ride. I am sure he would know where to get parts if you need any.

Hi NIck, I agree with your comments, and yes they do work well together, although I do think the program worked well with Sam, he had a bit of biteback with Henry. I would just like them to take on more challenging/interesting projects. Yep, two up land speed record on a homemade bike !! built around a Viper's V10 engine, would I have gotten on the back, hell yes

I have just watched Episode 1 Video of the genius that is Allen Millyard restoration of Norton Nemesis 1500cc V8, the vid covers front end restoration, to take the front wheel off, get access to the callipers, pads, you need to completely remove the whole front fork assembly from the bike, Allen had to fettle a tool to remove a castellation nut that secures the hub tube, what the hell where they on when they designed this beauty!!! Can you imagine the scenario of a blown front tyre, maybe in a remote location in the Pyrenees, contacting a local bike dealer and trying to explain what's required via google translate app, it is not going to end well for sure. The man in a genius, Norton, sadly not, hence their demise. Loved my old Norton Dominator, we did a clutch/gearbox stripdowm at the side of the A303 on route to Lads weekend in Cornwall, to sort a partial seize, we had the OEM tool roll, and a few ring spanners, coz back in the day, if you waz riding a British more than 50 miles, you where going to use them, took about an hour, !!!! How did Norton forget what they where good at!! Why oh why is he restoring old army ammo boxes for Henry Cole on TV, his talent would be better used rebuilding a space shuttle!!

I seem to remember that the exhaust cans have to have a BS stamp to prove they are road legal, and pass MOT, I also seem to remeber being told you can buy them on flee bay, Not that I ever did or would I do remeber it sounded like a rocket taking off when you hit 6000 rpm, and the go faster valve opened up. Thems waz the happy days !!!

Having owned most of the leading manufactures bikes of my xx years of biking, both riding, restoring, rebuilding and falling off them, in my experience, all have quirky mechanical stuff that takes an age to work through on your own, and almost always some body has the T-shirt, so for me, it's worth syphoning through the borrocks, if it means I get the knowledge to do the job done better, faster. Currently on the BMW K1200/1300 forum, mostly, all good TBH.

I would like to put up BSA bantum as an option, not big money for a fixeruper, easy mechanics, and spares seem to available, I would go hunting for any thing after 1956, which is when they introduced swing arms, i think it was D3, 150cc and D5 175, the D1, 125cc will stop to a walking pace in a headwind.

SO sky was blue, sun was doing it's ting, So I very nearly, chucked a leg over the bike today, which would have been the first trip out this year. Did my checks, borrocks, left hand indicator switch, was switching intermittently, but all bulbs working on emergency warning, so probably got some corrosion or little beasty hibernating. So needs a strip down and dowsing with switch cleaner. Didn't do it, nope, went off sulking.

I have enjoyed many trips across Europe, and this often takes us across the Alps, I too live also live in Yorkshire, weve got a few Hills around eer and I manage to keep it upright most of the time, and love dem Mountains and Hills ! For me when I get the bike out of winter moth balls, I tend to head for Buxton, route over Home Moss Summit on the A6024 onto the B6105. Some great Hills, I have often gotten to the bottom of Holme Moss and if I don't feel dialled in, i.e., taking the right lines, feeling relaxedish, at a reasonable pace, turned round, back up to the summit and done it again. For me, it's feeling confident in the front end, not mine, the bikes! Do I feel confident in the level of grip, can i feel the grip, am I tipping in at the right point, at the right speed, have I planned ahead, am i in the right gear, was my exit right, am I off the breaks before the corner, always scrub off the speed before you turn in, never break into or on a corner, or am i too fixated and focussed on the corner, and not the exit point, rem you tend to go where you looking. The best for me in getting it mostly right, was buddy up with a rider who can do this stuff, on a similar style bike, and track them, follow their braking and turn in patterns Relax and enjoy the banter in the cafe at the end, remember, you can see exactly what they did well and where they messed up, but they can't see yours, unless you swap over who's on point. and that's not always a bad ting, !! Have fun

One for the blues lovers Found it, again, one of my favourite blues track. Beth Hart& Joe Bonamassa, he delivers a killer guitar solo, Quote " If this doesn't move your soul, you don't have one" And she's as hot as hell !!!

I had an absolute dim wit yesterday, and this is not a generalisation but a specific event! My energy services supplier has been "encouraging" me to get smart meters installed. Umm, some bad stuff in the press, but i guess it's the way to go, I am not great a remembering or being arsed to send in monthly meter readings. Installation engineer pitches up at the prescribed time yesterday morning, starts moaning that my gas supply is on the back wall of the house and it was, hissing down, but first he wants to check all the gas appliances, i show him the gas safety certificate issued 10 days ago, response, don't care mate, i need to check all the appliances, OK fill your boots, oven checked, we have a gas fire in the lounge, never used from one year to the next, but was checked out and passed as fit for purpose 10 days ago, so he gets on his knees, takes a look at the unit and, I don't like the way the coals, imitation type, are stacked, and the unit looks very old, me, it's 10 days older than when it was last checked and passed as being serviceable, what's this got to do with fitting a meter? him, I am going to write this up, me, what your going to do is pack up your kit and exit through that door, him, I got a job to do mate, me, shame you don't know how to do it, i think you need some customer training before they let you again. He promised to report me to his supervisor, I said get him on the phone now, and I will happily have that conversation, he didn't accept and left. I work in the property business, I work with trades day in day out, I can honestly say, we get on fine, most of the trades I have worked with for years, they are pals, this guy, arrogant arse, but feel free to make up your own minds

Having worked in highly stressed and competitive corporate world for what must have been 100 years, the penny finally dropped, clearly I am not very bright! I moved from down Souf to up Norf, and I would never go back. Up eer, Folks know your name, the coffee shops, what you drink, it's not always stress free, but it is a lot less stressful. These days, if there is queue at the supermarket, and I don't fancy waiting, I will walk out, if the retailer has an agenda I will leave, if there is a traffic jam, I will filter or get lost some place else. She, has come to terms with my idiosyncrasies', and laughs or I get the block of ice treatment, either way, it works OK for me. But them. I am an old git, and old gits don't really do the stress, stuff, unless your Rugby Team, is playing like a bunch of clowns, and yes you could have done better, because the older you get, the better you where. I am reverting to my hippy/biker persona, happy days, mostly!

Not sure it's been used for track days, the rear tyre doesnt look like its been working very hard!

Last time I referred to the highway code was on a speed awareness course, got into a discussion on filtering with tutor, no you can't yes I can scenario!

Morning all, so after a stressful work week, and more SNOW, we are taking a trip to the cost, Whitby, Steam Punk weekend, not a clan member, but they do add some interest to the day, all good so far, but, she who must be obeyed wont consider going on the bike, her argument, only you have heated grips! Need to work on a killer response, any ideas?

I had a ZZR 1100 for about 4 years, rode it around Europe many times, solid as a rock and as heavy as a mountain, loved it. It was coined the battleship by the group, lost count of the number of times I swapped rides on the way back from a trip, and ended up on a Blade or Duke.

So my main life changing issue "Where have all the ginger creams gone" since moving up Norf, finding a regular, dependable supply has been a constant challenge, and one I am not winning!

Orses, I have always been a orse friendly person, used to fall off them regularly when I was a young scrap, them I discovered engines and switched to falling off motorbikes.. So yesterdays ride through the Peak district was glorious, note to self, look at the road not the scenery, bends come fast and challenging! Just cleared a village, 30 mph speed limit, nice bendy bit coming up so ready to make progress, I can see horse taxi, pulled up in a small layby, with the rear doors open, nobody outside, roll-off, stay right. 50 yds before I pass the horse box, horse and minder rapidly exit the box, backwards, into the road in front of me, pulled up, no drama, lady about to get the beasty under control, screech of tyres behind me, car part sideways on, manages to pull up, young women driver looking terrified, lessen learned for all three I hope. But, how fast was the driver going through the village to be carrying so much speed, maybe 200 yds from the 30 mph exit, this was not a Mclaren 675, bonkers ! Just another interesting/ glorious day out on two wheels. PS: Come 5pm, loving heated grips

I have a free me weekend, so the bike and me are taking a run up to Filey, I am going to have try very hard to look miserable when she gets back. Oh no your not.......

So last week I added an alarm disk lock to my existing disk lock, when I set off this morning how many locks did I take off, der

Morning all, I have a tonne of accounts to do today, I really really struggle with focussing on bean counting stuff, so head says the deal is if I complete the work by mid afternoon, I get to go for a ride out, yeay, weather is looking good, heart goes, why not go out for ride first then.... Wonder how this is going to play out!!!!

Any of you folks going to this event in Malton North Yorkshire tomorrow. Vintage cars and bikes on display and the forecast is dry, that's put the kybosh on it!

For me, this is easy, Back in 2003 Le Havre to Dordogne, Via Caen, Rennes, Nantes, Bordeaux, why was it the worst of the worst? 550 miles, torrential wetness every mile, and one of the guys on a Firestorm with a tank range of 120 miles., stopping and starting off again, with boots filled to overflowing and togs completely sodden, complete sense of humour melt down! I have ridden over the Alps, in Snow, Vietnam, which is just plain bonkers crazy, but nothing comes close to that ride for 10 hours of pure misery. Being bikers, and therefor, of little brain, we did it again in 2005, coz we could, and, we didn't get damp!

In my world, a good calliper bleeding kit, defo not the pressurised version, tried one, spent hours cleaning up the volcano of hydraulic fluid spay.

OK, so Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Defo a milligan book but for me Puckcoon Marvelous Ways The keeper of Stories And who would be without the Complete works of Shakespeare