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Thanks Guys, something to be thinking on anyway Stu, do they come with headsets/mic's (that are able to be fitted into a helmet) What kind of money do you think he is looking for? Joeman, not even looked at CB kit for about 20 years I shall have a scan round Maplins next time I am in and see what the kit looks like these days (I had visions of a great big DIN sized unit and a whip ariel on your 50, sorry ) Fast Eddie, that looks like the kind of thing, do you have them?

We have 2 Alaskan Malamutes. They are an utter pain in the arse, want attention all the time, drop fur all over the house, howl when we walk out of the room, howl when we walk back in, stand on my face when I am trying to sleep, investigate the TV because it is making noises and stand in front of it when the good bits are on, cost a fortune to feed and are brilliant and I could not be without them

You won't do any damage riding like that. The only issue you will have is the electric start won't work, and should you stall mid junction or have another issue which shuts the engine down, you will lose lights and indicators. Depending where the battery comes from, you may be able to plug it straight in, you may have to top up the acid (which will be supplied with it) and charge. Any battery charger will work just fine, you don't need a bike specific one. You could also just fit it, then kick start the bike and go for a ride.

I want/fancy/need a bike to bike intercom. Not too bothered about massive range, a couple of hundred metres will be more than adequate. Don't really want to spend a fortune on a professional radio or Bluetooth setup when it will only be used occasionally. I have seen some efforts about on eBay and the like, but they seem to have a headset which looks like it will give you a free lobotomy if you put it on underneath a helmet. I am handy with a soldering iron, and don't mind sourcing components from different places and assembling them myself into the end result. Has anybody made themselves a decent setup and would not mind sharing the design? Anybody bought a bit of kit cheap which is designed for something else but works a treat as a bike intercom? Any help really would be appreciated

But be aware, some Haynes manuals do clever things like tell you to take all the jets out to clean them, and then in the re-assemble bit they will tell you to refit the pilot screw, turning it out the same amount as it was when you took it apart, without mentioning it might be nice to make a note of that when it said 'remove pilot screw' Have a read through the remove, clean, reassemble and refit before you actually turn a screwdriver.

Even if they were not sparking at all, as long as the piston is going up and down and the valves are working, you will be sucking fuel in so will get vacuum at the carb. Like Megawatt says, run the bike then whip the plugs out sharpish, if the plug is distinctly colder than the others and wet with fuel, you are not sparking. You can get a spare plug and connect it to one plug lead at a time, connect it up and lay the plug so the body of the plug is touching a metal part of the bike and you can see it, turn it over and you should see a nice fat spark (try not to touch any part of the plug or HT lead while this is happening, you should be ok if the insulation is good, but it does break down over time) You could work your way along, if you get a spark at every plug then the coils are ok, but maybe connected up to the wrong cylinders. If you have 2 sparking and 2 not, trace the 2 non sparkers back to the coil, if they go to the same one then you know that it is knackered.

Hmm, you seem to have a serious problem understanding nobody has written or is even mildly suggesting the heat from a hairdryer will be enough to make a steel fuel tank more malleable. Perhaps it is because you are too busy writing your Sons of Anarchy fan fiction or telling people about the time you ate a kebab, I don't know but I will break it down for you once more using simple numbers to explain. If a sheet sheet is at room temperature (lets use the number 15 and call them degrees) and you spray freezing fluid on it in a localised area and it reduces the temperature to -100 then you have a difference of 115 degrees and the equivalent shrinking of that localised area is proportional to that. If you warm the sheet with a hairdryer to 50 degrees, then spray freezing fluid onto a localised area and it reduces the temperature to -100 then you have a temperature difference of 150 degrees and shrinking in that localised area is again proportional (clue, it will be more) That is known as a temperature gradient. As you state you are still betting so much money, and I have already posted a link to a video that you seem to have ignored which proves the theory works, do you need my address?

I just ended up with a bit of tea up my nose

I have to admit, I hate the idea. I detest the nanny state, and realistically the Police already have powers that they don't use, and so do landlords. It is illegal to serve a drunk person in a pub, and it is also possible to be arrested for being drunk in a public place. Local councils can also ban the public consumption of alcohol is designated places. If these powers that already exist don't get used or enforced, then why should generally law abiding people have to jump through hoops and pay money to have a licence to have a few quiet ones at home or in a pub or restaurant. Just because a minority of people cause a problem, legislating it to within an inch of it's life generally only effect those who tend to obey the paw, those who don't, will just continue to ignore it and find ways round it.

Pretty much spot on mate It would have to be able to be pushed out from the inside, I did clarify that earlier on, but if you have no access then this method has the same effect, that of causing a relative movement in the metal. It won't work on big thick chunks of skin, the metal will have had to elastically deform to stay in a dent, but a thinner sheet where you have a shallow dent with no big radius change might just work. The OP says a shallow dent so worth a try? Like I was saying, there are no guarantees, but from his description, i would certainly give it a go for what it costs. (a couple of pence for the hairdryers electricity and an aerosol that a lot of offices and such use) Use the hairdryer to heat the metal around the dent rather than the middle of the dent where you are going to cool, you are trying to raise the temp gradient between the sprayed metal, and the unsprayed.

Not tried it myself on a Bike fuel tank and with a hairdryer, no. But I do understand the physics behind the theory. I am not saying it will definitely work either, just that the localised contraction you can cause could make the metal pop back out. I can not make a video of an oven tray doing it as he suggested because smacking an oven tray will cause it to crease and twist. This is plastic deformation, not elastic. Heating and shrinking a metal with plastic deformation will not make it pop back into a previously held shape. Quick 2 minute google found a video of the kind of effect I am talking about. Spannerhead, if this meets your criteria, feel free to keep your left nut, I have no use for it, but if you are still willing to send the cash, I will PM you my address. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oQpks0Z ... re=related

If you don't know what effect localised heating and cooling can have on metal, then perhaps you did not study metallurgy hard enough. You certainly have not read what I have written to come up with your pathetic analogy above. Did you read the bit where I wrote 'won't work if the metal is stretched or creased'? It will only work on the kind of dent that would 'pop' out if you could get to the inside to push, if you are lucky, the rapid cooling will cause enough local movement to have the same effect. You are so convinced this could not possibly work you are basically accusing me of being a moron, but worst case, absolutely no further damage is caused. You option of smashing around inside the tank could easily cause further denting, so then the PDR guy has multiple dents, high's and lows to fix with complicated stress raisers to work out which dent is which. Thanks for the completely irrelevant description of quenching though, massively interesting as it was it clearly has nothing to do with what is being talked about.

Is the choke definitely coming all the way off? The symptoms would fit if the choke was sticking on.

That's old information. It changed in 2001. You used to get your provisional licence at 17 and if you had not taken a test (car or bike) within the 2 years you could not re-apply for a further year for your bike licence provisional.. Now you get your provisional motorcycle licence at 17 which lasts just like the rest of your licence, until you are 70.

Depending on what was being shouted, the keys may end up in the nearest bramble and nettle filled ditch

Why do you think you have a few relays gone? relays don't generally just go, especially a few at a time without something else causing the issue. Also, just because something is not massive and heavy does not mean it will have no effect on a bike. I had a resistor measuring about 1/4 of an inch long and weighing less than a tenth of an ounce go on my car from inside the ECU. A ton and a half of car won't move without it. If you have several relays gone, I am surprised you did not notice before, and surprised the bike worked as well.

I know what you are saying, It's just because of the way I am that I would not hesitate to unfriend somebody and then happily tell them I had done it. I do know people who have been in your situation before and what they did was set up a whole new account (use your middle name, hyphenate it or something to differentiate it from your current account) and then re-invite all the people you still want to be friends with. Leave the old account dormant. It will work but obviously if they later find out you will be in the same place as you will be if you just unfriend them.

Not really. If you remove them it won't tell them until they stop seeing your posts. If they look for you they will then realise that you are no longer friends. Same as if you block them. What kind of shitstorm can they kick up? You removed me from Facebook! Why yes, yes I did.

Second meet tonight, hopefully the weather will hold and we will have another good day like last week. Be nice if a few more people made it? I shall be there and I am taking my lad on his brand new (to him) Aprilia RS125.

Oil goes black because of carbon and heat. If your engine runs about where it should in the temp range then no issues. You say it is 'nearly' black after 20 or so miles so that is pretty normal. If it was immediately very black then you might have an issue. Did you flush the oil during the engine change? Or just drain, filter and refill? Because if you did not flush that can also cause it to go darker, quicker, due to the carbon in the oil still in it mixing with the new (not an issue, and I am not saying you have to flush every time)

Although mine was not that long ago I cannot actually remember I think however that at least a few times I dropped it again after moving off. I definitely opened it a few times due to the nerves and the hot day causing a bit of fogging. (and the swearing as I thought I had cocked up badly enough to fail, which was then not even mentioned on the debrief, never mind scored down) Like I say, I cannot swear that I did not do it as part of putting the bike in gear before moving off, it did not register as a big thing I suppose so I never thought about it, hence not remembering? Good luck with the Mod 2

Yours is not the first experience I have heard of like this. It must surely be isolated to Bike instructors? (mine were excellent though, I was obviously lucky) No other people in the country take your money to teach you something, and then shout and swear at you surely? I must admit, if I was paying somebody good money and they had a temper tantrum at me they would be told they were unprofessional and had seen the last of my money (as well as being told in no uncertain terms if they EVER talk to me like that again they will end up sat on their arse) How do these people stay in business? If it were me, and you are set on going back to him, I would have a word before the next lesson. I would be doing all the talking and he would be doing all the listening and he would be damn sure where he stood at the end of the conversation. You are there to be taught (and the odd sharp word can go along with that) not to be bullied to make him feel like the big man.

Try a decent ring spanner, you need a good 6 sided one, not a multiple position one. If it slips with a 6 sided ring spanner, you need professional help getting it off anyway as it is round. I don't know what your tools are like but companies that sell cheap ring spanners should be shot. They cause more damage that they remove bolts.

Can you get a ring spanner on it? A good 6 sided ring spanner is as good as a socket. (better than a cheap socket) If you are confident you can get the oil filter off and back on again, or if it all goes wrong you can get somebody else to sort it without starting the bike and riding it, then stick a screwdriver through the side of the old filter and use the leverage to unscrew it. Oil wrench tools are generally rubbish, I have yet to be beaten by smacking a screwdriver through the side and twisting

Also reported. Do you really have nothing better to do on a Sunday that sign up to a Bike website with badly spelled bike usernames, all so your spam will be here for the half and hour or so it will take the Admins to delete it? I hope your website has cost you a lot of money to set up, say goodbye to it though.