It's just a nail !!!
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Re: It's just a nail !!!
I was having new tyres fitted on Friday and this was sat outside waiting for the garage next door to MOT it, I have no idea if it passed
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Re: It's just a nail !!!
One careful owner.
But 10 complete arseholes.
But 10 complete arseholes.
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Re: It's just a nail !!!
I'm rough but that's proper rough.
I might use a nail if it was the perfect size, but I'd drill it and use a split pin then chop the excess off, or I'd pop it in the lathe and machine a groove and use a circlip - or in fact you don't even need to machine a groove, just use one of those press on circlip type things than push on one way and hold - no idea what they're called.
Anyone that does that is a proper cowboy and it'll have horror jobs all over the rest of the bike.
Imagine what he does with the electrics
I might use a nail if it was the perfect size, but I'd drill it and use a split pin then chop the excess off, or I'd pop it in the lathe and machine a groove and use a circlip - or in fact you don't even need to machine a groove, just use one of those press on circlip type things than push on one way and hold - no idea what they're called.
Anyone that does that is a proper cowboy and it'll have horror jobs all over the rest of the bike.
Imagine what he does with the electrics
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Re: It's just a nail !!!
I doubt the electrics work- he’s used to main fuse to secure the passenger foot peg...
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Re: It's just a nail !!!
The exhaust on my old VFR fell off once, upon investigating why I learned that one of the previous owners had used a door striker plate as a hanger.
My FiL once repaired a hole in a fighter plane with a cut up Coke can...
You gotta go with what works. For a bit.
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I used to have a Devil endurance 4-1 on my Z1. No baffle supplied or fitted. On long journeys/holidays I used to cut a coke can on half and cram it up the pipe to ease my bleeding ears. As I recall,it stayed in below 5k revs,then spat it up the road.
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I remember Ben from VD turning up a bit late for a rideout as he had to sort out a loose exhaust on a white ZX7R iirc and fashioned a hanger from Meccano. All was good till a few hours later in the afternoon while tearing round some Essex roads in a big group and having been passed recently by said Ben came to a tightening right hand bend with a yellow line that was on the tarmac and disappeared off into the hedges.
Yellow line was from his kneeslider trying to hold the bike in the corner but to no avail. He did some front end damage and ripped off the front brake lever. Most would have limped home but Ben cracked on and finished the ride ,at speed, using the gears and rear brake only for slowing
Yellow line was from his kneeslider trying to hold the bike in the corner but to no avail. He did some front end damage and ripped off the front brake lever. Most would have limped home but Ben cracked on and finished the ride ,at speed, using the gears and rear brake only for slowing
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I rather thought he hadn't really grasped the idea of turning in late rather than taking racing lines in order to leave something in hand for tightening corners. That was on the course he did with me in about 2001 a year or so after the VD launched, when he was riding a rather ratty Kawa ZXR400.Bigyin wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 9:43 pm I remember Ben from VD turning up a bit late for a rideout as he had to sort out a loose exhaust on a white ZX7R iirc and fashioned a hanger from Meccano. All was good till a few hours later in the afternoon while tearing round some Essex roads in a big group and having been passed recently by said Ben came to a tightening right hand bend with a yellow line that was on the tarmac and disappeared off into the hedges.
Yellow line was from his kneeslider trying to hold the bike in the corner but to no avail. He did some front end damage and ripped off the front brake lever. Most would have limped home but Ben cracked on and finished the ride ,at speed, using the gears and rear brake only for slowing
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Re: It's just a nail !!!
He left a lot of red lines on the road when he had his (brief) trail of the Tomahawk tyres......Bigyin wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 9:43 pm I remember Ben from VD turning up a bit late for a rideout as he had to sort out a loose exhaust on a white ZX7R iirc and fashioned a hanger from Meccano. All was good till a few hours later in the afternoon while tearing round some Essex roads in a big group and having been passed recently by said Ben came to a tightening right hand bend with a yellow line that was on the tarmac and disappeared off into the hedges.
Yellow line was from his kneeslider trying to hold the bike in the corner but to no avail. He did some front end damage and ripped off the front brake lever. Most would have limped home but Ben cracked on and finished the ride ,at speed, using the gears and rear brake only for slowing
Spin - I don't remember Ben having a ZXR400..... There was only a couple of people who had them on the forum. Tbh that sounds more like my riding.
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Istr Ben had a naked 400....Bandit grey import? Didn't he have the one with red valve covers?
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I'm pretty sure it was a ZXR400. He'd just passed his test and it was his first big bike IIRC. I also seem to recall it didn't last long.
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Yup, that's right. I had a feeling his first bike was a 400, but couldn't remember which one.Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Wed Oct 21, 2020 6:31 pm Istr Ben had a naked 400....Bandit grey import? Didn't he have the one with red valve covers?
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