Re: Twenty two hours in the garage
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:29 am
Are those fittings in the tank side for knee pads?
Which moors are they? Looks familiar.
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Twenty two hours in the garage
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Re: Twenty two hours in the garage
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:47 am
Do a Ted Simon and ride back to work.
Which moors are they? Looks familiar.
Which moors are they? Looks familiar.
Re: Twenty two hours in the garage
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:52 am
You'd find it much easier if you fixed the valve lifter / decompressor especially as you can then give it a couple of gentle strokes with the lifter raised to get the juices flowing before the long swinging kick.Potter wrote: Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:15 am This one needs to be wheeled backwards in second gear until it's just after TDC, then put it in neutral, put the retard/advance lever at the halfway position, then tickle the carb, count to three and kick...it'll go first time if you do that, but if you don't then you'll be there all day.
Why put it away? There are some lovely riding days in autumn and even winter to let it stretch its legs.
So I'm happy to put it away and look forward to riding it next summer.
Re: Twenty two hours in the garage
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 11:24 am
I'd always heard you were not vertically blessed, but I honestly thought you'd be able to see over the bars better than that.
Re: Twenty two hours in the garage
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 1:18 pm
The OP works and lives abroad most of the time.iansoady wrote: Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:52 am
Why put it away? There are some lovely riding days in autumn and even winter to let it stretch its legs.
But if he wants someone to look after it meanwhile.....
Re: Twenty two hours in the garage
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 2:43 pm
TBF, if the bike was in France I'd have tracked down the garage by now and offered to 'look after' the Rudge till next summer!!Count Steer wrote: Thu Aug 26, 2021 1:18 pmThe OP works and lives abroad most of the time.iansoady wrote: Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:52 am
Why put it away? There are some lovely riding days in autumn and even winter to let it stretch its legs.
But if he wants someone to look after it meanwhile.....
Re: Twenty two hours in the garage
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 3:00 pm
Oh nice. (I may get the Forest and Trough of Bowland mixed up). We used to watch the masses of starlings over it from the Blackburn end. Used to go to The Inn at Whitewell too. A band of us (from VD days) from the south east met up with some local and Manchester bikers and had a day riding around the Trough and Forest. I was 2 up on a BMW1200LT which was fun in a 'riding a headstrong whale through a slalom' sort of way.Potter wrote: Thu Aug 26, 2021 2:34 pmYes, I could probably do with some, I find myself gripping the tank a lot because there is no suspension, so a very relaxed grip on the bars (in fact basically just resting my hands on them) and hold on with your knees, or balancing your weight on your feet, like riding motocross or a horse. It's smooth on flat roads but over bumps and potholes its jarring.
Trough of Bowland.
Took my lad through there last night, on some of the edges coming home there are some decent forest/woodland roads, he really enjoyed himself, but he said he nearly went through a bunch of hedgerows because (apart from not being used to the bike) the bends are sharp and the falling sun kept shining through the trees and making it hard to see, he grew up in the Caribbean and Middle East, so bends and woodland aren't something he's come across much before, show him a reef and he'll dive and get supper, but show him a country road and he shits himself
Don't know how it is now but I don't remember much traffic at all.Mrs Pillion put a skidoo into a tree in Canada thanks to sharp bends, low sun, overhanging trees and some v dark sunnies. She couldn't even see she'd hit the tree and was revving it wondering why it wouldn't move.
The combination does make for interesting riding.Re: Twenty two hours in the garage
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 4:03 pm
I have been quite in love with the Rudge since you first posted pics on the other place, so I'm certain sure I could deal with it's 'differences'!! LOLPotter wrote: Thu Aug 26, 2021 3:53 pmIt's an acquired taste, you have to be happy having it loose and jarring all at the same time, but the 500 single torque and power is lovely.Noggin wrote: Thu Aug 26, 2021 2:43 pm
TBF, if the bike was in France I'd have tracked down the garage by now and offered to 'look after' the Rudge till next summer!!
Re: Twenty two hours in the garage
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 11:16 am
Wow!! Two offers in one sentence!!Potter wrote: Thu Aug 26, 2021 4:06 pmWell you're welcome to a ride if we cross paths, I might even give you go of the Rudge tooNoggin wrote: Thu Aug 26, 2021 4:03 pm
I have been quite in love with the Rudge since you first posted pics on the other place, so I'm certain sure I could deal with it's 'differences'!! LOL
I'll definitely take you up on one of them 
Re: Twenty two hours in the garage
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 12:04 pm
I have to admit I was thinking about it....
Re: Twenty two hours in the garage
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 12:07 pm
Soapy tit wank?Noggin wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 11:16 amWow!! Two offers in one sentence!!Potter wrote: Thu Aug 26, 2021 4:06 pmWell you're welcome to a ride if we cross paths, I might even give you go of the Rudge tooNoggin wrote: Thu Aug 26, 2021 4:03 pm
I have been quite in love with the Rudge since you first posted pics on the other place, so I'm certain sure I could deal with it's 'differences'!! LOL
Re: Twenty two hours in the garage
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 1:04 pm
He hasn't got the moobs for it.
Re: Twenty two hours in the garage
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 1:05 pm
They'll be about the right height
Re: Twenty two hours in the garage
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 3:09 pm
You three have proper made me laugh today. Which is needed but thought to be at best unlikely!! LOL
Thanx you guys xxx
Thanx you guys
xxxRe: Twenty two hours in the garage
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 3:11 pm
So who is the winner?Noggin wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 3:09 pm You three have proper made me laugh today. Which is needed but thought to be at best unlikely!! LOL
Thanx you guys
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