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Just turned the big 30 today. Think i'll go for a ride to celebrate.
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T'was my daughter, sarah's, 13th birthday today, last night she had a party and today she wanted to go a run on the bike. So me, sarah, my eldest son and his pal set off for Inveraray, stopping at the Rest and Be Thankful Then onto Inverary for fish and chips and home where I had a few beers and a fire oh and an Axe and finally (thank fek you say), check on the birthday girl who is fast asleep See Bips, you're not the only Triumph Gal on t'forum
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As Arnie once put it, I'm back .... Although minus the bad haircut and dodgy accent. Haven't posted in ages but glad to see the sites still here --- so 3 cheers to all of you who still take the time to make it happen. Thankless job no doubt, you have my admiration. As I approach the age of a living fossil, aka 40, I have found myself pondering some of life's big questions. Why are we here? When will I die? What exactly does blue belly button fluff do? Just wondering if any of you have life insurance which gives a particularly good deal to bikers ... seeing as we have the unenviable honour of being most likely to meet our Maker while thinking "where the hell did he…
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the speedo goes straight past 50mph when only doing about 15-20. i bought a speedo and had to hardwire it becsuse of s broken connection. is there a way of cslibrating it or should i just cut it of and cross my fingers I'm not going to fast.
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Well i finally passed MOD 1 after three failed attempts! Was pretty nervous again this morning and not looking forward to the avoidance again, lots of deep breaths trying to get karma and then repeating to myself 'I can do this'...and I did. What a happy bunny I am today. Roll on MOD 2.
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bear with me - there is a tendancy for all us bikers (i think) to have an eye out for the next upgrade, we work our way up from learner type machines and of course from there find the next step, newer, more trick looking. more powerful ...then there comes a point where you feel a tendancy to keep going and perhaps, as maybe you get older that you sometimes look back and think, I wish I hadn't sold that bike, let it go, traded it in...and it wasn't necessarily the newest, best looking or most powerful.. do you think that it can actually be harder to say,' no this bikes fine it does everything I need' and resist the peer pressure or whatever it is that makes us keep…
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I've decided that after some consideration that breathing in a bit of two stroke smoke and having a blast on the dtr is way more healthy than those little white sticks. So I'm giving up smoking. Lol
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I wouldn't go so far as to say I get pissed off In fact sometime's its Quite funny and often it's an honest mistake, I know when I first joined YOC my intro wasn't great. I found the (start a new topic button) but thought starting a new topic isn't saying hello. I think its quite confusing when your new, if there was a button that said (say hello here) it would be much simpler and we wouldn't see nearly so many questions in the new members area. I realize its the same layout for each forum and maybe can't change button title on just one forum but maybe a heading above the button would help. anyone else got any idea's how to make it clearer to new members as know i'm…
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Aye guys" a mate thinkn of a 50cc , i told him get a 125, ,whats the figuers, he had a TS125 in 1980 . . he needs it for fishing trips,,
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Got a call from OT today, saw me in Monton, so he came round in this so he's now got a Triumph Daytona and the MV and very much still alive Oh and the Tracker went on one cylinder and its not the coil
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Well got the cylinder and head off her!! Doesn't look nice. First glance the head looked fine apart from small dents all over the detention surface. Then the cylinder didn't have any obvious marks or chunks missing but the piston had 1/4 of a ring missing and a few bits lying in bottom end! Also the small end baring where stuff as hell, I had to get a pin and hammer to knock out pin. I've test fitted a new piston and I find when I push in the piston there is resistance at the top of exhaust port so I'm guessing that's not good. Would it be worth getting the dremel out and tryin to smooth over the edge of exhaust port? Cheers Ken
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Hey folks. More good news........ Tennis elbow or from my sympathetic father 'wankers cramp'. Is kicking in big time. Got docs tommorow for tests. Guess my summer is over bfore it starts.
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Hi guys, Has anyone any thoughts on what's better? I want a deeper louder noise and its a toss up between these 2.... Any advice or help? Cheers Bomber
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Hey peeps Been drawing up some sketches for project FUCR, the tank that is on it now is fuck ugly and will be going, but inkeeping with the cafe racer them i want to find a smaller (but still large enough for good range) fuel tank, and due to the XZs' design of having the airbox and carbs underneath the tank it would need to have a fairly wide tunnel underneath, since my options for used tanks are limited im wanting to fabricate one. however im not sure wether it would be more beneficial to use aluminium or fibreglass, will most likely be using large blocks of florist foam as templates so actually forming either shouldnt be a problem, only problems i can foresee a…
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Hello, sorry if there is already a thread under the same subject, I am new to this Forum and I don't really know much about it. I am just looking for some good security devices for my YBR125 and hopefully it will bring my Insurance down a little. What do you recommend?
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Thought i would go for a nice little ride through the welsh countryside today. Had a great time, saw some lovely sights. Here's a few pictures of how awesome wales is hahahahah: (do forgive the lack of picture quality, these were taken on my phone) Firstly here's Barmouth bridge (it is 820 m long so just over half a mile of wooden planks, and fuck me do they make a noise) very good fun....the toll is £2.50 to cross on a motorbike HOWEVER there is very rarely anyone there to pay this time of year, in summer months i have been told there is someone there in the daytime. The bridge is open 24/7, i highly recommend you give this ago if you are ever in the Barmout…
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Hello my friends, my name is Michael and i'm from Greece, this is my first post, and i would like to ask wich model it is this motorbike? or wich model is the engine? thanks my image is : http://s17.postimg.org/p7w4evyhb/jim_1.jpg
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I was told there was a decent bike for sale in this ad........but I was buggered if I could see it!!!!! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/161023657323?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649#ht_4323wt_1156 CT
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Yes, but will it run on cooking oil? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Diesel-Superdream-400-/300906182250?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item460f67f66a
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