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  1. Hello guys , and thanks for the welcome let me tell you a bit about this bike. Ive always been a bit of a Brit bike man , mainly BSA,s,not because I didn't like Japanese stuff , I did , a BSA was always easier to work with ,mechanically they were good , my mate did 100 000 miles on his A10 , same engine. they sounded nicer to me and not wanting to go into warp drive at every traffic light they suited me , yes I did get fed up of pushing an A65 lightening home from work , but that really wasn't BSA,s fault , it was joe lucas.....prince of eternal darkness. Then I had this prang in the ninetees.....put me off bikes for a bit. so lets jump forward to april 2014 , and in a local pub in holywell N Wales myself and my good friend Alan , who incidentally originates from the Shetland isles , have sunk a few and started to talk sh........silly ! "now ive got that bonnie , I reckon we should do a tour of Ireland.....says Al "on what , says I , I havnt got a bloody bike ! " well what about that BSA then ? " its in the pipe line" " well so,s my pint so get em in ! when the laughter died down , we laugh at fruit when were avin a few ! , Al offered to give me his old XJ600 , he hadn't ridden it for ten years and it was in the Shetland islands for god sake , let me take care of the travel, he said, you can take care of the rest. So a week later it arrived on a palet in a sorry state , itd been covetred from head to foot in wax oil to preserve it , enbarmed more like ! I thought I,d get it going first to see what the mechanics were like before spending any money , it seemed ok.... sort of.....I mean it would only run between 4 and 8 thousand rpm , and it took half an hour to start.....but it didn't smoke or leak any oil...happy days ...or so I thought
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  2. I'm glad you said lid and not helmet!!
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  3. It's just been stood for a few years, it runs and all but the the paintwork on the roof is pretty scabby Unfortunately it isn't the twin turbo still looks cool as fook though and with the FTO down for maintenance it will be fine to roll around in
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  4. That's about the level of many people on the forum. I'm more refined though.
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  5. A couple of years back we went to Germany and round the burg, I titled the post " my ring pics"
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  6. Yip The Hondamatic My mate owned a 400 Dream which I thought looked ok, but couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding. I briefly owned a 4/4 which came immediately after my disastrous xs250, so I thought it was great, except in the wet cos it kept shorting out. Once I junked the metal clad plug caps it ran great wet or dry
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  7. "If you start out with 40 hp you will be used to how the power comes on and work with it if you start with 12" You'll have far less margin for error though, which is what the 125 allows for. You're also more likely to rely on power to get out of situations instead of learning/being forced to plan ahead and avoid them completely. "HP does not have anything to do with how someone rides,the right wrist and the grey matter between your ears does." Then why aren't we all learning on 190hp bikes from the outset? "I have been involved in every form of racing" That's nice. How many of those races involved tracks with buildings, street lamps, phone boxes, kerbs, bridge pillars, pedestrians, cyclists and cunts in cars going both ways? "The point is that if you dont respect the HP then it will hurt you no matter if it 12 or 1000." Lower HP gives you a far larger margin for error. No point trying to sprint before you can walk. Most people who cannot do something well still respect the potential consequences of failure, but developing the skill to handle it generally requires starting off small. "To me it's the same as saying you can't give a kid a gun he will kill someone,thats just stupid,if you teach them saftey and the rules to operate it and they can understand them then no problem." So you'd give them a .30cal machine gun to start off with, right? That's also only about the indexfinger and the grey matter, right? "if little richie rich can go buy a lambo and drive it then why punish people who want to ride bikes." Cars have many protective measures. Bikes are naked missiles. Also, I can pass my test and go buy a Hayabusa if I want. Far cheaper than a Lambo... "Do you want the government telling you you have to buy another car with X hp so your son or daughter can learn how to drive?" But can the average car do 0-60 in under 5 seconds? I bet not!!
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  8. New horn button in. Polished gear lever. Why I needed new footpegs New air filter in..wetted with 2stroke oil. New battery in 2 stroke & coolant reservoirs on. Radiator on Headlight on and polished up Brake pads look ok Cleanup and assemble calipers tomorrow
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  9. so , before I upload some pictures of this boufante haired eighties glam queen ! let me tell you what I found , first the good bits....it was all there......that's it.......oh and the chain and sprockets were new......ish. A strip was now inevitable , the ale fuelled promise of " well itll probably need a tune up and a damn good clean " was as near to the truth as the princess Diana post mortem ! on a stand it went , well four bits of scaffolding and a piece of wood , front and rear wheels off , calipers , forks out , fairing off ( Yamaha must have invented the "fairing self removal system " ) then came a hot pressure wash to remove the wax oil.....and all the paint ! The trip to Ireland could now surely only be done on LSD. Both the fork stations resembled rat tail files , the tank had been shot with a 12 bore full of rusty screws , the exhaust pipes had been glued to the head with shetlands industrial strength porridge , there was a mice nest in the air box ( that is not a joke ) and all four carbs must have been running on tank lining and rust particles , tight sods these jocks you know ! so there you have it , another heart ache project that soft lad here is going to pump all his hard earned cash into.....if only bikes could talk " youre looking a bit rough lately XJ " " eye , I dream of ending up at Richies place where money is no object even on an old piece of sh%te like me " its starting to go together now with its rebuilt forks , new hard chrome stantions , bushes , seals and dusties. the calipers have been stripped cleaned and painted gloss black and so has the swinging arm , couldnt live with that " not been painted look " the wheels look lovely in their new paint and the discs cleaned up surprisingly well in my wifes pedal bin full of caustic soda.I fired it up the other day to balance the carbs , it run ok considering its got the cheapest nastiest 4 into 1 system this side of utter Pradesh . Now heres my question , if you can help guys , its done 30 000 miles and its got a rumble from the bottom , mind you so have I after anight out on the ale , this rumble come rattle disappears when you pull the clutch in.... would I be right in presuming its the clutch basket bearing and if so where can I get one ? cheers guys , pics coming soon and more stories of woe.
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