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    Parking tickets

    in The Bar

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    Private land ones are invoices. Signage has to be clearly visible and show penalties. Any legal action is for breach of contract and the fine must be reasonable (up to £100 I think) however a court should only look at the loss to the landowner so parking in a space for an hour does not equate to a large sum of money. I had one a while ago. I emailed them to ask for a full financial breakdown of the £100 loss to the landowner for me parking and a full traffic drawing of signage showing text and size of text. They emailed back after a couple of weeks and let me off.

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    CBT instructor training

    in The Bar

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    It can (could) be good fun. I taught CBT as a volunteer back in the early '90's. I turned Cardington down when it was offered due to work commitments and sometimes regret it. It was a good way to give something back and socialise. Sunday mornings for practical and Tuesday evenings for theory where I taught. There must be quite a few experienced bikers out there now with my signature on their CBT certificate.

    75 DT 250 oil dramas

    in Yamaha Workshop

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    Moved to workshop.

    2 strokes use 2 kinds of oil, gearbox and 2 stroke.These are very different and do not mix.

    Gearbox oil goes in the gearbox and is used the same as a 4 stroke, it lubricates the cogs. There should be a cap on the gearbox which the gearbox oil goes in. Use bike oil, not car oil.

    2 stroke oil goes in the 2 stroke tank, or in your case - without a pump, mixes with the fuel and gets burnt with the fuel. A common box ratio is 33:1 so for every 33 parts of fuel you add 1 part of 2 stroke oil. Some people mix in a container and pour this into the fuel tank and some just calculate it by knowing how much fuel the fuel tank takes and pour the right amount of 2 stroke oil into it.

    Reminissing ?

    in Random

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    Remember when.............................................

    Great pictures John. Not sure who the bloke in the second picture is but he looks very dodgy!

    Here are a couple, the first the same as yours from the reverse angle. By the way, are the TS and DT in pic 1 being friendly or locking horns?

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    I must start to restore this, this year

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    Battery Eliminators - information sheet

    in Yamaha Workshop

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    A timely post for me as I plan to cure the overcharging that has dogged my TS for a long while. I did buy some capacitors and a "proper" eliminator but just couldn't see to get them to work in a stable fashion and the regulator got very hot. I think my charging issues - normally a dry battery - is due to me somehow bridging the direct power to the lights with the charging system. This is boiling the battery. Because of time constraints I did start messing with the harness but over the last couple of weeks I have brought a new main harness, l/h switchgear and a new tacho harness. These are the 3 complicated bits on the bike so the plan is to strip the electrics out and replace them rather than fault find. I do have a new battery for it but these are cheap as chips anyway.

    I am on my phone looking at the moment. What's the cost of a 6v negative earth eliminator? I might have a mess around?

    Breakdown relay? RANT!!!

    in The Bar

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    When my RD stopped a few months ago I was in the middle of nowhere, luckily I had a couple of bottles of flavoured water and a couple of bags of haribos to chomp on. Note to self - get some haribos to put under the seat.

    Good luck and hope it can be fixed cheaply.

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