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    So it begins

    in The Bar

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    Providing you can afford it grouchy, stick with your plan. As mentioned, keep the receipts to back up the service history. You will never get the servicing money back but the additional cost of main dealer servicing would be about £3.00 a week so half a box of fags or one pint or a burger at a roadside cafe. Just find a dealer who does what they get paid to do. My FZ came back the other day with copaslip on the brake pins, greased around the suspension linkages, the chain adjusted and lubed and the tyres pumped up.

    One hit wonders

    in General

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    I used to listen to these when they were on the wireless. T'was a grim time, even down south, money was so tight that we used to have cardboard burgers and thin gravy for tea. I think I was working as a shoeshine boy then on a farthing a week.

    Ahhhh, the good old days!

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    First Oil Change

    in Yamaha Workshop

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    Gear oil - depending on what it is (EP90) is for old skool car gearboxes that do not share the same oil as engines. It is very thick! The oil should be for bikes and a previous answer had the letters to look out for. This is the kind of product I buy from my local dealer to keep them ticking over however my favourite bike oil is rock oil guardian. You can buy it direct from fleabag if you need. I tend not to buy 5 litre containers anymore because once opened and a third used they have a tendency to sit in my workshop for months. Just buy close to what you need. Remember to dispose of old oil properly. That normally means taking it to the local tip where you can pour it away. Don't be tempted to throw it in the bin, pour it down a drain, put it in a skip or post it to someone you don't like!

    XJ/FJ 600 cafe

    in Projects

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    Can I add photos when I am free user ?

    In the forum posts, yes. Search in the help section. You normally need to have the picture hosted and then you can link the picture.

    Tempus Fugit

    in General

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    And the queen yesterday.

    well within a day you do?

    Sorry Paul, looks like you were right.

    Well my memory hasn't been the same since................................................ er............................................ I forget now.

    Thanks for all the HB's. Another day/year closer to retirement :rah: Saga gave given up on me, I now just get leaflets about funeral costs.

    Anyone else think the early picture of Jimmy looks like he wanted to join Wet Wet Wet?

    Fault code.

    in Yamaha Workshop

    Posted

    You have posted the same question in several sections of the forum. Whether you meant to or not is irrelevant. This causes people to not know which one to reply to, if they can help. This forum tends to be very friendly but there will be some questions that people will not be able to answer and these tend to get limited, or no, replies. That said, calling people "idiots" isn't really conducive to getting people to try and help out.

    Virago power trouble.

    in Yamaha Workshop

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    That is a great video of the plug arcing. If you have a little spare length on your ht lead unscrew the plug cap. Trim 10mm of the ht lead. Re screw in the plug cap and try it again. You would be better to change the cap and remove, clean and re fit the spark plug too. Not only will it run rough but it will allow Un burnt petrol into that cylinder which will wash the bore and could ruin the compression in it.

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    Fault code

    in Naked

    Posted

    Please stop putting multiple posts up. I am sure if someone knows the answer they will help. Asking the same question in several sections will just confuse people.

    This topic here is now locked.

    Virago power trouble.

    in Yamaha Workshop

    Posted

    You need to confirm that the battery is charging and that the battery is holding a charge, especially under load (when using the starter motor).

    I said bodge because I'm your first post you said you put an extra piece of rubber around "it". It sounds like the ht lead was arcing out and it may have been better to change the ht lead and plug cap.

    Be careful out there

    in General

    Posted

    We have had a good few sunny days but remember to be careful out there. Yesterday there was a collision outside of one of the places I work between a motorbike and a cyclist. The cyclist has died and the biker was critical, last I heard.

    This was 100 yards from an A&E, major trauma, hospital where your chances of survival are going to be much better. The accident was not a pretty sight - I was on my way from that hospital to the other one I work in. Hospital staff on their way to work left their cars and assisted immediately but the cyclist died.

    Just a reminder that things happen very quickly; sun or no sun.

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