Cynic

Nice. Always like a trike that is still a bike at heart.

He is talking v twin diesel. Some scaffold pipe should sort it.

Stamps in a service book mean squat. The only place it will even remotely help the price is at a dealer and they will hammer you anyhow. The money you have saved doing it yourself will hansomely cover any possible profit from paying a stealer to do it and having a stamp. Envelope full of dated receipts will make a far bigger difference.

Your far better off spilling coffee on a book in the garage instead of your laptop. Plus you can write all your important info in the manual, mileage of service, filters changed etc. Draw your additions/mods for power sockets and such onto the wiring diagrams. That cd will get 'put somewhere safe'. And never be seen again, or when you have a problem your pad/phone/lappy will be flat/broken. Sometimes the book is best.

Your money. Why ask if your going to the garage con artists anyway. It will be bits in the carb from it drying out over the 5 months. Modern fuel is rubbish and leaves a crust as it evaporates, that comes away and clogs jets. Splitting hairs with someone offering help is not likely to help replies either as you still haven't said hi in the new members area. This forum is very open with almost no rules bar copyright and selling without membership. Little if any post censorship and no vetting or verification to join. The one real constant is 95% of the membership will not touch a first post problem, people use us as a one stop google bike fix, that gets frustrating so members wait for some sign they might stay for more than a few posts. Best of luck with it.

Clean the carb, bogging is down to dirt in the float bowl 99% of the time. Its getting sucked up against one of the jets, bike cuts out or runs shite so you stop. Piece of crap floats down to wait till next time. 2 points though, first post a bit of a hello in the new members section and second buy yourself a manual and then the basic toolkit to fix it. Sounds expensive but it WILL be far cheaper than having the pissed off bike mechanic daydreaming of being a gp pit mechanic 'cleaning' your carb in the respective minutes he is allocated for the job. Nobody paid to work on somebody else's bike works as conscientiously as they work on their own. They will feel the same about your carb as I do about the m6 every morning (I'm hgv). 'Here we go again', 'same shit different day'.

Put any fresh fuel in it yet.

After 5 mins searching on the bay of e, 10k miles and 2008 equals around 6-800 quid if you exclude the chancers asking stupid money. They have mot and are ready to ride away. So yeah, couple of hundred quid tops, when your paying for tyres, mot, oil/filters any more than that you may as well buy one normally. She was given it too and left it to rot so I would not be over generous on principle.

Think of a carb like a choir. One part starts (pilot jet) then the rest come in as it progresses. One duff voilc ruins the tune.

Plugs out. On centre stand.Top gear and turn the engine with the rear wheel. Easy accurate and doesent stress anything. Make sure you only turn it forewards though. Dont want timing chain slack messing your settings.

Any good ally welding shop will fill that then drill and tap a new stud. Just make it 8mm (like the IT). They dont snap so readily.

Thanks that helps a lot. My head is spinning with all these bikes that are basically the same bloody bike. Like i said its my dad im looking for so he gets the say so and he definately wants a bike circa 64 speed twin or a sport cub. Although i know he is not a big fan of the tub. Sorry slice didnt know a speed twin was also a T100.

Nope, needs to be a 3TA or a 5TA, or a T20SH different animals, apparently? difficult for a non brit fan to tell if I'm honest. I'm getting there though.

Thx jimmy i will read and absorb.

He has asked me to look for him, (got a horrible feeling its a bucket list but hey he isn't saying anything) and it would be nice having him back on a bike he can ride a worthwhile distance, esp as we never seem to get the time to ride together. He used to be too busy, then I was too cool to be riding with 'dad' (we have all been there right), and now i'm too busy. Decorating, kids, house, overtime, good job we live in a free country eh. Sometime wonder just HOW free.

You might be able to get at the carb drain in situ. It may need double jointed hands to get to but you usually can, then junk the 18 month old fuel and try some fresh. If she fired up that easy with easy start there cant be a lot wrong.

Yep as above, my TDR really hates old fuel, if its more than 4 months old she wont run and every spring I have to clean the carbs no matter what I try. Or she will block a jet.

Yep, I was on my Suzuki on the mountain at the TT, mad sunday. I will never forget it and my lasting memory is hitting the limiter on the mountain and wanting more at 150mph being passed by bikes doing 40mph more. If you could put it in a bottle you would be a billionaire. The difference between living and existing. Not forgetting he dies doing what he loved, beats fading out in a hospital.

Its difficult to describe Drewps, to modern eyes it serves little bar being a bit odd, its not a fairing in the aero sense, more stop the wife moaning about getting covered in crap from the rear wheel. Thanks slice but my dad is perfectly happy to pay proper money for a good bike, he is over 70 with a creaky back from years of being a mechanic so realistically the last thing he wants now is oily hands. Also it needs to be a Sport Cub ( only difference I can see is headlight and mudguards but it matters to him) circa 63/64 or a speed twin from 64 on. thinking about it he would have been around 17 then so its the same thing as my TDR and I can understand the feeling behind it. Tax mot and matching numbers in vgc he will be happy to pay for. If there are any 'ifs' he will walk away. Someone taking his intruder (750) 88 vintage will really make any deals a lot more certain.

I'm still stunned, he said he was never going to ride it again but didn't want to sell it, yet it seemed such a waste having it just sit there.

My old man just surprised the hell out of me. He just GAVE me his CB175T, 1971, same age as me. Actually younger by a month if your picky. Not mint, not the proper colour just an honest old bike. Prob get it next weekend maybe. Still can't believe it. I did say I wanted first refusal if he ever sold years ago. He has owned it, what 25years I recon.

Oh ok, just curious. may of been a oddball reason.

Yep, not for me though. I'm looking for a bike for my dad he is not web savvy so I'm doing the looking. My dad has an itch that needs scratching. He has always talked about the triumph sport cub, SPECIFICALLY the sport cub not the tiger cub. A T20SH in anorak, ideally around 63/64. Or, option 2 is a Triumph 350 or 500 speed twin. Ideally around 64 when they stopped fitting the fairing around the rear of the bike. Maybe a mid season one but not the early. He is def not looking for sheds either, all he wants to do is ride it on a blue moon and polish it after, so mint or near as. If anybody has any tips or leads in the triumph world if you could let me know. Thanks.

Ok, obvious curiosity question, why did the left side run hotter. Not like there is any obvious difference between sides? My Suzuki had different jetting for the middle cyls for obvious reasons, they were hotter because they were in the middle.

Hmm, las has a point, looking at the earlier shots it does look like the bracket holding the cable outer is also a modified item. Maybe there were some wear issues. Maybe something to look at esp as it works.