Everything posted by wild foamy
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Happy birthday Foamy
i am no longer a teenager , i think i may have made a mess of my facebook page because i have woken up with a bad head, 8 notifications, an angry message from a girl ive never met and a severe feeling of regret
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Right you orrible lot, I'm off to bed now
good night mike
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Getting pulled over
It is my understanding that unless you are endangering lives (be it your own or that of another) they will wait until there is a safe place to stop nearby, be it a lay-by or sidestreet, before giving you the blues and twos. however, i vaguely remember seeing one of those car chase shows on TV and it mentioned something like they cannot prosecute you for failing to stop if they attempt to pull you over in an unmarked car
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Happy birthday Foamy
+ = And then i will never have any money to finish my projects
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Happy birthday Foamy
Awh thanks guys, the girlfriend bought me a pint glass so now im'a have to go buy something to fill it with
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DT175-blow back through air cleaner
I just bought a 1982 DT50 because i missed my old DT so much... :3 i put about 12,000 miles on my old set of reeds, sold the bike with the same set in there aswell, they were hytec ones aswell i think...
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Foamy's New Toy, XJ650 Turbo :)
oh trust me seeing it in its post-restoration glory is something i cant wait for, i suppose part of the reason i took this project on is because if i bought a new bike i cant really see myself getting attached to it, i did get very attached to my DT and XJ600 because i took them to pieces many many times (there's only one way you can fit a DT50 into a nissan micra...) so the logic being if i buy a crap bike, break it down, restore it and turn it into a nice "new" bike i will enjoy it a lot more and it would mean a lot more to me
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Foamy's New Toy, XJ650 Turbo :)
Ah Ken, the look of the bike is what drew me to it, they are futuristic, full of angles and sharp lines, not like these curvy bubbley bikes that are being spewed out nowadays, same with cars tbh. Basically, the turbos were added to smaller capacity bikes in an attempt to rival the performance of 1000cc-ish bikes, but they were overengineered, expensive to buy, heavy and never did perform aswell as the larger bikes, people just didnt want to buy them and in the XJs' case production lasted from 1982-1985
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Superimposed war pictures
Very creative but bone chilling at the same time, great finds
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Wings of freedom
Hi everyone Would just like to share a link to the wings of freedom charity website, it's well worth a look and I know the chairman and some of the committee personally, basically it's a bird of prey Centre/hospital based just outside my hometown of Hungerford, they take the birds round to care homes, and schools so that disabled children can interact with the birds, www.wings-of-freedom.organization.uk
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Help with my pre diversion XJ600
I'm assuming you mean the cdi unit? (black box behind left hand panel), you should be able to get a used one from a breaker
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When you Break down
Add a mars bar to the bikes toolkit, if you have to wait hours to be recovered or have to push your bike to the next town it will not only provide morale but also stop you starving to death if you are there for a longish time
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Foamy's New Toy, XJ650 Turbo :)
yeah, even looking at the newly painted parts gives me a good feeling, yet two years later i have pretty much got the parts ready to reassemble and most of them have been sandblasted and painted
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Foamy's New Toy, XJ650 Turbo :)
Ah, but a good long-term project has all three of those
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99 life hacks to make your life easier
Gonna try the toothpaste on headlights thing, for an advisory on the kia for misted lights EDIT: +1 for the toothpaste on headlights trick, takes a bit of doing though
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speedo cable snapped ? Grating noise from front 96 XJ600S
had that happen on my pre-div, good indication is to disconnect the cable assembly at one end and gently pull the inner spring out, if it comes out then its snapped, easy to find a replacement and easy to fit
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~~Daily Feed, post what made you laugh today ~~
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Help with my pre diversion XJ600
check your battery, check your fuses and then check for spark,
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Broken down at the side of the A1 :o( XJ600N
is there a fuse for it? may be worth checking that, if you can find a wiring diagram then trace it back through the wiring loom, check for voltage at the plug where the pump connects, if theres nothing there keep moving back towards the ignition key (im assuming you have a multimeter?)
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YOC Merchandise! :D look trendy around your home/office/spaceship
its this new Blackberry, Autocorrect keeps giving me teacups, duck this thing in the air
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Squires 2013?
I didnt plan on running around naked, i just never remember to get dressed post-coitus, pretty sure if Kev tried to bum me i would know about it... thats an EXIT hole... not an entrance! plus now i am a moderating person, its only fair i get a bit more involved in the offline scene
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YOC Merchandise! :D look trendy around your home/office/spaceship
That was a typo :s
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Squires 2013?
I have you know my Kia has never let me down, the clock has just rolled over 100,000 miles and it should be good for another 100,000 more . i say never let me down, there was the time i put a water-filled air bed in the back of it whilst camping with some mates... make whatever jokes you want about "small pricks" but at some time during the night the bed popped and flooded the car, my girlfriend (at the time) woke up next to me soaking wet (stop sniggering at the back) thinking i had pissed the bed and started screaming and hitting me, i woke up thinking the car was floating down a river and bailed out of the boot bollock naked before realising i had stumbled into the fire pit and fallen over, i emerged covered in ash disoriented and confused, much to the amusement of my mates who had emerged from the tent and were now making jokes about the Sasquatch... so, yeah... after that it went through a phase of blowing rear light fuses, but eventually it sorted itself out
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Squires 2013?
Hey peeps Any sort of news on a YOC Meet 2013?, missed out on this years because G4S are unable to determine their assholes from their elbows and i ended up being volunteered for olympic security of prior commitments. would be a great opportunity to meet some of you interesting if a little strange people, may even venture up on the XJ Turbo if i can get it ready in time, failing that it may be on the DT50... assuming that is ready in time, feck it i may just drive up in the kia...
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YOC Merchandise! :D look trendy around your home/office/spaceship
christ on a bike, somebody shit the bed? i still have to sort out the two outstanding shirt orders, will see what i can do with vistaprint later, managed to find a personalised lingerie supplier but still not looked into prices or designs... gonna need a female model though, seeing as you and Sacha are the nearest thing to female that reside on this forum, how about it?