wild foamy

i think wht you're refering to is the fuel tap, on my DT it could be turned through 360' with no problem

stopping off in cyprus tomorrow and back in the UK the day after, work on the XJ will be continuing again!, frame is already powdercoated and i will be doing some minor repairs to the engine and shotblasting it over the weekend

eBay is your best bet, no way of telling just how genuine it is though, failing that check out your local yamaha dealer or ghostbikes.co.uk

from my experiance LEDs are good for being seen by others but don't tend to project much light, it would be alright for the sidelight/running light but for dipped and main beam you'd be better off with a good quality 12v Halogen bulb such as the Phillips ones

Its much more polite at the lights to look at the other rider, flip your visor down, blip the throttle and then nod, most of them seem to take notice of you then

Wow, V-twins sure are popular! , must be a lot of harley riders amongst us

i dont see what the problem is, even on my DT50 i used to acknowledge other bikers with a nod or wave, and to be fair to most riders they did tend to nod back or wave, i still wave and nod on the XJ and get a fair few nods back, most L-platers either dont seem to understand or just ignore it, but a few of them are polite enough to return the greeting and i have a certain amount of respect for them, restricted to 30mph, unable to negotiate remotely steep hills without slowing to a crawl, we we're all there once! (apart from the more vintage amongst you...)

Wish i still had my DT... why oh why did i ever sell it ... i miss my beloved little donkey, it was enver the fastest thing on the road but always got me where i need to go several hours late...

g'day mate!, where's all the sheilas at?

There's always one isnt there? cant see that being practical on a bike probably hence why it never caught on, i seem to remember those engines being notorious for tip wear, even in the Mazda RX-7/RX-8s now they seem to go pop after 60k

a lot of the trouble is finding a donor bike of said model (RD400 e.t.c) without paying through the ass that still has the valueable stuff left on it

little fuckers, is nothing safe in this world? what's the full registration paul?, may help to identify it if one of us sees it

Hi peeps the title explains the thread, seeing as how engine layout seems to give the biggest difference in power/torque and general riding style, if you could have only one bike what layout would you want it to have?

Hi everyone, i've been thinking a lot recently about the values of broken/neglected motorcycles, the cost of repairing them, and then the cost of selling them on as fixed/tlc'd motorcycles, and from what i can see unless its an RD or ultra-rare race rep collectable there isn't a lot in it. my XJ turbo for example, i have probably spent about the same amount of money buying parts from overseas, sundries e.t.c than it would have cost me to buy a restored example over here, so i then began thinking is it likely to be more cost effective to break certain bikes? if so what bikes would be best to break? for example, i have been offered £500 for my XJ600 in its current state, but if i was to take it to pieces and sell off the engine, forks, fairings e.t.c i may just be able to make £500 out of it, Fireblades on the other hand are very popular with a high demand for spares, engines selling for a couple of hundred quid, wheels up the ying-yang, what sort of profit margins would i be looking for and what sort of bikes are most popular? just a'ponderin'... Foameh x

keep a topbox full of messenger pidgeons...

now i would probably draw the line at playing with shit, but the military sense of humour is somewhat of an aquired taste.

did something similar to one of the lads at work, he had a bit of a reputation as being a loose canon, one of his favourite dirty tricks was flopping his knob out and sticking it in your ear if you fell asleep in the crewroom, one day he decided to flop it out and wave it around whilst i was on tool stores duty, nearest thing i had to hand was an "air duster" (can of compressed gas, when turned inverted it sprays freezing liquid and can give you frostbite) and gave him a swift squirt to the gonads... he was singing soprano for a while and i think he learnt his lesson... he also pissed in my pint at the christmas pissup last year, thats what i blamed on my rather extravagent technicolour yawn

shagged a chinese/japanese bird once, doesnt that count as doing it with a yellow person?...

being a kid must not have been fun in the 50's...

Had a bad experiance with that stuff myself at cosford last year, thought it would be a good idea to "give myself a trim" before going out on the piss in wolverhampton, so i slapped a load of it on and waited the 6 miinutes, but by the time i had got back some other bugger had jumped in the shower, so there i was standing in the middle of the hallway with steam rising off my bollocks wondering what to do next... i ended up sitting in the sink just to get some relief... also ended up with a knob looking like a roast chicken

i just make do with a set of issue dogtags, its got my name one it, date of birth and what type of blood i have incase it needs topping up, the bike(s) are registered to my home address so no doubt they would find my NoK by knocking on my front door

Noise, you have pretty much ruined my childhood in two posts... i hope you're happy

its well worth trying to get it back to road-legal especially as its a freebie!, as for the air filter if you can't find a replacement try taking the old element off the filter itself and wrapping filter foam around it (see THIS LINK if you dont understand what i mean)

called the ex 'Max' once whilst rattling her off the headboard (Max is her dogs name), needless to say the fun ended there, she gave me a playfull slap, and then another... then things got kind of out of hand, we went on a "break" and started seeing other people, she took my favourite pair of jeans, my A7X hoodie and most of my CD collection... f*cking bitch...

stop complaining, i have only got camels and stray cats to shag...