drewpy

thats' assuming there is enough meat in there to drill and tap!!! the larger studs may be too big for the exhaust clamp

the charging system needs a healthy 12v to excite the field coil. this has been mentioned quite a few times in other threads. I suggest you use the search facillity top right of the page. drewps

did you check diaphrams like Jim said?

made me jump!!

i'd say its a cb or cg 125

is there a tubed tyre version?

I wear Aldi's finest had them 3 years now and the gear change pad is startinf to break up. put plenty of dubbin on them to keep the water out.

you sir, are cruel!! I am so jealous why can't we have weather like that!!!

have you got a side view pikkie? you can always go the GRP way as there's loads of vendors in the usa like hot wing glass and omars drewps

if you have "standards" and want the best, you need to get it lumiwelded and re-drilled and tapped. won't cost the earth as lumi weld is a low temp solution. drewps

I carry a bit of oil, although my bottle leaked in the top box!! did you check the carb balancing as I drove at 70 for nearly 10 hours without anything comming off or leaking !!

Ch850 nice project you got there

I know speed sport have some as I bought one from them after asking if it fitted. It didn't but got my money back anyway, so a good company to deal with. they also trade on ebay

well the ferry docks and we all wait anxiously in the hold and told to start the engines... bloody 'ell I can't hear mine and have to use the tacho to see if its started!! then we all file gingerly over the alloy decking avoiding the ribbing and metal cabling into a rainy Belfast. The weather is appalling and the visor soon steams up and i get a fly's viewpoint via the rain drops on my visor!! this rain x stuff needs to be applied every 100 miles or so methinks and so I ride 50mph on the M2 with the visor up and avoiding the bikes and cars streaming out of Belfast!! its 70 miles of this and the M2 goes to A26 then the M2 starts again from scratch and back to the A26 into colraine and bushmills. we phone Coyles at Bushmills and he comes to meet us in the works van doing a handbrake turn to face our direction and after the pleasantries he leads us off at 60 mph in the dark on a very bumpy C class road after a couple of miles we reach our destination, this picture was taken the next day. and we get to sleep in the Coyles Wright racing wagon after dropping off our stuff to dry out in the heated granny flat, Coyles introduces us to his lovely wife and two tiny daughters. Its hard to understand them with the broad NI accent and child like volcabulary but dave soon breaks the ice with stories of princesses etc. Then its off to the club for the craic!! when I say club, Mike told me it was a club so i brought trousers and a T-shirt and sketchers shoes. Coyles takes us into the middle of no-where picking up a friend, trevor, who I nick name "clever trevor" and we approach a farm yard with a sign "ONLY MOTORBIKES ALLOWED" its a car/bike park full of harley's and hyabusas etc with tents all around and a take a way van parked in the coutryard. this turns out to be an Illegal drinking den which Coyles is chairman. Dave and I feel like the guys in the film "wild Hogs" and I say don't touch the bikes dave or they'll fall over on one another! I could see us legging it down the counntry lane with 60 hells Angels after us wanting a piece of our ass!! here's the inside taken a day later!! its turns out that these guys are the best you can meet. They's just talk to you as though you have known then for years and even better, there are a couple of live bands on, 1 young group (16 year olds with ma and pa watching and tutting at the all the canabis being consumed) and a trio who did covers like whiskey in the jar, ac/dc etc brill, loud and spot on. I sunk a few pints before Mike turns up from the later ferry and he in turn starts buying the rounds. I can't remeber too much after that although I belive we got to bed about 4am!! here's the "wild Hogs" slowly sinking in their seats one character of note was an emaciated irish guy, with a bushy beard and smelled a bit, he was called Jesus Rat!! I kid you not. Aparantly he turns up to the party every year. This year, i was told, he was not as smelly!!! Jesus was play fighting with another guy and a dude next to us say's "watch this" and as soon as he takes off Jesus's hat, the guy just stopped what he was doing and sort of calmed down. Apparantly this is the way to control Jesus when he gets out of control I gets up at half seven with a cracking hangover and get outside to get fresh air and meet Coyle's who is going to the pits with his wife to set up the bike and gear. Coyle's mum comes round to look after the girls and I can't understand half of what she says. anyway we are all up and ready for the NW200 to be continued.....................................

saw it last night, looks really sunny and bright on TV nice to see the rest of the track rather than Juniper chicane and York!

fowlers in bristol will have them, just google and phone the parts dept. theya re usually self adjusting as its spring tensioned

try motogrid for parts numbers, the panels are hard to get as I remember another thread a few years ago with a similar request, might be best to try speed sport or www.ebay.de

looks like your having fun (in the rain) I had similar weather on my trip at the weekend.

I still use contacts but use then to trigger an electronic box that was made for me by an enthusiast in germany. here or use this one

might want to leave it soaking for a few weeks in diesel oil. not too much though. I think that you would need to strip the pistons down and free off the rings and check the bores for rust damage.

set off at 4pm to meet with a friend at Tebay. as its bedlam on the motorway (and shit) we head down the A6 and join M'way at preston, boring ZZZZ here's my bike set and ready damn windy out there and when we reach tebay, my Mike (cb750F1) was complaining of weaving on the truck ruts, i had no problems. When in Tebay and waiting for Dave (VFR750) I noticed either Mike's back wheel was in a dip or he had a flat, guess what, it was a flat. Mike was real pissed off. Dave turned up and we went round the carpark to find someone to lend us a pump as we could'nt find any puncture. eventually we gave up and Mike called the rescue. Dave and I went on via the A6 to Carlise and then Dumfries to the B&B we booked earlier. we arrived at the B&B at 10ish and mike turned up 2 hours later to tell us that the rescue people had a computer crash and his details were lost. So he waited another 2 hours for the rescue to turn up!! any way we did 150 miles and mike did 40miles and the rest on a low loader. I can recommend East Brae cottage B&B (http://www.eastbraecottage.co.uk/) as Jim (proprietor) loves company and will do anything for you (within reason) he took us in the car the next day to dumfries to buy a new valve and inner tube (just in case). he has an air compressor in his garage which we pumped up the flat tyre and it stayed up even when the valves was taken out!! go figure! after a hearty breakfast including haggis MMM! we set off for stranraer. 20 miles down the road Mike's back tyre goes down and we stop at a local garage off the A75 Mike outside the garage local is happy to take off tyre but he thinks "how can it be fixed?" he is a bit bemused when we produce an inner tube!!! Mike having a "moment" so we set off agin and get 10 miles from stran when , guess what, he has another puncture!! now mike has given up and is swearing, shit this and shit that! dave and I carry on and Mike phones Carole Nash again for rescue. Dave and I waiting to board the Ferry, there are a lot of bikes an mine is the oldest one there by a mile/s we board the ferry and its amazing how much you can get in a ship we get on board and set off. this is a 2 hour crossing so take our boots off and empty the deck with the fumes. Mike phones, he's not going home, the breakdown recovery chap is a biker and knows the ATS guys (who are bikers) and is adamant that he will get the bike fixed. so Mike is getting the later ferry and will meet us at Bushmills and Coyles house!! the last punture was from the last garage leaving the remnets of the whole valve inside the tyre between the inner tube, what a nob!! do we reach Coyle's house?, will anything else go wrong as we are on 30 year old bikes?

I'm Baaaack and Knakered!! tell you all tomorrow with pictures and all that!!! drewps

this is my last post before I set off for the NW200. staying in Dumfies at east Brae Cottage then friday catch the ferry to Belfast and up to Coyles place. don't yet know where he lives but he said ask in the village!! stay safe for Drewps folks, and see you all when I get back!! ps I won't forget to wave!!!!

is that the one the police use? good book

your making me nervous now, only 24 hours to the NW200