mike1949

It depends on what type of riding you do, on mine if I get on the bike for a longish haul I fill up on 100 miles, at the present I'm just using it to commute to work ( 6 miles there and back) all stop/start and going through the gears. I let it warm up for 5 minutes then I have to fill up every 80 miles. This type of riding I tend to average 10 miles per litre.

I need a few jobs done on my Divvy 600 before winter sets in. i.e. brakes, tyres, etc. The place I went to in Melksham doesn't do bike repairs anymore, shame really, because they were brilliant. What I need is somewhere where I can go with the bike beforehand, discuss what I need doing then arrange a date/time so I can leave the bike and pick it up later in the same day, or if necessary the next day. Any help would be apprecated. Cheers Mike

If when you turn the ignition on and you just get the neutral light and oil warning light but no click of the solenoid then it could be there is a break in the wireing between the starter button and the starter relay. More than likely it's where the wire is connected into the relay. On my divvy it's situated under the seat. If your brave enough and wish to confirm this use a small screwdriver and place across the two nuts on the starter solenoid with the ignition switched on, but be sure to hold the insulated handle or you will get a shock. Hope this helps Mike

Effing ell Dave, can you do that for other bike manuals?

Wouldn't a chain guard offer any protection?

Jim, you sound like Private Frazer from Dads Army.

JOKE, (no offence to 2 wheels, I'm half Irish myself) The first euro rollover (£52 million) was one by an Irishman. When Camelot called at his house and rang his bell they said, Congratulations Mick(me) You have won the euro rollover. But, we haven't quite got £52 million in our funds at the moment, Would you take £1 million pounds a week for next 52 weeks? "NO, Bollocks to that!" I'm not going to be messed about, give me my £1.00 back

Watched it last night, brill, ecpecially that twat of a cyclist at the end, his gob cost him nearly £1000.

Look on the bright side. At least it will hold your beer gut in. :lol:

Chill out Gary, Chris is only trying to help. Could it be the kill switch malfunctioning?

If I'd have been clever Jim, I would have stood upside down on my head.

right here we go. bearing in mind my fuel tank is upside down. sorry about the delay but i'm not a tecky photos not in correct order. hope this helps Mike

Will do, bear with me for five/ten minutes while I put them on photobucket.

Hi monkey12. Have you sorted out your problem yet, if not I will put a few photos on for you. Mike

ALSO In the good old days, unlike a motorbike when a horse went wrong, all you had to do was shoot it and get another one.

+1 ^^^^ Forgive my age, but does that translate as "I am"

I'm not disreputing what christofeser is saying, but, why heatproof paint on the frame? Why not the good old fashioned "HAMMERITE"

It must have been a different occasion I left RN in 1973

That's the one we want to see, not the clinical one.

Well spotted, it does look cloudy but the observant will have noticed a bottle of squash (peach) as well. A dash of that is fantastic with lager.

I really do Jim, best two years of my life.

You did say shed not garage didn't you?

Yes we did. I thought it was for a local orphanage but I might be wrong. Each boat had two celebrities from Coronation Street, we had Bernard Youles(Stan Ogden) and Alan Browning(not sure of the character name) who I think was one of Elsie Tanners Husbands. We had a whip round and bought games for them to take back with them, When we were seeing the kids off at the end of the party a little girl came up to me in tears because she didn't have any but one boy who had four boxes of games wouldn't let her have one. I tried to get him to part with a couple but he refused, after a few words with him he threw the lot into the canal saying that if he couldn't have them nobody else will either. Also one of the boats was an "A" class submarine which was decommisioning departed with a "Fore sail" (for sale) sign on her and fired toilet rolls from her deck gun.

Hi Drewps. There's nothing I can say that everyone else hasn't already said. The only reassuring thing I can say is, as you are a chef, there are only two things everybody must do, no matter how rich or poor they are, is eat and die. I don't know how old you are Drewps, but can you remember in about 1971/72 four RN Submarines came up the Manchester ship canal and docked there for a week. I was on one of them, "HMs/m PORPOISE" (my avitar)

That's brill. As for for the front forks, you said they are badly pitted, I'm no expert, but can't they be rubbed down with a very fine "wet and dry" paper?