DirtyDT

This years Squires thread

Especially for you Steve

Some people would call it art. I call it cr4p.

I have Conti TKC80's on the TS250.

Iron Maiden at the Foreskin Ruskin Arms, Manor Park.

The little thin black pipe that is never a tight fit that goes to the distributor? Good call as well.

Dunlop K550's are on road tyres. I would expect 5k to 6k miles from the rear..........................................unless he has been up to what Cynic said above.

Well Christmas is on its way. Whats on your list this year? I normally have something bike related but this year I have only asked for one thing, a nice watch box (I like watches so something that holds a decent number safely). What are you hoping Santa is going to bring?

I would lean slightly towards dry 0 degrees. It would be more definite but even with decent gloves and heated grips my fingers ache enough to make my eyes water with pain. Being the only bike in the bike bay is cool though!

You've obviously never seen west ham play! It used to be a great game but not so much now. There are some superbly skilled players but all I hear about is "simulation" ( I think that means diving or cheating) and those who won't shake hands with others because they have less tweets than the other player. Bring back nobbie styles, Norman hunter and the likes.

Check that someone hasn't fitted an electric fuel pump. If it is still the manual one, unbolt it and see if, when you pump the lever, it pumps fuel. When these go the old a series engines just use compression to suck fuel out of the tank. The su carb is normally reliable. Check the choke flap is closing when the choke knob is pulled. Get a mate to put their hand over the air intake and partially block the air flow at start up. Then it is down to compression testing. I would guess your head has not been upgraded to unleaded and this can burn out the valves.

Hi and welcome to the forum. I remember the Norwich union price hike. Riders were offloading their big cc bikes as quickly as they could and the dealers were full of them. I seem to remember trying to negotiate for a zx10 at the time but the dealer was being too greedy. Ended up with a gsxr in Pepsi colours.

Are you doing it yourself? Forks - Wheel respoke - http://www.shirebrookmotorcycles.co.uk/index.php?webpage=wheelrespoking

Hi and welcome to the forum Koop. Start a thread in the project section. Lots of suppliers and services. Where are you based?

Take plenty of photos. Good luck.

One of my favorites then:

After doing the maths, I have to agree with it's findings.

Got to agree now they are scrubbed in. Even with the weather, they are very sure footed. They seem quite an "eggie" profile but that maybe due to the last set of tyres being worn.

I guess I am not going to get much interest on ebay for my boxed collections of Jim'l fix it, Rising damp and Jim Davidson live '80's DVD's!

+1 except from the grumbling Brits thing. I am always happy (ish)

Hi and welcome to the forum. Post the question in the workshop section with as much detail as possible - what have you done. when it happened, the symptoms etc.

One good thing is that it seems that 1980's jokes are back in vogue.

Spiffing post! One does like interlectual foreplay.

Well done on passing the MOD2. Bite the bullet and by a stainless one. It will last a lot longer.

I like AGV helmets. You really need to try some on for shape and size.