DirtyDT

You leave yourself open to be nicked, yes.

I haven't tried Bikesure yet Alex. I did get a call from Swintons about the renewal. The story goes: They offered to reinsure me for £152. I declined. They then offered to give me a cashback voucher for £60. I said take it off the premium. They then said £92. I might stay with them as simple to do and never had an issue with them. Be careful of cashback schemes. These are known as "attrition incentives". Normally they can't be cashed in before a few months and often are only valid for a short period once they become "live". The point is that many people either lose then or forget to claim them within the qualifying period so you end up paying the full price. That is why business' love them.

I am looking forward to this event.

It is more about the zealousness of anyone in authority that the rules; I would suggest. I have argued a ticket or two for the side stand being outside a bay.

Hi and welcome to the forum. I'm originally from London but now live in Leicestershire.

Hi Aled, There's lovely.

Give this bloke a call. LINKY

Hi and welcome. Should be similar to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER5FVOE9LGE

Mike, Don't worry about Vista, It should still be in the Accessories folder. Paint.net is better if you download it. but Normal Paint (comes free with windows) can put arrows and text in pics very easlily.

Hi Mike, Can you use Paint to put an arrow on it before uploading? In Windows 7. Start>>All programes>Accessories>Paint.

I could be and is vcheep to replace, just to make sure. Did it crank at normal speed? If so it could be a sticky carb float or something like fuel evaporation. Evaporation will be more noticable when the engine is hot and you haven't left the bike long enough to cool down. Also worth checking if the fuel tank breather is working properly.

You could try these people LINKY Web site isn't that good but they recovered a seat for me a couple of years ago and i was very impressed. I posted the seat off and they posted it back. It took about 10 days but it was a very good job.

No Sacha, we drive on the left so our clutch is on the right . . . . . . . . ........................Only kidding, it is on the left too

How close are you to renewal on the XJ? It is possible that the scheme you are on is preforming well. Insurance, at underwriter level, is generally based on 3 criteria; Risk, Burn rate and maturity. Risk - Age, postcode, experience security etc. Burn rate - The amount of money paid out against money paid in on that scheme. Maturity - How long the scheme has to run before the underwriter renegotiates it. What they are looking for is for the scheme to have a low burn rate (low pay out rate) over a maturity that is coming to an end. This increases their chances of making money on the scheme. I used to work for a company that sold insurance products. This included Triumph.

As above, You unscrew the existing threaded rod and a new one should be on the new cable. Apparently there may be 2 clutch cable part numbers. LINKY Part

I was impressed too. Even more so that the electric starter worked. .

Maybe I should get the town twinned with the Bronx! If I had timed it better I could have got the noise of the local steam train in the background as well.It passes about 500 yards from the bottom of my garden. LINKY

Got an email from Confused...... today about the SV insurance renewal. Checked my insurance on it and it doesn't run out until early May!!! Cheeky barstewards, trying to get my cash more than a month early. Fully comp with £400 excess (£200 compulsory and £200 voluntary) was the cheapest quote at £75.45 Hastings, with £300 excess (£100 compulsory and £200 voluntary) was next at £82.11 Went onto the website and changed the voluntary excess to £0. Hastings came back with £100 compulsory excess and no voluntary excess at £82.11 - yep the same price as they quoted with £300 excess.

That is strange Paul. The way I set the page up it should be visible to 95% of browsers including smartphones. The short vid shows the YA6 coming to life on the electric start with no more than a clean of the plug and a bit of air filter wrapped around the open side carb. I hope so. I haven't found anything scary in the rust. Not stripped out yet but it seems like all surface stuff, quite light really seeing the bike is 48 years old. Because it is a pressed frame I am probably going to coat the inside of the frame with waxoil after painting. Light silver frame and candy red paintwork, as per original I think.

Until today, given the snow, not much happening on the YA-6 front; rebuild wise. Ordered the V55/5 pack. Waiting for the dating letter from Paul Dawkins - April 1965 so happy with that. Anyway, the SV battery had given up the ghost so ordered a new battery for it. This came today and gave me a chance to connect the bike up to a battery for the first time. The result is video 6 on my video wall LINKY

Dear Slice, You need to find your own victim gentleman. I hope he has lots of pounds sterling left. as I need to buy a 1982 Mercedes to go with my status. Katanga Prince Fattybumfleecem

I am a Nigerian prince. Assuming you have any money left, send it to me and I will let you have one trillion zonga when I come to England. Katanga Prince Fattybumfleecem

Works for me.

About 110 miles John. Leicester Loughborough Nottingham Mansfield Worksop Doncaster Selby Or Leicester Loughborough Derby Clay cross Chesterfield Shefield Barnsley Knottingley Squires July 6th weekend Kev.

I am easy but realistically you are either going o miss one of these or not get any decent classic riding in. Possible option 1 Pitch at Squires (you know that pitching Thursday is not a problem). Ride down to broughton, stay at Daughters If people are going to the RD one, arrange to met there Friday lunch so a little ride North Picking up any stragglers, off to Squires with enough light for me to pitch up Enjoy the rest of the weekend Closer to home when you pack up on the Sunday You can honestly say you went by bike to both over one weekend. Provisionally speaking, I can meet you Leicester way. Ride up to the RD one together, have a brew if there is anything going on, on the Friday then ride up to Squires together then, as you head North on Sunday, I can ride South. Option 2 You Pitch at Squires I meet you there on Friday night We leave there Saturday and ride to the RD one. Saturday evening I shoot home and you go off to see your Daughter Sunday you ride back to Squires on your own to pick up the Landie. Never been to the Derby one but it is a short hop for me (20 minutes tops). Looks like the Fizzie one has a lot of different '70's and '80's mix.