Category: General Bike Chat

Yay! It lives!



Took a while, spark was shit in spite of a Faraday high output stator from MSR. Happily it was only a shit connector to the coil low tension side.



And no more jetting ever! However I may need to get a new throttle cable as I reckon the one that’s in it is just a shade too short.



Pulls like a feckin train. No surging and if I had actually put enough petrol in it I might have avoided a long push home. Doh!



Anyway live and learn and enjoy the ding ding….



https://youtube.com/shorts/vti6P84qrVs?feature=share

Was offered personal accident insurance from Carole Nash yesterday, its only 35e but only pays 20 grand max.



Anyone got any recommendations for proper cover? I’ve seen a few that don’t cover when on a motorbike or will only pay half etc



Thanks

The forks on the recently acquired PC800 are too soft. My 80kg alone uses up about 1/3 of the free travel – and if you hit a speed bump at anything other than a crawl it bottoms out. If you miss spotting a pothole and hit the thing at speed – well that’s pretty brutal altogether.



A quick google confirms that they came out of the factory like that. It’s never going to be a taut handling thing, but I’d like to do something to stop the thing taking such a bang every time it bottoms out.



Rather than go chasing stiffer springs and playing with the fork oil, I was looking for an easier fix – and one with a certain amount of adjustability, so I can play about with the preload to a degree.



One option seems to be to track down and fit (or make up) a set of air-fork caps like this:





https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/402370097…4AAOSwiEFfPwCP





Or another – see if I can chase down something more modern in the from of a preload adjuster like this (if I could find one that fits the internal threads on the original forks):



https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/202292746…Cclp%3A2563228



Worth pursuing one or other of the above d’ye think – or should I just bite the bullet and try to track down some stiffer fork springs ?

folks looking to get a vintage bike picked up near frankfurt germany and delivered to wexford ireland



i have posted up on clictrans and shipley any other good site to use ?, or are any of ye over there

Not a bike topic but just wondered if anyone could recommend a hotel in Madrid for a few nights in September. I don’t know the city at all but someplace central and not mental money.



Gracias amigos

Folks do u pay vat and duty from Switzerland to Ireland on vintage bikes ?