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Japanese Bikes / Re: frozen throttle slide
« on: May 12, 2017, 12:01:21 PM »
Anyhoo, I've just bought 500ml of Plusgas on Ebay for about a tenner.
The H100 stuck slide has done some good after all... ;)

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Japanese Bikes / Re: frozen throttle slide
« on: May 10, 2017, 03:55:38 PM »
WD40 is no release agent, so either buy some decent stuff (I used to like Plusgas but don't know if it's still available) and soak it or use diesel, white vinegar or Coke if you don't want to spend anything on it.
Shame about the plastic as heat always works in the end.

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Japanese Bikes / Re: H 100 Fuel tap replacement
« on: May 01, 2017, 08:48:51 AM »
I suppose it must depend on the storage, but whenever I've bought NoS Jap stuff it's been absolutely fine, totally unlike the repro sh*te which does seem to perish in a short time.
Anyway, it's an old H100 so buy the cheapest you can and see how it goes... ;)

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British Bikes / Re: Tyres for '72 oil in frame Bonnie.
« on: April 27, 2017, 12:16:48 PM »
Tyres, oil, Indian Red....it's like asking what cheese is best!
My long departed T120V was the best handling bike I've ever had (reliable too, shame it was so ugly!) so my advice would be to fit something at the higher end of the market. Think mine had K70's but it was a long time ago.
(Dolcelatte, since you asked... ;))

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British Bikes / Re: 1926 Sun Paragon Restoration
« on: April 27, 2017, 08:30:01 AM »
If you're hoping for someone Sun Paragon specific you'll probably wait a long time! Sprockets are sprockets though, and easily and cheaply retoothed or replaced. That's a 1/2" pitch chain so you need to know the width to see what you need.
(BTW using metric units for old British bike components is clumsy. Stick to the measurements it was designed in and keep it easy)

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British Bikes / Re: Significant oil out the breather of a 1969 Triumph T120 Bonneville
« on: April 24, 2017, 11:38:19 AM »
Triumph's double plunger pump is excellent for holding back the oil ie not draining down, but one thing I've seen on these engines is a crack in the crankcase scavenge pipe, leading to poor scavenging and too much oil in the base of the engine when running. The old check for this is a rubber tube on the end of the scavenge pipe in the "sump", your finger on the scavenge pipe in the oil tank and suck on the rubber tube. Vacuum should hold, but if it doesn't then it's an engine strip to fix.

Rings (in my experience) seat/seal quickly and there is no "break in period" these days, but of they haven't sealed after a few runs they somethings wrong and they're never going to, so that would be a top-end strip.
There's nothing you could misassemble on this breather to cause oil to be spat out like this.

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The Classic Biker Bar / Re: She Who Must Be Obeyed
« on: April 19, 2017, 06:13:45 PM »
This is how feckin' idiotic bosses back themselves into a corner of their own making.
So she inspected your boots.....was she really going to contemplate knocking back your request, and if she wasn't, why bother inspecting them? The dummy woman couldn't then win either way.
Some people end up in positions of authority, and they really shouldn't be.

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Identify these bikes! / Re: Another mystery bike to be identified!
« on: April 19, 2017, 12:55:35 PM »
Dutch Lion is a place to be very wary of. I've had four bikes from him/them, (two directly, one via someone else and a fourth unknowingly) and although he seems to have a range of interesting bikes, they're mostly expensive for what they are. He also employs someone to give restoration projects a quick touching up with aerosols and fits odd nuts and bolts to loose piles of parts so they look better in the pics.
That Matchie would need a very careful examination (from me anyway) before I gave 12 big 'uns for it. You can still buy a lot of bike for that sum, and I wouldn't be looking to pay some dealers' mark-up just to get it.

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The Classic Biker Bar / Re: She Who Must Be Obeyed
« on: April 18, 2017, 08:41:40 PM »
We were discussing much the same the other day when one of our number let slip that his missus was very upset that he'd bought another bike against her wishes. Bearing in mind that he has maybe another additional 6/7 bikes what difference does one more make to her? Another said he always had to sell one to buy another as for reasons unknown she would get upset if the total rose to more than two. My old girl has absolutely no interest in old bikes (or even new bikes) but we both find it astounding that some women get so demonstrative over their husband's hobby. Do wives whose husbands like guitars, stamp albums or railway modelling act in this way too?
As long as the bikes aren't parked in the house and money isn't coming out of household funds, WTF does it matter?
I'm sure that deep-down she's pleased I'm knocking up something on the Myford than down the pub or looking up the local naughty women on t'Interwebby.. ;)

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Identify these bikes! / Re: Another mystery bike to be identified!
« on: April 18, 2017, 07:26:37 PM »
Nice looking bike, but the woman...err.....not so much! ;)

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The Classic Biker Bar / Re: Biker Image
« on: April 17, 2017, 10:04:39 PM »
I reckon there's too many dentists, doctors and other wealthy people ride bikes these days for too many negative perceptions from non-riders to still exist.
Dunno about snobbery; even packs of ageing Power Rangers have time for a chat over a cup of tea, although Hardly-Worthitson riders (when out en-masse with riding marshalls and all that old toss) seem to develop a "if only you were as wealthy as us" attitude to other riders.
I can live with it though...continually being called "dude" or "bro" by some pot-bellied Sporty rider with a red hanky tied around his head gets to be vomit-inducing after a while.

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The Classic Biker Bar / Re: Biker Image
« on: April 17, 2017, 12:26:05 PM »
It seems to be hinting at your own somewhat negative self-perception to me. You don't really think that mother was herding her kids because she heard you coming, do you?
Personally I keep all my neighbours at arm's length; not really interested in the minutiae of other peoples' lives, and therefore they don't or can't say anything about my bikes or whatever, but that said, your critical neighbours must have realised by now that interest in old cars and bikes is a world-wide pastime  now, and doesn't indicate that you're some poor eccentric reprobate who can't afford anything newer? :-\

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The Classic Biker Bar / Re: story
« on: April 16, 2017, 02:14:11 PM »
That's the only way to ride 'em over bumps. ;)
I get hip-ache too on a couple of my bikes, and the Scott makes my coccyx hurt for days afterwards.
The latest recruit (an RE WD/CO in real oily rag condition) has an old and scruffy Lycett fitted; might even be comfortable it's so worn!

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The Classic Biker Bar / Re: story
« on: April 14, 2017, 12:56:24 PM »
Quote from: iansoady on April 14, 2017, 10:17:19 AM
- try that on most of my old Brits and the clutch wouldn't last 100 miles.

Yebbut "old Brits" clutches weren't designed to be used like that, and I must admit having commuted every day for decades on everything from a D10 Bantam to a GPz I never felt the urge to do it, either.
My Chief has a pedal which "stays where it's put" for slow-speed riding including clutch slipping, but then that's a massive assembly designed for just this use.
I think that's where the Yanks got their funny ideas about "old Brit" clutches from.
 

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British Bikes / Re: "New" bike
« on: April 14, 2017, 11:07:56 AM »
Up to quite recently you couldn't give those buggers away...how things have changed! That bike has the look of an "unridden resto" to me, so maybe expect the usual teething problems?
Is the tank a different colour to the rest of it? Optical illusion most likely.
I was never a fan of strokers either until I discovered Smirnoff   err Scotts, I meant to say..  ;)
Should be a fun bike to ride.

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