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CB350/400 / Re: Storage for Winter
« on: December 03, 2020, 01:39:36 PM »
E5 petrol is not so bad for being stored, but I would still drain carbs if laying up for more than 3 or 4 months, you wait till we get E10 or even E20.

Anyway, I remove that batteries and keep them warm in my office and rotate a trickle charger over them, I have been known to force the brake pads back and place a bit cardboard in there to prevent the pads bonding to the disks.

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Misc / Open / Re: SORN MOT and Rod Tax
« on: November 12, 2020, 01:36:17 PM »
If a vehicle IS taxed it MUST be insured under the continuous insurance rule, for example if you cancel your insurance but don't SORN it you will get a letter from the DVLA and possible a fine attached to it. (Been there £80).

If you do SORN it DVLA will return any full months of TAX back to you.

You don't have to SORN it "because" because it has no MOT, you just HAVE to have all three to use it. (not withstanding classic declarations of course)

If you SORN a vehicle and the MOT expires, you won't be able to tax it again until you get an MOT and you can't tax a vehicle with less that 30 days MOT on it.

DVLA are getting more clever as they begin to ramp up the computer automation, I've Taxed a vehicle within minutes of getting insurances' and MOTs

Me, I'd leave the TAX it, keep the insurance going and get it MOTd at my leisure.

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Misc / Open / Re: How did stuff become so difficult?
« on: November 12, 2020, 10:49:49 AM »
Electrics are easy, you just have to be careful not to let the smoke escape.

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Could have saved the work. All the pre insulated ones I would have chucked in the bin. They are responsible for more electrical problems than anything else I know.

Funny you should say that. I have a load of non insulated coming Monday for. wiring job on the GS. But I was looking for something else and got side tracked

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Misc / Open / Re: eBay web Tool
« on: November 07, 2020, 10:05:18 PM »
ha-ha. it is ordered by time ending soonest. What's that saying " you can't please all of the people all of the time" 8)

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Misc / Open / Re: My Faith in Humanity Restored
« on: November 07, 2020, 09:46:18 PM »
Agreed.
I've emailed the marvellous lady to say thank you. The amazing thing is, the letter arrived on me birthday. how brilliant is that.


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Misc / Open / Re: eBay web Tool
« on: November 07, 2020, 09:43:58 PM »
should still work. you can have a crafty browse while watching "Shed and Buried"  ::)

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Misc / Open / Re: Out Of Lockdown
« on: November 07, 2020, 09:39:57 PM »
I've agreed with my boss to continue to go into work. I'm office based but the last time the working from gone nearly sent me mad.

I'd rather commute the 5 miles on the bike and work on my own in an office than sit on my kitchen all day failing to get anything done

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Misc / Open / Re: Jeeze It's Getting Cold
« on: November 07, 2020, 09:36:00 PM »
Just bought a front for my GT. Avon Storm, fitted inc.. disposal £100.  Now so can get my heated seat fixed

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If I was a fisherman....

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Other Bikes / Re: TL125 wanted???
« on: November 07, 2020, 08:53:52 PM »
I know what you mean. it's madness.
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Other Bikes / Re: TL125 wanted???
« on: November 07, 2020, 08:43:42 PM »
Perhaps it's me and I'm a bit Yorkshire but I saw the pic of that TL and I thought £800, the saying is "it's only worth what someone is willing to pay for it".

is that true?

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Tricks & Tips / Re: Cleaning tips
« on: November 07, 2020, 08:25:11 PM »
Still catching up on posts,

My Old man, 85 now, was a chief tech in the RAF at Scampton, he tells tales of trichloroethylene or trich as he calls it, the RAF used to use it as a de-greaser, the trich tanks were heated and they would dip parts into it and they came out totally de-greased, one day an engineer was overcome by the fumes and fell into the tank, he did did not survive.

Another, where after he had retired he "acquired" a 5 gallon drum of they stuff and used to use t as a de-greaser in his clock shop, he accidentally spilt a small quantity on an open heater, the fluid vaporised, he abandoned the workshop and on his return everything in it had been de-greased.

Still, It's good stuff ;)

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Other Bikes / Re: Any GS500 experts here
« on: November 07, 2020, 08:12:30 PM »
Got the GS sorted, turns out that one of the exhaust valves was slightly open, it's bucket and shim and I don't have the tools for it.  My mech mate, at Wrightway, Lincoln thinks that a PO dismantled the top end and put it back together wrong,

Just going over it now and reversing PO "customisations", like removing the black paint over the tail light cos it looked cool and putting full sized indicators back on it.

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Other Bikes / Re: TL125 wanted???
« on: November 07, 2020, 07:59:21 PM »
Anything sub 250cc is fetching silly money and classics fetch more, I remember riding a 250 superdream into a breakers in Nottingham because it dropped a valve and I needed enough money for a train ticket back to Lincoln.

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