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Shocking !!!!!! (as in electrics)
MCTID:
Thanks for all the concern over this. It's great that people can be bothered to help another Forum member.....not like the Triumph Forum I'm also on where some peeps seem to delight in sniping...and the misfortune of others.
Anyway....when I was taking the bike off the Trailer on my own.......it had been a long day and I'd been driving for around 8 hours all told, I neglected to take one of the Ratchet Straps on the LHS off before I loosened the 'next to last' strap....the bike was still under tension and fell over. SH!!!!!!!T ! I could have cried. Luckily the LHS Rear Shock fell onto the Rubber Trailer Mudguard and unbelievably it absorbed the fall, and there was no damage of any note !
I struggled for about 10 minutes, then got my Neighbour to help me unload the bike and I left it until the next day before I started it.........that's when it was making a racket. It didn't do so when I collected it - although I'd bid on E Bay and paid by Bank Transfer before collecting it...so I couldn't really complain to the Seller as it ran reasonably well and quietly at his house, and he told me he'd ridden about 150 miles in the previous weeks without any problems.
Long story short.....I really don't want to waste a big chunk of the Summer sorting this bike out.......I'm 72 now so I want to enjoy the summer and my Hernia isn't helping either, so I think I'll just move it on and be straight with the prospective Buyer that it needs work to the engine. A shame really as it is a nice bike and the size and weight was just what I wanted after struggling with some big bikes over the last few years.
Thanks to all for your help.
Watch this space.
Oddjob:
I wonder if it's dislodged the baffle in the exhaust? LHS fall might do that.
If the bike was fixed, would you keep it?
deltarider:
That's a K2 (ED, F, G) all right and it is beautiful. IMO it deserves the 4-4 exhausts. Yours has the rear pegs angled forward, like mine had when I got it. It facilitates lowering the pegs whilst riding, so on long rides you can change the position of your legs for a short period to fight muscle strain. I did this in the years I sometimes rode over 1000km a day.
Sesman:
--- Quote from: deltarider on May 17, 2022, 08:18:41 AM ---That's a K2 (ED, F, G) all right and it is beautiful. IMO it deserves the 4-4 exhausts. Yours has the rear pegs angled forward, like mine had when I got it. It facilitates lowering the pegs whilst riding, so on long rides you can change the position of your legs for a short period to fight muscle strain. I did this in the years I sometimes rode over 1000km a day.
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I once did 995miles in 22 hours riding from the Pyrenees to York North Yorkshire. Absolutely never again….😢
deltarider:
--- Quote from: Sesman on May 17, 2022, 12:09:09 PM ---I once did 995miles in 22 hours riding from the Pyrenees to York North Yorkshire. Absolutely never again….😢
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