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Messages - Athame57
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« on: June 04, 2026, 04:52:37 PM »
Welcome here Weetchie! 
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« on: June 02, 2026, 01:42:17 PM »
Hope that crows don’t shit on that lovely bike!😂
Beautiful scenery there Skoti.
The crows would be STONED if they dared! 
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« on: June 02, 2026, 07:04:03 AM »
Welcome here H It's never too late to start again. I was absent from riding for twenty years when I got my leg back over the saddle eight years ago, I'm 69 now.
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« on: June 01, 2026, 03:03:52 PM »
Depends on the colour, if its a candy you are stuffed, if its plain get an exact match and nearly fill the hole, when dry finish with laquer then use 3000 grade paper with soapy water
Candy Antares Red maybe I'm stuffed then? 
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« on: June 01, 2026, 12:25:21 PM »
I just took a ride up to Blackheath, being a moonday morning there weren't many bikes about but the usual murders of the Heaths fabled crows were about. They paid my Elen lots of interest, after all a bag on monkey nuts is yummy!
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« on: June 01, 2026, 12:22:08 PM »
Like you, I spray into an aerosol can lid and leave for while for some of the accelerant to disappear. Ian
Thanks Ian, I'll see if that helps, I didn't do any waiting.
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« on: June 01, 2026, 08:47:02 AM »
Thanks to bars being set a bit too low the switch gear came into contact with the tank making a hole in the paintwork about the size of a match head, also strip of paint that came away when I took off some masking tape that was supposed to protect the tank when I refitted it.  the effect I reduced by using a fine paint brush to apply some paint first sprayed into a cup, but it isn't very good. Is this the sort of thing a professional can deal with without doing the whole tank again, any tricks among you to share?
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« on: May 29, 2026, 07:40:51 AM »
A few more.
The last 2 taken at Kilmany, birthplace of Jim Clark.
I was a great fan of his as a nine year kid, he captured our imaginations alright. I was in Germany at the time when he came to grief, I bawled my eyes out!
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« on: May 20, 2026, 09:34:00 AM »
After 20 years living in Orkney, there's no way I would want to return to what now passes as civilisation - no,
I meant back into sea boot socks, not come back to the great unwashed!
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« on: May 19, 2026, 03:01:03 PM »
Thanks Ian, why not return to civilization yourself? Sea boot socks are available at £8.oo a pair on Seabay. Not that expensive, less than half the price of Fish & Chips in London!
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« on: May 18, 2026, 06:13:16 PM »
I got quoted about £80.oo by a cobbler I've used for about twenty years. I decided if it took that much it's time to get a new pair.  They are pull on types, something I was on the look out for, not like the ones I had before with a zip on the inside leg. Being a bit short I was prone to damaging my saddle with the zip handle when I threw my leg over the bike. Am I becoming a rare breed for wearing the classic white sea boot socks by default?
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« on: May 09, 2026, 10:52:49 PM »
It is still a 1977 bike, I'm not obsessed with OE parts as long as pattern are good and look the same. On a bike that is nearly 50 years old I wouldn't be very interested in the mileage displayed, we only have the things word for it after all. I also seem to be on my third set of clocks anyway. It is the sound and feel of the engine, and is it oil tight that matters. I've had lots of work done on my engine and retained the proof of it.
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« on: May 07, 2026, 06:15:31 PM »
Don't touch the throttle when on full choke it won't help.
Strange, it does with me sometimes, maybe there's something needing attention? 
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