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Messages - Athame57
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« on: June 19, 2026, 07:26:37 PM »
Muscovites will stare at the black rain that is lubricating their streets and think ' I wish the Just Stop Oil crowd would come here!' 
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« on: June 19, 2026, 04:19:53 PM »
I have consoled myself by coming to terms with the fact that speedometers are largely a cosmetic addition to the area above the headlight and now rarely look at it
Well, actually I've thought of giving up with it for a while too!
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« on: June 19, 2026, 12:05:55 PM »
If one breaks down near the wheel end, then the "floating" upper part can "snaggle" the still fixed end to give intermittent drive sometimes.
Well actually that's what it has been doing today, working when it feels like it. Some meddling with the cable on the move ( bad idea!  ) can get it going again. I haven't pulled the cable out for inspection yet, I'm getting a bit cheeses off with it.
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« on: June 18, 2026, 01:57:17 PM »
Good job you hadn't tossed it in the bin and the bin men had already been down your streer
SSSHHH.... It's only been a week since I accidently threw out six nicotine replacement patches.  I'll be putting my dog in the bin at this rate.
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« on: June 17, 2026, 08:22:30 PM »
So just as a question what’s the average amount of times you have to remove your carbs over a calendar year ?
So far not in 2026 at all.  That said, 'too often' is all I can say, definitely a bit of bad luck and lack of experience involved and then there are the plenty of times that someone else did it.
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« on: June 17, 2026, 05:40:00 PM »
It really looks like I had fitted the broken cable on instead of the new new one and put the good one to one side. A correction of that has my speedo up and running again, but not before I'd already started searching the web for rarish spare parts. Senior moment
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« on: June 15, 2026, 06:43:41 AM »
His business must be a goldmine!
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« on: June 13, 2026, 07:38:38 PM »
Or connect the taco cable to the Speedo
4000 engine rpm with 7:1 drive ratio = 571 rpm on the tacho cable
60 x 571/2240 = 15 mph reading on the Speedo.
Dave
I'll definitely try that one out Dave!
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« on: June 13, 2026, 04:46:58 PM »
Thanks for the answers guys. I have notice the snail has a lot of grease around it's lower parts, unusual. 
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« on: June 13, 2026, 02:45:26 PM »
A couple of weeks ago my speedo stopped. Time for a new cable I thinks, so I got one on fleabay. After fitting all was well a few hours, and it stops again. I figured I had bought a naff one, but also observed my routing wasn't very good.
Okay, so I get another speedo from a different source and went to change them over but couldn't find anything wrong with the one I'd just taken off. Fit new one anyway and all was well for a few hours and zunk, it stops again. I take off cable, check it and refit but nothing. Any ideas what might be happening?
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« on: June 12, 2026, 11:11:16 PM »
Bravo! Bravo!
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« on: June 11, 2026, 07:32:32 AM »
If you are on Facebook ( I got kicked off! ) there is a group called 'Classic Honda Motorcycles For Sale in the UK' maybe that can help?
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« on: June 11, 2026, 07:28:35 AM »
That's the one they called the Harrier?
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« on: June 11, 2026, 04:37:32 AM »
Thanks everyone, I've ordered some Autoglym stuff on fleabay. 
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« on: June 10, 2026, 09:53:18 PM »
Thanks for that Dave. I wondered if this topic had been discussed before but I couldn't find anything searching.
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