What have you done on your bike today?

@WAYNE Is this any help?

In Southampton.

I'd get it running then sell it with an honest description as however much you enjoy it when it's running i can't see it being something to rely on. There are other bikes out there with character that will start , go and stop every time and they don't have to cost a fortune.
 
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Dukesox said:
@WAYNE Is this any help?

In Southampton.

I'd get it running then sell it with an honest description as however much you enjoy it when it's running i can't see it being something to rely on. There are other bikes out there with character that will start , go and stop every time and they don't have to cost a fortune.
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Though a lot of fun and satisfaction from fixing the niggly faults and making it reliable.
 
Dukesox said:
Yes but you have to draw a line somewhere. Especially if it makes you get in a rage.
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Now i have calmed down and had some beer i do need a new tank, when i took it apart AGAIN and cleaned the injector AGAIN and got the tank off AGAIN there was a hammer on the floor with my spanners, hammer fuel tank hammer, as i think i said it's been a very long time since i have lost my shit whole scale!! :ROFLMAO: The injector was bad, this is what it is the injector getting clogged up. I know there was a comment on putting an external filter on it but the fuel pipe is in a stupid place and very short and to be honest there is just no room for one. @Laava said about using Evapo-rust so i have some coming for delivery tomorrow, i'll give that a go, don't care about the tank looking like it was in a cricket ball sized hail storm as i am getting another when i get some funds. I have some more stuff on ebay and they should sell and i have some other stuff i'm going to list tomorrow, i made a tidy sum last week, result that.(y)
 
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Went out on a ride with a bunch of track dudes in Aprilias and Beemers through VA, WV. Awesome roads 300+ miles. The Appalachians are scenic in their own way. The roads/route was wicked fun.

Didn't do the whole ride with the group we pulled off and headed back, not sure my friend's rear tire would've lasted.

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Today i had a delivery of some Evapo-rust to clean out the Enfield fuel tank, the hammer dented one is going back on for now till i can find one in my price range. Right on being calm i have worked out a way to fit an external fuel filter, i'm going to see John Oldfield tomorrow who is a proper old school Honda motorcycle parts dealer. You walk into his shop and it is just rammed full of Honda parts, he is an encyclopedia on legs,:) i'm just going to get a couple of external fuel filters. Not seen him for a long time, i used him for my C90 parts that he would have stashed somewhere, he is the only motorcycle parts dealer who will 100% have what you want to hand, you know like said filters.(y) Back in the day Southampton had motorcycles parts and dealers and 5 mororcycle breakers everywhere, all gone now John is the last!!:( Ok we have a BMW-Yamaha motorcycle dealer just up the road from John but i wouldn't be able to get a fuel filter, if i asked them they would wonder WTF i'm on about, we also have a KTM-Honda dealer that would be the same result, useless!! I'm going to spray paint the tank for now and call it patina:ROFLMAO:, fuck it, we have about 5 days of warm sunny weather coming from tomorrow.(y)
 
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The skitz said:
And... Where he is now in the process... Why the fuck did I bate the shite out of me tank 😆
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About 1997 my then fiance and our son, he was 3 then went to Gozo to see my dad and mum, long story but my dad wanted to go back after nearly 50 years in the UK. Just down the road from him is three houses that family members live, i have a big family over there, my dad told me about My cousin smashing the crap out of his Suzuki, he fucking lost the plot with it,:ROFLMAO: fucking crazy fucker, it's what i had a Gozo moment!!:)
 
WAYNE said:
About 1997 my then fiance and our son, he was 3 then went to Gozo to see my dad and mum, long story but my dad wanted to go back after nearly 50 years in the UK. Just down the road from him is three houses that family members live, i have a big family over there, my dad told me about My cousin smashing the crap out of his Suzuki, he fucking lost the plot with it,:ROFLMAO: fucking crazy fucker, it's what i had a Gozo moment!!:)
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On Friday I went to Cheltenham and picked up a crash damaged Multi 1260s from a member of the other forum, great guy, 'Bumpkin' ( he broke his leg in the crash 2 months ago, he's fine now).

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Once I'd got it home


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along with the bits that came off

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I put it in my new workshop, reconnected some bits and fired it up.

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Note the full tank!, nearly 25,000 miles (so just run in). The battery was flat, probably down to the tracker letting him know where the bike was on it's convoluted journey back from France.

Having established it was running well. It was time to strip it down


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It won't be going back on the road as it is a class B write off but a lot of bits will be going on to my bike to keep it running as the miles clock up.
I have a plan for the engine, more about that on a different thread another day.

@BobTheBounder I thought you might like to see the old milling machine
 
Hugo Magnus said:
On Friday I went to Cheltenham and picked up a crash damaged Multi 1260s from a member of the other forum, great guy, 'Bumpkin' ( he broke his leg in the crash 2 months ago, he's fine now).

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Once I'd got it home


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along with the bits that came off

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I put it in my new workshop, reconnected some bits and fired it up.

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Note the full tank!, nearly 25,000 miles (so just run in). The battery was flat, probably down to the tracker letting him know where the bike was on it's convoluted journey back from France.

Having established it was running well. It was time to strip it down


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It won't be going back on the road as it is a class B write off but a lot of bits will be going on to my bike to keep it running as the miles clock up.
I have a plan for the engine, more about that on a different thread another day.

@BobTheBounder I thought you might like to see the old milling machine
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You're turning into @West Cork Paul albeit a much posher version :unsure:
 
Hugo Magnus said:
On Friday I went to Cheltenham and picked up a crash damaged Multi 1260s from a member of the other forum, great guy, 'Bumpkin' ( he broke his leg in the crash 2 months ago, he's fine now).


Once I'd got it home I put it in my new workshop, reconnected some bits and fired it up.

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It won't be going back on the road as it is a class B write off but a lot of bits will be going on to my bike to keep it running as the miles clock up.
I have a plan for the engine, more about that on a different thread another day.

@BobTheBounder I thought you might like to see the old milling machine
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Great workshop, and an interesting choice of floor paint.

(I presume the safety guards are off being polished.....(y))
 
Hugo Magnus said:
On Friday I went to Cheltenham and picked up a crash damaged Multi 1260s from a member of the other forum, great guy, 'Bumpkin' ( he broke his leg in the crash 2 months ago, he's fine now).

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Once I'd got it home


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along with the bits that came off

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I put it in my new workshop, reconnected some bits and fired it up.

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Note the full tank!, nearly 25,000 miles (so just run in). The battery was flat, probably down to the tracker letting him know where the bike was on it's convoluted journey back from France.

Having established it was running well. It was time to strip it down


View attachment 118286

It won't be going back on the road as it is a class B write off but a lot of bits will be going on to my bike to keep it running as the miles clock up.
I have a plan for the engine, more about that on a different thread another day.

@BobTheBounder I thought you might like to see the old milling machine
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When you told me it flipped upside down as you know i said had it gone hydraulic, my cousins late other half had a GSX1000 that he flipped, it went hydraulic and went terminal. Good to hear the motor is good. (y)
 

Mr Bimble said:
Great workshop, and an interesting choice of floor paint.

(I presume the safety guards are off being polished.....(y))
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I'm going through a yellow phase 🤣

We are moving the machinery from the old and very cluttered workshop (leaving the clutter behind) I have made it very clear that any clutter left in the new workshop will be thrown unceremoniously out of the door.
We're even fitting the wiring in ducts and conduit with safety gizmos. No more cable clips and bits of string.
I would have liked to have done it years ago but it was never a priority.
My next job will be to find appropriate storage cabinets, for the tools and tooling.
 
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Hugo Magnus said:
I'm going through a yellow phase 🤣

We are moving the machinery from the old and very cluttered workshop (leaving the clutter behind) I have made it very clear that any clutter left in the new workshop will be thrown unceremoniously out of the door.
We're even fitting the wiring in ducts and conduit with safety gizmos. No more cable clips and bits of string.
I would have liked to have done it years ago but it was never a priority.
My next job will be to find appropriate storage cabinets, for the tools and tooling.
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Yellow is where it's at!

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Today i have ridin over to John Oldfield for an external fuel filter and as ever he had three types to look at, i bought one and went for some shopping and then home. While at Johns there is a bike jumble on the 22nd this Sunday, not far from me so i might go as the weather is looking good for it, john told me last years jumble was called off as the weather was a fucking nightmare. :ROFLMAO: You never know there might be a Enfield fuel tank for sale so if i go i shall be taking some bunjeeeeees. Anyone else up for it down this neck of the woods?:)

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