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Technical => Bike Problems/Questions => Topic started by: manxie on March 22, 2016, 08:08:41 PM
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Hi fella`s. I`ve just had a phone call with someone offering my an 86 XT350 but it needs a top end rebuild. I`ve got a garage full of s##te at the moment, do I need more? I`m not a mechanic so would probably need to get someone to rebuild or renew the top end. Is it a big job and expensive? :-\
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You might struggle to get parts depending on how much of a rebuild it needs - I don't remember them being that popular :-\
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Excellent point Steve, thanks. I need someone to talk me out of getting it and that`s a first good point ;) Cheers, Steve.
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Steve, you must be similar to me, as I also find it very hard to turn down cheap "projects", even though I'm already snowed under with same :D
I met a guy yesterday who reckons he has over eighty bikes, so there might be hope for me yet :-\
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Aye Steve,
Would you send me contact number, please?
MAY, know somebody whom might be interested if you aren't.
Use 'message' under my avatar for discretion please.
Thank you for your time.
My regards, Bill
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Been thinking about it and I`ve got too much "patina" in my garage so I`ll pass on it... it`s tough though isn`t it Timbo? Bill, PM sent, cheers, Steve. ;)
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Any luck Bill?? ???
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i bought andys dr650 off here a few months back, it was the right price and ticked all the right boxes for me, simple, reliable, traily, suzuki, cheap, yeah, ok, cheap was further up the list. i brought it home, fired it up, ran it round the block, stuck it in the shed and then the mrs asked me how many bikes are in there at the moment and could i really justify one more. i stopped counting at 20!, and then i got offered this nice cbr1000, doesnt need much, but its cheap,,,,,,,,,,
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D excellent, your shed sounds bigger than my house :o ;)
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i always wanted a big workshop, and i promised myself one when we moved house 8 years ago. after the 12 foot by 28 foot cabin was up, insulated and had the power connected i thought that it was perfect. little did i realise that you expand to fill the space you have, no matter how big that space is, the only limiting factor is time. so now, 8 years on, i cant move in the shed and am seriously contemplating building another....
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There is a mathematical formula for calculating the optimum number of bikes you should own :-
X (+1)
X being the number of bikes you currently own.
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Yes, thankfully I have run out of space in the shed, and the house, though i've just been offered a Z200 for £150. Have managed to say no this time though :-\
It's a blooming disease this bike lark ;)
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Ah yes that it is Tim, however it's one of those nice ones that just occasionally needs scathing, not really in a trouble sum way, just a bit of an itch. Could be worse one could be spending it all down the public house and (shall we say) wee'in it all up against the proverbial wall, least with bikes one has something to show for it and like I said in another post somewhere on here. Keeps one outta the wife's hair eh,,,,,keep on a stock piling I say...cheers, Michael
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Ah yes that it is Tim, however it's one of those nice ones that just occasionally needs scathing, not really in a trouble sum way, just a bit of an itch. Could be worse one could be spending it all down the public house and (shall we say) wee'in it all up against the proverbial wall, least with bikes one has something to show for it and like I said in another post somewhere on here. Keeps one outta the wife's hair eh,,,,,keep on a stock piling I say...cheers, Michael
I actually run my bikes as my main means of transport, as I share a car with the wife. It makes it easy to justify as even factoring in a bike swap or two, new kit and all the other running costs, I'm still spending far less than running another car. :D
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Ah but being a self employed plumber I'd struggle to ferry all the associated gubbins around on a bike Pete. Wish I kud mate believe me. Fair play to you tho as I'm sure there are a lot of weekend warrior types that could go to work on a bike but don't
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Get a nice box sidecar.
My brother once considered taking up plumbing and at the time had a scruffy maroon R90. I suggested setting himself up as Professor Plumb (in the kitchen with a lead pipe) with a matching sidecar but he wouldn't go for it for some reason.
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Get a nice box sidecar.
My brother once considered taking up plumbing and at the time had a scruffy maroon R90. I suggested setting himself up as Professor Plumb (in the kitchen with a lead pipe) with a matching sidecar but he wouldn't go for it for some reason.
Seen it done mate, there used to be a guy in bradford that had a honda 400wet dream with a "coffin"sized box as a sidecar who used to go around doing his plumbing jobs on, that was back in the mid 80's. However I think it was more "maintained" based stuff he did.
Cheers,,,,Michael
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I`m a plumber, and around town there`s a plumber rides round on a XT125, ruck sack on his back with the scissor bender sticking out one side of it and a Turbo-torch blow lamp out the other!! He`s never passed his driving test!! :o
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Our once illustrious leader, Onepot, aka Graham Carrick, worked as a handyman type jobbie, and used an XBR and sidecar for his work 8)
Me and Alison have been a one car family for the last lot of years, in fact my own car insurance is long lapsed, and you are right, it saves a blooming fortune, not running a second car :)
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A local mate whom is into property rental uses a Ural sidecar outfit for all his property maintanence and local transport jobs. So the odd bath, wash hand basin, lengths of stud work, 4" x 2", plaster board, firewood, adult daughter, pass along the A85T at a sedate 40mph, in a machine with the patina expected of a machine used to cart potatoes to the vodka distillery. Regular oil changes and "work", I am assured are the reason behind the outfits longevity.
As for plumbing! :( It is my bête noire. Regardless of pipe material or the type of joints used, they always leak, water seeps everywhere and if it happens after you've restored the surrounding structure, you then have to take it all apart again and try to stop the ruddy leak! >:( This should really be in the rants! :-X Anybody whom is a plumber by profession or calling, either has the patience of Job or the luck of an Angel for their joints not to leak or their shower installations not to rot the stud work! Bah! Humbug! ??? ::)
Off to the woods! 8)
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;) ;) ;) ;) ;)......keep practicing bill, you'll get there. Easy for me to say tho, I've been doing it for the last 36 years. Came in handy when I went back to college to do my level one tig/mig welding tho, think all that soldering gave me a head start...cheers, Michael
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Yeah, +1 on that. We all have the odd leak, even after 32yrs in my case. When soldering cleanliness is the key and if you use "push fit" make sure the pipes are straight and in full socket. Compression fitting....the key is not to "over tighten" and if they do leak either paste round the olive or PTFE round the olive. Good luck ;)
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Isn't this forum brilliant, from an XT350 for sale to wrapping your olives in PTFE :)
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Thank you all, for your expertise and tips. The alkathene to the outside tap is the latest leaker! I suspect a new washer/'O' ring is required after I gave it a 'tweaking' with the gland nut pliers to stop the leak. As usual no jet of water, just a running 'film' over a quarter of the diameter of the pipe below the connection! >:(
My apologies for the diversion in the thread! :-X
My regards, Bill
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;D ;D Most threads I start end up in a chat about something different, it would be boring otherwise ;D ;D ;) ;)
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I always paste me olives.
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Ah...yes prop, excellent advice, certainly where copper/brass involved. However paste NOT recommend with (can react with the alkathene) just good old PTFE tape, again not to much, couple o three wraps around shud suffice....hopefully that'll help the job along a touch bill....or ya kud always just TIG it all together :) :) :) :).....cheers, Michael