Hey, New Member :)

[boze]

hi everyone, my names damien, I'm 24, from Scotland and I'm new to the site

i passed my motorbike test two weeks ago and am now riding a 1980 yamaha Sr500....
the bike was originally brought into the UK by my girlfriends dad from south Africa about 20 years ago, he had the intention of restoring her and having a blast but the bike sat in the garage and started to rot away, about a year ago i decided it was now my bike lol! i got it out and have been restoring it since, unfortunately due to limited funds much of the badly rusted chrome had to be sanded and painted as i couldn't afford to re-chrome them but apart from that shes totally original!!!

i only have one little problem, i went to get mirrors for her as she didn't have any, and the hole in the right side of the bars for the mirror is totally wasted away, at some point it has been threaded to the point where i can actually put the mirror in without having to turn it at all. i cant re thread it as i don't have the tools, would it be feasible to use liquid metal to secure it in place? i really need mirrors as it is rather disconcerting riding without them!!

anyways, thats me!!

peace

[hondamichael]

dont use the liquid form , there is this other sort available its no liquid  dont know its 2 components you have to squize for 5 minutes together and then fill the hole and after about 2 hours or if you heat it up gently earlier you can just drill a new hole and thread  in it .. and it works not like some liquid stuff

[damo]

cheers bro.

two strips like plasticine? i think i know the stuff you mean.

Damo

[Steffan]

Why bodge up the holes when at some stage you'll be able to get them rethreaded properly. Most small engineering work will do a helicoil in standard sizes for not much money and after much teeth sucking. Why not fit a barend mirror that way you can have the mirror and leave the knackered thread until you can afford to fix it and they give blinding vis of the tailgating wanker behind you or the police camera you have flown past and 30mph over the indicated limit.

welcome to the madhouse

Steffan
PS did your girlfriend's dad ever finish rebuilding your girlfriend then?

[boze]

arf arf arf lol!!

she=sr500 not ma girlfriend......

i need to get to edinburgh on saturday for the MCN bike show and i dont have enough time to get some bar end mirrors and dont fancy driving that far (its a good long run with quite a bit of motorway) withought being able to see behind me......bodging seems to be my only option..... 

[hondamichael]

yes thats the stuff

for mirrors just ask some mod in the neighbourhood they usually have loads of spare ones on theire scooters

[boze]

just got back from my local garage, he couldnt sell me anything but he had some stuff that only garages can buy, its like the stuff with two parts that you squish together then it goes hard except its waaaay stronger than the stuff you can buy in the shops, he gave me a little bit of it (cos its £95gbp for him to buy) and said to pack the hole with it and when it hardens i can drill it, tap it, whatever, its just like metal.

sorted

[guest18]

East of Scotland engineering are good down at Sighthill in Edinburgh, I believe they have an equivalent called (wait for it) West of Scotland Engineering (imaginitive huh?) in Glasgow, you'll probably find them in the yellow pages.

Edinburgh isn't that far for you! Only about an hour and on the M8 it doesn't matter what's behind you anyway ;-)

Enjoy the East coast sunshine anyway ;-))

Smudge

[boze]

East of Scotland engineering are good down at Sighthill in Edinburgh, I believe they have an equivalent called (wait for it) West of Scotland Engineering (imaginitive huh?) in Glasgow, you'll probably find them in the yellow pages.

Edinburgh isn't that far for you! Only about an hour and on the M8 it doesn't matter what's behind you anyway ;-)

Enjoy the East coast sunshine anyway ;-))

Smudge

hehe, yeah man but its about 2 and a half hours to edinburgh from where i am, im in a litle town called largs, you may even know it as loads of bikers come down everyday in the summer and park in the car park on the shore and chill out. i got ma mirrors sorted anyways today so it should be good!

anyone else here goin to the MCN bike show this weekend?

peace

[andy230]

East of Scotland engineering are good down at Sighthill in Edinburgh, I believe they have an equivalent called (wait for it) West of Scotland Engineering (imaginitive huh?) in Glasgow, you'll probably find them in the yellow pages.

Edinburgh isn't that far for you! Only about an hour and on the M8 it doesn't matter what's behind you anyway ;-)

Enjoy the East coast sunshine anyway ;-))

Smudge

RIGHT!!! 

As us scots tend to be our own worst enemy on occaision, I will not get on the skorp and race north to knock lumps out of you, GS!

For fear of "a doin"....

Aye, West of Scotland engineering- good lads, but haven't been near them for... oooh!  about 10years.  Jeezuz, I know I'm only a tiddler compared to the rest of you old fossils, but that sounds awful!

Anyway damien, as an ex-pat (when am I going to "re-pat"), I can't help you with your problem.  But I can wish you luck! 

Cheers for now mate

andy

[guest18]

lol, actually I was thinking when I wrote it that motorway traffic doesn't matter... but now you mention it

Nah, I worked in Argyll for a couple of years and the scenery was great, it was just that you couldn't see it half the time for the rain and midges
Give me the light and space of the East Coast anytime! (Says he whilst taking a break from organising a Diving weekend in Oban )

[themoudie]

Aye Boze,

Was in Gourock yesterday! The view across the 'schemes' from the Pulpit Rock were rather good, with RNA manouvering a large boat in the Clyde with a tug on standby in case port became starboard or vice versa! Work drags me all over Scotland, but more jobs in the Ayr coalfield and hills than the coast. West is best when the wind is in the East!

Last year picked up a wee Morini 'The Minx' 125 from Millport, just before the C&W Festival hit town! Interesting signs! The circular main road littered with wobbling cyclists of all ages. Electric chariots also a hazard along the Millport front.

Maybe with the mayhem of the M8 you'd care for a diversion via the Erskine Bridge, Drymen, Stirling. But with snow showers for the tops this weekend a blatter up the M8 might be quicker! Whatever, keep safe and keep boppin'.

Regards, Bill

[boze]

Aye Boze,

Was in Gourock yesterday! The view across the 'schemes' from the Pulpit Rock were rather good, with RNA manouvering a large boat in the Clyde with a tug on standby in case port became starboard or vice versa! Work drags me all over Scotland, but more jobs in the Ayr coalfield and hills than the coast. West is best when the wind is in the East!

Last year picked up a wee Morini 'The Minx' 125 from Millport, just before the C&W Festival hit town! Interesting signs! The circular main road littered with wobbling cyclists of all ages. Electric chariots also a hazard along the Millport front.

Maybe with the mayhem of the M8 you'd care for a diversion via the Erskine Bridge, Drymen, Stirling. But with snow showers for the tops this weekend a blatter up the M8 might be quicker! Whatever, keep safe and keep boppin'.

Regards, Bill

haha, a bunch of us always go over to the C&W festival and have a proper rammy!! good old fashioned fun!!

the view from pulpit rock is awesome, i totally agree with ya there man!! aye ah think were gonna head up the M8, ive nt been able to aford all my gear yet so im stuck with plain old waterproof trousers (no armour) and walking boots so id rather steer clear of all possible ice/snow/death.

damo

[guest27]

In another lifetime I made some of the windows for the tolls on the Erskine bridge - or was it another bridge?  If the EB has toll then they are 'my' windows - always supposing they have not replaced them with newer less fangled ones.

Yet another meaningless message from Rog

R

[themoudie]

Aye Rog,

Steady now, your getting political!!!!!!

Erskine Bridge no longer has tolls and all your windaes hey gone to the big skip called the Clydebank yards. Filled in!

Only the Forth and Tay Bridges still have tolls and Fifers are nae happy punters! Eh Smudge?

Gormless Brown may find it his Achilles heel, yet.

My regards Rog and no I haven't forgotten that wheel article, just need to use the graip a bit more to find it.