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Title: Stealing someone's thunder??
Post by: Moto63 on July 06, 2018, 07:48:09 PM

Look out bill Bill, looks like someone on pipeburn site is trying to steal your thunder 😁😁

Title: Re: Stealing someone's thunder??
Post by: themoudie on July 06, 2018, 11:26:55 PM

Aye Michael, if it is that XS400 to which you refer then then Sally has nothing to worry about. That is just  :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\ :-X !

I'm now playing with her electrical entrails!  :'(

Good health, Bill

Title: Re: Stealing someone's thunder??
Post by: Moto63 on July 07, 2018, 09:31:43 AM

'Tis indeed the xs 400 Bill. Motogadget all the way for me on the electrickery front 😉😉

Title: Re: Stealing someone's thunder??
Post by: themoudie on July 07, 2018, 11:01:16 PM

MMMMMmmmm Motogadget!  :-\ :-\

We'll see, at present I'm sticking with old technology, soldering iron, flux, solder and brass fittings.

My regards, Bill

Title: Re: Stealing someone's thunder??
Post by: Propellor on July 08, 2018, 03:35:01 AM

I'm in the throes of buying an Enfield so it's knotted rope for me.

Title: Re: Stealing someone's thunder??
Post by: themoudie on July 08, 2018, 10:23:17 AM

Enfield sisal and hemp rope could be of reasonable quality, we exported all of the machinery when Dundee was cleaned out in the enigmatic rush for the "digital economy" and now the equally enigmatic "green economy"!  :-\ 

Hopefully, if they have changed to using copper and brass, it will be of good quality, all that recycled Brum copper and brass that went out to keep the pre '48 infrastructure running!  ;)

Enjoy the new steed and with it's low seat height, at least you can keep it moving like a velocipede when the rope burns out!  ;D

My problem with Sally is that ubquitous plastic sleeved "crimp connector" that never quite crimps sufficiently or corrodes at the back of the tinned joint!  :(  The solution appears to be tinned thin walled cable and "Japanese" type connectors or German multi-connectors.

Having read some more about Motogadget, it appears to heighten the 'electrickery' and bury it within the structure of the motorcycle. making a right phaff to install, fault find and repair. As for having a "Bluetooth" facility,  ??? ::) ??? it just means that some nerd can not only shout out "Clarrisa! Turn the bank taps on or off.", but also "Clarrisa! Start the bike." and off they jolly well go! Maybe Enfield and other manufacturers should return to the old British security devices of a magneto, with advance and retard, a high compression ratio, iffy points and spark plugs, priming the carburettor and a kickback like a mule that all appear to have been superceded, even on the proposed new velocipede!  ::)

My regards, Bill

Title: Re: Stealing someone's thunder??
Post by: Moto63 on July 08, 2018, 11:16:01 AM

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣...... brilliant. Well funny,  Proper laugh out loud stuff that one,

Title: Re: Stealing someone's thunder??
Post by: Propellor on July 08, 2018, 12:39:04 PM

If the bike I took out is typical it was an absolute doddle to kick start. I don't know why they bothered with the leccy start. Could have used the space for something more essential. Like a supercharger 😂😂😂

Title: Re: Stealing someone's thunder??
Post by: Steve Lake on July 09, 2018, 07:37:54 AM

Aye Bill, and another thing, why do away with the trusty gate gear change on the side of the tank, like my Fathers Sunbeam model 10, he had no trouble changing gear with his knee down like the lads in MotoGP  ;D
pip pip

Title: Re: Stealing someone's thunder??
Post by: themoudie on July 09, 2018, 10:12:25 AM

"Knee down!", with a chair, wife on the back and bairns in the chair?  :o :o :o :o  So that's why you enjoy both 2D and 3D flying.  ;D ::)

Take another IPA for medicinal purposes or one of those St.Peter's Grapefruit brews.  ;)

Toodle pip, Bill