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Re: Quiet here?
« Reply #30 on: October 03, 2018, 09:01:25 PM »
Shame about the ktm playing up but I'm sure it'll be fine once sorted.

The xbr project is covering some miles 😂😂😂 
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« Reply #31 on: October 04, 2018, 06:51:10 AM »
Fingers crossed Martin that it's nothing to serious and they can get it sorted out for you, I hope it hasn't tainted your view on the bike to much. If it has  I know where there mite be a lovely little ktm390 coming up for sale shortly 😀😀.
Fingers crossed mate 🤞🤞 and keep us posted on developments ...cheers, Michael 

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Re: Quiet here?
« Reply #32 on: October 04, 2018, 06:00:39 PM »


You don't really like Enfields do you?

Ian
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The exact opposite. Sort of.

Give me a well running Bullet on a sunny Sunday morning and I love it. The torque, the lightness,  the involvement of using 99% of the performance, the reaction non-bike people give to something that looks and sounds like a proper bike, instead of a snot green road missile,  the design features that should be on every bike like the EFI blink code.

Then, the ***ing things frustrate me. The cheese like materials. The obvious design flaws (stupid nacelle headlight so you can annoy helicopters while crashing in the dark etc.). The history that gives every anorak the right to lecture you about how they are made in India out of toffee and aren't the real thing, or hand out advice on greasing the S cams on your front disc. The slackness of the entire organisation (they don't know their own part number for a TPS when sent a photo of the box and don't have any parts for new bikes). The endless special paint jobs from a company that needs to start using tyres developed this century.

I want Honda to make one.

Andy

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Re: Quiet here?
« Reply #33 on: October 04, 2018, 06:21:25 PM »
Hi Andy

Sorry I obviously mis-interpreted your original comments. I have to say I entirely agree with your summary of the bikes and also with everything you point out as a downside.

I would really love to get a sticker printed for mine that says 'Please don't ask me if it is a proper Enfield'.

I sat at a layby tea stop a few weeks ago with my bike when a chap came in on another near identical Enfield. He proceeded to tell me all about it despite me pointing to mine and saying several times that I knew what he was talking about because the one next to his was mine!

Some people are so full of themselves that they can't see anybody else.

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Andy M

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Re: Quiet here?
« Reply #34 on: October 04, 2018, 06:53:28 PM »
OMG they getting worse are they?  :)

I had a lady who must have been 90 tell me she rode one in the ATS. Then she corrected herself and said it was a Triumph. You enjoy those conversations. She didn't take me up on the offer to give it a run round the block.

The only Bullet rider I got fed up with was a guy going on about fitting a carb. My "keep the FI" answer was apparently wrong.

It's normally like going to the clinic with fellow sufferers. Does yours make this noise, have you put loctite on this etc.

Definitely get the sticker, its more polite than the one I planned!

If you can keep the frustrating bits under control, enjoy it.

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« Reply #35 on: October 04, 2018, 07:32:50 PM »
Fingers crossed Martin that it's nothing to serious and they can get it sorted out for you, I hope it hasn't tainted your view on the bike to much. If it has  I know where there mite be a lovely little ktm390 coming up for sale shortly 😀😀.
Fingers crossed mate 🤞🤞 and keep us posted on developments ...cheers, Michael
Got a phone call today it's ready and they are dropping it back tomorrow:it was a decomposing fuel filter in the petrol tank cutting the fuel flow/ pressure.
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Re: Quiet here?
« Reply #36 on: October 04, 2018, 08:08:56 PM »
Great news Martin.... now go and pull some o them wheelies you were telling me about 😁😁👍

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« Reply #37 on: October 04, 2018, 08:22:18 PM »
OMG they getting worse are they?  :)

I had a lady who must have been 90 tell me she rode one in the ATS. Then she corrected herself and said it was a Triumph. You enjoy those conversations. She didn't take me up on the offer to give it a run round the block.

The only Bullet rider I got fed up with was a guy going on about fitting a carb. My "keep the FI" answer was apparently wrong.

It's normally like going to the clinic with fellow sufferers. Does yours make this noise, have you put loctite on this etc.

Definitely get the sticker, its more polite than the one I planned!

If you can keep the frustrating bits under control, enjoy it.

This was a good day

https://vimeo.com/263490164

Andy

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« Reply #38 on: October 04, 2018, 08:23:06 PM »
Fingers crossed Martin that it's nothing to serious and they can get it sorted out for you, I hope it hasn't tainted your view on the bike to much. If it has  I know where there mite be a lovely little ktm390 coming up for sale shortly 😀😀.
Fingers crossed mate 🤞🤞 and keep us posted on developments ...cheers, Michael
Got a phone call today it's ready and they are dropping it back tomorrow:it was a decomposing fuel filter in the petrol tank cutting the fuel flow/ pressure.

Reet do
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Re: Quiet here?
« Reply #39 on: October 05, 2018, 06:53:28 AM »

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Shostakovich?
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Bless you!  ;D

Yes, symphony #8 ("Stalingrad")

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Re: Quiet here?
« Reply #40 on: October 05, 2018, 11:51:00 AM »


Shostakovich?
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Bless you!  ;D

Yes, symphony #8 ("Stalingrad")

Andy
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Ha. Get in.

I'm not a classic music buff or anything but I thought I recognised some musical traits which smacked of him. It lent a certain "edge" to your vid. Ha ha.

I recognise a lot of the places too. You from yorkshir e?
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Re: Quiet here?
« Reply #41 on: October 05, 2018, 03:57:02 PM »
Leeds born and bred. Going East is one of the choices for a decent Sunday run. We have the peaks to the South and pennines to the North too.

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« Reply #42 on: October 05, 2018, 05:42:50 PM »
Leeds born and bred. Going East is one of the choices for a decent Sunday run. We have the peaks to the South and pennines to the North too.

Andy

Right next door. I live near Shipley. Must hook up for a spin and a chinwag over a cuppa at some point.
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Re: Quiet here?
« Reply #43 on: October 06, 2018, 06:35:52 AM »
Re the Sticker thing...

When I owned both a '59 Triton, and a smashed T140 being slowly returned from the dead, 20 years ago, I also had a 250 Superdream.

I painted over the logos and sprayed the sidepanels black. Then I put Triumph decals on, carefully modified with a razor to read TLIUMPH (because of the lazy stereotype of Japanese folk struggling to differentuate R/L, and it's a Japanese twin).

It was meant as an in joke among bikers, but I was on two occasions lectured at length by someone who "used to have exactly the same Triumph".

In the current retro mania, I wonder if I would put an 'ONDA logo on the Triton? It's been in a friend's ownership since 1999.
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Re: Quiet here?
« Reply #44 on: October 06, 2018, 08:07:07 AM »
Definitely up for that cuppa. Do you ever get to Squires? It can be a bit of a loony creche, but it's easy to find and better now the Autumn is here.

I stole the Hurley-Pugh brand so I could get away with treating the Enfield in a less reverent fashion. Same with the Pooratrek site. When marketing raises brands to the level they do,  you get people who go beyond even the dreaded "Lifestyle choice" guff and come to associate so much with a badge they take it personally. I once referred to a certain Germanic  brand as Bu*****d with a MangelWorzel and got a lovely ranting history complete with a photo of his blue and white tattoo  :-\ Accidental keyboard warrior stuff, but some people do build their personal image round such things. It's mostly harmless but some worry me.

This is of course one of the frustrations with the CB500. I've decided the styling (Optimus Primes illegitimate offspring with the Bumblebee bloke from the Simpsons) now qualifies me as a Power Ranger,  but it really doesn't have as much scope for taking the ****.

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