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How is she getting on with the hornet?
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She's liking it so it seems. Apart from swearing at it for revving it's nuts off when she forget it's got a choke. Only thing she wants to change is get the seat redone as it's rather hard. She did 100 miles on yesterday, so not bad for a first day after that long.
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I n Ed to fit some new tyres to my vfr1200x any thoughts on decent rubber for bloody heavy bastards? In leaning towards PR5’s


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I can't fault Avon Storm 3DXM. Much cheaper than Michelin and great. I'm running them on my gsx1400 and after 5k the rear is just over half worn.
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Hooli wrote: Sat Sep 19, 2020 10:08 pm I can't fault Avon Storm 3DXM. Much cheaper than Michelin and great. I'm running them on my gsx1400 and after 5k the rear is just over half worn.
The centre half?
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Bloody previous owners!

I rebuilt the carbs on the chinoAJS yesterday, found what looked like string in one float chamer so we'll see if that helps it run better. I put them back on, started it up and all sounded good. I then watched blue gasket sealant ooze of out the joint to the RH side cover followed by a nice steady flow of oil. FFS, there's no gasket in there. A previous idiot who's owned this engine had bodged it & the bodge has just failed. It's leaking way too much to ride, use or MOT so will need sorting.
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Just been out on the Cagiva Supercity for an hour or so.
Was a good ride, had it leant over further than I have yet, half an inch left on the chicken strips now.
It's such good fun ragging a 2 stroke on the roads. Was with my pal on his 900 Hornet again, he is looking for a 2 stroke 125 now as well.
An indicated 150kph was achieved, reckon it'll do the ton with the right road.
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Arthur Foxhake wrote: Sun Sep 20, 2020 2:58 pm Just been out on the Cagiva Supercity for an hour or so.
Was a good ride, had it leant over further than I have yet, half an inch left on the chicken strips now.
It's such good fun ragging a 2 stroke on the roads. Was with my pal on his 900 Hornet again, he is looking for a 2 stroke 125 now as well.
An indicated 150kph was achieved, reckon it'll do the ton with the right road.
I'm almost ashamed to admit this, but around some country roads I know well I couldn't shake off an Aprilia RS250 when I was riding the firm's 1998 VFR800.
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Hooli wrote: Sat Sep 19, 2020 10:34 am She's liking it so it seems. Apart from swearing at it for revving it's nuts off when she forget it's got a choke. Only thing she wants to change is get the seat redone as it's rather hard. She did 100 miles on yesterday, so not bad for a first day after that long.
I take it she rode out in front so not to be dazzled by your POLITE tabard?
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Of course...

The punch I got during the day for saying I preferred to follow as her arse is better than her face was a totally separate event.
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