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Category : Buying and Selling
For Sale : Icon airmada Chantilly helmet,black
Category : The Workshop
Best way to check warped disc
Have 2 sets of discs and a bad vibration..!
Any useful tips..? Or someone I could bring all 4 discs to get checked.
thx
Category : General Bike Chat
Is a numberplate light required by law?
Category : The Workshop
More Transalp woes in Africa.
Bike wouldn’t start a few weeks ago in Senegal and the fuse box was piping hot. Various 125 cc mechanics got it started only for it to die again within a day or two again.
The third of them found a broken fuse and two severed cables which when fixed seemed to be the answer…only for it not to start again the next morning.
Had a new Japanese battery put in by a big bike mechanic, only for it not to start again the next day. Changed the regulator (highly fortunate to find a spare in Senegal) and it seemed perfect for five days.
Lights started playing tricks two days ago and it wouldn’t start again this morning. Not a sound when I hit the starter button.
Now a local mechanic has found another severed cable.He’s fixed it but the battery is dead. I still think the fuse box is hot again, as well the cables around there, but the mechanic says it’s just the heat from the engine. This never happened crossing the desert and has coincided with my mechanical problems, so I’m pretty sure he’s wrong.
So he wants to put another new battery in tomorrow convinced that this will fix it. But it sounds to me like there has to be another problem at the foundation of it all.
A) is there anything else explicable could account for this
B) am I mad to try to push on 1,000 kms to Freetow in Sierra Leone (where I really want to go) as opposed to back 300 kms to store the bike with a mate in Senegal?
Category : General Bike Chat
For all learners like me
All I’m saying is don’t follow anyone, do what you feel confident. When I see some guy in an r1 filter through 2 buses I don’t go following him. Anything i do I’m fully confident in doing :thumbsup2:
Category : Buying and Selling
For Sale : Honda VFR
Model : VFR VTec
Year :2002
Mileage : 31,400mls
Color : Red
Extras : Full Micron Exhaust System, Heated Grips. Full Givi Luggage System (Top box and Side Panniers) Seat Cowl. Tank Cover.
Overall Bike condition : Excellent.Nearly mint
Tyre. Chain/Sprocket condition. Tyres 40% left. Chain and Sprocket, excellent.
Service History : See below.
Bike Location : West Dublin
Irish/English Reg. Irish reg. (Bike was imported by me a number of years ago)
Price : 3,400e ono
Other relevamt info : This bike has been owned by me since 2005, I bought it in the UK. The owner did 3 trips to the continent on it and sold it, it had 5,000 mls on it when I bought it.
The exhaust system had been fitted by the shop when new, I also have the original exhaust system to go with the bike, never used.
Heated grips fitted from new as was the luggage system. All racks with bike for fitting.
It has been lovingly minded by me and i have changed the oil myself every 5,000 mls or so. Brake pads also fitted by me when needed. It was serviced, looked over by Honda Ireland about 4 years ago, it has not done any more than 6 or 7 seven hundred miles since.
Missing a mirror on the left side, the side stand sank inti the ground at a hurling match my son was playing in, stupid me, it tipped over and broke the mirror, slight scratch on the fairing also, otherwise no marks.
I used to use it on a Sunday, have still a Deauville that is used for town commutes etc.
Kept indoors at all times.
All keys, Original Handbook, and Haynes Manual included
Thanks for looking, all other questions gladly answered, ring me on 0861085827.
Pics here, cant upload here for some reason.
Category : General Bike Chat
Race tech tyre warmers,
Category : Classic Motorbikes
Road tax on old bike