What have you done to your XS today?

[Adamc]

Options in UK are limited to Unleaded E10 or Unleaded E5. Cannot buy alcohol free fuel in this part of the World. Apparently we are helping the planet by paying counties in the far east to burn down their pristine rain forest and grow oil palms.

Try www.classicfuelsolutions.co.uk
Ethanol free petrol 10Ltrs @ £38.50
Recommend by Steve Parish.

 

[Raymond]

That is interesting. 10 litres for £38 makes it pricy but I can see why people with vintage racing bikes or cars would be interested.

 

[Grimly]

That is interesting. 10 litres for £38 makes it pricy but I can see why people with vintage racing bikes or cars would be interested.

Never mind, it won't be long before petrol is beyond sensible reach anyway.
In the meantime I'll be extracting the ethanol and running my small engines on purified petrol.

 

[zrx1100]

Sunday fun day: the seat is off to Sargent, BT46s are going on

 

[Mailman]

Sunday fun day: the seat is off to Sargent, BT46s are going on

You know I thought I remembered Sargent making custom seats. That’s brilliant! I bought a Sargent for my old Suzuki V-Strom, it was the most comfortable seat I ever had on a bike! You’ll have to post a follow up when you get it back!

 

[zrx1100]

You know I thought I remembered Sargent making custom seats. That’s brilliant! I bought a Sargent for my old Suzuki V-Strom, it was the most comfortable seat I ever had on a bike! You’ll have to post a follow up when you get it back!

I asked them to keep the stock look. Sounds like they get this a lot. Not the most comfortable option for long distance cruising but let’s see.

 

[tibsy]

Never mind, it won't be long before petrol is beyond sensible reach anyway.
In the meantime I'll be extracting the ethanol and running my small engines on purified petrol.

Grimly- what is your method for removing ethanol please, Tibsy

 

[zrx1100]

Went for a ~70 mile ride today. Stopped at a small motorcycle museum about 30 miles out.
I dropped off a stack of my old motorcycle mags for the their "library".
With the new clutch I can now tell the old clutch was slipping a bit.
It was nice having a starter too. I might get used to it!
The bike ran great except I had quite a bit of popping out of the right side when I came off the throttle. That's new.
Something's going on there, I might have to look into it.

where is the museum?

 

[zrx1100]

@bosco659 these rear sets are very interesting. where did you get them? i am thinking about the same peg position for more comfort

 

[onkelheri]

Grimly- what is your method for removing ethanol please, Tibsy

i presume "cooked" by apprx 50*C so the ethanol leave the fuel by vaporize... no smoking is recomend

 

[cycleranger]

where is the museum?

https://www.texasvintagemotorcyclemuseum.com/

I should take a few photos next time I stop by. It's small but crammed with some nice bikes of all makes.

 

[Grimly]

Grimly- what is your method for removing ethanol please, Tibsy

This guy shows it really well.

 

[Grimly]

i presume "cooked" by apprx 50*C so the ethanol leave the fuel by vaporize... no smoking is recomend

Another one for the ignore list.

 

[jetmechmarty]

I asked them to keep the stock look. Sounds like they get this a lot. Not the most comfortable option for long distance cruising but let’s see.

I had Sargent replace foam and cover my seat over 20 years ago. It even survived a carburetor/airbox fire. It has 100,000 miles on it and looks just like it did when they sent it to me.

 

[onkelheri]

Another one for the ignore list.

uihuihuih fun is not your buisiness? Ignoring a smiley ?

 

[bazz]

Today I painted my seat mount

 

[Its been a long time]

Shake down on the back from the dead 650D, suspected oil leak again under the left side engine cover. Turns out 99% certain it's chain lube flung off the chain onto the casing and then dripped onto the floor overnight. When I've had oil leaks in there, the acorn nut just visible at seven o'clock behind the sprocket always has an oil dew drop on it. Not this time. The new chain and sprockets have been liberally doused with lube while they break in. Seems the chain lube I've used has about zero resistance to being thrown off the chain. It's made a mess but nothing more it seems.

Also checked the ignition timing. It had been set to the retarded side of the F marked range. I've advanced it a degree or two to the centre of the F mark. See if it makes any noticeable difference to how the engine runs.

Probably another shake down run tomorrow if it doesn't rain.

 

[onkelheri]

oil is also passible from the oilhosenut in the mittle of the cylinders in front behind the exhaustdownpipes. sometimes it is just untied, also not rare that is there a "haircrack"... even the oilsealing of the clutchbar "9:00h" near the small chainwheel is always a typical suspect.

 

[Tiggertoo]

Had a bad day today, took the bike out for a spin and got maybe 5 miles before it started backfiring (from the RH side this time) and the revs were hanging and wouldn't return back to idle. Nursed it back home and firstly checked the advance mech, yes it was sticking. So I took it off and the rod and gave the rod a good greasing. The springs on the advance mech feel a little weak to me (even though they are fairly new, but they are aftermarket springs). Luckily I have a spare aftermarket advance unit so just to prove the point I stuck that on and fired her up. Hanging revs had gone but still popping so I adjusted the mix screw and sync'd the carbs for the umpteenth time. No more popping so went for a shake down ride and all was well for the first 6 or 7 miles then the revs hung again at a junction (around 2.5K). Fiddled with the idle screw and it dropped back to 1200 so started heading home. Still some slight popping from the RH exhaust creeping back in on decel. Stopped a few times to check and adjust the idle speed as it now seemed to try to stall unless I kept blipping the throttle. Got home and found I was now missing the RH side panel - bugger!
Jumped in the car and retraced the route but no luck finding it. Just as I was getting near home the f$ck£*g car started misbehaving, engine management light on and in limp mode! Got the car booked in for diagnostics on Thursday. After reviewing my helmet cam footage I figured out the likeliest stretch of road to check for the missing panel, I know for definite it was on at the last but one stop and missing at the next so only about 1 mile stretch of road to check and its only about 1.5 miles from home so jumped on the pushbike and pedaled up and down the stretch several times but no luck. My guess is it ended up either in a drainage ditch, under a hedge or in a clump of long grass/nettles/etc.
Losing the light by this point so thats it for today, start shopping for a replacement side panel tomorrow! What a shitty day LOL.

 

[onkelheri]

rent a drone for searching
i presume that your butterflies are out of the center .... : get the idlescrew far out so that there is no contact to the butterflies, just untied the m3 bolds (!) give some wd40 around the butterflies. now you open the butterflies and let them snap several time in the closed position. normal that place them back in the center of the venturi. then you push the butterflieaxle in the direction of the spring, bevore you tiede up the m3 bolds again. now the jam should be less. if not : remove the butterflies and now with a file ore dremel change the 3mm holes to a "longhole" +o,5mm. that gave the axle space so that the spring not longer pull the butterflie against the venturi. do the snapaction again!
i recoment one drop loctite 638 for the little bolds after cleanig with brakecleaner. i use o.8 Nm for fixing them.

new synchronize is needet!

i have got a lot of housing with a warnout venturi exact about this little failure.


ps.: once i work in the "norfolk broads" ... to fix a 6cyl. marinediesel ... that ship whas a member of the "dunkerk fleet"