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Well its been a very eventful day. Thanks to all, your advice was brilliant and I'm now the proud owner of an imaculate CBR600 (well the bank is but they let me ride it 
). But thats not the full story:
I bought it this morning. Very chuffed. Get back have a bit of lunch decide to go for a ride. Nice country roads taking it steady learining the bike. I think well a bit further then I'll head back and give it a clean. Carry on down the road and bike chuggs and struggles me: oh running out of fuel must switch to reserve. Pull into side. Bike dies. Switch to reserve won't start. (
) wait a while keep trying move bike, thinks check tank. Loads of fuel (oh double ) after about 15mins of checking over bike try again it starts (
) on reserve. I think "back to the dealer I want to find out what it is". Switch fuel back to on. Go back about 1/2 mile cuts out again. Wait again (10mins this time won't start on on, but will start on Reserve). So now I have to ride across town to get back to the dealer. Pull in tell them the problem:
Response: well it seems okay, are you sure you didn't catch the cut off switch? (me, yes I'm sure) They turned it onto on and rode about a bit no problem. So Off I go again about 300yrds down the road it cuts out again. This time no starting so I push the bike back to the dealer.
Mechanic manages to start it on reserve. Changes it back to on and goes for a longer run. 10 mins later he comes back and says: "yep youre absolutely right there is fuel starvation in the on position and it tried to cut out, we'll fix it, probably just crap in the pipe or tap." (result) "however can't do it till Thursday so you'll have to ride on reserve."
So Riding back home loads of traffic look at tacho done 95 miles on this tank = plenty left. Get to about 100 mile at the bottom of a hill towards home and it dies. This time it IS out of fuel. So I have to push it to the garage at the top of the hill (seems that the tank wasn't as full as I thought).
So in the space of one day I've bought a bike, broke down three times and had to push it twice. Finally I've had vehicle "tetris" trying to get car and bike into the garage!
Biking, what fun
). But thats not the full story: I bought it this morning. Very chuffed. Get back have a bit of lunch decide to go for a ride. Nice country roads taking it steady learining the bike. I think well a bit further then I'll head back and give it a clean. Carry on down the road and bike chuggs and struggles me: oh running out of fuel must switch to reserve. Pull into side. Bike dies. Switch to reserve won't start. (
) wait a while keep trying move bike, thinks check tank. Loads of fuel (oh double ) after about 15mins of checking over bike try again it starts () on reserve. I think "back to the dealer I want to find out what it is". Switch fuel back to on. Go back about 1/2 mile cuts out again. Wait again (10mins this time won't start on on, but will start on Reserve). So now I have to ride across town to get back to the dealer. Pull in tell them the problem: Response: well it seems okay, are you sure you didn't catch the cut off switch? (me, yes I'm sure) They turned it onto on and rode about a bit no problem. So Off I go again about 300yrds down the road it cuts out again. This time no starting so I push the bike back to the dealer.
Mechanic manages to start it on reserve. Changes it back to on and goes for a longer run. 10 mins later he comes back and says: "yep youre absolutely right there is fuel starvation in the on position and it tried to cut out, we'll fix it, probably just crap in the pipe or tap." (result) "however can't do it till Thursday so you'll have to ride on reserve."
So Riding back home loads of traffic look at tacho done 95 miles on this tank = plenty left. Get to about 100 mile at the bottom of a hill towards home and it dies. This time it IS out of fuel. So I have to push it to the garage at the top of the hill (seems that the tank wasn't as full as I thought).
So in the space of one day I've bought a bike, broke down three times and had to push it twice. Finally I've had vehicle "tetris" trying to get car and bike into the garage!
Biking, what fun
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