It's the weekend, who's doing bikey things?
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It seems to come around quickly!
Anyone doing bikey things? I've got an afternoon of tinkering with the Velocette Venom. Still has some kind of clutch issue, hopefully get it sorted later.
Sunday I'm off to Snetterton to watch the season opener. Looks like it'll be a non-stop day of racing
No Limits timetable
Anyone doing bikey things? I've got an afternoon of tinkering with the Velocette Venom. Still has some kind of clutch issue, hopefully get it sorted later.
Sunday I'm off to Snetterton to watch the season opener. Looks like it'll be a non-stop day of racing
No Limits timetable
Marquezs Stabilisers said:
Wife and daughter back from Australia on Sunday lunchtime. I need a new pair of running shoes so going to see about the backroads to Edinburgh on Saturday! Some sort of route winding between the M8 and M80 should do the job.
How much security you taking for Edinburgh??Scumbags are stealing bikes every day again, be careful!
I'm gonna try and get out Sunday but the forecast doesn't look great. Bought my lad an intercom recently so we need to go and test that.
De-stickered the peeling wheel rim stickers during the week and undecided whether to replace them or not. Will need to get it out in the cold light of day to see if it needs them. Quite a plain looking bike anyway so I think it will need something.
De-stickered the peeling wheel rim stickers during the week and undecided whether to replace them or not. Will need to get it out in the cold light of day to see if it needs them. Quite a plain looking bike anyway so I think it will need something.
Not cleaned my chain this year yet, though to be fair i've only been out 5 or 6 times, noticed a few rust spots forming so may be a good time to replace it, will need to buy a paddock stand too. Also i'd like to get a tank bag and some new boots so may be an expensive weekend shopping for bike things.
srob said:
I've got an afternoon of tinkering with the Velocette Venom. Still has some kind of clutch issue, hopefully get it sorted later.
Well, that was a waste of time
Something weird going on. It’ll go in first with the engine not running but not with the engine running.
It’ll go in second and up with the engine running but refuses to go into first. We’ve stripped the clutch, cleaned it, adjusted it a dozen times.
The weird thing is it started acting up after just standing for a year or so.
Clutch will have to come apart again and see if there’s anything obvious, then the gearbox will have to come apart. I just can’t think it’s gearbox if it’ll select first with the engine not running!
Frustrating thing is with the new valve springs, valve and carb’ it sounds incredible and like it should. Just frustrating I can’t test ride it!
srob said:
Well, that was a waste of time
Something weird going on. It’ll go in first with the engine not running but not with the engine running.
It’ll go in second and up with the engine running but refuses to go into first. We’ve stripped the clutch, cleaned it, adjusted it a dozen times.
The weird thing is it started acting up after just standing for a year or so.
Clutch will have to come apart again and see if there’s anything obvious, then the gearbox will have to come apart. I just can’t think it’s gearbox if it’ll select first with the engine not running!
Frustrating thing is with the new valve springs, valve and carb’ it sounds incredible and like it should. Just frustrating I can’t test ride it!
Marquezs Stabilisers said:
srob said:
Well, that was a waste of time
Something weird going on. It’ll go in first with the engine not running but not with the engine running.
It’ll go in second and up with the engine running but refuses to go into first. We’ve stripped the clutch, cleaned it, adjusted it a dozen times.
The weird thing is it started acting up after just standing for a year or so.
Clutch will have to come apart again and see if there’s anything obvious, then the gearbox will have to come apart. I just can’t think it’s gearbox if it’ll select first with the engine not running!
Frustrating thing is with the new valve springs, valve and carb’ it sounds incredible and like it should. Just frustrating I can’t test ride it!
Just taken the cylinder head off Damien.
Damien is an '82 CB250N Stupor Dream. Not even my bike - he belongs to a mate who isn't fit to handle a knife and fork, never mind a spanner.
Damien is possessed by demons and spends far too much time in my shed with new and weird problems. This time it's a new mystery oil leak and a stripped sparkplug thread.
Also the adjustable gearshift linkage is bent about 10-20° and nobody knows how it happened.
Or it was; I fixed that this afternoon. And I just noticed there's almost no brake fluid in the front brake reservoir. Not that it will make much difference, the brake is worthless anyway.
I'd like to spend some time resurrecting my Dad's 650SS café racer but fkin Damien is in the way.
But it was a gorgeous day. 18°C, the doors wide open and ZZ Top on the CD player.
I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole
Coulda been worse...
Damien is an '82 CB250N Stupor Dream. Not even my bike - he belongs to a mate who isn't fit to handle a knife and fork, never mind a spanner.
Damien is possessed by demons and spends far too much time in my shed with new and weird problems. This time it's a new mystery oil leak and a stripped sparkplug thread.
Also the adjustable gearshift linkage is bent about 10-20° and nobody knows how it happened.
Or it was; I fixed that this afternoon. And I just noticed there's almost no brake fluid in the front brake reservoir. Not that it will make much difference, the brake is worthless anyway.
I'd like to spend some time resurrecting my Dad's 650SS café racer but fkin Damien is in the way.
But it was a gorgeous day. 18°C, the doors wide open and ZZ Top on the CD player.
I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole
Coulda been worse...
By the way...
That Velo...
I never had a lot to do with Velos, aside from occasionally racing my Dad's MOV, but I recall that their clutches are a bit unconventional., with a bearing in a cup pushing on three thrust pins, instead of the usual central pushrod. If I remember correctly they have to be adjusted absolutely precisely, following a very specific and fairly fiddly procedure, or they simply don't work.
Once set up correctly with the factory tool they are supposed to be brilliant and super reliable.
Your description sounds like there is some drag in the clutch to me.
Best of luck with it.
That Velo...
I never had a lot to do with Velos, aside from occasionally racing my Dad's MOV, but I recall that their clutches are a bit unconventional., with a bearing in a cup pushing on three thrust pins, instead of the usual central pushrod. If I remember correctly they have to be adjusted absolutely precisely, following a very specific and fairly fiddly procedure, or they simply don't work.
Once set up correctly with the factory tool they are supposed to be brilliant and super reliable.
Your description sounds like there is some drag in the clutch to me.
Best of luck with it.
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