Two wheels good.

Talk about your cars etc here. Keep it sort of sensible and on topic please.
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Yeah it does amuse me that people think a carb that fits loads of different engines will just be setup right for theirs.
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I think I've found my random electrical blip on the 14. Just occasionally the clocks etc would reset while riding, normally on days it'd randomly cough & splutter a bit too.

I balanced the throttles yesterday as I knew that needed doing, it helped but didn't resolve it. So today I checked the ECU as the water drain blocks up occasionally. Yeah, that'll be it! remember that can of tyre weld exploding while I was away? well I know where it all went now. The ECU was wrapped in a 2" deep soaking coating of foam & mank, some had even worked inside the edges of the connector but thankfully no evidence of corrosion on the pins.

Anyway, scraped it all out and cleaned things up. Cleared the drain hole & put it all back with a little ACF-50 on the connector (it says it can be used for connectors in adverse conditions). So I'll see how that goes when I take it out tomorrow.
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Little run out to Bridlington today, just 200ish miles as a quick test. Fish n chips too. Looks like the stutter etc is fixed, which is nice.

Nice too considering it's only March.
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Another one seemingly abandoned at London City Airport. It hasn’t moved for more than six months. It belongs to a Polish woman who works (worked?) in the airport. Maybe she’s buggered off home?
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What is it? hard to tell when it's totally black.
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Looks like a Yamaha Dragster 650.

I know fuck all about those types of m/c. My former landlord had one, so it's my stock answer.
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It's not a "classic" version as that had a full rear mudguard and fatter tyre because Harley fatboy clone.
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Yeah I was thinking jap clone, but couldn't decide which.
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Valve clearances done today, still all well within spec.
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brandersnatch wrote: Tue Mar 17, 2020 7:52 am 3E0CADC6-6236-47B0-8223-A962DF22CAFA.jpeg

Another one seemingly abandoned at London City Airport. It hasn’t moved for more than six months. It belongs to a Polish woman who works (worked?) in the airport. Maybe she’s buggered off home?
A mate posted up a picture of one bike not long ago that's been seemingly abandoned on the IOM, British registered, all laden up with full soft luggage, not moved for many months, put it on a Facebook bikers group or 2 and got a right slagging from some folks for being nosey and putting a picture of it on! His primary concern was what had happened to the rider :(
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