Two wheels good.

[brandersnatch]

Nice ride out to the Posh Pig cafe in Beccles today. Decent turn out for November and a great sausage and bacon baguette. What more could you want?

Greater lean angles, that's what!

Yawn.

[Eddie Honda]

Nice ride out to the Posh Pig cafe in Beccles today. Decent turn out for November and a great sausage and bacon baguette. What more could you want?

Greater lean angles, that's what!

Yawn.

5:50pm and you're needing your cocoa?

[Hooli]

Nice ride out to the Posh Pig cafe in Beccles today. Decent turn out for November and a great sausage and bacon baguette. What more could you want?

Greater lean angles, that's what!

Yawn.

He's only jealous the PTO on his BMW fell off

[Hooli]

My rewound stator turned up today, bloody excellent service from Westcountry Windings as I'd only posted it to them Tuesday! They must have fixed it as soon as it arrived.
Put the back end of the bike back together tonight & then fitted the new stator. I can't see anything wrong with the old one & it tests ok, but there's full charging voltage coming through again now. Unfortunately the negative lead on my battery charger was faulty so the bike is still flat, I got it running off a jump pack to prove things work.
Fixed the charger, the neg lead had rotted & fell off the clamp when I touched it tonight. Battery is on charge for the evening & things should be back to normal with 14 in the morning.

Update on that, I think the bloody bike is haunted.

Rolled it out Weds morning & it fired up on 2 cylinders with error codes thrown. Rather annoying as it'd worked fine the night before. I put it away in disgust & used the HD again weds & yesterday.

I had chance to look today, so dragged 14 out. Popped the seat off to bridge the diagnostic connector (means it shows codes on the odometer) & fired her up. She ran perfectly on 4 cylinders... I can only assume that some dickhead hadn't quite clicked the ECU connector in & moving the ECU to get to the diagnostic connector popped it back together. I double checked everything was clipped together right & decided to fix the non-functioning front brake light switch.

Turns out the loom had a broken wire between the switch and a multiplug in the headlight. As both wires were rather short from having connectors replaced, I ran a new pair of wires up & connected things that way. That fixed it & I left plenty of slack for when the connectors rot off in a few years.

Short test run completed popping down the garage to see the progress on my XJR's welding & I can confirm 14 is working as well as ever.

[Eddie Honda]

with error codes thrown

This is where you went rong: because NEW-FANGLED TOSH.

[Hooli]

with error codes thrown

This is where you went rong: because NEW-FANGLED TOSH.

OLD FANGLED TOSH!

It tells you fuck all except something isn't connected*, I know that from experience. I was expecting to get left or right coil as the fault to save pissing about with the wrong one.

*but not totally out of spec readings as per oil temp sensors. Or indeed the right part, the famous C28 error is always the C29 SPS actually out of range. But it's a handy tool once you know it's lies.

[paulplom]

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[Barry Cade]

Anyone else used tyre brands apart from the big names on a 600+cc bike? Mitas, Nankang, something like that?

Seeing a few new names cropping up in 17" sizes and wonder if anyone has, or would take the plunge?

[Hooli]

I run Avon's on everything, so that's a no to your question.

I've heard Maxxis are good but don't last, that's all I know on the cheaper stuff.

[Barry Cade]

I run Avon's on everything, so that's a no to your question.

I've heard Maxxis are good but don't last, that's all I know on the cheaper stuff.

Only bike tyres I've had problems with are Avons
Just wondered if anyone would take a chance for the sake of 20 or 30 quid a pair from Pirelli Angels or BT 023s . If they were half price I'd give them a go. I tried Contis when they first started bike tyres and saved 100 quid or so. When it came time to replace the, the price had doubled.