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| nosnowking wrote: | Feeling battered and bruised after my first ever fall today  
Don't know whether my ankle, back, right arm or ego has suffered the most.
Oh well, still walking, no broken bones, and lessons learned....but will have to miss the Waki run tomorrow |
ouch gws fella
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| nosnowking wrote: | On a serious note, I got the Sidi B2 boots a couple of months ago, and the bike fell on the back of my ankle as my toes were bent upwards against the tarmac....any lesser boot and I would have been in A&E right now having pins put in  |
Strangely enough i just got a pair of those, good to hear they kept your feet in one piece. GWS good to see you + FC down at box. 
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| nosnowking wrote: | | HCMS wrote: | | nosnowking wrote: | Feeling battered and bruised after my first ever fall today
Don't know whether my ankle, back, right arm or ego has suffered the most.
Oh well, still walking, no broken bones, and lessons learned....but will have to miss the Waki run tomorrow |
What happened?
Hope the ego is okay!  |
Dunno what happened TBH, it all happened too fast...turning right out of a T-junction, the next thing I know I was on the deck with the bike on top of my right leg. I'd love to be able to blame it on tyres/suspension/diesel etc etc but really, I think I rushed the manoeuvre on a bike I am not familiar with yet
Broken footpeg, rear brake lever bent, front brake lever snapped off at stress point (TFFT) so still useable, and scratches in all the right places to make me look like a proper learner, 
On a serious note, I got the Sidi B2 boots a couple of months ago, and the bike fell on the back of my ankle as my toes were bent upwards against the tarmac....any lesser boot and I would have been in A&E right now having pins put in |
Sorry to hear about this - GWS
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| biggus wrote: | | wivvy's dad wrote: | | biggus wrote: | | biggus wrote: | | Coolant leak on the pan. Expansion tank fills up and radiator drains. Suspect the return syphon hose is perished. |
Nope... not that... only thing i can think of is that the expansion tank was too full and that the expansion caused the lid to pop off a little and then create a syphon.  just ran it for nearly an hour with no issue. Oh well I have an RAC card  |
The expansion tank should only be full when the motor is hot.
Did you replace any of the hoses while the engine was out? If not, you're a cnut.
Did you replace the hose from rad cap to expansion tank? If not, you're a cnut.
Did you check on the hoses underneath the carbs? If not, you're a cnut. |
All hoses replaced... and the rad cap. New motor has a blown head gasket  and when you give it some it blows all the coolant out. ffs... did about 450 miles in the past 2 days out of nessity and only cracked the throtlle and barely lost a drop, soon as the engine labours or you give it some it starts to blow coolat out of th expansion tank |
The assumption on my part was that there's a hairline fault in one of the head gaskets.
Taking the line of least resistance, I spoke to my old man who I recalled had a similar problem with his V8 land rover years ago. Turns out he'd put some cheap coolant in it, and had the exact same issue.
Since I was down in Trashford @ my sisters house, I took a bimble to Kent Honda and they concurred that rubbish coolant could cause this since it could locally boil and of course a teaspoon of water makes 50x thats of steam... So I bought their recommended stuff, went back to Trashford. Drained it, refilled with the new stuff... no feckin difference. Back to the drawing board then. Arse. 
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 11:59 am Post subject: |
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| biggus wrote: | | biggus wrote: | | wivvy's dad wrote: | | biggus wrote: | | biggus wrote: | | Coolant leak on the pan. Expansion tank fills up and radiator drains. Suspect the return syphon hose is perished. |
Nope... not that... only thing i can think of is that the expansion tank was too full and that the expansion caused the lid to pop off a little and then create a syphon. just ran it for nearly an hour with no issue. Oh well I have an RAC card |
The expansion tank should only be full when the motor is hot.
Did you replace any of the hoses while the engine was out? If not, you're a cnut.
Did you replace the hose from rad cap to expansion tank? If not, you're a cnut.
Did you check on the hoses underneath the carbs? If not, you're a cnut. |
All hoses replaced... and the rad cap. New motor has a blown head gasket and when you give it some it blows all the coolant out. ffs... did about 450 miles in the past 2 days out of nessity and only cracked the throtlle and barely lost a drop, soon as the engine labours or you give it some it starts to blow coolat out of th expansion tank |
The assumption on my part was that there's a hairline fault in one of the head gaskets.
Taking the line of least resistance, I spoke to my old man who I recalled had a similar problem with his V8 land rover years ago. Turns out he'd put some cheap coolant in it, and had the exact same issue.
Since I was down in Trashford @ my sisters house, I took a bimble to Kent Honda and they concurred that rubbish coolant could cause this since it could locally boil and of course a teaspoon of water makes 50x thats of steam... So I bought their recommended stuff, went back to Trashford. Drained it, refilled with the new stuff... no feckin difference. Back to the drawing board then. Arse. |
Think back to France Duncan........
That was my head gasket going...going...gone.
And that's why I replaced the engine, rather than remove the head, skim it and generally fuck about with it. Seems like you have a tough choice now. If it's blowing.......it's blowing, and no amount of different coolant will make the slightest bit of difference.
BTW, the motor you bought didn't happen to come from an ex-plod ST by any chance.....? Did the vendor offer a 3 month warranty? |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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| wivvy's dad wrote: | | biggus wrote: | | biggus wrote: | | wivvy's dad wrote: | | biggus wrote: | | biggus wrote: | | Coolant leak on the pan. Expansion tank fills up and radiator drains. Suspect the return syphon hose is perished. |
Nope... not that... only thing i can think of is that the expansion tank was too full and that the expansion caused the lid to pop off a little and then create a syphon. just ran it for nearly an hour with no issue. Oh well I have an RAC card |
The expansion tank should only be full when the motor is hot.
Did you replace any of the hoses while the engine was out? If not, you're a cnut.
Did you replace the hose from rad cap to expansion tank? If not, you're a cnut.
Did you check on the hoses underneath the carbs? If not, you're a cnut. |
All hoses replaced... and the rad cap. New motor has a blown head gasket and when you give it some it blows all the coolant out. ffs... did about 450 miles in the past 2 days out of nessity and only cracked the throtlle and barely lost a drop, soon as the engine labours or you give it some it starts to blow coolat out of th expansion tank |
The assumption on my part was that there's a hairline fault in one of the head gaskets.
Taking the line of least resistance, I spoke to my old man who I recalled had a similar problem with his V8 land rover years ago. Turns out he'd put some cheap coolant in it, and had the exact same issue.
Since I was down in Trashford @ my sisters house, I took a bimble to Kent Honda and they concurred that rubbish coolant could cause this since it could locally boil and of course a teaspoon of water makes 50x thats of steam... So I bought their recommended stuff, went back to Trashford. Drained it, refilled with the new stuff... no feckin difference. Back to the drawing board then. Arse. |
Think back to France Duncan........
That was my head gasket going...going...gone.
And that's why I replaced the engine, rather than remove the head, skim it and generally fuck about with it. Seems like you have a tough choice now. If it's blowing.......it's blowing, and no amount of different coolant will make the slightest bit of difference.
BTW, the motor you bought didn't happen to come from an ex-plod ST by any chance.....? Did the vendor offer a 3 month warranty? |
Yeah I remember France....
It was a bike breaker on ebay, will fire them a message, worst case i have a pair of perfectly good heads here on my other engine, the arse is
a. really a 50/50 job to determine which one's gone, so will be two head gaskets.
b. I bet you can't do it with the engine in the bike.
c. I now just want to burn it
d. cambelt is £45
e. 2 x head gasket = £52
The coolant thing was worth a try as it was shite I put in and you can have local boiling if you have rubbish coolant in so was IMO worth a try
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I'm not sure if it can be done with the engine in frame, I would imagine it would be possible, but fiddly. Personally I would take the motor out, at least that way you will find it easier to change the cambelt as well. Oooh, the fun of timing it all up again.................that alone would make me want to take the motor out.
At least you have two good heads on t'other motor.
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| wivvy's dad wrote: | I'm not sure if it can be done with the engine in frame, I would imagine it would be possible, but fiddly. Personally I would take the motor out, at least that way you will find it easier to change the cambelt as well. Oooh, the fun of timing it all up again.................that alone would make me want to take the motor out.
At least you have two good heads on t'other motor.
I feel your frustration.................................. |
and replace the hoses while your' re at it!!
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Kawa-feckin-saki want £40 for a footpeg and another £40 for a brake lever....
err, no thanks, can get nice aftermarket ones for not a lot more!
Wonder if they'll throw in some stabilisers though |
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Kawasaki do stabilisers for other models, should be a fairly easy mod to get them on the Versys.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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Kawasaki do stabilisers for other models, should be a fairly easy mod to get them on the Versys. |
ha... beat me to it.. go that one in my gallery too
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WPMOT, finding out my old drummer was taken into hospital at hte weekend after suffering a stroke, he's 34 for fucks sake
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| PJ_DJ wrote: | | WPMOT, finding out my old drummer was taken into hospital at hte weekend after suffering a stroke, he's 34 for fucks sake |
kin ell... as if it isn't bad enough being a drummer as it is
Hope he get's well soon mate
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| biggus wrote: | | PJ_DJ wrote: | | WPMOT, finding out my old drummer was taken into hospital at hte weekend after suffering a stroke, he's 34 for fucks sake |
kin ell... as if it isn't bad enough being a drummer as it is
Hope he get's well soon mate |
My reaction was that makes a change he normally bangs shit out of it!!
Really thought it was a wind up to begin with
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| Poxy battery dead again this morning |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 11:21 am Post subject: |
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| Jay1 wrote: | | Poxy battery dead again this morning |
Arse... did you get a new one?
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After being dicked around over the dates for my op the sodding NHS have now postponed my op until further notice!!
I'm fucking fuming, I don't know whats going to happen now 
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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| biggus wrote: | | Jay1 wrote: | | Poxy battery dead again this morning |
Arse... did you get a new one? |
No, after charging it it seemed to be doing ok . I have ordered a new one now though |
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| PJ_DJ wrote: | | I'm fucking fuming, I don't know whats going to happen now |
..........well obviously nothing until "further notice". Is it possible that private healthcare will payout for a sex change op? |
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Getting this email from play.com
"We are emailing all our customers to let you know that a company that handles part of our marketing communications has had a security breach. Unfortunately this has meant that some customer names and email addresses may have been compromised."
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:29 am Post subject: |
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WPMOT... Feckin blow out on the car ffs. Add to that car and bike tax due this month, more expense
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f*cking c*nts that are East Sussex council apparently have 6 months to investigate my claim for the damage to my bike from their shitty road. 6 months of not being able to use my bike unless I claim on my insurance? been told that I can't pursue them through the County Court like Jay1 suggested too
Bollocks. Just about had enough today
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Why can't you pursue them through the court? Seems odd to me...
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| Tiny wrote: | | Why can't you pursue them through the court? Seems odd to me... |
Insurance "claims" company says that I can't... I suspect because they'd get f*ckall if I did
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| biggus wrote: | | Tiny wrote: | | Why can't you pursue them through the court? Seems odd to me... |
Insurance "claims" company says that I can't... I suspect because they'd get f*ckall if I did |
Take a personal case up against them surely?!
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