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Thunderace
19-08-12, 07:48 PM
So as we all know my medieval thunderace (as Si likes to call it) uses more oil than petrol.

Well when I got back today I thought I'd stop being lazy and actually have a look.

As I've said before small leak just below gear linkage, no problem just a gungy mess so no major leak there, a new gasket when time permits!

Upon further investigation, the bloody sump nut was only half in, now tight and no leak!

Idiot you might think....... well, when I returned from Germany the bike was transported a month before I came back and was taken to an old friend that owns a garage (Paradise Road Motorcycles in Downham Market, Norfolk) I asked him to mot the bike and give it a full service.

I paid £225 for mot and service.

Now as I didn't have an oil leak in Germany and I have not changed the oil since the service (March 2012) I only have one thing to say, VERY PROFESSIONAL OF YOU!:smt019

The Idle Biker
19-08-12, 07:56 PM
Errr? So you've been tearing around with an oil leak directly in front of your rear tyre?

and if that sump nut had undone....................ooooooohhhhhhh that would have been hairy scary.

Thunderace
19-08-12, 08:21 PM
Exactly! It looks like the fairing has been catching most of it, so I'm luck there and if the nut had fallen out at high speed I'd probly be pushin' up daisies by now!:smt051

Fallout
19-08-12, 08:27 PM
Definitely plebs corner, you utter pleb! Don't care if it wasn't your handy work. It'd be like me drinking tea that tastes like p1ss for 5 months before finally catching the mrs using p1ss instead of milk to make it. Perhaps not my fault, but my own plebbishness for not getting to the bottom of the p1ss tasting tea sooner.

Yes, my analogies are normally odd, but you're still a pleb.

Thunderace
19-08-12, 08:34 PM
Cheers mate!;)

Fallout
19-08-12, 08:34 PM
No probs pleb! :D

Jammy
19-08-12, 11:35 PM
you know that kid in class that makes you feel like your part of the popular lot simply because they're so plebbish...

Thunderace
20-08-12, 06:11 PM
you know that kid in class that makes you feel like your part of the popular lot simply because they're so plebbish...

Easy fella, cleaned my bike today............ and..........yeah it's still upright, no damage or anything!

The words pot, kettle and black come to mind!

Fallout
20-08-12, 07:15 PM
I would say it's like a lump of coal, at night, in the middle of a blackhole, calling the kettle black!

Jammy
20-08-12, 07:23 PM
Oh well, Being the mocker felt good for 5 seconds. Back to being the mocked. :D

Fallout
20-08-12, 07:32 PM
It's a hard one to shake off mate! But one day the multiple drops will be superseded by someone doing something truly embarrassing, and that will be your time mate. Then the dog will have his day!! :D

Thunderace
20-08-12, 07:34 PM
He's right someone could be really stupid and buy a bike with orange wheels!;)

Fallout
20-08-12, 07:42 PM
Or park in front of a PMT suffering trolley bandit.

Jammy
20-08-12, 11:50 PM
Someone please explain the orange wheel's jokes.... i think they look nice :compress:


I did get my bike resprayed orange though so i guess i have a bias :smt095

SoulKiss
21-08-12, 12:38 AM
It's a hard one to shake off mate! But one day the multiple drops will be superseded by someone doing something truly embarrassing, and that will be your time mate. Then the dog will have his day!! :D

Not so sure on that one - Scoobs still feels the pain of his Taser thread.

Fallout
21-08-12, 06:50 AM
Someone please explain the orange wheel's jokes.... i think they look nice :compress:

Cheers bud. Don't worry, it's their pathetic attempt to find ammunition against me. I'm so squeaky clean, orange wheels is their best effort. It'll all go away when I do something really stupid. :-D

Spank86
21-08-12, 08:20 AM
Really stupid?

more stupid than spending £160 on parts for something that needed a bit of a clean you mean?

And you say I never wash my bike!

Fallout
21-08-12, 08:44 AM
Unfortunately Ad, that's not as bad as it sounds. None of the money is wasted. I now have a bleed kit and fluid for brake maintenance, a spare wheel for track days, and I want to rebuild the callipers anyway, so I have the kit. Tis all money well spent, even if unnecessarily for the immediate problem!

The Idle Biker
21-08-12, 09:16 AM
[QUOTE=Fallout;2760511]a spare wheel for track days, /QUOTE]

2 days at Anglesey coming up on 15th/16th Sept. Fri/ Sat.:smt115
Best track in the UK with 2 days to take your time.
I'm going btw.:mrgreen:

Fallout
21-08-12, 09:30 AM
I would be tempted if I wasn't away on a stag doo chap. Don't know how you're going to do it though, only having one wheel on your track bike and all! ;)

Spank86
21-08-12, 09:33 AM
Can't you see his avatar fallout?

He only needs the one.

Thunderace
21-08-12, 03:54 PM
I would be tempted if I wasn't away on a stag doo chap. Don't know how you're going to do it though, only having one wheel on your track bike and all! ;)

How many stag do's you going to in the next few weeks?

Fallout
21-08-12, 05:22 PM
One at the end of this month, one half way through next month!

Thunderace
21-08-12, 05:27 PM
Lucky git, I got one to go to in January and if I'm free from call the wife still don't want me to go!:(

Fallout
21-08-12, 09:23 PM
Wives suck mate. Fact.

Spank86
21-08-12, 09:24 PM
Sounds like a good reason to get one.

Fallout
21-08-12, 09:28 PM
Not in that way mate. That kind of sucking only happens during the honeymoon period, and I'm not talking about the official one. I'm talking about the first few months, or perhaps even weeks, or days, or maybe even hours .. or never at all.