South & West Surfers team building event

[_Stretchie_]

As some of you will know there have been 2 team building events happened in Bristol over the past year..



Namely removing the engine from my bike and then months later putting it back in again.

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Well the time has come again for this to happen. 2nd gear is playing silly buggers again and to keep the cost down I'll need to take the engine out myself and take it to the garage where they'll use new parts instead of the second hand ones I got from another engine.

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So I'm debating when I should do it. I have a week touring with 2 mates at the end of September, do I risk taking it out before hand or should I wait till after that week (which would be much easier on the old purse strings) when I won't be quite so anxious about anything potentially going wrong.

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As usual people are inviting to come along and have a giggle at my expense, we could even get a BBQ going and have a couple beers and people are welcome to stay over. But as mentioned above this may not actually happen till September. I'll have to mull it over, but it will be happening!!!

[stewie]

Hi Stretchie, that could be a laugh, might take you up on that :thumleft: thats if you mofo,s dont mind a northern monkey turning up ;)

[hovis]

from what i belive... thundercats 2nd gears always go .thats why i did not get one, anywho......... can you just go 1st to 3rd? my suzuki RM250 had this prob, but it did not bother me

time for a fireblade mr stretchie?

[_Stretchie_]

Hi Stretchie, that could be a laugh, might take you up on that :thumleft: thats if you mofo,s dont mind a northern monkey turning up ;)

Mate I AM A Northern Monkey, I could do with the back up :thumleft:

from what i belive... thundercats 2nd gears always go .thats why i did not get one, anywho......... can you just go 1st to 3rd? my suzuki RM250 had this prob, but it did not bother me

time for a fireblade mr stretchie?

Did 1st to 3rd for a few thousand mile last year mate but the problem gets gradually worse until it brakes completley, thats why my bike was off the road for so long. Mate I was looking at a Blade in May but I just can't afford to change : (

I've seen a pic of yours from last weekend and I LOVE the older shape, with a bit of meat to it, I'd like something around a W reg myself, with low low low mileage on it, cos I'm just going to rack the miles up

[hovis]

Mate I AM A Northern Monkey, I could do with the back up :thumleft:
me too

I've seen a pic of yours from last weekend and I LOVE the older shape, with a bit of meat to it, I'd like something around a W reg myself, with low low low mileage on it, cos I'm just going to rack the miles up

i prefur the 98 model
the w reg 2000 is a newer shape a bit skinnyer & pointyer

[Viper]

I tell you what pal, I will do you a favour and just scrap it for you;)

Seriously, i am no good with engines but would happily stand there drink your beer eat your food and take the **** out of the state of your blundercat for the weekend, yep count me in :thumleft:

[Viper]

The chap i bought my VTR from has a 92 ( J ) blade for sale. Its mint, Full service history 45k miles but by christ its been looked after.
He would part ex the thundercat if you wanted to have a look !!!

[hovis]

I tell you what pal, I will do you a favour and just scrap it for you;)

Seriously, i am no good with engines but would happily stand there drink your beer eat your food and take the **** out of the state of your blundercat for the weekend, yep count me in :thumleft:im good at that

The chap i bought my VTR from has a 92 ( J ) blade for sale. Its mint, Full service history 45k miles but by christ its been looked after.
He would part ex the thundercat if you wanted to have a look !!!
the older ones are suposed to me mentle. i like the twin headlights

http://www.honda-fireblades.co.uk/gallery.html

[Viper]

The chap i bought my VTR from has a 92 ( J ) blade for sale. Its mint, Full service history 45k miles but by christ its been looked after.
He would part ex the thundercat if you wanted to have a look !!!

Like this

http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/2852/bladedy0.th.jpg (http://img245.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bladedy0.jpg)

[hovis]

looks good

[Xan173]

As I see it your options are:

Wait until the end of summer, then fix it.

or

Fix it and flog it before the end of summer when you'll get best price.

[stewie]

I tell you what pal, I will do you a favour and just scrap it for you;)

Seriously, i am no good with engines but would happily stand there drink your beer eat your food and take the **** out of the state of your blundercat for the weekend, yep count me in :thumleft:

I could that as well, minus the drinking of course, check the sig :(

[hovis]

I could that as well, minus the drinking of course, check the sig :(
Alcohol free since 21.07.2007 'Every day I wake up knowing this is as good as I will feel all day '

thats only 2 weeks

[stewie]

thats only 2 weeks

Trust me, it feels a lot longer ;)

[Viper]

Trust me, it feels a lot longer ;)

Why you doing it again ?

[stewie]

Why you doing it again ?
Got a bet on with the missus, basically I said she was wasting her time and money joining weight watchers and that I spend less on booze than she does on fancy diets, plus I pointed out that I have lost more weight since the AR than she had recently, so we agreed to her reaching a target weight in a certain length of time, if she does it great and if not well I can have a drink again, its kinda weighed in her favour but if it hit helps her, fine. Whats really hard is that I have 58 cans of lager and 11 bottles of wine left over from a BBQ we had to celebrate her 40th recently sitting in the conservatory just looking at me

[hovis]

Whats really hard is that I have 58 cans of lager and 11 bottles of wine left over from a BBQ we had to celebrate her 40th recently sitting in the conservatory just looking at me

party at stewie's?

[Viper]

party at stewie's?

:winner: :rave:

Always willing to help out a fellow .Org member ;)

[plowsie]

Can i come play stretchie? Just for the laugh :D

[stewie]

:winner: :rave:

Always willing to help out a fellow .Org member ;)

Thanks mate :D

[skint]

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That's the most powerful engine your bike has had isn't it Stetchie? If you want to remove it, just step out of the frame :smt102
To improve performance wear trainers next time :smt016

[Vickster]

I tell you what pal, I will do you a favour and just scrap it for you;)

Seriously, i am no good with engines but would happily stand there drink your beer eat your food and take the **** out of the state of your blundercat for the weekend, yep count me in :thumleft:

I can supervise viper with the above ! Count me in :)

[Beenz]

I could make an appearance, the engine is the heavy bit between the round wheely bits.

[_Stretchie_]

Money is an issue and I can't get credit, otherwise I'd have chopped it in for that Blade the other month : )

Plowsie, of course you can attend mate, we had a giggle removing and putting the engine in last time. Putting it back in was better, because we were in the kitchen nice and warm

:smt048

Stewie, as a non drinker you will be the designated.. erm.. I'll think of something. Like I said, I don't know when it'll happen, might not be till the end of September because I'm doing a little tour of some of Wales, England and Scotland for a week on it. I'd prefer to get round it with 5 gears than have to cancel cos I've not got around to getting it fixed and back in once I took it out...

[plowsie]

Can i just confirm that i have no clue how an engine goes backtogether but i'm willing to learn, or i'll be chef due to been an ex grill chef :D

[hovis]

i have a garage

[squirrel_hunter]

the engine is the heavy bit between the round wheely bits.

I thought that was the rider?

[_Stretchie_]

Can i just confirm that i have no clue how an engine goes backtogether but i'm willing to learn, or i'll be chef due to been an ex grill chef :D


Don't worry mate, this isn't a cry for help from people who know how to do this, I have instructions and could do it but just extending an invite to people if they fancy an excuse to come and have a giggle with people from here off the bikes like the social part of the AR

And possibly a few beers and food

:geek:

[plowsie]

Count me inski then :D

[Baldyman]

Seeing as you have been brave/desperate enough to:
1 - Get SH to help you already
2 - Looking for brawn, not brain (Beenz ;))

Then I feel it encumbent on me to provide an old head, large body and absolutely no technical expertise.

Of course the upside is my inate ability to appreciate others working, taking the michael and laughing at people getting their fingers caught and pinched. :)

[_Stretchie_]

Sounds like you'd be a key part of the team Baldyman