Need a little bit of help on buying my new beast!

Originally Posted by Spanner Man

Good morning.

I have a pretty useful van, loads of straps, lots of the right insurance which covers bikes in the back of it, & plenty of experience.
If the bike you buy is pretty local to you, I'll do it for a few beer vouchers.


Cheers.

I can vouch for stewarts van; he carted my sick (swine flu!!!) sv off in it last night

[Spanner Man]

Originally Posted by Alpinestarhero

I can vouch for stewarts van; he carted my sick (swine flu!!!) sv off in it last night

SWINE FLU!!! EEEEEK!! I've just dropped it getting it out of said van because you said that!

Will have a verdict on the beast for you later old chap.


Cheers.

Originally Posted by Spanner Man

SWINE FLU!!! EEEEEK!! I've just dropped it getting it out of said van because you said that!

Will have a verdict on the beast for you later old chap.


Cheers.

did it bend my fairings back into place so they actually fit correctly

cheers mate, just give us a ring with whatever you've found and your proposed solutions. Feel free to give it a good ride-come-thrash. its about run in now anyway

back on topic; if you friend with third party insurance on other bikes, in addition to the insurance they have on their own bike, see if they can ride it home. Which SV are you thinking of getting? Fitting a restriction kit to either is quite a simple job really, easily do-able at home with no really complicated tools required. Search here for a restriction kit first, because you dont want to have to pay something silly like £150 for two silly washers for carbs or something like that!

[JediGoat]

I could be a bit out of date on this, but I thought the idea was not just that the bike was restricted, but that you have the stamped paperwork to prove the restricter has been fitted (correctly)?

Carol nash never requested any documentation when I brought insurance from them. It is good to have the paperwork, but perhaps a dynograph showing the bike makes 33bhp or less would suffice

Originally Posted by shop_addict

I could be a bit out of date on this, but I thought the idea was not just that the bike was restricted, but that you have the stamped paperwork to prove the restricter has been fitted (correctly)?

Hindle had this discussion before might be worth a seach for his thread.

Please note i'm lazy.....

Do what I did when I bought my 2000 Curvy....

Get the washers fabricated by local engineer using measurements provided by nice helpful chap on here - let me know if you want them.

Insure with Carol Nash - good quality insurance and they don't ask for restriction certificate.

Go buy bike and take with you, long flat screw driver to undo jubilee clips that hold the carbs on, socket and ratchet to undo bolts for the tank (can't remember socket size and don't have Haynes book of lies to hand), and needle nose pliers to undo clips on pipes to remove airbox.

Lift tank, remove pipes from airbox, remove airbox, loosen jubliee clips on base of carbs, lift carbs, drop washers into the recesses, refit carbs, tighten jubilee clips, replace airbox, reattach pipes, fasten tank back down.

Simples.

This was the cheapest and most effective way I could find to get my bike home. Dave Preston would have done this job for me at the time, however all seemed to go swimmingly - without taking destructions with me.

If you can build an ikea wardrobe, you can do this job