Good, Cheap Winter Hacks?

[Wideboy]

Originally Posted by Mej

Thundercat/ace

ooow yeah!! tsskk

well mine was a bargin and they are well worth the travelling if the price is right. There were 2 nice ones in Gloucestershire last time i looked and a nice one in malvern (sort or same area)

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by Jayneflakes

I bought a Yamaha XJ for the daily commute, however now that the weather has turned chilly, the little ****er wont ****ing Start!

The battery seems a little short of charge too!

It left me stranded in the car park outside work the other day, which was most embarrassing because it was only my second day working there! After giving it a good kicking, it started again! so I now know how to fix a Yamaha XJ, give it a damn good shoeing!

TBH old UJMs don't seem ideal hacks to me... they have old school brakes and chassis parts that love to seize and rust... and parts are harder to find or very expensive like when ye olde cheesium/unobtanium alloy exhaust collector box rots in half!

[Jayneflakes]

Just fitted a brand new Motad Exhaust that I got direct from them for £99, the brakes are a huge disk on the front that is pretty powerful, the rear is a monster of a drum brake. When it runs, it pulls like a train, but the engine races, even in top gear while accelerating up hill! I think that the rear sprocket is too large and dropping it a couple of teeth will mean that I have a usable first and second gear. At the moment I need to be in forth to do 25MPH with out the engine screaming.

Having been through the bits that were damaged, we have fitted an air filter because it had been removed and not replaced by the previous owner. The indicator relay was held together with a bit of toothpaste and did not flash, so was replaced. The spark plug caps were rotten inside with years of grime and corrosion, so they too have been replaced. Now it is just the starting issue, we have wondered if the battery is knackered, so I have pulled it out to give it a charge.

Any more than that will have to be sorted by the wife when she gets home.

Check this dulsville NT650 out.
http://dealerservices.autotrader.co.uk/124937/stock.htm

im considering a little 125 this year, i can pick one up for £900 sell it to a friend when she turns 17 in the spring for the same money after i give it is first mot, but its an expense i can afford this year so im considering trying the sv till i have no other choice this year. a little 125 enduro will do the job of commuting