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Ahhhh #3 was likely adding a bit of "fork oil" and on thinking "hmmmm that seemed to pour a bit easily" realise it was actually premium unleaded and castrol TTS.

Wasting PREMIUM unleaded pouring it into forks... FFS...

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edited;)

I shall never ever forget that, made me laugh after you'd spent nearly a week removing the exhaust studs.

Exhibit A....the said sprocket nut, top right corner.

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...8_01260010.jpg

....spot whats wrong with this picture

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...8_02080006.jpg

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Thats a bit like the Carnivore YPVS350LC restoration. Original tank, very old, very rare. I says
'oooo that looks like a rather big bit of rust love...'
'yes dear, don't feckin touch it, I need to treat it'

Two days later his mate Bishop says
' ooooo that looks like a rather big bit of rust mate'

'yeah Kev, don't feckin touch.....'

Too late, one big fat Bishops finger through the tank:smt103

Rather a long and stressful time trying to find a YPVS tank:(

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There we go :)

Didn't know whether laugh or cry when I realised you weren't smelling the fork oil for some ghey engineering flourish pretending you could smell the viscosity or something...but in fact got a whiff of petrol.

I bet you've still got both the identical bottles next to each other!

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Yah but I turned them round so I can see the side of the Pro-RSF bottle that has PETROL written on it in fat f***-off marker pen...

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sticking one of those small (ish) bottles of redx in my moped, after putting it in i read the back.... it says should do 5 60l tanks, then thinking to my self hmm its only done one 8L tank :lol:

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Go bang?

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17 years old with a KH100 built from a basket case (brothers hand me down). beautiful summers day in Leith Links at the B&B i was staying in i decided to try and fix the dodgy timing.

engine casing off fly wheel out points and condenser out new points and condenser in gap set fly wheel back in and off we go. decided to take it down the end of the road and back, gets to about 300 yards away from front of B&B where everyone is gathered having a muck around when Lance decided to look down and see if the points are arcing out.

has a look a bit to long and when i looked up there was a Mini parked right in my way i tried to swerve but failed, crashed into Mini and went flying landing on my head in the middle of the road.

bloke on another bike stopped traffic and came to see if i was alright took one look at me lying there pishing myself laughing and picked me up shook his head walked back to his bike and off he went. meanwhile everyone gathered were on the floor rolling about in laughter and asked if i would do it again. my then girlfriends brother was not to amused as it was his Mini i crashed into and dented his new rear bumper.

i never did get that timing fixed and have only recently found out that my brother in his wisdom shaved the induction disc which resulted in the bike having the symptoms of a limiter.

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no just surged like mad and cut out every 5 seconds !

drained the fuel out when i got home (2 miles)

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Plonker!
Don't worry you're not the only one I've seen another chav kid do this, but he seized his within minutes :p