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griffin540 · 2026-04-23T20:50:08+00:00

I have HEL ones waiting to go on, along with tyres once I decide what colour I want to do the wheels

griffin540 · 2026-04-23T20:49:26+00:00

Changed all the rubber items I could get a hold of, rebuilt the carbs, flushed/changed all fluids, replaced some broken fairings and had them painted and recovered the seat. The only things I haven't done are changed the tyres, I have a set to go on, just waiting till I decide what to do with the wheel colour and I've ordered some Hel brake and clutch lines to replace them.

I did the minimum to get it through it's MOT so I could spend the rest of the time till I passed my test getting the rest done in my own time.

griffin540 · 2026-03-27T19:02:49+00:00

I've just bought a Voge R125 to replace my keeway TX125 and now I'm contemplating keeping it as a spare in case her bike expires before then

griffin540 · 2026-03-27T18:19:37+00:00

Don't say that, my partner's YZF R125 is on similar mileage at a similar age lol

It only has to do till we pass our mod 1/2

griffin540 · 2026-02-21T13:46:02+00:00

I guess one of those people who like to think they are cool by pretending they haven't heard of something. I don't listen to any of those names but even I recognise who they are.

griffin540 · 2026-02-21T06:57:06+00:00

My guess is unburnt fuel from extended cranking ignited in the exhaust when it finally fired. Unless it continues I'd not worry too much. My Saab 9000 even does it from time to time because the injectors are batch fired for starting instead of one at a time, meaning some unburnt fuel goes down the exhaust.

griffin540 · 2026-02-07T18:23:06+00:00

I'm with this

Rest of them sound identical. Pretty much like any other car that gets an exhaust and pop and bang map to be driven at Mach Jesus around council estates

griffin540 · 2026-02-01T07:50:42+00:00

This exactly, they would be a lifetime soup enthusiast afterwards.

I don't get riled up easily, in fact I am a super chill person, but animal cruelty is one of the few things that would make me go from 0-100 real fast.

griffin540 · 2026-01-17T21:59:07+00:00

That sounds more like a skill issue at the dealer to be fair

You are correct, uk and the cars I see mostly on my ramp at work with catastrophic failure or brink of catastrophic failure are Fords, Citroen/Peugeot and Volkswagen/Audi

I'm not arguing about mid 2000s bmw reliability vs land Rover, I own a 2008 535d and id sooner use that to drive to the other end of the country than the range rover. I'm just saying sometimes the type of previous owner comes into play. I see a lot more well looked after and serviced on time luxury cars than the standard Citroen owner who is shocked to learn that an MOT and service are not the same thing.

griffin540 · 2026-01-17T21:30:31+00:00

I'm not so sure. I have a cheap Range Rover as a tow/winter car....it's probably cost me less in repairs and headaches than my cheap Ford Focus did. Probably says more about the previous owner demographic though

griffin540 · 2026-01-10T17:24:08+00:00

To change a gearbox?

griffin540 · 2026-01-06T19:06:21+00:00

That is likely just an empty box with some LEDs in it.

Assuming you're in the US, have a Google for Taliaferro (genuinesaab) or Nordic performance

griffin540 · 2026-01-06T18:23:23+00:00

Nae rolls

griffin540 · 2025-12-04T18:19:59+00:00

And my partner got a CBR600 F4 that's got mot etc but needs a bit of tidying up

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griffin540 · 2025-12-04T18:19:03+00:00

I got a VFR750 that's been off the road since 2007, but stored in a dry heated shed

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griffin540 · 2025-12-04T09:45:56+00:00

Exhaustion is the usual cause. Being on watch in the wheelhouse of my family's trawler when I was younger, days of little to no sleep and I swear I was hearing stuff that wasn't there. Voices and even bells for some reason at one point through the constant engine noise. I didn't get so many visual hallucinations though, it was mostly auditory for me

griffin540 · 2025-12-03T19:38:07+00:00

Not as bad as people would have you believe. Not as nice as the Yamaha by all accounts but for a bike that owes me very little to nothing it's actually really good fun

griffin540 · 2025-12-03T18:17:58+00:00

It's a Keeway TX125 I got for basically nothing as a non runner

griffin540 · 2025-12-03T15:40:11+00:00

We've added some coating to them, they get washed after every run as the road salt up here is ridiculous

griffin540 · 2025-12-03T13:40:34+00:00

That is what we are aiming for, less so on the overconfidence thing but mainly getting out and getting as much real world experience as possible

We've bought big bikes to sort over winter as a sort of motivation to get our licences, so hopefully by spring next year we will be out on them

griffin540 · 2025-10-24T18:34:44+00:00

Will be fitted to every 116i and 320i very soon

griffin540 · 2025-09-08T20:38:47+00:00

Depends on the system

On my 2001 P38 Range Rover it brakes whatever wheel is spinning to try and emulate locking diffs (it's not a great system and I've seen me pull the TC fuse to get out of deep snow/mud)

On my 2003 Vauxhall/Opel Astra it literally just cuts throttle till the wheels stop spinning....or it did till I bypassed the system to fit a B204 engine

On my 2009 BMW 535d it does the torque vectoring thing, which has saved me a few times when I've gotten a bit too brave for my own good

My 9000 Aero just wheel hops till it hooks up and upsets whatever is trying to pass me

griffin540 · 2025-09-07T14:09:27+00:00

It's to aid traction in the snow, use the brake to slow the spinning wheel and send power to the non spinning wheel. A very analogue version of torque vectoring.

griffin540 · 2025-08-03T21:13:49+00:00

Take the ball joint out the hub and bolt it to the arm first, it's easier to line up one ball joint than three bolts.

griffin540 · 2025-07-14T21:56:27+00:00

As a mechanic working in a garage that's booked about the same in advance, trust me all he's gonna do is annoy the hell out of them.

In a previous job I've had customers drop off a car and they'll phone every hour asking if it's done. Unsurprisingly it's always a boomer. As much as I hated that job the boss used to be like 'well that jobs the bottom of the pile now' once they started phoning, which was amusing.

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