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Gave my mate a hand Saturday eve getting this bloody great couch out of his out house. You know the score, not stupid heavy but cumbersome and difficult to handle. Back not happy today.

Very tasty that Bob, I had the standard 990 with some Ackropovic cans etc and black panniers. Fantastic bit of kit but thirsty when ridden as intended Tried it off road a few times but it was waaaaaay too much so I bought a cheap WR250F to twat around the Peak District. Did loads of trips on the 990 including to Malta and back for a mate’s wedding. Sold it back in 2011 and only a few weeks ago the bloke I sold it to contacted me through Facebook and said he still had it and had not one bit of trouble either.

Locatelli 1-arming it on Max's YZR...

And when it was dirty he always made sure it had a good wash

Unlike Bobs bike lol

i might have a wank.

Yes, same size as some Triumphs. The Koyo's have cost £13 for the pair.

Have a close look at it, it’s like new

My original Orange 950 was my favourite as I have so many memories associated with it.

He'll do better on the next attempt, I'm sure.

Pretty sure this is near @Six30

I've seen Bob take that bike places i was thinking twice about taking my XR

I've had what i thought was a flat spot off idle for some time now on the XR, tried re-jetting but made no difference and it's put me off riding the bike as its a bit jerky to ride on the slow stuff could never remember it having this issue in the past. The flat spot seemed worse when going down hill with a closed throttle and it suddenly dawned on me what the problem might be, so Yesterday i decided to take a look at the carb, i have a spare carb for the bike off an earlier model so dug that out to compare and after inspecting that carb my thoughts on the issue seemed to make sense, so last night i fitted the spare carb and took it for a test ride, sure enough the problem has gone, so you want to know what i think it was well the original carb has an unknown mileage on it and the throttle slide or carb body is worn so when closing the throttle the vacuum created by the engine was pulling on the throttle slide which was making it stick closed so you had to twist the grip harder to break it free making it feel like a flat spot lovely and smooth again now just like i remember, Had to do some fine tuning with the jetting tonight the older carb runs larger jets than the carb off my bike and it feels a bit more responsive. Another test ride tomorrow night as its pissing down tonight.

Weirdo

Probably, it’s basically a third world country, they are like a super gay version of America.

Do you pay tax on purchasing used vehicles according to their value over there?

If you look at it it's shorter as well. I'm pretty sure that the last of the 950's used the same guard as the 990.

There's a beauty for sale here at the moment but even if I was interested he wants strong money for it .............. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116244153761?itmmeta=01J28RD2942FFS39BEEP35SNM1&hash=item1b10b105a1:g:GR8AAOSwHV9misOp&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA4BKqmu3dQ9a1uUsnA2tapPa1mwf6K2MVugBPOh6A5gQjpcbYMGJnutOpSkYjV3KObhaVkdDU7kPlLMxhiOTaxXG0i1mO0siAtia7vjadpIOdeOpXtRCFJ9YunzmJq1kGtX4zlySS1S%2F5%2Fkmqc8xbYlEBcDn1FSDrYmngCJTBQdxQ7MIJze%2BT3%2BZv7mqEX0NykM1%2BIbmZcTtCAveZ8Ek7qHfopLm1OvCwDRXx4OluaPav1bjZKNMLZWXYpI133HPKENnddx7ppglTkQCY7qsW5RXszAlNXabJMDLKfdyuUL6I|tkp%3ABk9SR8yktJiSZA

I was finding it too big to ride off road and I'd just had another operation so I was on crutches for nine months. It certainly didn't get retired, four friends have owned it since me, I'm not sure who has it now though but it's still on the road with over 65,000 miles .

I had an Orange 950, a Black 950 and them a Blue 990 Dakar

Better than Trumps attempt.

His dad didn't return the laptop.

...and walls. Don't forget the walls. Fuckin' everywhere....

Castles, schmastles - common as shit....

That's the other side of the road.

Do they do pride in prison?

Yeah village aint the same without the idiot, although I have to commend you for taking on the task in his absence Marcel.

Great didn't want to know why he wasn't here just wanted to know he was still going

Well done, it will be good to see him back

I heard from busa today, he will be back, he had to take some time out for reasons I am not sure I should share.

Fuckmine, Pete's playing fun and games from the grave . How did a post from September 14, 2023 flag up as new ???

Marcel messing about with his 950 reminded me i haven't started the old Africa Twin in a while, It fires up ok but at quarter throttle its popping and banging like a strip of fire crackers so carbs off again to clean the pilot jets ffs All back together again and running fine if there's a break in the weather i shall have a spin around the block

RDC

Admin please remove if this has already been posted or if I have put this in the wrong place. For a little while now Pete and I have been talking about going on a couple of rides, relatively long rides, then in May he went into hospital to have a couple of stents fitted. I have tried to contact him a few times over the last 5 or 6 weeks then this afternoon I received a message from his son Scot who informed that Pete had passed away on the 18th May because of heart, failure he never left the hospital!! RIP mate