Sir Fallsalot

Tomorrow i have an MOT on the CRF1000 and might have a ride about cant remember the last time i was out on it. I think Sunday i will be cheering myself up by smashing the XR off some rocks there might be some mud and water to splash through as well

I was always a pillion before i passed my test after that i was the rider and that's the way its always been. I think i would be ok as long as some twat like my younger self wasn't riding. Back in my 20's i was just riding around looking for things to race as you do when i see this guy around Abergavenny way thumbing a lift carrying a helmet, i stopped to give him a lift he was going to Tredegar about 10 mile away. I shot off hitting speeds over 140 between the heads of the valleys roundabouts which was pretty normal for me back then, the fucker was squashing the life out of me he was holding on so tight, when i pulled off for Tredegar i asked where to he insisted the roundabout was fine and he would walk from there, i got the impression he couldn't wait to get off for some reason

And that reminds me of this are you sure you weren't private Pyle

That reminded me of this

I can say from experience that rear brake reservoir won't work i had the reservoir off the XR on mine and when the pads got low the brake stopped working from lack of fluid there's far less in that bit of pipe

Sorry Pete can't read this there's something in the way

The noise this lot make on my roof at the crack of dawn if unbelievable you'd think they were all wearing hob nailed boots. Haven't seen any magpies but there is a jackdaw floating about here with a few white feathers on him/her

The top box is spoiling too much of the view to be a BOTM photo

Only small birds i see are a couple of pairs of sparrows and i did see a robin once poor buggers don't have a look in with the jackdaws

Yes trying to encourage small birds into our garden but these buggers have got the monopoly on the bird feeders

Caught this cheeky bugger in our front garden not the best photo, taken through the living room window and i don't think the wife has cleaned it in years

When i popped out for my beer earlier i couldn't believe the amount of people in town heading for the pubs

I think your winning him over @Pedro

I was thinking the flexible part of the pipe was to allow you to get at the frame oil screen without removing the whole pipe but vibration is something i was thinking about

Talking of Italian crap ones mine is an Italian import and that would explain this

Ooo i forgot about this post It was a twat to get out on my own

Plenty of those here but not what i want

The key thing here is 2010 it is now 2021. i paid £1600 for my XR400 in 2008 and you wont buy a tidy one for less than £3000 now

It will still sell for stupid money if it was proper non running money i could have sacrificed parts off the dog to get it sorted but then i'm fixing things again

Tempting but the comments saying the bike does not start and engine rebuild has alarm bells ringing knowing what i know about mine

LOL i was looking at that earlier i need to make room before i get another. There's just nothing new out there i like unless it's a chinky bike but the problem with that is it's a chinky bike

@Catteeclan Did you find out what caused the cam wear on yours

No that just means he likes a big fluffy pussy on his lap not he is one

Put it all back together today and went for a ride and as a result i had a few observations First thing was my waterproofs are no longer waterproof got bloody soaked need some new ones for the winter The bike had a clutch judder pulling off when the bike was cold it started happening just before i did the cam chain this has now gone now, i did put it down to cooking the clutch going over Barmouth hills many years ago the metal plates in there are blue and thought its on its way out, but i'm more inclined to think it was dry clutch plates from lack of oil now After the cam chain replacement i noticed the bike was running a lot cooler than it used to on the dipstick temperature gauge i did think this was down to me giving the carb a good clean and thought there might have been a blocked jet before which made the bike run lean it is now back to the temperature it used to run at. i think it was because there was very little oil being circulated around the engine so the oil never got that hot in the tank on the way home the ticky noises returned so i will be checking the valve clearances again tomorrow just to check that is still the noise i am hearing and nothing else has developed on the ride. I'm beginning to think my worn out cam chain and guides was down to this oil problem and not old age as first thought Apart from that the bike ran flawlessly and seems the bottom end has survived. Now i don't know what to do if there was a new 650 single out there like the DR650 or XR650L i think i would be purchasing it right now because i'm fed up working on them, all i want to do is ride what i do know is there's going to be some desperados going down the hatch tonight

Yup i'm just going to ride it and see how it goes i'm not willing to invest in a new cam and followers only to find out the bottom end needs work after. If it all turns out good but i have to keep adjusting valve clearances i'll do something about it for now the dog is on probation