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Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

If you practice too much your arm gets tired?

Ian

Like the nice lady says, it comes with experience.

I did my CBT on a little 50cc, and was terrified every time we had to do the emergency stops. My first time out on my 125cc I only did a quick trip out to get petrol and was clinging on so hard I pulled a muscle in my back and spent the entire weekend hunched over like Quazzi Moddo.

Now I don't think anything of pushing the speedo needle up to max going down hill with the wind on my back!

It comes, just get used to what your bike can do.

Ian

Could have been some kind of debris or blockage worked its way through your intake, into the carb and lodged in the jet. Or could have been totally unrelated to the washing and may have happened anyway.

Glad you've got her going again.

Ian

It has: phoned work to give them an update and they said just use a days leave. Garage are just waiting on my new air filter that they ordered in for my next service that was booked in for Monday anyway.

I'm really glad about the work issue. I've only been in "civvi street" for a month and battled through snow, rain, mechanical failure, etc, to get to work. You hear so many horror stories about civvi employers when you're in the forces (it's half the reason people don't leave IMHO) just sacking people at the drop of a hat. I guess it helps they're all bikers to: they know what it's like riding in winter, and even donated my armoured jacket and trousers!

I'm gonna have a nice day off now and de-stress after this morning (I even bought some Marlboros this morning for the first time in a year!).

Ian

It may sound daft, but let me set the scene:

At my last service (or maybe the one before) the guys did a carb clean for me, and told me it was full of water. So I was careful with the cleaning from then on.

Today, I nipped into to town for some food shopping, with the intention of carrying on into the big city. About 250 yards from my house, it died at idle, "bloomin valves again" I thought, as I started it again, and carried on into the super market. When I got there, it died again, and would only give me a few sputters trying to start on the kicker (turned over on the button, but no fire). So, panicking about getting to work tomorrow, I pushed it around the block to the motorcycle garage.

When I got there, there was a queue of five scoots, all "won't start", "just died", "I pushed it here" and the guys said they most likely wouldn't get around to mine today, so I asked them if I could go get my tools and try myself in their car park, which they were happy with.

I pulled a few plastics, to get a good view of the engine, pinched the fuel line just before the filter, drained the carb until the filter was empty, returned everything back to normal, then started it. Vroom vroom. First time on the button. It idled nice and strong, until it bogged and died again. So I opened the air intake up and cleaned it out with a rag. Water, mud, vermin, Bigfoot, it was all in there.

The problem: rain. Not massively heavy, just fairly constant. And where the air intake is about 6 inches from the rear wheel, it sucks up a lot!

I was just wondering if anyone has ever fitted a snorkel like device (think submarines, British Army Landrovers, etc) to move the suction away from the ground and the wheel? I was thinking anywhere high, and preferably tucked away under some plastic somewhere.

Any all ideas welcome,
Ian