2 new motorcycling experiences in 1 day

Today the Zephyr is booked in for new tyres and fork seals, so I took it to
work, with a view to leaving early to get it into my man at Oxford. Rush
hour M40 / M25 / M4 to Brentford certainly is a hoot, particularly in the
fog. Despite it's portly girth, I was amazed at how narrow a gap I could
get the old barge through whilst filtering through the queues. I'll
definitely do it again, but not on a regular basis as the round trip is
nearly a tankfull of juice.

Then this afternoon, on to Oxford to drop the bike off, to be collected by
my lad on the NSR. I had to ride it home with him as pillion, we must have
looked quite comedic. After riding the Zephyr, the little Honda felt like
sitting on a razor blade, but it managed to cope with us both, despite a
very slappy chain.

Hopefully, I'll pick the Zephyr up on Saturday, with new Avon AV45/46's
fitted, and non weepy forks (as well as collecting SWMBO's Megane from the
garage, bloody thing expired on Monday, and is going to cost £1100.00 quid
to rectify [1])

[1] new flywheel, new starter motor.

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Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X
BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

Beav wrote:

Here mate , have some scissors, yours are obviously broken. 8<

Seems the reason it is so much is due to it being an auto.

Having looked under the bonnet there's no way I'm fiddling with it.

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X
BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

It used to be that you could replace the starter ring around the
flywheel.

 

Beav wrote:

Well, you were 100% right with your costings.

The old flywheel was, erm, interesting.

About 20 teeth chewed right off.

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X
BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)