Benly fettling

I have an owners manual. It tells me really useful things like how to
start the engine.

What I can't find is a diagram that tells me how to get the sodding
side panels off.

Benly haynes manual on line anywhere?

 

I think they're called "TOG" around these parts.

 

Thus spake Lady Nina () unto the assembled multitudes:

I bet it doesn't tell you that "running the machine without oil is
punishable" as was barked at me in a particularly Teutonic manner in a Puch
Maxi manual I once had. Manuals just aren't fun any more.

 

If it's the same as every other small Honda of its era, you just pull them
off. They will each have three plastic nipples that push into rubber
grommets on the frame.

 

Fingers behind the panel though so they don't snap off.

 

There was a lovely bit about not letting other motorists surprise you.

 

I tried pulling but it didn't work and I didn't want to go for the
brute force and ignorance approach until I'd checked with the experts
in here.

Anyway off to drink real ale now, may try when I get back later.

 

"Never carry an animal on this motorcycle" - Laverda RGS handbook, circa
1983.

 

Just pull them. Carefully, so as not to break the plastic lugs that clip
into the rubber grommets.

 

Novel approach. If at first you don't succeed, neck a few pints and then
fucking show it who's boss.

 

Oi I said that already!

 

I was thinking something similar meself, but you expressed it far
better than I ever could...

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"Vigorously actuate the kick-start lever" from MZ Supa 5 Owners Manual.

 

"Do not incinerate the front fork" from the '82 GPz550 owner's manual.

 

But this is an ex-TOG bike.

....yeah, good point.

 

not to mention the fault finding bit which had, among other things,
"shortage of volts".

 

What a *lovely* expression, which is, at the same time, utterly useless
as a diagnostic aid.

 

"If the engine tends to stall and refuses to rev up, tilt it somewhat
to the left. This will lower the fuel level in the carburettor and
remove flooding."

From the Sport CZ 250 type 471 owner's manual.

 

Dead practical, those Czechs. Instead of having all the time, trouble
and expense of actually designing a carburettor that didn't flood they
simply provided a work-around.
I wonder how many owners' legs burst into flames.