Bu**ocks

Dropped the bike this morning. Just as I was reversing the bike, one of
the courtyard doors blew shut at some speed. Couldn't keep the bike up
anymore and gently let it rest against the bike trailer.

Damage: small dent in the tank as far as I can see. What worries me
though, is that initially, setting off, the bike felt fine, but after a
few miles it started to run like a bag of spanners. It's lost all it's
punch and sounds like it's running waaay too rich. A quick inspection
didn't turn up any major damage. It does run, idle is at about 1000
revs, so all should be fine...no? No!

Any ideas?

Spete

 

Carb icing in this fine weather we're having at the moment?

 

Buttocks?

You are odd, you Dutchies.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

Bu**ocks? Well, probabay buttocks, maybe burdocks, bullocks seems to sound
right but is such a rarely used word.

 

Bu**ocks? Well, probabay buttocks, maybe burdocks, >bullocks seems to
sound

You seem to forget I'm a furri....fori.... not from this cuntry...

Spete

 

you obviously don't listen to The Archers.

 

Spete composed the following;:

Dunno what bike or carb, but could the choke lever or actuator have been
bent and caused it to stay open/closed?

 

Dunno what bike or carb, but could the choke lever or actuator have
been

It's a Firestorm amd probably not. I dropped the bike on the righthand
side and the lever is on the left. It may just be that some crud got
released or something got flooded, but the latter doesn't seem logical
as rode it for a few miles...

Here's hoping that the problem will have gone away this afternoon....

Spete

 

Yes

You are a clumsy cloggy ****.

HTH

 

These problems don't go away. They sometimes hide, then come back and
bite you.

 

It may be completely unrelated to the falling over. Water in the fuel
or, as you say, a bit of crud restricting the float needle.

 

Possibly carb icing. I had great fun riding the ER to work this morning.
Carbs iced up, giving me a single cylinder 8 stroke if the sound was
anything to go by.

Nowt to worry about if when the temperature drops below 0c or gets above
5c[1] the problem goes away.

HTH


[1] Seems to be the temp range that causes it on the ER and GTRat when much
precipitation abounds.

 

You let Timo touch the bike?

 

bloody -10.5 deg C this morning!
Sunny though.

 

If you're in the UK, that's bloody cold.

 

It would be, wouldn't it? If he's in Switzerland, I'd say that may be
average for certain places...

 

I can never remember where people are located... it was a comment to
cover that really.

 

Swizzerland, but it's been around 0 to -2 for the last couple of days
and I felt the drop, deeply!
There's one place here that is always about 15° colder than the rest of the
country in winter.
-30° is apparently common!
La Brévine - if anyone's interested.

 

There's a chance that I may be going to live in Zurich, maybe. It's more
likely that I'll be living in Brighton and going to Uni though.

 

Welcome!
There are some lovely rides[1] around here.
And of course other things.
What influences the decision?

[1] for bikes, as well