Bugger - Bit Blowy

Yamaha got blown over this morning [1]. This had absolutely nothing to
do with me parking it on an inappropriate slope.
http://www.sweller.dynalias.org/images/yam-bkind.jpg

So I'm after a brake lever and an indicator lens for a 1980 Yamaha XS
400. I'm hoping they're fairly standard Yamaha parts.

Has anyone got any spare? Please....

This is the lens type:
http://www.sweller.dynalias.org/images/yam-ind.jpg

[1] After I'd taxed the fucking thing - bastard.

 

On a bike that age you can legally ride it with the indicators taped over
with black plastic. The lever is a cheap item as a pattern part.

 

sweller says...

Arse, lucky there's no plastic to break on those.

The brake lever you have is an LC one. XS had straight silver levers.
Either way, pattern ones are readily available. Try Worlds End
Mootorcycles in Hove, they stock lots of pattern parts for all sorts of
Jap bikes.

Standard Yamaha XS/RD type. Again, you can get pattern ones for about
half the cost of Yamaha ones.

 

[snip]

Bikes for bovines?

 

I have oodles of early Jap lenses - I think I've got some that pattern.
Likewise, I have a big box of brand new ShiteoldLevers, and I wot not
wot they fit.

You're welcome to have a rootle and take away whatever you want.

 

I'm aware of that but I have to tape them all up; it'll be quicker to
change the lens.

I'm selling it and it looks shitty enough in it's Brit wannabe parallel
twin guise as it is. I'd rather not make it any worse by covering the
lenses in insulating tape.

 

Not heard of them [1]... I'll give them a go. Cheers.


[1] Having looked them up I find out they're about a 15 minute walk
away. Blimey.

 

sweller says...

The things I know, eh?

 

I just meant as a temporary measure if you need to ride it. You can tape bags
over the whole units rather than clag it all up with tape on the lenses
themselves.

 

Oh. I just ignore it - the bulb works. The three inch brake lever is a
bit of pest though.

 

Especially with the original, shiny, non-grip disc.

 

Lovely.
<emailed>

 

I find the clang as the pads hit the disk calls the stopping fairies.
Unfortunately they take ages to arrive and they're lazy bastards.

 

sweller says...

I've managed to screw 50,000 miles from the front pads that were in the
CB250RS when I blagged it of WavyDavy. They are not in the slightest bit
worn either. They are made by Armstrong, which is what you need on the
brake lever to get any form of retardation from them.

 

Perhaps I should have written:

"I'm hoping they're fairly standard Yamaha parts common across the
model range and aren't met with sniggering when I phone up a
breaker/specialist about them. Unlike certain Japanese duck's guts
machinery I have in my possession. Something that doesn't fucking happen
when I phone up about Guzzis or MZs. Oh no siree"

That may have made it clearer.

Anyway, I've got TOG.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, sweller

LOL.

I've been ringing around various breakers in Septicistan, trying to
track down a petrol tank for the Z13. One of them did make me smile:
Neanderthal Motorcycle Salvage, in California.

--
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"

 

Lol. Well to be fair it's a long way from the Yamaha factory to Brighton.
They're prolly tired when they get there too. Plus they are only tiny little
nipponese stopping fairies of course.

<awaits countersuit from TOG>

 

Dot4 lubricated tendons required.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Doubt if you'd get one with exactly the same corrosion on it.

Any shiteoldbreakers, shirley?

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

Like I said, you're sounding more and more like Des, with these
throwaway lines. ;-)