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Champ · Sep 20, 2004

pity you're not as good a rider as some, as clearly the sensible action
in the above circumstances would have been to pull a rolling stoppy
until you came safely to rest.
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Well, I know that *now*, but stoppies were pretty new back in those
days.

Champ · Sep 20, 2004

Champ wrote:
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lucky ****.
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I am, aren't I? <grin>

Whinging Courier · Sep 20, 2004

That's *exactly* what happens. On my first ZXR750 (in about 1989) it
dumped the oil all over the rear tyre - I leant it into a gentle
lefthander and the back just slide. Fortunately, as it slide, the
bike leant over, moving the tyre contact patch sideways, to a bit of
tyre that didn't have oil on it (the oil was a 2 inch wide stripe down
the middle). So, I regained some traction, and corrected, but of
course, as the bike came upright, it got onto the oily bit of the
tyre, and now, with some momementum, it stepped out in the other
direction.

After 3 or four of these I found myself roughly upright, but on the
wrong side of the road and heading for the kerb. Fortunately, there
was a dip in the kerb at just the right place, which I rode up, and
along the pavement for 50 yds before finally coming to rest.
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Phew. I was with you all the way there.

Lozzo · Sep 20, 2004

There's a few places where it could be coming from, but as describded
by others, there's only one way to find out :

- take the fairing lowers off
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You may as well stop here, this is darsy you're talking to.

William Grainger · Sep 20, 2004

Champ said:

After 3 or four of these I found myself roughly upright, but on the
wrong side of the road and heading for the kerb. Fortunately, there
was a dip in the kerb at just the right place, which I rode up, and
along the pavement for 50 yds before finally coming to rest.
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I'd call you a jammy bugger if I hadn't done a similar
thing. Clearly there's something about Kwak 750s.

Vass · Sep 21, 2004

"darsy" wrote>

yeah, before every ride,
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before? Is it not better to do it straight after a ride while the chain is
hot and expanded, gets the oil/wax in a bit deeper ?

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Ace · Sep 21, 2004

"darsy" wrote>

before? Is it not better to do it straight after a ride while the chain is
hot and expanded, gets the oil/wax in a bit deeper ?
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Yes. It also tends not to fly straight off again once it's worked its
way in. But the Chain Wax types are not so prone to that anyway
(although they're not very good either, IME).

eric the brave · Sep 23, 2004

push it where?
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Push it over the other side of the engine in front of the sprocket.

sweller · Sep 23, 2004

Lozzo said:

You may as well stop here, this is darsy you're talking to
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He's not bad mechanically. He is a lazy fucker though.

darsy · Sep 23, 2004

He's not bad mechanically. He is a lazy fucker though.
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praise indeed.

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