Today I Am Mostly........

Wheeled two of the bikes out of the garage today to give a bit of a spring clean, it looks better for it. Did other stuff in there posted in the did something to my triumph thread.

 

Sawed, split, and stacked a shed load of firewood.

 

I bought it a few years ago from Hornby Hobbies when I had the real thing, but haven’t had the time to do it with work, bike accident etc.
It wasn’t cheap mind. The kit originally was nearly £500 but I got this one for less than half that.
It’s very well made, and there’s lots of fine detail like working suspension, a real link chain etc.

 

Wow there’s some quality detail there, what scale? How much?

 

It’s a 1:4 scale, and as I said to chiari1 the kit was nearly £500 new.

I’ve just had a look online at the manufacturer’s website and it’s over £600 now!
https://www.pocher.com/uk-en/shop/1-4-model-kits.html

 

Oh bollox

 

@MrOrange said "over the last three days", dilli. Is the same true for you?!?!

 

You may be better prepared than most, @OldNick.

 

Now of work as of Friday, I decided to sort through my Crossfire issue that died instantly while going down the road. Changed out the notorious cam and crankshaft sensors at roadside, as the only codes indicated by the obd2 code scanner were not valid per service manual, but indicated 2 ignition coil failures. ran for about 30 seconds. Hauled it home and started going thru the 4300 page service manual. Did several electrical checks as lots of weird electrical shite was going on like the rear spoiler unexpectedly deployment, so I assumed it was an electronic gremlins. Disconnected the battery for a few days and it
Started but barely ran. Combustion
triangle=fuel+oxygen+ignition just that simple. fuel pump was intermittent swapped it out for a new $260 Polish made Benz fuel pump. Seems to have more hp, but it's probably just in my head. Much joy.

 

Probably not just in your head Phred.
I had similar problems with my old Mini although it didn’t die on me, it just seemed a bit ‘flat’
Changed the high pressure fuel pump and it made an extra 15hp on the dyno

 

I bought these whilst on a 9 month deployment in 1983, thinkin I'd wile a few hours away at sea. Unfortunately I was too busy gettin pissed and flyin t'flag all over t'far east and Australia. I still have them somewhere, I reckon. I started the RG500, but only got as far as the engine. I haven't seen t'Honda and t'Yamaha for years, so they could be lost.

 

You cut off your own nuts !?!?!?!?!?!?

 

Yeah, and too tight to pay for a vascectomy because you can't get it done on the NHS at the moment.

 

and they wear skirts and long socks?????

 

At least you made it that long before needing to switch hands, dilli.

 

Hey Foxy, I would have liked to have seen you building them at sea ship going up and down and you trying to glue and paint the feckers

Anyway ain't sailors supposed to be too busy in their bunks