Insert clever airhead based title here ....

One system install & full software rebuild later...

All good here.

In other news the red rs turns over and has a spark on the end of the plug I could get out. the other one is stuck

Ta.

May I suggest that this is purely down to mechanical issues & not a wicked evil curse, as I seem to have cornered the market on bloody wicked evil curses*. Piss bollocks fuck shit arse etc.

You'll know this as well as I would but I can only suggest magical penetration fluid and the application of gas torch style heat, lots of patience, a long lever with firm constant pressure, and/or a couple of hammer taps on a socket over the plug. I have sometimes found that trying to tighten the plug very slightly is as effective at breaking any corrosive bond on the thread as trying to undo it? Having said all of this, naturally I accept no liability for stripped threads, even if I cause them with my own bodged handiwork

In other news a 2nd user tyre/ire has arrived from Motorworks and is currently at Wizard Dave & Magic Ians waiting to go onto the front wheel off the K Rat Me-MW. As regular observers will know, I have a K front end on my DMW airhead so when the new(ish) tyre/ire is fitted (inc inner tube as belt & braces double cover) & the wheel balanced I can slap it onto the airhead DMW & I should be all ok for the impending MOT. The current tire/yre would just about pass with an advisory, but the swap is required anyway as I need to swap out the front disks currently fitted because they have started giving me a pulse back thru/ough the brake lever & various other diagnostic indications, just as they would if they were to be slightly warped. I ran the front wheel on Wizard Daves brake pressure roller (just as will occur in the upcoming MOT) and the braking force indicator needle was wobbling slightly, just as it would with warped disks. It's not a big issue but leaving the disks on the spare wheel when it's of having the new(ish) tyre/ire fitted/balanced solves the issue anyway.

I've also fitted a new right exhaust down pipe hanger that came with the tire/yre as vibration had cracked the previous one right thru/ough. If you were to refer to pics of the DMW elsewhere you'll see that I don't have any tailmufflersilencepipes fitted, just Supertrapp end caps direct on the down pipes, so the hanger doesn't benefit from the extra support that the end pipe mounts would provide, and so it carries all the force of the engine/exhaust/frame wobble that would otherwise be spread over the other mounting points, if you see what I mean. This is my reasoning as to why I've cracked 2 previous right exhaust down pipe hangers anyway...

In addition to this I've received my new road fund license disk, and picked up a new number plate, as my current has a 10.5mm spacing between the letters & the edge, and because the book space is 11mm some overzealous plods try to ticket me for a small number plate, purely & simply to piss me off. It's the right font of the right size with the right spacing between the letters & lines, with just short of 11mm in a couple of places round the edge where the blade wandered. And don't even get me started on how they use an incorrect measuring technique which is outside of the legal requirements for the process. They're just trying to get all Judge Dredd on my ass simply because they can...


* Seriously, I know I've done enough naughties to deserve to be on somebodies curse list somewhere or other, but for every one thing that goes right two or more fuck up immediately. It's never been funny, but it's really getting beyond the fucking pale now.

Rather than put you to any bother I broke into your shed & borrowed the requisite hammers, applied them to the laptop with great force, and slipped them back into their original places. Hope you don't mind. Cheers. Ta

When your at Dave's and Ian's magical shed don't forget to ask how Dermot's dominator is coming along .

My firestorm has had warped discs for about the last 5 years and normally pops up on the mot every 2 years.

Oh yes the good old road tax fund.

I find it more convenient to display them where I can see them

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Yes I saw the Dominator there when I was getting the fettle from Magic Ian a couple of weeks back, and saw it was there again today & enquired if it was Dermots. At a brief glance it seemed to have the primary drive cover off, what's it in for?

The slightly warped disks don't bother me, but in a sense it saves me the job of swapping over the current disks onto the new wheel anyway, so it sort of evens out you know? It wouldn't even be an issue if I had the preferable K1100 four pot Brembos & floating disks fitted...

As mentioned before, I prefer to avoid giving plod the chance to pull a £30 failure to display ticket on the tax disk

It wont start.

something is to tight and it wont turn over quick enough and electric ignition is up the swanny , oh and cuz its dermot's it will prob do 25 miles and seize solid when it does run

Absolutely no problem whatsoever....you were so quiet, I never heard a thing.
Did you solve the unwanted hypertext pop-up gremlin? I was going to offer
some advice, but as I'd only be making up some techno-geek bollocks, I decided to hold my tongue so as not to make your predicament any worse than it already is/was...

Malicious hidden script proved unresolvable with all available tools. The trouble is that it's only when these things make themselves visible that we come to know of their insertion into ones system. I can see one or two specific sources where I would have picked it up, but it's not as if I frequent the worst neighbourhoods on the internot. A script only has to ensure that it doesn't show up in the processes list of the Windows Task Manager, and avoid showing itself thru/ough the sort of behaviour one can see and it could easily slip past most users...

A periodic system rebuild & polaroid stylee drive image isn't such a bad idea anyway, tho/ough I would have preferred not to have been forced into one. Not least because my less than dial-up sim dongle net connection makes pulling system updates etc. a real pain.

Thank you for your consideration re prodding with techno geek bollocks etc. I would have taken it but I wouldn't have done it gracefully. When the DMW wouldn't start today I gave it a good kicking, so I think we can agree I'm not in the best of humours.

Full timing info @ http://www.motogp.com/en/TestResults/MotoGP+Jerez+Test+2013

Go, Vale!

Nicky who

.i think i would like to talk about talking.

Ok.......

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/181110807708?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

That's attractive. Sidecar racing rules.

It is quite lovely isn't it. As one might imagine there are plenty more pics at the ebay link, and certainly on the face of it the rig looks in really good condition. I can't imagine what it'll go for, but no doubt much more than I could afford i.e. it's already way above my bracket (£14.95 at a stretch) so bang goes yet another bucket list possibility. I'd always fancied a bit of sidecar racing, and it was always a delight to watch. My kids have absolutely no interest in bikes or racing of any kind, but if there's some sidecars on (rarely) it always catches them as they walk past the TV.

I had hoped to entice pjcr12wheeler into a bit of sidecar racing, but we never got beyond a passing discussion on a decision as to who would be in what role. He, being so much taller than I, would probably make better ballast, though on the other hand would be limited in the small space the platform allows, and might find getting down out of the airflow a tad more troublesome. It could though be argued that he would have a advantage using his long lever limbs as the driver, but such issues are moot as anyway I seem to recall him flat out refusing to let me anywhere near the controls as I am a madman, and I can't say he's wrong, I have a certificate and everything

http://www.kakeh.com/nik/2/imagepages/image51.htm
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I was lucky enough to be attending Silverstone bike GPs during the period when sidecar was still part of the programme, and tho/ough I can see that it'd be near impossible to raise the finance to run sidecar for a full season (perhaps missing Laguna Seca as the Moto2 & moto3 fields do), I'd like to see it back on the programme. I was also lucky enough to be around during the time of the Biland BEO** and the strange devices it spawned in the B2a/B2b period where there were two classes in GP sidecars - One for the established kneeler form, of which the previously posted ebay link is an earlier example, and another class for the more exotic machinery e.g. the LCR pictured below etc. I do love the hanging passenger thing, but I can't resist a bit of technical evolution, and was lucky enough to get a close up look under the skin of the BEO when it broke down during practice for (I think) the '79 GP. It coasted to a halt right next to me on the pitlane approach, which I got access to due to the somewhat infamous 'pretending to be in a wheel chair for the practice days but not the Sunday - It's a miracle!?!' debacle previously described, for which I will go to hell.

http://www.lcr-sidecar.com/0492fb99e60caba0a/0492fb99fb0c44312/index.html


http://www.deraceheldenvanweleer.nl/index.php?topic=201.105
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* On the other hand a field of sidecars down the Corkscrew flip flop vertical drop again would be something no?

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** Lovely picture @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/manxnorton/4254026823/sizes/l/in/photostream/ All rights reserved by MANX NORTON.

Oh, I've got nothing to say except that, which was enough.