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Got a Scottoiler on my bike. Never used it, thinking of taking it off. Great idea, but always found it easier to use chain lube.
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There speaks a man with a paddock stand and/or a bike old enough to know what a centre stand is...!
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| Thanks for the info Endo, I will try to get to the top of the unit this weekend when I have 5 mins (which will no doubt turn into a few hours!). I still wonder at the electric centre stands on the larger Hondas etc. How the hell do they do that, all that weight trusted to be lifted and set down on a electric motor, I supose it aids balance whilst lifting it up but what hapens when in full motion the ground on which your about to set your bike to rest on gives way underneath and your electrical centre stand just keeps going lifting and sinking! Also do you sit on the bike whilst the motor takes it off the stand? Not so sure I ever want a bike I could not lift onto a centre stand with my own strength. Never had padock stands and until I came onto this site never new you could buy them LOL
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| You're welcome - hopefully it won't be too hard to get to, after all whoever fitted it should have planned for it to be refilled at some time...! If you've not had that pleasure yet, pop the breather rubber off to fill 'er up. If you're lucky (I was once, feed tube had come off) you can pretty much fill up your entire underseat tray at the same time! With you on the stands thing: if it needs the starter motor to drive the centre stand (and a reverse gear), it's too damn big for me. I'm not especially comfortable with anything I can't pick off the road myself in an emergency, never mind not being able to get on the stand. Wish somebody would come up with a streamlined centre stand for modern sportsbikes, though. Damn handy things. Not good on slopes, true, but better than a sidestand on the flat - spreads the weight out, stops the bike sinking in to soft ground. Or the tarmac - we have some particularly cheapskate road surfacers round here. Some years ago there was a mass incident in one of the new Donington bike parks: high summer, GP day, brand new park with ultra-cheap surface. Absolute carnage as large numbers of bikes overbalanced and toppled over once their sidestands had sunk far enough in... Always carry one of those plastic sidestand pucks under my seat, just in case!
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Yes I admit it, I'm old enough to remember centre stands as standard equipment on all bikes, but the venerable Nine is a sleek whippet of a thing (albeit with a stylish golfing pot) no room for extra acoutrements like practical centre stands n stuff. Plus that scottoil dribbles everywhere, at least the lube tends to stay on if you spray it on properly. (Hot chain and left overnight)
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| Just got my new rear tyre. Bridgestone Battlaxe, very nice and good grip in all conditions. My Fazer has a centre stand. Most modern bikes don't now, and I think it's a bit weird. I realise most new bike are geared towards faster and lighter styling, but a Centre Stand is incredably practical. If it wasn't for the stand, I'd've never got my rear wheel off when I got my tyre changed
Yamaha FZS 600 Fazer ... in gold! Ride safe, and look out for the Rainbow of Death! There're only 3 kinds of people in the world, those who can count, and those that can't. Roses are red, Violets are Blue, I'm a schizophrenic ..... and so am I! Take pity on the man who invented the drawing board, when he screwed up, he had nothing to fall back on. Stuff everything, I've always got my bike.
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| My first motorcycle-shaped bike only had a centre stand: how things've changed since then! I guess it was the search for ground clearance and weight saving that did for them originally but - to be honest - with the newest trend for huge underslung cat/exhaust boxes, I can't see where you'd even mount one on a lot of modern bikes, never mind fold it away when not in use. On the plus side chain lube is better now - PTFE and titanium additives do keep it on the chain better. I was put off by earlier experiences, where I'd have got better results out of Spry Crisp'n'Dry than expensive cans of lube... That is on the bike, I hasten to add. Any other interpretation is your own imagination at work.
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| So after the run out yesterday to get the valve replaced so the back tyre would stay up I was thinking that should be it for this year and so if any other money was to be spent on the Trumpet it would be either in goodies or repairs to the couple of sc****s I have added when I have toppled from it's great height!. Today I ventured out and went up to the fair city centre that is Milton Keynes, about 7 miles there, and intended to go from there to my sisters about 20 miles or so away. Did what I had to do in the centre and got back on the bike-heading off towards Ashridge near Dunstable, got about 2 miles into the journey and looked down at the speedo ect only to find the tempreture showing some 180f. Pulled off into a garage and started to probe around the fuses and wireing under the seat to no avail. Changed various fuses that might have something to do with the fan as it was not working again to no avail. So there it is guy's. The question being what might the problem be if it is not the fuses? As an asides is it not bloody anoying that you can buy a sandwich in a garage but you can't buy a bloody fuse for your vehicle? What's that all about then? Had to ride with the clutch in to let the engine cool a little in the cold air, it was the only way to keep the temp under 180f
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| Our local garage is so busy selling people their week's groceries, you're lucky if you can even buy any petrol, never mind useful things for your vehicle... And, yes, it is annoying. Especially since they have an express checkout for 10 items or less of shopping but no petrol-only checkout. Apparently petrol doesn't count as 10 items or less, either: that particular discussion with the cashier brought me quite close to offering severe physical violence as an alternative to payment... If it's not the fuse, next likely culprit is the fan switch/thermostat, probably located somewhere under the left side fairing. Put a jumper across the switch terminals, turn the ignition on and the fan should start straight away, indicating the switch is faulty. If the fan doesn't start, it could be the fan motor itself that's burned out. Anything else is going to be broken wiring somewhere.
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OK. So I was off to the Trumpet store to get some help with the overheating thing and so phoned them 1st to make sure they could spend 5 mins with it. Me "I have a problem with the bike, it's overheating to the extent I am worried about bringing it up the 10/15 miles to you" Them "Well lets see if we can see what is wrong whilst your on the phone, Did you check to see if there is any coolant in the tank?" Me "Yep, it's full but there is none in the expansion tank is that right?" Them "Yep there should br none in there anyway. When did you notice the temprature go up?" Me "Well I had just alltered the time on the clock before setting off from the city centre and had got about 2/3 miles down the road when I looked down and noticed it was reading far more than the usual 82/83, like it was well into the 180's. I did not want to boil it dry so pulled over to let it cool off and check on the fuses" OK lets put it right for you then. Go out to your bike------------ Are you there?"------ "Yep" Right push the reset and select buttons on the dash and we will get it to read in centigrade again for you instead of farenheight! That should cure it" Me "Oops" Hahahaha
Don't slide unless you mean too.Be sure, ride safe and enjoy
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