Posted: Wed Mar 06, 13 10:13 pm
Thats smart i like that.
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Posted: Thu Mar 07, 13 9:01 am
I maybe should have wiped my greasy paw prints off it before taking a photograph but it was getting late.
Posted: Thu Mar 07, 13 11:28 am
I think your getting bored dave .get yourself a project you can put your talents into and push the vet outside ..it wont rust 
Posted: Thu Mar 07, 13 12:08 pm
I am bored. Just looking for things to do.terryr wrote:I think your getting bored dave .get yourself a project you can put your talents into and push the vet outside ..it wont rust
Look carefully. I even painted the Bananarama! edge of the brake discs.
I am getting desperate.
Got no money for a project.
Posted: Thu Mar 07, 13 12:15 pm
Don't worry.
When I get a motorcycle I will be out and about on that instead of bothering you guys.
When I get a motorcycle I will be out and about on that instead of bothering you guys.
Posted: Thu Mar 07, 13 12:27 pm
I can't wait for the motor cycle reports, I like a nice Triumph!
Posted: Thu Mar 07, 13 12:29 pm
That one looks too fast for me. Did they do one with pedals?
Posted: Thu Mar 07, 13 1:03 pm
Yep!
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 13 6:20 pm
Dave did you do any mods to the air intake side...my dad fitted twin Large cone K+N's on a Y pipe and a straight silicon hose to the MAF body to reduce turbulance apparently ??
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Posted: Mon Mar 18, 13 6:34 pm
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 13 10:00 am
Steve I think most of these "performance mods" are just money making scams.
Air gets sucked in by the engine. I can't see any restriction in the stock system for the needs of a stock engine.
Exhaust systems you usually can make real HP improvements with though. Because they are made with noise and emissions restrictions.
These cars really benefit from long tube headers and free flowing cats and mufflers. Probably adding 30hp with a good system although they will obvioiusly claim more.
Only after that might you find any benefit from increasing intake flow. Possibly with the addition of a larger throttle body too.
Air gets sucked in by the engine. I can't see any restriction in the stock system for the needs of a stock engine.
Exhaust systems you usually can make real HP improvements with though. Because they are made with noise and emissions restrictions.
These cars really benefit from long tube headers and free flowing cats and mufflers. Probably adding 30hp with a good system although they will obvioiusly claim more.
Only after that might you find any benefit from increasing intake flow. Possibly with the addition of a larger throttle body too.
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 13 10:39 am
Got a training course booked then Daveman?Dave wrote:Don't worry.
When I get a motorcycle I will be out and about on that instead of bothering you guys.
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 13 12:25 pm
I did have. But I just packed in today.
Passed the CBT. Passed the theory test. Have done four hours training so far. Struggling a little bit to start with but it all started to come together nicely yesterday. Really got the low speed U-turns off champion now.
Moving with the traffic fine. Pulling away fairly smoothly. Not stalling and only pressed the horn instead of the turn signals twice.
They were going to let me loose on a 500cc bike today because I was doing well.
But had a really bad anxiety attack 4am this morning.
I get nervous anyway but this was pretty bad. I went to the training centre but didn't feel well enough to get on a bike. I was shaking and felt sick.
The thing is, apart from that I have just not been enjoying it. It's supposed to be fun right?
OK the weather and traffic in Newcastle have not helped at all. But even when out on the country roads and sweeping through the bends (I never knew you turned the opposite way when cornering on a bike until now!) I just kept thinking to myself "this would have been nice in my old Challenger".
I realised I have not really liked any part of bike riding. I really can't see what you guys get out of it.
In fact i realise now why you bikers like to drive like nutters. It would be the only way I would get a kick out of it.
I might still get a 125cc thing to go to work on. I can do that for up to two years on an L-plate. Come teh summer I might suddenly "get" what ever it is you bikers get from doing this. But so far I have failed to find it anything like the "romantic" experience I imagined it to be.
Passed the CBT. Passed the theory test. Have done four hours training so far. Struggling a little bit to start with but it all started to come together nicely yesterday. Really got the low speed U-turns off champion now.
Moving with the traffic fine. Pulling away fairly smoothly. Not stalling and only pressed the horn instead of the turn signals twice.
They were going to let me loose on a 500cc bike today because I was doing well.
But had a really bad anxiety attack 4am this morning.
I get nervous anyway but this was pretty bad. I went to the training centre but didn't feel well enough to get on a bike. I was shaking and felt sick. The thing is, apart from that I have just not been enjoying it. It's supposed to be fun right?
OK the weather and traffic in Newcastle have not helped at all. But even when out on the country roads and sweeping through the bends (I never knew you turned the opposite way when cornering on a bike until now!) I just kept thinking to myself "this would have been nice in my old Challenger".
I realised I have not really liked any part of bike riding. I really can't see what you guys get out of it.
In fact i realise now why you bikers like to drive like nutters. It would be the only way I would get a kick out of it.
I might still get a 125cc thing to go to work on. I can do that for up to two years on an L-plate. Come teh summer I might suddenly "get" what ever it is you bikers get from doing this. But so far I have failed to find it anything like the "romantic" experience I imagined it to be.
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 13 1:26 pm
I think you are in love with the idea of having a bike, Dave; not actually having one.
You can always get one to tinker with and then clean your spanners.
I actually think Biking is a young man's game.
If the seeds and the skills are not sown early enough then it is probably not a good idea........walk away...no shame..................
Pussy...
You can always get one to tinker with and then clean your spanners.
I actually think Biking is a young man's game.
If the seeds and the skills are not sown early enough then it is probably not a good idea........walk away...no shame..................
Pussy...
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 13 1:48 pm
That's a very honest bit of feedback Dave and good on you for being straight up with how you are getting on, a lot of people would have pussy footed around and not mentioned it.
I think Pete is right in many ways, saying it's a young man's game, I was straight on a field bike when I was about 14 and we all know when we were kids, it was always hot an sunny.
By the time I was sixteen, I was riding around on a BSA Bantam, in shirt sleeves and no helmet, with a provisional license (it was a green temporary one) it was a real buzz.
Very, very different to all the rules and regulations today, combined with the imminent danger of five times the traffic and the cold north eastern weather.
Step back from it for a while and wait for the better weather, sod it if anyone sneers at you saying "fair weather biker" I am these days, if it's icy and cold, I jump in the car.
Don't just jack it in, because riding a bike out on the open road, being in full control of your machine is a feeling like no other.
I think Pete is right in many ways, saying it's a young man's game, I was straight on a field bike when I was about 14 and we all know when we were kids, it was always hot an sunny.
By the time I was sixteen, I was riding around on a BSA Bantam, in shirt sleeves and no helmet, with a provisional license (it was a green temporary one) it was a real buzz.
Very, very different to all the rules and regulations today, combined with the imminent danger of five times the traffic and the cold north eastern weather.
Step back from it for a while and wait for the better weather, sod it if anyone sneers at you saying "fair weather biker" I am these days, if it's icy and cold, I jump in the car.
Don't just jack it in, because riding a bike out on the open road, being in full control of your machine is a feeling like no other.