Mrs R needs emotional support!

[Mrs Reject]

Well my beautiful custom GT750 finally went phutt today, it needs a new engine/engine reconditioning, cam chain, fork seals, cuddly toy, his and hers gift set, and it's going to take me three months to save up the cash to have all the work done on it to make it young again.
So here I am the whole of the summer with no bike.......well that's not entirely true! I have my sons CM125 at my disposal.
I will have to ride said CM125 to get to my holiday job and into town.
There goes my street cred and honour as a biker.....I feel like hurling myself off Beachy Head.
The R in Mrs R don't stand for righteous any more, it stands for ridiculous lady on small bike.
I'm off for a bit of a cry now :(

[BlackPig]

Hey !! Wait up a bit , it's still got two wheels and an engine :)

Just think BIG :D

[Mitch]

Well my beautiful custom GT750 finally went phutt today, it needs a new engine/engine reconditioning, cam chain, fork seals, cuddly toy, his and hers gift set, and it's going to take me three months to save up the cash to have all the work done on it to make it young again.
So here I am the whole of the summer with no bike.......well that's not entirely true! I have my sons CM125 at my disposal.
I will have to ride said CM125 to get to my holiday job and into town.
There goes my street cred and honour as a biker.....I feel like hurling myself off Beachy Head.
The R in Mrs R don't stand for righteous any more, it stands for ridiculous lady on small bike.
I'm off for a bit of a cry now :(

Awwww! looks like the two of us then dearie! I only wish bloody solicitor hadn't wasted sooooooo much feckin' time - you could have had my engine!
Anyways, riding the CM125 - it could be worse couldn't it? At least it looks pretty righteous, goes above 60 and just think, it could have been a mobylette 50!!!!!!!!! :D

[BlackPig]

......and just think, it could have been a mobylette 50!!!!!!!!! :D

This could be aranged !!!!! :D :D :eek:

[Yoda]

Or what about a nice tidy Honda Vision with shopping basket attached

[BlackPig]

I'll go as far as a Solex :eek: but NO further !!! :D

[Mitch]

I'll go as far as a Solex :eek: but NO further !!! :D

Just looked that up on the net, that's not a moped it's a flippin' bicycle - lawks the ribbing from the local yoof would be too harsh to bear!!!!!! :eek:

[BlackPig]

Just looked that up on the net, that's not a moped it's a flippin' bicycle - lawks the ribbing from the local yoof would be too harsh to bear!!!!!! :eek:


What !!!

Those is serious torque monsters !! :D

Pull skins off rice puddin's , I tell ya !! :rolleyes: :D

[mark4x4]

:) it could be worst, could be grisly adams on his overloaded scooter lol :D

[Bosun]

bring back the sinclair c5


consider it not so much a let down, but a means of 2 wheeled transport while the true Mrs R mobile reimmerges like a phoenix from etc etc

could be worse could be a ....................... ( vehicle name omitted on legal advise)

[TaxiDave]

Just put one stabiliser on the 125 and you've almost got the trike you always wanted :D

[Friar Tuck]

Awwww! looks like the two of us then dearie! I only wish bloody solicitor hadn't wasted sooooooo much feckin' time - you could have had my engine!
Anyways, riding the CM125 - it could be worse couldn't it? At least it looks pretty righteous, goes above 60 and just think, it could have been a mobylette 50!!!!!!!!! :D

Mitch, if you are interested my z750 is sitting in the garage rotting away! drop us an email. The Carbs have been taken off, cleaned up and re-assembled and ready to go back on. The bike's been standing for at least ten years but turned over before the carbs came off. It's all there just need a lot of, err, tlc? I has a brand new Marshall deeptone and new hagon shocks. Just haven't the time to do anything with it. Was Project: Bomber Command. Have the v5 as well.
I'll take some digis if you want?

[Mrs Reject]

Mitch he say "YES" please send him some digis.I say oh no........groan.....not more junk bikes out front :D Yeah go for it mate, send the pics *sigh*.

[Bosun]

Mitch he say "YES" please send him some digis.I say oh no........groan.....not more junk bikes out front :D Yeah go for it mate, send the pics *sigh*.


i can see letters to the council :)

[Gypsy]

oooo bad news for mrs R, but I don't mind gettin me hands dirty tinkering and building n stuff

and their street is biker street ya knows

we wanna live there

bit too far for work tho

:D

[Gypsy]

ooops that was doro btw

[Mitch]

It is indeed biker street, nearly everyone in our close owns a bike and those who don't either have kids with bikes or are bike appreciators, even the old guys. It's seriously good :)

[BlackPig]

It is indeed biker street, nearly everyone in our close owns a bike and those who don't either have kids with bikes or are bike appreciators, even the old guys. It's seriously good :)


You lucky, lucky BASTID !!! :D :D :cool:

[Friar Tuck]

Mitch he say "YES" please send him some digis.I say oh no........groan.....not more junk bikes out front :D Yeah go for it mate, send the pics *sigh*.

Okey Dokey! Gis a day or so! Gotta clear a space in the garage to get to the damn thing!

[Creature]

how about a honda pc50 :(

[Mitch]

how about a honda pc50 :(

nah then Creature! Tha's in enough trouble already!!!! :D

[Mrs Reject]

Yup, I'd look well righteous on that!!! :eek:
Big hairy bikers would fall before me in worship of their Goddess (in my dreams!).

[Mrs Reject]

Bollox and feck, now me son's 125 has blown up too - I am accursed I tell you!! accursed!!!
The left hand side plug socket has got too loose and the plug won't stay in there - blows out whenever you switch the b*gger on?
Looks like I am destined to be bikeless this summer. My son says it's been doing it for ages, hence he hasn't been riding it!

[Creature]

just whip the head off and take to small local engineering workshop and get them to helicoil it - may be worth getting other done at same time... its not very expensive and providing you have gaskets then you should be back on the road next day at latest.....

when servicing in future make sure spark plug threads are clean and that you do not cross thread.

Also when tightening - tighten hand tight and then just tighten carefully with socket - it does not have to be tightend down as far as the wrench will go - just a light tap on wrench is tight enough

[Bosun]

nowt wrong with C50's though prefer the raw power of a c70

i am not sure Mrs r and combustioned engined powered 2 wheeled vehicles is a successful mix

may you be back on the road soon

[Mitch]

Okey Dokey! Gis a day or so! Gotta clear a space in the garage to get to the damn thing!

Just thinkin' FT

I don't think we can really afford another bike sat outside - there's enough out there already gathering rust. I think one more would be the limit really.
Thanks for the offer though anyway. I'm just hoping that we can get some money saved in the next few weeks - I'm doing overtime and Mrs R's working in the holidays. We can then sort everything out - much easier.

By then, that flaming insurance company will have got their act together and start hounding the other side!

[Friar Tuck]

No worries Mitch. I don't think it'll be going anywhere for a while1 Let us know if you want it?

Mrs. R. my very first road legal bike was a PC501 real cool! Especially with the front number plate mounted on the mudguard! Street lethal me, at sixteen, I was!

[mr.chaz]

Bollox and feck, now me son's 125 has blown up too - I am accursed I tell you!! accursed!!!
The left hand side plug socket has got too loose and the plug won't stay in there - blows out whenever you switch the b*gger on?
Looks like I am destined to be bikeless this summer. My son says it's been doing it for ages, hence he hasn't been riding it!

I got a helicoil diy kit if you wanna borrow it. :o

[Mrs Reject]

Thank you Mr Chaz but no DIY is allowed around here - after the last time!!!! :eek: I am taking it in to be helicoiled this week so I can at least ride to my holiday job which starts tomorrow.
The worst thing is some of the other nurses are big hairy bikers (and that's just the women) so I'll have to park it round the corner and walk the last half mile to work wearing my Harley Davidson embossed leathers, bandanna and toilet seat :)
Funny thing is I can ride big bikes no probs but those 125's are well tricky, like riding an oiled stoat!!!!!

[Mitch]

just whip the head off and take to small local engineering workshop and get them to helicoil it - may be worth getting other done at same time... its not very expensive and providing you have gaskets then you should be back on the road next day at latest.....

when servicing in future make sure spark plug threads are clean and that you do not cross thread.

Also when tightening - tighten hand tight and then just tighten carefully with socket - it does not have to be tightend down as far as the wrench will go - just a light tap on wrench is tight enough


Nah then Creature!
Hmmm. looks like tha's been swallowin' Haynes book of lies! Non of the engineering shops here would touch it, so it's back to our friendly bike shoppe over in Polegate.

Anyroad, the GT's back up and running, the number 2 plug was so black, it was darker than't' night sky... no wonder it was only running on three. We may give it a go in't morning. Mrs R's job's on'y down't road! :o

[Creature]

bummer - if you cannot get it done locally email me and ship it over here and ill get it done for you

[Mitch]

Cheers for t'offer! Anyroad, it worked, Mrs R got to work OK on her GT - a bit of blue smoke where I cleaned the plug with meths but it ran better than it has for a few days.

Now to buy a gasket set from Dave Silver for the CM!

[Mitch]

Ordered the gasket set - complete for £15 + vat and postage!!!!!!
that's cheaper than the old asbestos matting we used to have to put up with when I first started out... I remember a mate of mine back in Halifax who had to make do with matting and cornflake packets to use as gaskets on his GS!

Methinks the problem with the thread started when Simon's dad went to see him and tried 'fixing' the bike! Mrs R used her talents (lock-picking should be a doddle! :D ) to put the plug back in but alas, it on'y proved a temporary measure.

All that remains is getting my head around such a small engine being OHC! Oh I forgot, It's a twin! Why couldn't it have been a pushrod twin like the CX? :eek:

[Bosun]

Ordered the gasket set - complete for £15 + vat and postage!!!!!!
that's cheaper than the old asbestos matting we used to have to put up with when I first started out... I remember a mate of mine back in Halifax who had to make do with matting and cornflake packets to use as gaskets on his GS!

:


and mars bars were 6D and you could ave a dam good night out for 1/- and change for bus fayre home.. try telling etc etc etc

[Creature]

and id rowed accross da lake for me daily bread at 2 half pence :)

[Mrs Reject]

The GT 750 went like proverbial rocket on the way back from work!!!! I could not believe it, no rattling, no coughing, no stoats! Surely it cannot be as simple as the spark plugs and mix - confused of Seaford :confused:

[Mitch]

Nah then Fayji and Creature ya pair of owd buggers!!!! Really showin' your age aint the'?

That was in 1990, I'll have you know, when I was a pup - and very confused by said cornflake packets, especially when me old mate Donna cut the holes in the wrong places for the oilways!!

[Bosun]

ah the 90's
i made a bonnet builge for a mk3 cortina using cornflake packets and fiberglass
by the time we jacked the back up and tested spray cans all over it was a thing of beauty to behold (not) why did my driving instructor look scared?

mindyou my gpz550 was not a thing of beauty at the time either, only used wood from orange boxes on that (you really dont want to know)

[Mrs Reject]

ah the 90's
i made a bonnet builge for a mk3 cortina using cornflake packets and fiberglass
by the time we jacked the back up and tested spray cans all over it was a thing of beauty to behold (not) why did my driving instructor look scared?

mindyou my gpz550 was not a thing of beauty at the time either, only used wood from orange boxes on that (you really dont want to know)

Oh gawd!!!!! Please don't give Mitch any ideas! I've had to chain him up this week once already
:eek:

[Creature]

lucky sod - na the 70's were it - great times and glad i mangaed to catch some of it, as rick n pat will testify my bike looks as if its come outa a time warp.

[Bosun]

Oh gawd!!!!! Please don't give Mitch any ideas! I've had to chain him up this week once already
:eek:


oooh i used to dream of being chained up
lucky boy ;)

[Friar Tuck]

Ah, the 70's and early 80's, eh? Mk1 Escorts and Anglia 105E's with jacked up rear ends, Jag IRS, with 1600GT x-flows and 2000E gearboxes, wolfrace wheels, flame paintwork and veery dodgy roof chops.!

Wide lapels, flares, "Saturday night fever shoes", the Bee Gees, Sutherland Brothers and Quiver, Dr Hook, Boney M, The Eagles, Ronco and K-Tel products!
27mhz AM CB radio! (10-4 good buddy! Got your ears on! What's your 20? Want an Eyeball?)

God we was cool!