Do your pre rallie bike checks
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Turkish
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Do your pre rallie bike checks
Just went around mine with a spanner before riding it up to the Northern and found the two stroke oil tank fixing bolts nearly out, and the split link on the chain missing, that could have been nasty if the chain had come off and got caught up.
There is a fine line between going fast and going to hospital.
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Re: Do your pre rallie bike checks
Set off to France one year and after around 10-15 miles there was a noticeable clunk.... clunk... clunk...
couldn't work out where it was comin from as it stopped when we did.. by Leicester Forest East I just had to find out.
A really good look around showed that the link had lost it's clip and end plate.. how the hell it stayed there at all, I dunno, never mind 80 odd miles.
Luckily I carried a spare..
couldn't work out where it was comin from as it stopped when we did.. by Leicester Forest East I just had to find out.
A really good look around showed that the link had lost it's clip and end plate.. how the hell it stayed there at all, I dunno, never mind 80 odd miles.
Luckily I carried a spare..
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Re: Do your pre rallie bike checks
Decided to change sprocket set on Z900 yesterday to discover nut on front sprocket only hand tight! 
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Re: Do your pre rallie bike checks
riveted chain never fitted a split link 
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Re: Do your pre rallie bike checks
While you are at it : Check that your pet cock is on tightTurkish wrote:Just went around mine with a spanner before riding it up to the Northern and found the two stroke oil tank fixing bolts nearly out, and the split link on the chain missing, that could have been nasty if the chain had come off and got caught up.
Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
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Re: Do your pre rallie bike checks
gotz wrote:While you are at it : Check that your pet cock is on tightTurkish wrote:Just went around mine with a spanner before riding it up to the Northern and found the two stroke oil tank fixing bolts nearly out, and the split link on the chain missing, that could have been nasty if the chain had come off and got caught up.
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Turkish
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Re: Do your pre rallie bike checks
gotz wrote:While you are at it : Check that your pet cock is on tightTurkish wrote:Just went around mine with a spanner before riding it up to the Northern and found the two stroke oil tank fixing bolts nearly out, and the split link on the chain missing, that could have been nasty if the chain had come off and got caught up.
OMG, Ha ha how me and Mark sav never ended up in a burns unit I will never know..... Thanks Gotz the nightmares will return."....
There is a fine line between going fast and going to hospital.