Can't start doing the prettying up til the winter. I fitted a Dyna-S electronic ignition, as suggested by Kev, today along with new Denso plugs and timed up wiv my mates Snap-On timing light. Piece o cake! Also balanced the carbs. The ole gurl is running much, much smoother now. She still hasn't giv...

Yeah I know, but I keep hoping that I'm judging the colour wrong - tad unlikely, but there's nothing wrong with ungrounded wild optimism

I went down to see an old mate of mine today, who has a vacuum pump bleeding kit. I used his kit to bleed the brakes when I changed all the seals, pipes etc. They are now fab! He has a super duper Snap-On compression tester so I used that on the old gurl - try 150PSI on each pot. She's still smoking...

I'm fairly sure that the old gurl needs another re-bore. I guess a 1075 Wiseco kit is prolly going to be the least financially painfull route to take. I'll not know for sure till I take the lid off, but my guess is that, assuming that there is nothing really ill about the engine, that whoever bored ...

I've found ProTyre have always been very much cheaper for boots for the Pimpmobile(Grand Cherokee) and service is excellent. The branch local to me (bristle) make a big thing of bike tyres. My days of riding bikes that eat tyres are long gone (I used to get 1500miles out of a front and 2K out of a b...

Does the idiot light illuminate on the panel? If that bulb has gone tha might explain it.

they did offer me a date on the 4th but due to work I won't be able to get the bike there Work - the curse of the drinking classes! As far as the stripped thread goes; I had the same prob with my Zed thou ten years ago. If memory serves me right mine was so bolloxed that a helicoil wasn't an option...

Whipped all the plugs out tonight when the old girl started missing on no 2. The plug had died complet?. It was only making tiny sparks from the central electrode to the insulator; bloody strange, never seen it quite like that before. Odd thing is that there were a set of oiled up plugs in the tailp...

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Don't know why - perhaps someone can help? My avatar doesn't work either!

http://www.gibsea.org.uk/images/nu-zed-22-5-7.jpeg Here she is - a blank, if grubby, canvas. http://kevindean.zenfolio.com/img/p405536844.jpg She has few dirty habits - she smokes - probably because the former owner was over generous with the oil; only a compression test will tell for sure. She has...

I have just bought a Z1000 A1, imported from Italy. At first I was pretty convinced that the smoke emianting from the exhaust was oil smoke, it being fairly blue. On the way home it was smoking heavily, but seems to lessen closer to home. After a hundred or so miles I stopped at the services with th...