Philmpg wrote:Hi,
My names Phil and have just joined. I live in mid Beds if any like minded owners are around ?
Have lusted after a Z1 for ages and have finally got one

Welcome to the group. By the way...snap.

ADRIAN H wrote:Change your supressor caps for ordinary, or you will lose power.

Any specific suggestions? The only unsuppressed caps I can find are the crap rubber "Lodge" type used on old British bikes.

Many thanks Rob. I'll order 2 x 2.75 and 1 x 2.65 shims from Z-Power. On another point, I'm running Dyna S coils with the wiredgeorge setup, and using their carbon-cored radio-suppressed HT lead. The caps are NGK and are marked 5Kohm. Am I double-suppressing here and would that weaken the spark at t...

Unfortunately, never made it to Popham. Weather was not too good and realised I would be walking around a muddy field in the rain for an event I would have to leave at 10:30am, but more importantly I would be mixing with a lot of people who may or may not have C-19. As I was due to travel to my 7-mo...

Hello, Good Evening and Welcome.

Luvverly piece of kit there.

Thanks Warren.

I think I'll go pattern as I'm not that much of a rivet counter. I did smear the previous one with grease but it didn't work this time

Is there such a huge functional difference between the genuine gasket and the pattern. Considering the £40+ difference in price with discount, is the genuine worth that much over the pattern? I had a pattern on previously but am now rechecking the clearances and the gasket got damaged as I removed t...

Going to try to get to Popham Sunday. If i can find it and you i will bring my oil pressure switch and you can try it as an alternative. AL Thanks for that Al, but the oil light seems to behaving normally now. I took a trip up to the Fox and Hounds in Fair Oak on Monday for the monthly VJMC meeting...

Is your bike going to be on the VJMC stand ! The Z1-B is still not running properly so is staying at home until I can find someone to set it up correctly. I have to leave about 11:00hrs anyway as I have to be in Northampton at 14:00hrs for my daughter's baby shower, so I'll be in the car and having...

I'll be there but not biking! Helping to put up the VJMC Hampshire stand.

Thanks Adrian. I've got this SB but cannot understand a word of the process

It seems to be designed for people who can't subtract

I'll recheck the clearances some time this week.

Yesterday I re-adjusted the cam chain tension and then started the bike again. No choke and fired up immediately and ran at 1000rpm. Oil light went out immediately it fired up! There is still a rattle from the top of the head which I am assuming may be tappet noise. I may have to re-adjust the gaps ...

Finally got out on the Z1-B with the missus. Filthy, dirty, covered in oil, but she's good with the kids :D (apologies to Tommy Cooper). Finally went for a run round the block as I'd sort of got it to tickover at 1000ish yesterday. Seemed to run like a pig but to tell the truth I can't tell what it'...

ADRIAN H wrote:COVID-19 has hampered plans for rally’s / meets etc for the whole of last year and this year. I have been going to local VJMC meets - just a suggestion.

Which ones?

Mark very kindly replied with a PM and I sent him some details of the issues. However, before going fully down the route of out-sourcing I thought I would just re-check the ignition timing. Lo and behold it was out. Not sure how I managed that but it was about 10 degrees retarded. Anyways I reset st...