Benly fettling

The Older Gentleman wrote:
> Lady Nina <spamtrap2@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>> What I can't find is a diagram that tells me how to get the sodding
>> side panels off.
>
> Just pull them. Carefully, so as not to break the plastic lugs that
> clip into the rubber grommets.

Oi I said that already!

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On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:25:31 GMT, platypus <monotreme@blueyonder.co.uk>
wrote in <fX%2j.54267$c_1.44595@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk> :
> Lady Nina wrote:

>> Anyway off to drink real ale now, may try when I get back later.

> Novel approach. If at first you don't succeed, neck a few pints and then
> fucking show it who's boss.

I was thinking something similar meself, but you expressed it far
better than I ever could...

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On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:16:39 +0000, The Older Gentleman wrote:

> <A.Clews@DENTURESsussex.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Thus spake Lady Nina (spamtrap2@ntlworld.com) unto the assembled
>> multitudes:
>> > I have an owners manual. It tells me really useful things like how to
>> > start the engine.
>>
>> I bet it doesn't tell you that "running the machine without oil is
>> punishable" as was barked at me in a particularly Teutonic manner in a
>> Puch Maxi manual I once had. Manuals just aren't fun any more.
>
> "Never carry an animal on this motorcycle" - Laverda RGS handbook, circa
> 1983.

"Vigorously actuate the kick-start lever" from MZ Supa 5 Owners Manual.



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prawn wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:16:39 +0000, The Older Gentleman wrote:
>
>
>><A.Clews@DENTURESsussex.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Thus spake Lady Nina (spamtrap2@ntlworld.com) unto the assembled
>>>multitudes:
>>>
>>>>I have an owners manual. It tells me really useful things like how to
>>>>start the engine.
>>>
>>>I bet it doesn't tell you that "running the machine without oil is
>>>punishable" as was barked at me in a particularly Teutonic manner in a
>>>Puch Maxi manual I once had. Manuals just aren't fun any more.
>>
>>"Never carry an animal on this motorcycle" - Laverda RGS handbook, circa
>>1983.
>
>
> "Vigorously actuate the kick-start lever" from MZ Supa 5 Owners Manual.

"Do not incinerate the front fork" from the '82 GPz550 owner's manual.

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The Older Gentleman wrote:

> Lady Nina <spamtrap2@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> > What I can't find is a diagram that tells me how to get the sodding
> > side panels off.
>
> Just pull them. Carefully, so as not to break the plastic lugs that
> clip into the rubber grommets.

....but may be stuck fast if they haven't been off for donkeys years.
Try spraying some WD40 at the rubber lugs behind the panels.

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mb wrote:
> The Older Gentleman wrote:
>
>> Lady Nina <spamtrap2@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What I can't find is a diagram that tells me how to get the sodding
>>> side panels off.
>>
>> Just pull them. Carefully, so as not to break the plastic lugs that
>> clip into the rubber grommets.
>
> ...but may be stuck fast if they haven't been off for donkeys years.
> Try spraying some WD40 at the rubber lugs behind the panels.

But this is an ex-TOG bike.

....yeah, good point.

On or around Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:11:02 +0000 (UTC), prawn
<prawnMUNG@prawn.me.uk> enlightened us thusly:

>On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:16:39 +0000, The Older Gentleman wrote:
>
>> <A.Clews@DENTURESsussex.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Thus spake Lady Nina (spamtrap2@ntlworld.com) unto the assembled
>>> multitudes:
>>> > I have an owners manual. It tells me really useful things like how to
>>> > start the engine.
>>>
>>> I bet it doesn't tell you that "running the machine without oil is
>>> punishable" as was barked at me in a particularly Teutonic manner in a
>>> Puch Maxi manual I once had. Manuals just aren't fun any more.
>>
>> "Never carry an animal on this motorcycle" - Laverda RGS handbook, circa
>> 1983.
>
>"Vigorously actuate the kick-start lever" from MZ Supa 5 Owners Manual.

not to mention the fault finding bit which had, among other things,
"shortage of volts".
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Austin Shackles <austinDITCHTHISFORBETTERRESULTS@ddol-las.net> wrote:

> not to mention the fault finding bit which had, among other things,
> "shortage of volts".

What a *lovely* expression, which is, at the same time, utterly useless
as a diagnostic aid.


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On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:11:02 +0000 (UTC), prawn
<prawnMUNG@prawn.me.uk> wrote:

>On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:16:39 +0000, The Older Gentleman wrote:
>
>> <A.Clews@DENTURESsussex.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Thus spake Lady Nina (spamtrap2@ntlworld.com) unto the assembled
>>> multitudes:
>>> > I have an owners manual. It tells me really useful things like how to
>>> > start the engine.
>>>
>>> I bet it doesn't tell you that "running the machine without oil is
>>> punishable" as was barked at me in a particularly Teutonic manner in a
>>> Puch Maxi manual I once had. Manuals just aren't fun any more.
>>
>> "Never carry an animal on this motorcycle" - Laverda RGS handbook, circa
>> 1983.
>
>"Vigorously actuate the kick-start lever" from MZ Supa 5 Owners Manual.

"If the engine tends to stall and refuses to rev up, tilt it somewhat
to the left. This will lower the fuel level in the carburettor and
remove flooding."

From the Sport CZ 250 type 471 owner's manual.

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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Pip Luscher
<pips.computer@spammers.foad.ntlworld.com> saying something like:

>"If the engine tends to stall and refuses to rev up, tilt it somewhat
>to the left. This will lower the fuel level in the carburettor and
>remove flooding."
>
>From the Sport CZ 250 type 471 owner's manual.

Dead practical, those Czechs. Instead of having all the time, trouble
and expense of actually designing a carburettor that didn't flood they
simply provided a work-around.
I wonder how many owners' legs burst into flames.