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rocketonarail said:
Also , being used to `seventies movies and tv , I still think of New York Yellow Cabs as being big old American cars ....... Plymouths , Fords , Oldsmobiles and so on ........

Oh, fuck. You just spoilt most of my favourite movies….. you mean their props?

Eg: Julia Roberts getting out of a cab as a hooker in Lady in Red for example. If the old cab was a prop, are you suggesting she wasn’t actually a hooker 😳

🙄 Thanks so much, I fear the Stock Exchange has just delisted my Spank Bank!!!!
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My perspective, there is a particular Kiwi thing, overcoming the tyranny of distance and lack of infrastructure by using your mind to overcome problems. I think he is doing great, putting together a very complicated jigsaw that he has never seen and is missing a bunch of pieces with very limited first-hand knowledge. Plus, he isn't inclined to buy bits if he can fix them. This dry engine assembly is to learn what he has and what is missing or damaged. It used to drive mr nuts in my work when I would get complaints before the job was finished. Let's see how it ends up before organising a lynch mob. I have high expectations; he sounds like he knows his engineering stuff.
 
It's a great series of videos. Geoffrey tells an engaging story, offers a look inside the motor and shares the experience of trying to put it back together. It also gives good exposure to the important resources and traders who supply needed parts and information.

I was about to call him a layman, but he's talking about fabricating replacement parts for himself, and more power to him.

Folks should be making more like this, for posterity if nothing else. Youtube can be a real pit full of rubbish, but can also offer a great resource to support people with common interests. All the little quirks and pitfalls he puts to film might help the next person.
 
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I have great respect for people who delve into something and try to repair it themselves.

My father was self-taught in everything, whether it was bricklaying, carpentry, or repairs to the tractor or other machinery on the farm where I grew up. He also didn't always have the option of buying everything new, either for cost or availability kind of reasons.

When I started my apprenticeship as a metal fitter at 16, I tried to point out to him now and then that he didn't always act according to the books. He would then give me his typical sideways glance, shrug and cont'd. Most of the time, whatever he tackled worked for years, even decades.

So some of the self-taught may end up as DPOs, but not all …
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....... and at the other end of the scale ......... Not sure about a cool video , but it is a video .........

Maybe some useful info here , if you still struggle with your three times table .........

Perhaps a little unfair , but as soon as I saw the white coat and the silly hat ............
 
Mmm I watched that one yesterday,.......few pointers.you don't have to take the whole exhaust system off just to get to the strainer. You don't have to knock the rear spindle through to move the rear brake support,just loosen the chain adjusters and support lock nut to move the wheel and support assembly forward.
His primary chain looks very slack,good spot with the bearing mind you one of mine was cracked prior to changing it.

All in all he's having a go and showing some maintenance,good fun and looking forward to part 2.with interest and trepidation.
 
No need to worry for parts.
There will be plenty of bikes broken for parts in the near future. We just need the sellers to realise that the parts ain't worth much.
Paul
 
i EXPECTED THAT VID WAS GOING TO BE THE VERY SHORT BLOKE THATS BEEN AROUND FOR YEARS. Fucken cap lock, not doing that again. It's obviously possible if you have seen Gaston Rahier on a very tall BMW Dakar bike, but it takes huge skill and strength. WOW, danty woman is amazing. See her lock her hip against the seat when off the bike, seen that in female training videos. I expect modern bikes with super low fuel tanks to help lower the centre of Gavity. When the 25 litre tank is full on my Atlas, if it leans a millimetre over too far your down like a dead dog, zero recovery happening. Just let it go. On BMWs, the clinders have it up a bit off horizontal. My Atlas with a full tank is bloody hard to lift onto its wheels on your own.
 
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Isn't a bad 20 minutes or so to watch.
 
It's not so much changing the stud because it was flexed a bit to take it out with the engine in the frame as looking after the thread in the ,case.
Iconic indeed.
Paul
 
rocketonarail said:

There are hundreds , seemingly thousands of these " shorts " on the Tube ........... all basically the same , but they all ride away in gear ( obviously ) with the prop stand down , which normally shouldn`t be possible .............

Dead easy to bypass the switch , but I wonder if there`s some bloke in a Chinese back street who spends all day doing nothing else , seeing the number of shorties who feature in these shorts .........

......( although it`s almost always a Morini X Cape , so maybe always the same girl ......... difficult to tell for sure ....... :whistle: .......... ) ..................


There`s another one where the bike has retractable " training wheels " ......... a bit like that Swiss Ecomobile FF from the `eighties ..........
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From #2842 ..... Jan 31 2026 .

Moto Morini X-Cape ......... an excellent Chinese motorcycle !!
 
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