when you are your own dreaded previous owner

I fold Neapolitan margarita pizza and that cooks to perfection in 3 minutes. In fact in Italy I’m folding and they’re using silverware!
I will admit to occasionally cutting off the point of the triangle and using a fork on that part since it tends to droop and lose the cheese. If the pizza is too crisp it’s a flatbread not a pizza.
 
I was walking past a park bench a while ago and on it were two very scantilly clad females, long legs, long eyelashes, short skirts, bare midriffs, low cut cleavage exposers and (weirdly) long faces) at the next bench was a mother and (maybe) 5 year old daughter) the mother must have said something as I passed, which I didnt hear but the (very pretty) little girl said "they are not ladies mum, they are totty"

just outside the toiwn in France where my mother and sister lives is a very steep and twisty hill, at the top of it there is a warning, in French of course, but as it is quite close to the cross chanel ferries and tunnel, underneath there is a translation to English, which says "dangerous declevity" makes me smile every time I see it.

CLEM
 
back working on the rack of Dellorto's from the RGS, while waiting on carb parts order from Wolfgang for various bits and bobs. Spent close to an hour tonight bending linkages trying to get all three slides basically even at top and bottom of their motion withthe adjusters in the mid range. Not exactly high tech, bend the suckers, refit, test, take off, bend again, etc., etc.. I have three racks of Dellorto carbs, and two racks of Mikuni flat slides, all scattered across my work bench, and I have been mixing and matching Dellorto bits as necessary.
 
It was a Canadian joke ....spring is a ways off for me based on 1 meter of ice on the lake, no snow melting yet, and forecast for continued normal temps. I guess for you Vancouver guys it is "just around the corner" Enjoy! Always a downer for me when snowmobiling ends and I have a couple of months before it is really nice enough to enjoy riding the bikes.
 
No new snow here for over a week. Only another couple of months to go!

Jim

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my parts order package from Wolfgang arrived. All new brass parts for the rack of Dellorrto's, new accelerator pump diaphragms to replace the petrified ones, very pretty new fuel line clamps and carb boot clamps, new carb intakes (plus a set of carb intakes for the flat slide Mikuni's), lots of new fuel line, 6 sets of carb rebuild kits, and some misc other bits.

will finish the RGS carb rebuild this coming weekend and get the RGS fully serviced and running, then turn my attention to rebuilding (yet again) a set of Mikuni flat slides with all new internals, especially three new floats, intending to fit the Mikuni's back on the 79 1200 with all its carbon bits, Astralite wheels, modernish brakes with Brembo full floaters, etc., etc..
 

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RGS carbs are finished and ready to go back on the bike. All new brass bits, new float needles, new accelerator pumps, new K1 needles, and new fuel lines and new pretty fuel line clamps, all from Wolfgang.

as the dreaded previous owner, I had to do a surprising amount of bending - first the carb linkages to get the slides to all fully open at full throttle with the adjusters in middle position - then the float arms to get exactly 18 mm float height on all the carbs.

also have brand new RGS intake mounts and new 7 mm bolts. The new but still Italian fuel line Wolfgang is supplying is bluer than I was expecting but is quite thick walled while still flexible. It did take really hot water to stretch the line over the fuel rail. The fuel line I took off had turned reallyy green (not brown) but was petrified, replace out of caution.

still have to change oil, bleed new brake fluid through,fresh fork oil, air up the tires, install new spark plugs, then fire up the bike and vacuum balance and set idle. Hopefully no more surprises, then i will move on to the 82 1200 Mirage, get that ready for spring, then tackle the 79 1200 and its various electrical issues....
 

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I got caught the other day. Bought a bike as a project. Racebike I'd built about 15 years back for a customer. He'd used it once and parked it up. I'd also built him several others so he had a lot of choices. Amongst them the bike in my avatar.
Anyway, i wanted to pull the motor. Unit engine and box, 3 bolts mounting it. Front and bottom bolts come out OK then i realise I can't get the back one out. I obviously built the primary cases and drive after the engine was in the frame as it's now impossible to withdraw the rear bolt as the primary case is in the way.
Right, can I dismantle the primary ? Buggerit, no. Now I remember the clutch - a diaphragm spring - needs a special puller to release the spring tension. And I remember when clearing the workshop I tossed out the one I'd made back then.....
So it was half an hour quietly sawing the 3/8 in bolt in two before I could remove the motor.
Won't happen again, rear bolt is going in from the other side next time. And I've bought a Norton clutch tool and adapted it.
 
Hi Mark

Your fuel hose routing looks much better than mine, tidier and no deformation in the uel fline to the right side carb. Looks like I will be redoing my two right side fuel lines as well as trimming excess end length from the pretty little fuel line clamps I used........

I ordered lots of fuel line from Wolfgang, will rerun the fuel lines before the carbs go back on the bike this coming weekend, thanks for the photo!!
 
I think it’s definitely a case of what gets the fuel in fastest as I used to suffer fuel starvation on the SFC1000 with the factory set-up.
 
Slightly askew of fuel line topic, you get to see the inter carby "fine" adjustment for the slide lift in unison cam action in the photographs. Many the hour spent in making the adjustment work as a design and not work in application, ie you will never achieve linear unison lift closed to open. FWIW i set the actual "balance" at 3300rpm, using mercury U tube ( the real U tube, not the latter imposter ) manometer, around the 3300-4000rpm i set maximum advance, on fuels of the day, no real current fuel properties knowledge to reassess that setting. Pithy observance. j
 
Ah, carb balancing.... Did a lot of it in the day. Funniest/most surprising was done as a favour for a workmate after I'd left the trade. He and his son had rebuilt a Harris Bonneville. Which consisted of replacing the known poor quality pieces with sftermarket top quality replacements.
They'd got it running but it wasn't as good as it should have been so i got asked to go and have a look at it. Put the vacuum gauges on and it was a mile out of course. New Amal Mk2's, all new cables nice to work with, and a new Boyer correctly set up too...
Ten minutes work and I had it idling reliably at an indicated 500 RPM. Yeah, I couldn't believe it either. Wound it up to about 800 RPM and said that'll do. All I could put it down to was new carbs and an exceptionally good Boyer ignition. Owners were happy.
 
iis_iis said:
FWIW i set the actual "balance" at 3300rpm, using mercury U tube
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Blimey John, that must be an old manometer if it has mercury in it. Don't spill any of the mercury. It's pretty hard to find liquid mercury in Australia now, and you can't buy it from overseas because importation into Australia of mercury, or mercury containing products was banned last year. Bloody nanny state at it again.
 
Tell me about it, my one developed bubbles. You used to be able to get a small bottle from most Bike Assesory places, not any more. You would think it's Plutonium how strictly it's controlled these days. Now, where is my DDT, Rat Poson and Asbestos gloves?
 
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