What Have You Being Doing With Your Non-triumph Today?

Just 64 miles for Helmut and I on our Ducatis today to the Honey Cafe and back home again. It was very damp, chilly and murky and the roads are extremely muddy and gravelly, so it was a fairly steady ride, but it was still very nice to get out. My whole last set at work I kept checking the weather for my rest days and it looked warm and sunny....then they arrived yesterday and have so far been wet and gloomy . Tomorrow looks nice, but I have to take my car for a new windscreen, so fingers crossed for Tuesday .

 

A run out on the mud plugger on some familiar routes. Just as in Mrs V’s ride, plenty of mud from runoff and “organic fertiliser” on the backroads. I’m convinced our farmers get a subsidy for spreading sh1t on the roads. Less of a big deal on the Husaberg off course although mud on smooth tarmac is approaching ice in adhesion levels!


Magnificent views over Houndkirk Moor, just use you imagination.

 

Yesterday (Monday) rode the VT600 to Veliko Tarnovo to the only bike shop that I know to order a float bowl service kit it will be here end of week it currently weeping fuel from the float bowl joint and the fuel tap. Fuel tap is in the post from UK currently running with out air filter as it' clogged up runs better without it it is that clogged new one on way from UK tried getting one here factors quoted 75 euro for a damned air filter!!

Did purchase 4 new NGK plugs and 2 oil filters over 13 euro for an oil filter prices are getting silly. Anyway the young chap who dealt with my order is a Honda Shadow 600 fan and asked if it was outside and could he come look at it when outside he asked to hear it and if he could sit on it. Then while it was ticking over he spotted a growing puddle under the bike ........................ petrol flowing out of the float bowl breather. After putting the breather hose almost vertical and topping the tank up at the petrol station about 300m across the road rode it home as quickly as possible when arrived at home it was no loner leaking from the breather. My thought is that a bit of the trainer than broke up from the fuel tap found it;s way into the float owl and stopped the needle valve for shutting the fuel flow off.

While checking the bike over noticed the right fork leg is pumping it's oil over the bike:-





Went online and ought new seals, new air filter and the throttle cable for the Trophy off ebay UK they should be here in about 3 weeks then last night found and ought a Honda shop manual for my bike and bought that too. Will probably drain the fuel tank as it's leaving a wet patch under the bike and petrol stains the alloy of the engine cases.

Plezier

 

Removed tank and removed the vacuum fuel shut off valve seems these are a problem so much so Honda did a recall on them mine obviously got missed:-



This is it the brass outlet is 8mm and of course Honda do not make it easy the inlet spigot on the carb is 10mm the outlet on the fuel tap is 8mm so when in town bought a brass barbed adaptor 10mmto 8mm Honda used a stepped down hose:-


The piece sticking up is the end of the Honda hose that was cut off.

Just getting the new piece of hose onto the car spigot is a chore as there is no room the amount of stuff that had to be moved aside just to get to this is stupid but got there in the end removing the vacuum valve means sealing off the vacuum feed from the read cylinder luckily had a suitable screw in my tool chest. Now here is where the vacuum vale was fitted:-



The hose clamp seen to the right is on that 10-8mm barbed adaptor, There is a Chromed cover that hides valve.

So that's it for today.

Plezier