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Mr Hammers
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PostPosted: 17:19 - 15 Apr 2016    Post subject: Maintenance? Haha! No. Reply with quote
Coming home on Thursday and there's a bloke pushing his Bandit along the bypass, so stopped to see if i could help. Nothing we could do on the road, and as he still had miles to go to get home, and my place was just up the road i offered to keep it until he sorted out a pickup, and then gave him a lift home.

Anyway, had a better look at it today, and this was the state of his sprocket...

https://www.planetash.net/bcf/sprocket1.jpg
https://www.planetash.net/bcf/sprocket2.jpg
https://www.planetash.net/bcf/sprocket3.jpg

Sad

The chain was drier than a Milton Jones joke in a towel factory. I guess his reasoning was it would only slide around the sprocket more if it was oily.

Oh, among all the other areas of disaster, these were his fork seals...

https://www.planetash.net/bcf/forkedseal.jpg

He was a friendly chap though! Very Happy
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PostPosted: 17:24 - 15 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
This was posted on reddit a couple of days back, in the same league.

https://imgur.com/a/1DiDz
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PostPosted: 18:43 - 15 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
So, the subframe is... ?
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PostPosted: 19:35 - 15 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Slipping final drive when wet, so 1920's. Laughing
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PostPosted: 19:52 - 15 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
He can take off the sprocket and flip it over, there's plenty of life left on the other side of the teeth Laughing
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PostPosted: 21:59 - 15 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Laughing crying with laughter here! Poor sod Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 22:05 - 15 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm wondering what the brakes are like. Shocked
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PostPosted: 22:10 - 15 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
How often would a chain on sprockets like that need adjusting? Or is it foolish to assume that someone who lets the sprockets get into that state would be checking chain tension regularly Very Happy
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PostPosted: 04:22 - 16 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Was his name Ashley?
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PostPosted: 07:58 - 16 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Fisty wrote:
Was her name Ashley?

ftfu .. Laughing

must be some chubby chasin to be done round there then Wink
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Copycat73 wrote:
Fisty wrote:
Was her name Ashley?

ftfu .. Laughing

must be some chubby chasin to be done round there then Wink


The fuck?
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PostPosted: 12:28 - 16 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Fisty wrote:

The fuck?


i heard our bodyguard or whatever he calls himself now has a penchant for chubby chasin ...
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PostPosted: 15:25 - 16 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Not his first bike is it? Just wondering/hoping it's in that state due to ignorance, although I think even an untrained eye could see something's up with those forks seals Smile
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PostPosted: 15:50 - 16 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
I know Bandit's are bullet proof, but he's taking advantage of that!!
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PostPosted: 17:47 - 16 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
What made me laugh as well, was when he started complaining about the last time he took it for an mot. "Yeah, the buggers" he says angrily, "the last time i left it there, I went to pick it up later and they'd gone and bloody greased everything... Evil or Very Mad ".

I genuinely wonder if he even understands the concept of lubrication! Laughing
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PostPosted: 17:53 - 16 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
M.C wrote:
Not his first bike is it? Just wondering/hoping it's in that state due to ignorance, although I think even an untrained eye could see something's up with those forks seals Smile

He was aware, but said he wasn't overly concerned as no oil was coming out. No, i thought, there isn't, but that's probably because there isn't any oil left in them!
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PostPosted: 18:34 - 16 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mr Hammers wrote:
What made me laugh as well, was when he started complaining about the last time he took it for an mot. "Yeah, the buggers" he says angrily, "the last time i left it there, I went to pick it up later and they'd gone and bloody greased everything... Evil or Very Mad ".

I genuinely wonder if he even understands the concept of lubrication! Laughing


Laughing So the MOT tester took pity on the unloved bike and he actually moaned about it. Priceless.
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PostPosted: 19:05 - 16 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
FredTheHorse wrote:
is it foolish to assume that someone who lets the sprockets get into that state would be checking chain tension regularly Very Happy


I imagine his tension check consists of 1) is there a chain?

There is no 2)
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PostPosted: 19:21 - 16 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mr Hammers wrote:
M.C wrote:
Not his first bike is it? Just wondering/hoping it's in that state due to ignorance, although I think even an untrained eye could see something's up with those forks seals Smile

He was aware, but said he wasn't overly concerned as no oil was coming out. No, i thought, there isn't, but that's probably because there isn't any oil left in them!

And what about the sprocket? Smile Was the chain coming off the reason he was pushing, or can you just pull it on/off whenever you please? Very Happy
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PostPosted: 19:28 - 16 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
M.C wrote:
And what about the sprocket? Smile Was the chain coming off the reason he was pushing, or can you just pull it on/off whenever you please? Very Happy


Naaaa bro, the hooked bits help the chain stay on Thumbs Up The chain must have fallen off somehow..... Thinking

Seriously that sprocket makes me feel uncomfortable. How can someone think that it looks OK?
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PostPosted: 09:03 - 18 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
nout wrong there with'em seals?

Dust seals have just popped out....
Will shorten the life of the oil seals tho Rolling Eyes
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