Rain Rain Go Away

I remember as a child singing "Rain rain go away, come again another day". The trouble is that it has decided that now is a great time to come again and again and again.....

This has basically made it really difficult to be able to get out and sort the bike alarm out, simply put, I can only get the bike out when it is dry. So far the weather forecast isn't good for the weekend. Here is hoping that the weather blows over before then, I'm not holding my breath!

ARGHHHH!! Bloody malfunctions!

The carbs got fitted and after getting the bike back together and whole again I went to start her up. Reconnected the battery and the alarm goes off. 'Not a problem.' I think as I hit the disarm button on my remote, but nothing happens. Long story short, the alarm seems to be nackard so I need to pull it out to be able to start the bike. I am hoping to have a evening or two to work on the bike but it doesn't look like I will be able to look at it for another two weekends.

I am working on the theory that the alarm has died as the carbs now work and it is the only way to stop me getting on the bike!!

Time to refit carbs!

After one hell of a job getting the screws off of the float chamber bowls on my carbs (thanks Dad!) it seems like someone had actually Loctited the screws in place! Anyhow an inspection showed nothing too wrong with them and a check of the diaphragms shows no problems, so the refit will happen today!

Fingers crossed that the bike will fire up into life again!

Started fixing

Two things finally came together today, a free day for me and some nice weather. This has allowed me to get my bike apart and pull out the carbs.

No the only remaining problem is that I have to get the float bowls off of the bottom of them, which isn't as easy as it sounds because the screws seem to be welded to the unit! During the week I'll look at getting them apart and replacing the screws.

Fuel problems

Still not on me bike :(

Having spoken to a number of people the list of problems has been narrowed down to: spark plugs; jets; fuel filter or air filter. Trouble is I haven't had the time recently to really deal with it. Will have to soon as the cost of fuel keeps going up I can't afford to keep running the car with £1.06/ltr fuel!

Still me and a biker mate who has loads of experience with bike mechanics will be looking at the bike either this weekend or the following, so fingers crossed! I will be on it soon!

New biker

Having now passed my motorbike test (more on that on a latter blog!), I brought myself a Suzuki GS500. Now this isn't a racing bike nor is it a very quick bike, but unfortunately I have a restricted license and I wanted a cheap bike to run and insure.

Overall the bike has been a great one despite its lack of power, slight problem at the moment as it seems the jets need cleaning.

Here is a picture of the bike, more once I am able to ride her again!