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Andymann

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  1. And the two I will cherish the most - My Dad and I at the bottom of Bains Kloof Pass after I had to chase him down - still a teenager at 86 and then the start of Day 2.
  2. Back from the Fairest Cape! I'll load a few more pics during the day
  3. It depends if the Model was originally introduced into NATIS - getting a model code loaded is very difficult but just adding a bike to an existing code is a little easier.
  4. Thanks for all the info! I haven't see the bike physically yet, but there are a few things I have spotted off the pics - the tailpiece is definitely not right - something odd going on there because there is that gap at the back of the seat. From what I can see from online pics, the rear mudguard and light on a V50 look to be very similar to what was fitted to my 850 LM3 so I'm guessing those will need to be found. I also see the light switches are from a Yamaha. I remember the side stand on my LM3 was very sketchy - what I did was I took it off and then filed the stop on the frame slightly so the stand went past the 180deg mark - that helped a bit, but if I had a choice I would always use the center stand. Finally the one side cover has been modified - apparently it's cracked and the guy repaired it with a piece of Aluminum. I'll need to source a side cover too I guess. As far as I know, the bike was brought in from Italy to SA by an Italian who then sold it here. It's never been registers on the NATIS system so we have a small issue there - but luckily not as bad as something which has been archived on NATIS. That's a nightmare. I'll have a close look for you so see if there is overspray, but from what I understand, that red is the original colour. I'll check on the ignition for you.
  5. My Dad is 86 and has been a biker since he was 15. As he got into his late 70's the three Sons have kept an eye on him because he still wants to ride like he is 15. He finally got to a point where he felt he couldn't ride anymore as the old Velocettes were getting to heavy and difficult to start. We all breathed a sigh of relief as it looked like the he had made the decision himself, rather than us having to make it for him. On Wednesday he arrived home with this on the trailer. It's a classic and it has electric start he proudly proclaimed..... Here we go again....
  6. Did the final work on the XTZ this weekend for the Rally - new spark plug, bled the brakes and the big job fitting a rally box. I'm actually beginning to get quite excited now - looking forward to giving the bike a nice long run!
  7. My wife pointed at a Harley a few weeks ago and said Hmmmm, that actually looks quite nice..... Do ladies also go through a crisis when they turn 40?
  8. Years ago a mate of mine had a Lancia Beta - It gave him endless ****, but he loved it and he used to tell me how when he drove past a shop window or parked it outside a club he would always look back and think what a great looking car it was. I thought he was a bit biased but I find myself looking back at the TRX more often than not and thinking wow, that's a great looking bike....
  9. Been down that road. The minimum distance for the bike is 25km and the minimum distance for the run is 5km. The Prime View Sprint Tri's are a 12km MTB and a 3km run which don't qualify according to Discovery as a Triathlon.
  10. I tried arguing in the beginning but their solution was to just not use the multisport function on your multisport watch and record one continuous activity. The irony of not being able to use the Triathlon function on a watch while doing a Triathlon was lost on them. But again, I'm not the person they are targeting so I just decided to work the system. My Dad has a great saying - teach me your silly rules and I'll play your silly games.
  11. I often have to remind myself of this - I'm not their target market. Did the Prime View Sprint Triathlon this weekend - used the Multisport function on my Garmin because that's what a Triathlon watch is for right? 600m swim - 10mins. 12km MTB - 27mins. 3km run 14mins. Total time - 53mins. Total points - zero. 3 activities, high HR but all under 30mins. Luckily I'm an old hand at this and cycled with my Bike Garmin which I left running in Transition for an hour to get 300 points. Crazy that you should have to game the system, but yup - not their target market. Crazy how you can do a sprint triathlon which is proper exercise and get Zero points, yet you can eat KFC sitting on the couch watching TV at a Virgin Active Gym and earn 100 points.....
  12. Took the XTZ to work on Friday - a nice 140km round trip from Pta to Krugersdorp. I got to experience a little bit of why big trail bikes are so popular - you sit nice and high in the traffic and even though they are big and heavy you still get to filter through traffic easily. Well easier than the TRX. The 660 is not going to win any races - it's very comfortable at 100kph but you can't get past the fact that it's almost 200kg - so acceleration is fairly leisurely. But for a 29yo dirt bike it's very solid. Nice and smooth and winds hardly affect it. The previous owner fitted some MITAS Enduro trail tyres which I believe are very good off-road. They didn't feel too bad, but are noisy as hell. My offroad riding is going to be limited to gravel roads so I will probably change them in time for something a bit less aggressive. Other than that, it's a typical Yamaha from the 90's - feels like it's going to run forever. I'm really looking forward to November when I use it on the Fairest Cape - we're based in Rawsonville and apparently the roads they take us on are beautiful. The 70kph speed group might be a bit slow but I'm riding behind my Dad on an old Velocette so I'll just have to chill!
  13. Well there we go - in all it's odd blue front mudguard glory. It's actually been quite fun just slowly getting things back to standard without going overboard. And the nice thing is that with genuine Yamaha parts everything fits perfectly. I do however have a whole margarine container of odd bolts, roof washers and Walmart screws - perfect for my spares tin. The only thing I need to do now is just try and clean up the Yoshi silencer - I was told it was a full system but clearly it's been cobbled together with crap welding. Other than that, time now to enjoy it!
  14. Haha. But you can't buy it, because apparently you have now bought your last bike 😉 The funny thing is, I actually was considering selling it because it isn't that comfortable for my wife on the back, and it was very unpleasant in town due to what I thought was just the nature of the engine below 2000rpm. But since I put the new system on, well wow. I think I might just hang on to it for a bit
  15. So the only thing I have heard about the T7 is that he silencer bracket is a bit soft so if you unintentionally bump it, it moves the silencer inwards and then can wear a lovely mark on the swingarm......other than that, it's a winner that bike
  16. His price for my system was very reasonable hey - under R10k for everything.....
  17. And finally it would be remiss of me not to mention the SM610 which I finally got running really well and I'll be damned if I have grown a bit attached to it. It's still on the market, but lets just say I haven't been entertaining any time wasters!
  18. As for the XTZ I've committed to riding it with my Dad in the Fairest Cape Rally on the 5, 6 and 7th November so while he will be on a Classic, I will be on the XTZ. Definitely not the roads it was designed for, but still going to be fun. So the last month has just been getting it neatened up a bit and just replacing a whole bunch of non-Yamaha stuff. The most expensive being the choke. There was something not quote right with the choke - really tight, hardly any movement and the position on the dash surround seemed right but the plastic had no support which was very unlike Yamaha. Anyway I suspected the cable was wrong so ordered a new OEM cable and then saw that some of the choke mechanism bits were missing so just bought a whole new choke kit. One of the parts I ordered - a bracket is discontinued and I figured that was probably the support under the plastic so wasn't too stressed because I figured I could make a plan. When all the stuff arrived the new cable was way too short so after some Googling I realised that the cable goes nowhere near the dash and actually mounts on the handlebar saddle. Which is where the bracket was needed. Anyway I had to make something out of SS plate for now, but today I ordered another random piece of Yamaha exotica off ebay - a R500 piece of metal......
  19. An update on two of my bikes - the first being the TRX850. I've never really been happy with the silencers on the bike. They had nice Akrapovic stickers but were definitely just stickers and the system was still the OEM system. A new OVER racing system from Japan was R30K and I definitely wasn't going to spend that. A few months back I ran past a house near to where I stay and saw the guys were working on bikes. Turns out the Stealth Exhaust guys now work from home. Got chatting and Jaco reckoned if I could get him dimensions of the OVER system he could build me one - those were easy to get so dropped the bike off last month and got it back on Friday. What a difference - it's a completely different bike. I can only think that at sometime in it's life it must have had a full system on because the jetting is spot on - it runs so well and really sounds great. Even more like a 748 now than ever. Just missing the Ducati the rattling clutch!
  20. The Scott Plasmas from 2006-2009 had ISP's and their clamps might also fit - look at the one from the Plasma 22 http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/tech.php?id=photos/2006/tech/reviews/scott_plasma_pro/scott_plasma22
  21. While I'm waiting for Yamaha parts to arrive I turned my attention to this again - I did get it running but it was backfiring quite badly due to a leaking inlet manifold which as you can guess is discontinued. So I'm making a new one out of Aluminium. I will say it's quite a scary ride when it gets going so not sure yet what I'm going to do - I might keep it just to clear out my head on the odd occasion.
  22. Nice bikes at 10:17and 10:32. I wonder who they belong to 😉 And for those who were wondering what was the most valuable bike there - the bike at 10:03 is probably worth around R900k......
  23. Who remembers that old book - the Postman always rings twice. A couple having an affair conspired to murder the woman's husband by staging an accident on a particularly dangerous mountain pass. They get away with it and after some time end up getting married only for them to have a genuine car accident where his new wife is killed in the same way as they killed her husband. He is convicted and sits on death row. How ironic would it be if her second positive test was really due to contaminated meat........
  24. I had injections to cure my Tennis Elbow and they gave me 1 Tramadol pill. I took it at about 12:00 that day and then because it was my birthday my Wife and I went out for lunch and a few beers. I have no recollection of the rest of that day from about 18:00 until the next morning - if I hadn't seen the videos she took of me dancing on tables later that night I would never have believed it. That stuff is crazy
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