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The Blue Oyster bar / Re: The moaning old git thread
« Last post by 2112 on Today at 18:32:38 »
Temporary traffic lights. So, my rant begins with a set of 4 way temporary traffic lights installed for Northern Gas Networks to re-lay some gas mains. They've regularly broken down and have again tonight, causing huge tailbacks and much anger & frustration. What I want to know is what sort of mong just sits looking at a red light when it's obviously broken? Use your brains, treat it as a give way and get on with your life (and everyone elses) for heavens sake! Tonight's fiasco was only broken up by a bus charging around the outside of the vast row of stationary traffic and straight through the red light. Well done sir, I applaud you. It got the jam moving and we were eventually on our way. I trust someone would grow a set and do the same from the opposite direction (the other two 'ways' are side streets). Idiots. We rang the 'courtesy board number' to be greeted by an answer phone asking us to ring back tomorrow and then cutting us off...
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Traitors Corner / Re: What have you done with your bike today?
« Last post by 2112 on Today at 18:24:43 »
Sorry to remind you...
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The Blue Oyster bar / Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Last post by nigel s on Today at 17:13:32 »
 I do like an organ,

Swedens Anna Von Huasswolff,
The first is an instrumental, all church organ. The  title references the place in Italy ( the Sacred Garden) where the vid is shot.



The second live in New York,


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Traitors Corner / Re: What have you done with your bike today?
« Last post by Asmith61 on Today at 16:25:33 »
Yes I had it on the KTM and it was brilliant. Don’t  get me started as I loved that bike and I was going to get the quick shifter & blipper downloaded until I done my knee in and could no longer ride it  :bawl:
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The Blue Oyster bar / Re: The moaning old git thread
« Last post by Brockett on Today at 16:11:20 »
Yes Doctor 46 most bikes I have had show 76 when Sat Nav shows 70.  Most bikes are fairly accurate at 30mph The only bikes that agreed with sat Navs were Harley Davidsons.  However Sat Navs can under read on twisty roads where it seems to read the straight line speed rather than the "wheel turn "speed. For this reason I aim for 2mph under the Sat Nav reading.  Bottom line is many bikes showing 70 are only doing 65.
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The Blue Oyster bar / Re: Disappearing Posts
« Last post by Rusty Nuts on Today at 12:45:13 »
Touché! And other fencing related ripostes.
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The Blue Oyster bar / Re: Disappearing Posts
« Last post by Joe Rocket on Today at 09:07:09 »
They'll be taking  a fence next........  :icon_wink:
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V-Strom specific discussion / Re: Issues (Electrical?)
« Last post by Gert on Today at 06:31:53 »
Fault finding is a process of eliminating / ruling out one thing at a time.
On your K5 Wee, you can turn the hot idle speed up by adjusting the remote idle screw in the Y of the frame by the riders left knee. See the K4 manuals available under https://www.v-strom.co.uk/downloads.htm

Once the idle speed is correct, I suggest that you test the charging system.
A few tests to rule out the battery as a first step:
1) battery terminals clean and tight?
2) perform a load test on the battery - the load test method of taking a voltage reading of a rested battery as a before reading and again while the motor is cranking, will help to determine whether the battery needs replacing. Another alternative is to simply have a battery center perform a load test and give their verdict on the battery condition.

Next step is testing the charging system:
1) take a voltage reading at idle speed and then another reading at above 4,000 rpm. Share these readings, so that the members here can offer advice or comment on the readings and the next steps to perform.
2) the next steps would be testing of the stator output voltage, stator coil resistance testing, stator earth leakage testing.  The stator stesting is discussed in the service manual.
3) the final step in the charging system would be the voltage regulator testing.

The flow chart (fault-finding-diagram charging system.pdf) that is attached in the opening post of https://www.southbayriders.com/forums/threads/145945/ may be of interest.
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The Blue Oyster bar / Re: The moaning old git thread
« Last post by nigel s on Today at 05:30:21 »
Living right on the East Coast , the low sun is mostly over my shoulder ( when you get it) on the way to work/out for a ride inland and the same coming home in the afternoon.
While that is all very nice , the lemmings coming the other way can't see me, assuming they even bother to look at ( oh.. it hurts my eyes, not doing that).
 It's not even the first one pulling out of the junction..it's the one behind that just follows the leader that you have to worry about too  :icon_batterup:

Ho Hum
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The Blue Oyster bar / Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Last post by nigel s on Today at 04:59:23 »
Worries and other plants,

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