General chat thread... Links, pictures, banter etc

Blanchy90

lennymc wrote: »

police helicopters on non scheduled flights?

maybe it's an old wives tail.

I've seen garda and coast guard. I've seen them more regularly since the lockdown started, that could be because I'm home more though

lennymc

the coastgaurd have a base at Dublin airport. Not sure about the Gardai - i think they are based at Casement

The QuietMan

Blanchy90 wrote: »

Im only a couple of km from the airport and I see plenty of helicopters

lennymc wrote: »

police helicopters or scheduled flights?

maybe it's an old wives tail.

Would Garda/CoastGuard helicopters not take priority over a commercial flight if the same airspace was required? I know little about this aviation stuff.

The QuietMan

Weather permitting i'll be removing most of the panels on the blade to clean hard to reach spots with good ol jizer, any recommendations on that polish is best for the body panels themselves? I tried autosol last night on the can and a tiny bit made a serious difference, the frame will get it at some stage.

zubair

The QuietMan wrote: »

Weather permitting i'll be removing most of the panels on the blade to clean hard to reach spots with good ol jizer, any recommendations on that polish is best for the body panels themselves? I tried autosol last night on the can and a tiny bit made a serious difference, the frame will get it at some stage.

I use autosol on the downpipes but never use it on anything else. Not sure you'd want to use it on the frame but others can probably advise better.

blade1

zubair wrote: »

I use autosol on the downpipes but never use it on anything else. Not sure you'd want to use it on the frame but others can probably advise better.

Probably not much good on the lacquer on any metal but would work wonders if the peeling lacquer was removed.

Wonda-Boy

H_Lime wrote: »

Lads who's delivering tyres at the mo other than crossans? Cotters site says closed?

https://www.oponeo.ie/?gclid=CjwKCAjw4pT1BRBUEiwAm5QuR_n0qgbgytsNj-q2K2xAi0ClmxM9uGjGnPISAw74_HMaFclc0_DMKxoCjLAQAvD_BwE

Wonda-Boy

The QuietMan wrote: »

Weather permitting i'll be removing most of the panels on the blade to clean hard to reach spots with good ol jizer, any recommendations on that polish is best for the body panels themselves? I tried autosol last night on the can and a tiny bit made a serious difference, the frame will get it at some stage.

On plastic panels silicone spray is very good. And good old STP in the ocean wave scent is so nice.....makes you wanna spray it just for the smell.

H_Lime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

Wonda-Boy wrote: »

https://www.oponeo.ie/?gclid=CjwKCAjw4pT1BRBUEiwAm5QuR_n0qgbgytsNj-q2K2xAi0ClmxM9uGjGnPISAw74_HMaFclc0_DMKxoCjLAQAvD_BwE

Never used em before but a workmate swore by them.
Ended up ringing crossans in the end, I like being able to ask the fella to pick out the youngest tyres for me:cool:
Should have em Tuesday and will throw em on.

The QuietMan

Wonda-Boy wrote: »

On plastic panels silicone spray is very good. And good old STP in the ocean wave scent is so nice.....makes you wanna spray it just for the smell.

STP? Christ there's a blast from the past :pac: I forgot they even existed anymore I'll check it out, nice one Wonda

The QuietMan

zubair wrote: »

I use autosol on the downpipes but never use it on anything else. Not sure you'd want to use it on the frame but others can probably advise better.

blade1 wrote: »

Probably not much good on the lacquer on any metal but would work wonders if the peeling lacquer was removed.

I'll do the harpic trick on the down pipes first, then the autosol.

I actually don't have any lacquer peel oddly enough, just the patches of oxidising under the surface. I'll eventually try and polish that with a dremmel.

If the lacquer was removed are you talking about the chrome affect?

The QuietMan

I posted on another internet forum that i was considering changing out my ART can for something better looking and came across what i think is a scorpion can with a blue flame styling, little did i know i now have some people making enquiries to me about the availability of the can. I was hoping to find an oem an of that era but alas none can be found. I'm now having second thoughts on it all and just machine polishing it to bring it back up to standard.

H_Lime

The QuietMan wrote: »

I posted on another internet forum that i was considering changing out my ART can for something better looking and came across what i think is a scorpion can with a blue flame styling, little did i know i now have some people making enquiries to me about the availability of the can. I was hoping to find an oem an of that era but alas none can be found. I'm now having second thoughts on it all and just machine polishing it to bring it back up to standard.

Feckin hell Blade will you leave him alone, yer not allowed his art can for your collection:pac:

blade1

H_Lime wrote: »

Feckin hell Blade will you leave him alone, yer not allowed his art can for your collection:pac:

There's a Tigcraft on the other side of the world but the shipping is stupid money :mad:

Those welds though yum yum yum :pac:

H_Lime

blade1 wrote: »

There's a Tigcraft on the other side of the world but the shipping is stupid money :mad:

Those welds though yum yum yum :pac:

Now yer talking, none of that akra crap;)

The QuietMan

I’m getting more private messages on Facebook wanting to do a swap for my ART can? Am I missing something here?

blade1

The QuietMan wrote: »

I’m getting more private messages on Facebook wanting to do a swap for my ART can? Am I missing something here?

They would have been at the lower end of the scale back in the day.
Microns and even D&D would have been more popular.
Not sure if or why they would be sought after these days.

H_Lime

blade1 wrote: »

They would have been at the lower end of the scale back in the day.
Microns and even D&D would have been more popular.
Not sure if or why they would be sought after these days.

Nostalgia. They were the ubiquitous can of every bandit and cbr in the ninties and noughties. Fellas might be looking to resto mod to whatever they had.

The QuietMan

blade1 wrote: »

They would have been at the lower end of the scale back in the day.
Microns and even D&D would have been more popular.
Not sure if or why they would be sought after these days.

H might have a valid point in what he’s saying. This is the latest message

The QuietMan

H_Lime wrote: »

Nostalgia. They were the ubiquitous can of every bandit and cbr in the ninties and noughties. Fellas might be looking to resto mod to whatever they had.

I recall Scorpion’s being put on nineties CBR’s in the early 00’s

blade1

H_Lime wrote: »

Nostalgia. They were the ubiquitous can of every bandit and cbr in the ninties and noughties. Fellas might be looking to resto mod to whatever they had.

The QuietMan wrote: »

H might have a valid point in what he’s saying. This is the latest message

The QuietMan wrote: »

I recall Scorpion’s being put on nineties CBR’s in the early 00’s

Yes, I'm aware of that.
In the days when you'd receive a Demon Tweeks catalogue free in the post they were advertised in them all the time.

I don't think you've stumbled upon the Holy Grail or anything though.
If you've no personal affection towards it just go with which exhaust you want yourself.

It's not going to make a shred of difference to the monetary value, or desirability of your bike down the line imo.

Quality wise the Scorpion would be the better.

You could always keep both exhausts.
It's not a crime to have more than one exhaust is it? :pac:

H_Lime

I have a friend who half joking predicted that one day fellas will be hunting them down for period mod restos!

Blade have to agree art weren't the best. Used to regularly blow up on 1L twins, literally. If they didn't explode they'd blow their packing out the arse and became obnoxiously loud.
Mind you, better than some of the craic lads be doing today cutting zorsts in half and calling the hacked result a "shorty":o

Anyway, it's no akra:pac: but ere's a pic of my bird post fitment of a full titanium moriwaki zero four into one. In the photo she's finished being tuned by Jog in Kerry.

Iirc it saved 13+kg over stock, filter access was perfect, centre stand was retained and jog got +16hp with infamous 5k blackbird dip now flipped upside down. Oh and its a quiet exhaust.
A nice 40th bday prezzie that was.

CJhaughey

Moriwaki are lovely exhausts, a bit of a forgotten name these days TBH

H_Lime

CJhaughey wrote: »

Moriwaki are lovely exhausts, a bit of a forgotten name these days TBH

I think they still sponsor wsb but yeah deffo leser spotted. They have a long race heritage akin to yoshimura imo.
This particular one was on Dave Hancocks blackbird and was bought by Honda for him. I bought it from them. The welding and hand bent headers are beautiful.

What I like about this system is that it was developed for stock induction, jetting and advance and shows just how much a good tuning hse can optomise over a mass produced item. There is no dips anywhere now and is faultless off the bottom.

CJhaughey

H_Lime wrote: »

I think they still sponsor wsb but yeah deffo leser spotted. They have a long race heritage akin to yoshimura imo.
This particular one was on Dave Hancocks blackbird and was bought by Honda for him. I bought it from them. The welding and hand bent headers are beautiful.

What I like about this system is that it was developed for stock induction, jetting and advance and shows just how much a good tuning hse can optomise over a mass produced item. There is no dips anywhere now and is faultless off the bottom.

I remember Graeme Crosby racing for Moriwaki.

lennymc

jesus - people actively looking for ART cans!! LOL

i had one back in the day on a bandit, it was the epitome of the 'Loud cans save lives' message, farting and popping all over the place.

Had an sv1000 with twin arts, that was twice as loud (not really) and used to set off every car alarm in the area.

blade1

H_Lime wrote: »

I have a friend who half joking predicted that one day fellas will be hunting them down for period mod restos!

Blade have to agree art weren't the best. Used to regularly blow up on 1L twins, literally. If they didn't explode they'd blow their packing out the arse and became obnoxiously loud.
Mind you, better than some of the craic lads be doing today cutting zorsts in half and calling the hacked result a "shorty":o

Anyway, it's no akra:pac: but ere's a pic of my bird post fitment of a full titanium moriwaki zero four into one. In the photo she's finished being tuned by Jog in Kerry.

Iirc it saved 13+kg over stock, filter access was perfect, centre stand was retained and jog got +16hp with infamous 5k blackbird dip now flipped upside down. Oh and its a quiet exhaust.
A nice 40th bday prezzie that was.

Ya had me up to this point :pac:

Seriously though nice bit of kit alright.
Looks like you're at jog tuning in pic, yeah?

Edit you said you were at jog in post :rolleyes:

H_Lime

blade1 wrote: »

Ya had me up to this point :pac:

Seriously though nice bit of kit alright.
Looks like you're at jog tuning in pic, yeah?

Edit you said you were at jog in post :rolleyes:

He is my preferred option by a mile, the man knows his trade and any time I go there I come away realising I don't know sh*t. I'll be bringing him the red Dr for a sniff to set set up the carbs 100%. Likewise once I get the 36mm mikunis in the ball park.
If you need custom mapping on yer fleet you won't go wrong with him Blade.
*when I say quiet it is at lower rpm but basier. When you give it some tho, not so much.
The bike is currently having some work done

blade1

H_Lime wrote: »

He is my preferred option by a mile, the man knows his trade and any time I go there I come away realising I don't know sh*t. I'll be bringing him the red Dr for a sniff to set set up the carbs 100%. Likewise once I get the 36mm mikunis in the ball park.
If you need custom mapping on yer fleet you won't go wrong with him Blade.
*when I say quiet it is at lower rpm but basier. When you give it some tho, not so much.
The bike is currently having some work done

John did my Zzr about 5 years ago.
Bit of a character :pac:

IJS84

Anyone here do servicing at home? What do u do with the engine oil after you've changed it?
Do local councils take it at an amenity site? I've the Deauville stripped down and going to change to oils while I'm at it and was wondering what to do with the oil after wards