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Wheel Repairs
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 1:52 pm
by dale123
Anyone know where I can get a slightly buckled YZFR6 wheel repaired?
Locally preferably.
Cheers.
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:37 pm
by Backs 400
I tried to get a slightly buckled ZXR wheel done locally but everywhere I approached said they could not do cast wheels. Hagon where recommended by several dealers though.
Hope this helps a little.
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:29 pm
by Gazza
What you need is a long straight piece of wood (or MDF), two bits of string, a rear wheel paddock stand and some spanners....Oh and a good eye.....I think.....
http://www.aberdeenbikers.co.uk/phpBB2/ ... 28&start=0
:I can't believe it's not butter! :I can't believe it's not butter! :I can't believe it's not butter!
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:08 pm
by dale123
How do you know a piece of wood is straight?
Actually, maybe its the roads thats buckled?
Maybe Ive got a square tyre?
Now Im confused.
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:13 pm
by al
dale123 wrote:How do you know a piece of wood is straight?
See the bar code on the end of the pieces of wood I used ?? Well, I scanned in the serial numbers and cross-referenced them with the national Straight Things database and they came out with a straightness raiting of 0.001 which by my reconing was more that straight enough for my purpose.
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:15 pm
by dale123
Feck thats clever.
I would if Michael Barrymore has a bar code, you could help him out.
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:21 pm
by al
dale123 wrote:Feck thats clever.
I would if Michael Barrymore has a bar code, you could help him out.
Got a swimming pool handy and I'll sort him out!!
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:22 pm
by dale123
Aye, you and your straight piece of wood?
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:25 pm
by al
I forgot ..... wood floats.
Hey, does that mean that when Shrek goes to the swimming pool he ends up doing an impression of a submarine .... "Up periscope!!" :I can't believe it's not butter!
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:34 pm
by Gazza
dale123 wrote:Actually, maybe its the roads thats buckled?
The best way to see if your wheel is buckled is as follows:
1. Remove the tyre
2. Wrap sausages around the rim
3. Put the wheel on a spit roast and rotate over a hot barbeque
If the sausages are more cooked on one side than the other, then no doubt your wheel is buckled.
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:36 pm
by dale123
Do you take the wheel off first or not?
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:00 pm
by Gazza
It depends upon the size of your barbeque and your biceps.
Personally I prefer to wheel it into the lounge and stand it in front of the fire on a rear wheel paddock stand. However, this means leaving the tyre on so you have to be careful not to melt it.
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 10:26 pm
by Gazza
Oh......By the way.......
Don't take it above second gear or all the sausages will fly off!
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 11:54 pm
by al
What is curved,
Follows a bending trace.
What is straight,
Follows a straight line.
Curved things and straight things
Does not fit together in the same space.
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 11:58 pm
by al
Every circle, of those which are by the act of man drawn or even turned on a lathe, is full of that which is opposite to the fifth thing. For everywhere it has contact with the straight. But the circle itself, we say, has nothing in either smaller or greater, of that which is its opposite.
We say also that the name is not a thing of permanence for any of them, and that nothing prevents the things now called round from being called straight, and the straight things round; for those who make changes and call things by opposite names, nothing will be less permanent (than a name).
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 12:05 am
by Gazza
Are you sure you cooked your sausages properly? Sounds to me like you ate a bad one.
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 12:38 am
by Shrek
Either that of he has been watching the Matrix again
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 8:17 pm
by al
Nah, just been doing a bit of light reading ............ Plato!!
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 9:44 pm
by Gazza
Big Kneed Al (master of the emergency stop & "stand up" comedian) (Super Nanny) wrote:Nah, just been doing a bit of light reading ............
I always find it's easier to turn the light off first before you read it.
If you leave it on the glare stops you seeing what wattage it is.
Them phillips energy savers are quite good too. There's a whole load of stuff written on them. Mind you, you do have to take them out to read them (unless their in a lamp without a lampshade that is).
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 10:06 pm
by al
Gazza wrote:Them phillips energy savers are quite good too. There's a whole load of stuff written on them. Mind you, you do have to take them out to read them (unless their in a lamp without a lampshade that is).
d'pends on the lamp shade. I've got one in my desk lamp and I can clearly read the details on the bulb base by looking up through the bottom of the shade!
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 10:39 pm
by Gazza
Ahhh...
They must make them lampshades specially for light readers.
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 10:58 pm
by al
Gazza wrote:Ahhh...
They must make them lampshades specially for light readers.
My usual book of choice is by the author Lady Bird.
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2004 11:54 pm
by rustik
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sorry...
above is consequence of light reading, a temporary blindness state ensued hence inability to locate keys for several moments
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 12:48 am
by al
Rustik (Reg Prescott) wrote:lansdfly lasfjksaduy a asdf lkfjljt tlkgapsafjf asfalfd keyboard
sorry...
above is consequence of light reading, a temporary blindness state ensued hence inability to locate keys for several moments
More like you've been hitting the bottle mate!!
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:48 am
by Gazza
I didn't realise there was so many of us light readers out there.
Maybe we should start our own forum. We could discuss things like where to buy the most interesting bulbs and all sorts of other stuff.