best thing about my bike?

now if I drop it down a "cliff" can get on it try again..

and it still looks the same! the value ahsnt depreciated...

and the fun per $ paid for bike has gone up!

fallenmikethebike wrote: Put it down poor thing, it's cruel.
Mike

I've left it chained to a tree!

bloody no reserve got me again!

ok thats it I'm talking the friggin tank off when I get it back!

bloody no reserve got me again!

thanks to a very sympathetic steve!

I *think* I got a reserve...

got my stop cock out (ohhh err sir!!! ) and the little pipe that goes inside the big pipe was missing!

got a replacement and stuck that in the recepticle...

there was a black rubber on the little tube...

wondering have I put it too low? ( why didnt I take a photo?!! - facepalm! )

cos reserve fuel flow seems to trickle out real slow!

or is that normal?

I have drained and refilled the last 1.5 liter out of the tank 3 times now! took me a few goes to get it right eh?

now there's only a liter of fuel! hmm one of life's mysteries?~!! ( left elbow has a partial answer... but not that much surely )

PS yes it is 36 degree's here -

first time i switched to reserve on my KTM DUKE II it died , i had to push it a mile to a petrol station , checked the bike at home & found the longer (main) fuel pipe had fallen out the stop cock leaving me with no fuel . i ended up buying a new one . . . . maybe i should have taken this as an oman !

BARSTOOLS!!!!!

have I got this wrong?

yes I ran out of petrol again! right I thought! switch to reserve I thought! ......

luckily for once I was near a petrol station, and I had tools with me! ok I planned it! - I wanted to check the reserve worked!! and it doesnt!!




I took that little black seal off the pipe... and the straw is firmly in the little hole... seems a simple principle really?




anyways it seems that no matter which way I turn the tap it runs dry.

ie the o runs dry = the reserve runs dry - but there is no reserve

the Off works tho

Seems like the internals of the tap are screwed . Someone on here must have one. I've thrown away several - they usually don't need replacing.

I should make a list of everythign thats been bodged on me bike!

sort of a warning!

I shall post an ad asking if anyone's got one..

luckily here isnt that big - so I shall just play safe and fill it up everytime I go out in the meantime,. ( or maybe take the tap apart and see whats been done to it! )

If I can actually do 100 Km in a day thats a big ride for here..