Easter ride CB500

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Easter ride CB500

Post by davebike » Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:08 am

If this is the wrong place sorrel and Mods please feel free to move

Went for a litle ride over Easter
Friday was up the east coast A12 then the north Norfolk coast and in to Linkonshire Stayed the night at Sleaford 330 miles

Saturday Went west into the peak didtrict Cat and fiddle and snake + meny others !

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Back east to Scunthorp fro the night 250 liles

Sunday was to be a repeat of the peak district but low cloud and fog won so a light day ran accross to North Wales and did some of the coast only 220 miles

Monday ran south in Wales Elan valley for a play then Devil's staircase !

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Back home via fun Broken clutch cable in Brecon and a steadily worse slow puncture in rear tyre
Drooped bike at work and took my commuter C90 home 450 miles

Grand total 1250 miles Photo's aren't great left my camera at home !

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Re: Easter ride CB500

Post by Diesel Dave » Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:32 am

davebike wrote: Back home via fun Broken clutch cable in Brecon and a steadily worse slow puncture in rear tyre

Dave
Shocking lack of preventative maintenance... :D

Do you carry a tyre plugging kit Dave?

I have one of those 'Stop-n-Go' kits on the Foresight, but have never had to use it yet.
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Re: Easter ride CB500

Post by davebike » Tue Apr 22, 2014 6:26 pm

Clutch cable was a damaged adjuster on the handlebar I tightened it a bit two days in and there was a sharp dammaged edge that frayed the inner :roll:

Tyre plugging I carry two kits a stop and go that I never even tried out and a Weldtite kit with wedges that I added sticky string to !
Slow was a pain as there noting to see in the tyre ! It had been off twice last week looking for the problem and a very small nail removed and plugged (internal mushroom ) new valve and bead sealer but must have inner liner damage so new tyre will go on

All made much worse by my 12v pump failing again this time terminal as the crank pin is broken

Decision time
Now do I just carry co2 or get another pump Also have a hand pump but it a bit too much to pump a 130 70 17 !

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Re: Easter ride CB500

Post by Diesel Dave » Tue Apr 22, 2014 6:54 pm

There used to be a CO2 extinguisher that could be used for blowing up tyres as well, it was popular with the rally boys; about the size of a Sodastream canister.
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Re: Easter ride CB500

Post by fly » Tue Apr 22, 2014 11:36 pm

It looks a nice route. Did you use satnav?
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Re: Easter ride CB500

Post by davebike » Wed Apr 23, 2014 7:37 am

No Sat Nav
I use maps + Android tablet with OS mapping (Anquet)
I played around with SatNave and GPS for 12/15 years never found anything that I really like Current project is to find a unit that will allow me to use the Anquet maps but just moving map no routing

Looks like a Tablet/phone in the tank bag but I will keep looking
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