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From: Pip Luscher on 24 Jul 2010 10:57 On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:46:15 +0100, Salad Dodger <salad.dodger(a)idnet.com> wrote: >On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:32:08 +0100, Pip Luscher ><pluscher(a)live.invalid.co.uk> wrote: > >>Hmm. I have ridden an XS750 frm London to Cambridge on two pots and a >>Guzzi one mile on one pot to get home, but neither was a) spewing oil >>out of the exhaust or b) churning bits of piston around the cases. > ><HEROIC FAILURE MODE> > >I rode my KH250 from Falconwood station back to Gillingham >(A2/M2/A278 - including the long drag up from the Medway bridge) >after it had lunched its near-side piston rings. > >It was everso untidy in there after I'd whipped the head off when I >got home. Heh. I'll bet. My 250LC seize halfway along the Revett Straight at Snetterton: unfortunately the other cylinder was still going strong. It made the most dreadful clattering sound after a few seconds. By cincidence I've actually got the pot of bits in front of me right now: one piston crown (complete but looks like the surface of the moon); one crushed needle roller cage; three bits of twisted conrod; one gudgeon pin; various assorted needle rollers and bits of alloy. Amazingly the cases survived but the barrel, crank & head were also written off. I found the gudgeon pin plus various needle rollers in the exhaust pipe. -- -Pip
From: Pete Fisher on 24 Jul 2010 14:20 In communiqu� <1jm4vbo.x5ts18cna9tpN%totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk>, The Older Gentleman <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk> cast forth these pearls of wisdom >Ace <b.rogers(a)ifrance.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:16:28 +0100, stephen.packer(a)gonemail.com wrote: >> >> >platypus <monotreme(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: >> >> >> It's for situations like that, that I usually carry a tow-rope of some >> >> sort. >> > >> >I didn't have anything with me and having been towed on a bike I'm not >> >sure I'd want to do towing (or be towed at speed). >> >> I once towed a mate's broken GT750 kettle back from the lake district >> to Leicester, on my XT500. >> >> We were young and foolish, of course, and I don't think I'd do it now, >> but it wasn't _that_ bad. > >I've done it. More or less what you say. > > I've only done it once to get off the motorway after a petrol muppet moment. Just a mile or so on the hard shoulder using the time honoured method of the day[1] pressing in to service two linked Belstaff belts. [1] This was very early 70's and the bikes were both AMC twins. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: Peter(a)ps-fisher.demon.co.uk | | Voxan Roadster Yamaha WR250Z/Supermoto "Old Gimmer's Hillclimber" | | Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 Morini 350 "Forgotten Error" | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 24 Jul 2010 15:40 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Mark Olson <olsonm(a)tiny.invalid> saying something like: >I drove my '64 MGB from Winnipeg to Minneapolis (450 miles) in February >1979 on three pots after burning a 1/4" hole in an exhaust valve, by >removing the pushrods from the affected cylinder. Got about 20 mpg >(US) and it never missed a beat aside from when it decided to have a >lie down in the ditch near Downer, MN. The ShiteOld A and B series engines were perfectly capable of running fine on three. Indeed, it was routine to buy a shiteheap with a burned valve and whip the head off for a quick fix.
From: Wicked Uncle Nigel on 24 Jul 2010 19:10 Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Salad Dodger <salad.dodger(a)idnet.com> typed >On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:32:08 +0100, Pip Luscher ><pluscher(a)live.invalid.co.uk> wrote: > >>Hmm. I have ridden an XS750 frm London to Cambridge on two pots and a >>Guzzi one mile on one pot to get home, but neither was a) spewing oil >>out of the exhaust or b) churning bits of piston around the cases. > ><HEROIC FAILURE MODE> > >I rode my KH250 from Falconwood station back to Gillingham >(A2/M2/A278 - including the long drag up from the Medway bridge) >after it had lunched its near-side piston rings. > >It was everso untidy in there after I'd whipped the head off when I >got home. > >In my defence, I was only 19, and it was only 29 miles. My CB100N once ceased to function on the way to work from Knebworth to Letchworth (eight or so miles?). It started again after cooling down and got me there, then there and back for the next two days (in small sections or a mile or two). The I pulled the engine, and drained the oil. Which looked like silver paint... The camchain tensioner blade had snapped and was being machined away by the chain. A quick=and-dirty rebuild was followed by a swift trade-in against a GS550. Happy days... -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" I've always been a man who's open to persuasion
From: Champ on 24 Jul 2010 19:40
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:29:14 +0100, stephen.packer(a)gonemail.com wrote: >I stopped and they thought it had holed a piston. They were proposing >to ride it the two miles to the next junction. Madness. Poof. I rode my ZZR1100 5 miles to the dealers after it had thrown a rod out the front of the crankcases. -- Champ We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo neal at champ dot org dot uk |