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    Me Poor Ol' ZZR

    Well done Steve, such a relief when they go brrrrmmmm again ;) I could smell the work looking at the pictures lol.
    Post by: Gemma, Dec 13, 2014 in forum: Bike Chat
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    How mechanically savvy were you when you started tinkering

    Knuckles Mark? Mine are just scar tissue growing on scars :)
    Post by: Gemma, Dec 12, 2014 in forum: General Scooter Discussion
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    How to start a scooter in the cold without a kickstart?

    Just to explain it a bit more fully, any battery builds up sulphates over time and becomes less efficient. What you often see is a battery will...
    Post by: Gemma, Dec 7, 2014 in forum: General Scooter Discussion
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    How to start a scooter in the cold without a kickstart?

    Take it off and take it into work with you? Or buy a new battery that holds a charge better? Trouble is that most smaller bikes have small...
    Post by: Gemma, Dec 7, 2014 in forum: General Scooter Discussion
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    How to start a scooter in the cold without a kickstart?

    If it isn't suitable for a bump start (twist and go) and you don't have suitable jump leads - take the battery off and keep it in the warm...
    Post by: Gemma, Dec 7, 2014 in forum: General Scooter Discussion
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    How mechanically savvy were you when you started tinkering

    I knew nothing when I started out, nobody in the family was particularly mechanically minded either. It was the constant trips back and forwards...
    Post by: Gemma, Dec 7, 2014 in forum: General Scooter Discussion
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    if you won £10m what would you do with it?

    I think we must have been in the same van :D
    Post by: Gemma, Oct 27, 2014 in forum: General Chat
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    if you won £10m what would you do with it?

    ooh no need a motorcaravan, sleeping on the floor of old transits is way way back in the past for me, it's all squidgy duvets and Sky telly these...
    Post by: Gemma, Oct 26, 2014 in forum: General Chat
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    if you won £10m what would you do with it?

    I forgot the motorcaravan, would need one to tow the rally cars to events and tour round Europe. Would also buy a small house on the Col de...
    Post by: Gemma, Oct 26, 2014 in forum: General Chat
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    if you won £10m what would you do with it?

    Buy a smallholding, grow vegetables and maybe get a goat. Put in a farm strip for the plane I would buy, with 10 million I could afford something...
    Post by: Gemma, Oct 25, 2014 in forum: General Chat
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    has any one owned one of these?

    Brilliant buy, never owned one, but an icon to an old London courier. They got thrashed to death but with the engine rebuild it should last...
    Post by: Gemma, Oct 25, 2014 in forum: General Scooter Discussion
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    Hi guys, what do we all drive?

    I drive an ancient Land Rover Discovery and sometimes a bubble shaped Rover 25 I'll ride anything with an engine and two wheels... With bike...
    Post by: Gemma, Oct 13, 2014 in forum: Introduce Yourself...
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    my "little" bike

    Nice to see the old girls still got her legs for a descent trip :) What the road handling like with the nobbly tyres?
    Post by: Gemma, Oct 9, 2014 in forum: Bike Chat
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    VT500E

    CX 650 E (not the turbo) would do me OK! But then again I like VF 750's so what do I know about any of it ;)
    Post by: Gemma, Oct 8, 2014 in forum: Bike Chat
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    VT500E

    Yep wish I had just gone for new stanchions and got the job done. Been sending stuff to Philpots for years though without problems so was kind of...
    Post by: Gemma, Oct 8, 2014 in forum: Bike Chat