Here goes!

[papawun]

Hello everybody,
I have been riding my Falco for 2 years now, and just discovered your excellent website. Is this a record? Without the benefit of a forum, I had to do things the hard way, like fix the side stand. By the way, those guys that tell you the CBR stand is a straight swop have a wonderful sense of humour! I have also learned that happiness is a fully charged battery. Otherwise, I love the bike, and hope to keep it for some time.
This might not be the right forum, but does anyone have any tips for removing the front cylinder cam cover to check valve clearances. The bottom bolt looks very tricky.

[Aladinsaneuk]

Welcome

If you look in the links section you will find a link to martins site - workshop manual is there

[Samray]

Welcome aboard papawun.

[Tweaker]

Welcome. Can we help you spend some money? We're very good at it

[D-Rider]

Hello everybody,
I have been riding my Falco for 2 years now, and just discovered your excellent website. Is this a record?

Hi and welcome - glad you found us eventually

This might not be the right forum, but does anyone have any tips for removing the front cylinder cam cover to check valve clearances. The bottom bolt looks very tricky.

You're right - there's not much room to get at it .... tools with universal joints are a godsend!

[joecrx]

hi welcome , how far north are you , its raining here all the time now hahaha

[Willopotomas]

Hellooooo

[kiwi_rsvr]

Hullo

"I have been riding my Falco for 2 years now" you arse must be sore by now

[DavShill]

Welcome papawun. Get your credit card out and take notes cos this lot will have no end of essential mods that make your life fulfilled. Joking apart you will find very good and very reliable advice in here....not the bar mind.

[MartDude]

Hello, welcome, & keep your Falco-pikey hands off my Fut!

[papawun]

Thanks for the welcome everybody. Your comments are noted. The spending has already started by the way, with Fuel Exhausts. Flying through a sleepy village on a Sunday morning with the baffles out, listening to the car alarms going off - such simple pleasures!
Joecrx, you sound as if you are in my neck of the woods. I think the real rain starts at the border.

[D-Rider]

Joecrx, you sound as if you are in my neck of the woods. I think the real rain starts at the border.

Don't remind me ....... forum meet in Durham a few years back .... nice little jaunt over the border on the Saturday ..... Falco-jet-ski mod tested to the limit ..... I'm still drying out.

The account of that weekend from the old, archived ApriliaRidersite can be found here:
http://www.jahlis.net/ars/viewtopic.php ... 2f3336a265
.... Back in the days when Falcopops lived north of the equator, Tweaker rode a Falco and sometimes remembered his bum-bag, and my Falco was almost standard ....

[Kwackerz]

Welcome papawun,
Good to have you aboard and glad you like the Site.
There's usually an answer to all the questions owners have, usually documented somewhere on here or the archive, but if not then it's guaranteed one of the Falconeers will have the correct info to hand..

Oh and as said, theyre good at spending money and justifying the expense, so if youre considering a mod and are struggling to find an excuse, they'll have an answer for that too.

[Falken]

What's a Faconeer Kwackerz?
You of all people should know there's 'L' with some of us on here.

Usually comes before the C

[Aladinsaneuk]

I think that the L is silent, like the idiot is silent in village .....

Very common occurrence in parts of Norfolk and Cambridgeshire....