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On my usual morning inspection of Betsy (my Falco) when I'm not riding, I was surprised by a mouse playing in some leaves by the front tyre. After rushing to get to work, Im now concerned that the little punk may be up to no good... like eating wires and making a nest in my bike. My bike lives outside at the moment under a roof and under an oxford cover.

Has anyone had or heard of mice taking a liking to Falcos? Im contemplating calling off some afternoon meetings and getting back there to check the situation out.

that mouse!!

The only mouse I saw was there, there on the stair, right there. A little mouse with clogs on

Syltiz wrote:On my usual morning inspection of Betsy (my Falco) when I'm not riding, I was surprised by a mouse playing in some leaves by the front tyre. After rushing to get to work, Im now concerned that the little punk may be up to no good... like eating wires and making a nest in my bike. My bike lives outside at the moment under a roof and under an oxford cover.

Has anyone had or heard of mice taking a liking to Falcos? Im contemplating calling off some afternoon meetings and getting back there to check the situation out.

Well Its Italian innit and I know italian mice like wiring, cos I had to rewire our old Jag 10 years ago, after they'd chewed about half the wiring up

This is ruining my day... I'm gonna catch me a mouse when I get home!

Falcoholic wrote:The only mouse I saw was there, there on the stair, right there. A little mouse with clogs on

Where on the stair?

TwinNut wrote:

Falcoholic wrote:The only mouse I saw was there, there on the stair, right there. A little mouse with clogs on

Where on the stair?

Come on TN ... we've passed that bit, were on to:

Well I declare, going clip clippedy clop on the stair ....

Oh I wish I hadn't revealed that I remember that !

Seems all the "Happy" people are already on the new site.
Like anybody running a Falco on race cans would be able to hear a mouse with clogs on

HowardQ wrote:Seems all the "Happy" people are already on the new site.
Like anybody running a Falco on race cans would be able to hear a mouse with clogs on

WHAT??????

They dont wear clogs round our way..

HowardQ wrote:Like anybody running a Falco on race cans would be able to hear a mouse with clogs on

You might have found the solution, Howard. Don't catch the little b*gger, scare it to death with some open pipes!

heard of them making there home in the airbox before.
cure is to get one of the later Falco`s, ..............they have a cat in the exhaust

xrphil wrote:heard of them making there home in the airbox before.
cure is to get one of the later Falco`s, ..............they have a cat in the exhaust

I saw a photo just the other day (in Bike magazine I think) of a mouse nest in a VFR airbox, loads of nuts and the like, he'd got as good store going. I reckon bit of heat and a bit of toffee and it would have made a good mobile snickers bar

F9

Oooh, that would make a mess

xrphil wrote: cure is to get one of the later Falco`s, ..............they have a cat in the exhaust

There's just one problem with that Phil, the Cat's in the first bit of the standard can, and most of our lot ditched them ages ago, so will have to stick to scarin' em off with the noise! or use the other options