Now Offically a Falco Owner

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Willopotomas · #16 Post by **Willopotomas** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 11:49 pm

I had a Kawasaki once.. Well, twice actually and still have one (although not for much longer..lol..)

randomsquid · #17 Post by **randomsquid** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 11:58 pm

Willopotomas wrote:I had a Kawasaki once.. Well, twice actually and still have one (although not for much longer..lol..)

This is my first one, probably the last one too. I'm keeping it just to punish it for all the times that bits have broken, fallen off or seized up. When I park it at night I leave an empty bean tin on the mudguard as a threat. Must go bed. Bye a bit.

D-Rider · #18 Post by **D-Rider** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 11:59 pm

Willopotomas wrote:I had a Kawasaki once.. Well, twice actually and still have one (although not for much longer..lol..)

That's the limit for a Kawasaki - if you'd tried again you'd have ended up with Once ...... Twice ....... Three Times ............... a Lady ..........

(and that would have brought nothing but trouble)

randomsquid · #19 Post by **randomsquid** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:46 pm

Well the brake light switch is properly buggered. Plunger is snapped. Works sometimes, usually not. Looks like a trip to Speedaway after work tomorrow.

MartDude · #20 Post by **MartDude** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:30 pm

randomsquid wrote:The Black Country, or God's Chosen Land as we like to call it...
Wednesbury to be more specific.
Not a million miles from Ikea or Carcraft.
Sometimes I'm in other exiting bits of it. Like Dudley, or The Big City as it's known round here.

Used to be all factories round here.

Worked in Wednesbury, 1980-96; lived for a while at Harvills Hawthorne. Used to drink in the Anchor, Turks Head, George & a place on Wood Green Road (Cottage? Cottage Spring?) - are they still going?

randomsquid · #21 Post by **randomsquid** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 9:01 pm

MartDude wrote:
Worked in Wednesbury, 1980-96; lived for a while at Harvills Hawthorne. Used to drink in the Anchor, Turks Head, George & a place on Wood Green Road (Cottage? Cottage Spring?) - are they still going?

I've not been drinking round Wednesbury for years, but the pubs in the town seem to be hanging on ok. There's an obligatory Witherspoons opposite where the bingo was and LLoyds Bank is. I used to drink in the Golden Cross by the clock but that's gone all theme pub and filled up with scumbags. When it was full of hairy bottomed motorcyclists it was a lot more civilised.

D-Rider · #22 Post by **D-Rider** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:55 pm

randomsquid wrote:[When it was full of hairy bottomed motorcyclists it was a lot more civilised.

Hanna - does he know you??

randomsquid · #23 Post by **randomsquid** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:03 pm

D-Rider wrote:
randomsquid wrote:[When it was full of hairy bottomed motorcyclists it was a lot more civilised.
Hanna - does he know you??

This is me being discreet.

Aladinsaneuk · #24 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:21 pm

obviously not met hanna then

Falken · #25 Post by **Falken** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:31 am

I Can see a couple of slappings coming very soon.

And before anyone comments I said slappings, not slappers.

Your not dragging me into this one.

randomsquid · #26 Post by **randomsquid** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:06 pm

This is me being even more discreet...

Just been for a gentle bimble on the Falco spurred on by the exhaust on the kwak breaking in two this morning. Japanese rubbish.

So tomorrow I can commute on a Falco that I can't use the back brake on or an er6 with the exhaust held together with a chopped up coke can and jubilee clips.

Falco runs well. Motor sounds like a sewing machine apart from the burbly bits at the back. It steers nicely but has a mild tendency to drop in on slow stuff. Seems to be set up for a pillion. Back kicks a bit on lines and humps and the headlight is pointing at the floor. Also needs rear-sets and an indicator switch that you don't have to be a deformed orang-utan to use.

Willopotomas · #27 Post by **Willopotomas** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:15 pm

Welcome to Falcodom!

Rear brake? You've lost me..

randomsquid · #28 Post by **randomsquid** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:26 pm

Willopotomas wrote:Welcome to Falcodom!

Thanks

Willopotomas wrote:Rear brake? You've lost me..

Lever is holding the remains of the switch in. Picked up a new one on the way home but won't get to fit it 'til tomorrow. Tried cable tying the plunger up and failed and couldn't find the end of the wiring in the dark. So fronts only until tomorrow.

#29 Post by **mangocrazy** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:44 pm

randomsquid wrote:It steers nicely but has a mild tendency to drop in on slow stuff. Seems to be set up for a pillion. Back kicks a bit on lines and humps

I'd check tyre pressures and general condition of tyres, to be honest. When both are in spec a Falco is a very neutral-handling motorcycle (unless someone has been buggering about with ride heights, of course).

Willopotomas · #30 Post by **Willopotomas** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:58 pm

randomsquid wrote:
Lever is holding the remains of the switch in. Picked up a new one on the way home but won't get to fit it 'til tomorrow. Tried cable tying the plunger up and failed and couldn't find the end of the wiring in the dark. So fronts only until tomorrow.

You mean Falcos have a rear brake? It's only there for show ye know.. Don't expect it to be any good..lol..