Possible Falco for sale

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D-Rider · #16 Post by **D-Rider** » Mon May 20, 2013 7:44 pm

blinkey501 wrote:
D-Rider wrote:
ROCKOZ wrote:Taking it tomorrow now, thanks

Hope it works out - I reckon there's every chance.
No pressure then

Well in the unlikely event of failure, you can always swap it over with another one from your stock and nobody will be any the wiser !

blinkey501 · #17 Post by **blinkey501** » Mon May 20, 2013 8:53 pm

Kwackerz wrote:
ROCKOZ wrote:In a few weeks I'll be getting a new van so could stick it in the back of that but dependant on timings it's certainly an option. When will you be taking yours?

It's just is it worth two days of travelling - there and back. I'm in the situation where I no longer love the bike. Infact I'd go as far to say I hate it. I have no feeling whatsoever towards it and I just want my money back...

I'll probably not go up til the end of the month.. maybe first weekend in June dependant on if Blinkey will be in

Saturday the first is a no no tim. Sorry but I have plans. If you want to drop it off the sunday then that will be ok for me

#18 Post by **Kwackerz** » Mon May 20, 2013 9:06 pm

Aye Sunday would be good. Will see how it pans out mate

HowardQ · #19 Post by **HowardQ** » Mon May 20, 2013 9:46 pm

"On any Sunday" it is then.

blinkey501 · #20 Post by **blinkey501** » Tue May 21, 2013 1:55 pm

I have met Ollie today. Nice chap

I managed to get the bike running. Spark plugs completely saturated, so dried them and checked the ignition.
All is well now.
What did worry me was the previous owner has over filled the bike with oil by nearly a litre

Oil to a more suitable level now and bike runs sweet.
Ollie you have a cracking bike there fella, and at 7000 miles its just run in. I hope your faith will be restored in the falco......

Dalemac · #21 Post by **Dalemac** » Tue May 21, 2013 2:05 pm

blinkey501 wrote:I have met Ollie today. Nice chap
I managed to get the bike running. Spark plugs completely saturated, so dried them and checked the ignition.
All is well now.
What did worry me was the previous owner has over filled the bike with oil by nearly a litre
Oil to a more suitable level now and bike runs sweet.
Ollie you have a cracking bike there fella, and at 7000 miles its just run in. I hope your faith will be restored in the falco......

Well done Blinkey, sounds like it wasn't too much of a problem. And I hope that you fall back in love with it ROCKOZ.

What did the rattle turn out to be?

MartDude · #22 Post by **MartDude** » Tue May 21, 2013 2:49 pm

We like happy endings

D-Rider · #23 Post by **D-Rider** » Tue May 21, 2013 2:56 pm

blinkey501 wrote:I have met Ollie today. Nice chap
I managed to get the bike running. Spark plugs completely saturated, so dried them and checked the ignition.
All is well now.
What did worry me was the previous owner has over filled the bike with oil by nearly a litre
Oil to a more suitable level now and bike runs sweet.
Ollie you have a cracking bike there fella, and at 7000 miles its just run in. I hope your faith will be restored in the falco......

Yes I think there is every chance that's it. As we all know they blow excess oil into the air box and it does seem to me that some of this can find its way into the TBs when resting which doesn't make for great starting.
A lot of extra oil will exacerbate the problem as I guess will short journeys where it never gets burnt up.

Did you find a lot of oil in the air box? (If not this theory might not be as strong as I suspect)

Good job Jay

zoidberg · #24 Post by **zoidberg** » Tue May 21, 2013 2:59 pm

No longer for sale then?

Glad you got it sorted

D-Rider · #25 Post by **D-Rider** » Tue May 21, 2013 3:16 pm

zoidberg wrote:No longer for sale then?

Glad you got it sorted

LOL .... the irony being that it's far more likely to sell now

Tonyunn · #26 Post by **Tonyunn** » Tue May 21, 2013 3:19 pm

Zoidberg, are you still looking to buy, there are 14 on e-bay right now, the best one looks like an oasis green one from the highlands, but a few of the others look worth a punt also.

blinkey501 · #27 Post by **blinkey501** » Tue May 21, 2013 4:40 pm

Dalemac wrote:
blinkey501 wrote:I have met Ollie today. Nice chap
I managed to get the bike running. Spark plugs completely saturated, so dried them and checked the ignition.
All is well now.
What did worry me was the previous owner has over filled the bike with oil by nearly a litre
Oil to a more suitable level now and bike runs sweet.
Ollie you have a cracking bike there fella, and at 7000 miles its just run in. I hope your faith will be restored in the falco......

What did the rattle turn out to be?

Tbh I find it a bit strange. There was no rattle that I heard. not too sure what it could have been. ROCKOZ did say there was loads of oil in the air box when he stripped the bike down. Hardly surprising!!!!
I am wondering if it was oil making its way into the tb's that was causing a detonation problem and making a knocking noise or "rattle" maybe?
I test rode the bike because ROCKOZ really wanted me to, to try and see what the noise was. To me the motor pulled very strong as a 7000 mile bike should.
I didn't hear any strange noises. It sounded like a "Rotax" . Oli even took it for a run and did say that the bike seemed a little down on power in second.
I personally thought it seemed fine?
Who knows. Strange tbh.
Although I do know that too much oil in something can cause more harm than not enough oil?
I just hope this is the end of his falco woes, and he really gets the bike he deserves even if it is a yellow bike.

MartDude · #28 Post by **MartDude** » Tue May 21, 2013 4:44 pm

Yellow? He kept quiet about that. Don't blame him, though

flatlander · #29 Post by **flatlander** » Tue May 21, 2013 5:07 pm

to be honest if Id known it was yellow Id have convinced him it wasn't worth doing anything with and offered to relieve him of his shame I like yellow falcos ... there I said it

D-Rider · #30 Post by **D-Rider** » Tue May 21, 2013 5:10 pm

Oh dear Oh dear Oh dear Oh dear