Here goes!
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Here goes!
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.
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.
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Re: Here goes!
Hi and welcome - glad you found us eventuallypapawun wrote:Hello everybody,
I have been riding my Falco for 2 years now, and just discovered your excellent website. Is this a record?
You're right - there's not much room to get at it .... tools with universal joints are a godsend!papawun wrote: 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.
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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.
Joecrx, you sound as if you are in my neck of the woods. I think the real rain starts at the border.
There are old pilots and bold pilots but no old bold pilots.
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.papawun wrote: Joecrx, you sound as if you are in my neck of the woods. I think the real rain starts at the border.
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 ....
“Scientists investigate that which already is. Engineers create that which has never been.”
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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.
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.
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