Mileage, sprag clutch worries, waffle
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Mileage, sprag clutch worries, waffle
Sitting in a trafalgar sq. Pret, consuming my £8 coffee and sandwich while my bike gets an engine service at southern cross. In my 17 months and 11000 odd miles of falco ownership/systematic abuse I've had my electrical gremlins, the stock stand let me down, and today after getting a noisy start up clatter I discovered the disturbing spectre of sprag clutch failure on Mille engines. Given my hard starting dramas of the first year with the falco I get the feeling this will be an expensive episode in my falco-future. As someone on AF1 said, (paraphrased) there are only two kinds of Mille owners: those who've gone through the buggid sprag drama and those who are waiting to. Love everything about the falco zen - so much that if the thing becomes uneconmical to fix, I'll prolly buy another one ... Delightfully damned aren't we
Sitting here reading this, just back from Tescos with my lunch .... a 36p baguette and a slab of Brie reduced from 99p to 59p 
, I'm thinking you need a link to the sprag thread:
https://www.ridersite.com/viewtopic.php?t=4473
Some good info there on how to do it cheaper ..... a bit like lunch .....
, I'm thinking you need a link to the sprag thread:https://www.ridersite.com/viewtopic.php?t=4473
Some good info there on how to do it cheaper ..... a bit like lunch .....
“Scientists investigate that which already is. Engineers create that which has never been.”
-- Albert Einstein
-- Albert Einstein
Thanks DR - maybe I was waxing hysterical there. Anyhoo, southern cross lived up to their rep and did a fab friendly mini overhaul: oil, filters sorted, spark plugs changed, and all the basics checked and tweaked plus the valves which was my main reason for going there. Asked about the suspension after my bill was tabulated whereupon the dude spent 20 mins or so expertly (I think) setting up front and rear for me, waving off my proffered wallet with a "no worries. Shoulda been done in the service" i swear I have a different bike! However, rear end is now jacked up about 3-5cm than it was makng the stand I've been so blasé about more precarious. 
Ebay here I come!
They too reassured me about the sprag with tips simlar to those in that thread to make the thing last longer. She'll never be the prettiest falco out there but beauty is only plastic (and mille swing arms, and smoked lenses, and LED light shows, and carbon fibre whogivesafig
) deep! 
However, rear end is now jacked up about 3-5cm than it was makng the stand I've been so blasé about more precarious. Ebay here I come!They too reassured me about the sprag with tips simlar to those in that thread to make the thing last longer. She'll never be the prettiest falco out there but beauty is only plastic (and mille swing arms, and smoked lenses, and LED light shows, and carbon fibre whogivesafig
) deep! 
Mille swingarms are sexy! holidays not withstanding, I should lay off the scrumpy While online. Am looking forward to a scratch up to snaffle Tommy's hugger tomorrow with my 'sharpened' bird. 
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...saw Tommy's Falco Fighter project in the 'flesh' today: black powder coated mille swing arm, renthals, yellow spring mille shock etc. Was first decent look at the mille arm on a Falco and can see why someone would go to the effort now. Particularly on the black/bronze with black main frame it just looks so much together? Cooler? Frustrating that I've got so many other little and not so little things to sort on mine before I could even go near that kinda thing. Still, as I said yesterday I'm grateful that the big, blue b*tch - scratches, chips, dents and all - flies and flies well.
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