BM Bikes & BM Riders Club

Thanks for the feedback and suggestions. Every little bit helps. This morning, with the bike on the center stand, I lowered the side stand and from the ground to the bottom of the side stand pad it was 3.75" or 9.5cm. I'm curious how that correlates to what others have. I've had a lot of bikes and ...

I cut a larger footprint for mine, from 2mm steel, and welded it on with some small stitch welds so it can be removed if ever I decide to. It's about 5/8" (16mm) bigger all the way round. I put the bike on the stand, on the patch, before I welded it, so it definitely sat flat to the ground when in u...

Thanks guys all makes sense Rob. So it seems 36 front and 42 rear is a good way to go. many thanks. Dave. What happens to the 36/42 tyre pressures if a lone rider then adds a large passenger, and the almost obligatory giant alloy 5’ wide boxes and suchforth? How much extra tyre pressure do you add?...

Evening all. 20th June. Decided to change the alternator belt! Looking back through the service history it was last changed in 2012. Bike has covered around 11K since the change. On removal the old belt was larger than the new replacement so I'm sure the belt was occasionally slipping when it hrd w...

I had several bottles of Old Speckled Hen last night, chased down with several bottles of Doom Bar. Shouldn't have had quite so many, my head tells me today....

My car has always warned me ‘low battery’ if I leave the radio on for even a few minutes with engine off. I assume it drops below a certain set voltage and starts screaming for help. It’s never had a problem starting, in three years and 20,000 miles though. When I bought my Oilhead 3 years ago the v...

The thing is that your vehicle should pass the MOT at any time and if there is anything at all that would fail the vehicle should not be on the road anyway. I am sure we all do that of course. :angel: We wouldn’t need an MOT inspection if we were all skilled and honest enough to know our vehicle we...

Even in normal times, if you take your vehicle to MOT early and it fails, it is then not MOT’d, you have to fix it or take it off the road. It’s not like the old days, when you were still covered until 12 months ran out.

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Years ago Carole Nash sent my Sportster renewal through, at nearly double the first years cost, £178 for full comp. I checked the price for a new applicant on their web site, then called them up to do battle and the girl immediately offered £30 off, and when I told her I could book it myself on line...

This is the result of the smart a**es who think their howling open pipe impress everybody they pass. Usually the Power Ranger types, but quite a few others. Try to tell them what the end result of their stupidity is and they won't have it. Just yesterday I was berating some clown on Feacesbook who w...

No taco on mine but usually at about 60 to 70mph. Thanks for inf 70 is 4000rpm, so a bit high for it to be the same problem as mine. Is it dead smooth at low rpm, meandering around town etc? HES tends to be either alive, or suddenly dead. When mine failed it just died, totally, like I'd turned off ...

Would it happen to be around the 2800rpm point, or thereabouts? If so it is a common issue with the oil heads of this ilk, when the throttles bodies are slightly out of balance. Mine does it quite a bit, and I really ought to balance them.

I've been out for a few careful rides, on my own, over the last week. But nothing has changed, I rarely ride with anybody else anyway. I don't think I did more than a few 'bike nights' last year, and the idea of rubbing shoulders with hundreds of other bikes doesn't appeal in the slightest.

This road in Burnley was a 40 limit all of my life: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.7805981,-2.273053,19.29z Not fund raising that they dropped it to 30 and for a year every day there were policemen with speed cameras then. :) Policemen with speed cameras? What, literally stood there, with hand h...

Those are just the basic 'seek advice' guidelines... I think it's safe to say that, once it gets to stage 2, the symptoms are quite distinctive... Rob Ex wife tells me: Splitting headache that won’t quit. Total loss of sense of smell and taste. Chesty cough that brings nothing up. One pupil that do...

I had a problem with mine, 8000 miles after the install: it backed out, very suddenly, allowing 2 litres of oil to literally spew out as I was riding along. Luckily I noticed the oil light blinking red, reflecting in my screen, and managed to stop before the motor was damaged, and before I threw the...

In any case we all have at least one conspiracy theory that others might find ridiculous. I suspect if you were being honest you'd say you have one or two, or maybe you really do believe that authority never lies. Oh yes, I definitely have a few ideas, religion being one of the biggest conspiracy t...

Sat in the garden last night burning loads of rotting wood and other rubbish, with the sounds of bikes along the roads till it was dark. Same in my sleepy little village, I can hear the sounds of bikes winding it on hard down the surrounding roads. None of them are hanging about. I went out myself ...

I don't believe in conspiracy theories... in my considered opinion, they are all dream't up for political reasons or personal gain by an underground group intent on undermining all governments and bringing about the downfall of society as we know it... :smile: Rob I have a friend who believes in ev...

I can't do "down the middle" on the BMW, I don't feel safe doing it. Are there any figures for under / over say 40 years old motorbike accidents? I very rarely filter, one exception was M25 last July, coming back from Europe, 30 miles of solid traffic around M25 so after sweltering along for a half...

It's an argument that's been raging for decades and I'd love to go along with it but unfortunately any advantages our chosen mode of transport has at any time, is wiped out and overtaken by our horrendous accident and fatality rates. At the moment (just going from memory) in the UK we account for l...

Very generous of you to think that the BBC would know the difference between the two statements. I’d wager they use those words specifically because there is a difference. And I’d assume it is typical media vagueness and ambiguity so nobody can come back later and sue them for something they have p...

That isn't what I said. If a person is in hospital COVID 19 syptoms and subsequently dies, then there can be little doubt that they have COVID 19. A test really isn't necessary. As I read it, if there is any doubt, then there is a form of Post Mortem which may just be a test to confirm the presence...

There is, apparently, something you can do to the actual air box inlet tube. Increase the diameter I think it was, and I'm sure I saw pics where a guy had added another tube on the righthand side of the box. He had made them from glass fibre. He reckons it made a hell of a difference to low end powe...