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    Quote Originally Posted by init
    Started the bike up, waited. Just sat in neutral idling for 4 or so minutes while i inspected it. Smell started up. Decided it was *hopefully* something burning off engine casing. Smell stopped after about 1 minute.
    Went for a short ride, 25 minutes around town, came back and parked up. No smell.
    It seem i may have just been paranoid eg" oh my god, a strange smell"
    Is the smell only apparent when you're around ... ?

    u dan buy adult incontinental bags nowadays ...
    no shame inthat init ...
    THe hand's farster than the eye ... keepan eye onda feet .. .

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    Funny story.

    Guy comes into an un named bike shop with horendus stench coming from his bike. Get it through to the workshop, tear the fairings off and low and behold, there's a sparrow trapped between the exhaust headers roasting away.

    Cheap lunch for the boys that day.
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    Have you fried some cow shit on the exhaust pipes or something like that then? Bikes have a habit of picking stuff up off the roads depending on where you have been riding.
    Cheers

    Merv

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    Your story Trash is similar to cars being started up and the damn cat had found a nice warm place to sleep but you don't know it until the smell becomes apparent.
    Cheers

    Merv

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    (vaguely related) I used to service photo copiers. These were old IBMs that used bare halogen lamps, a 1500w and an 800w, to fuse the toner onto the pape. More than once I recieved a service call for "bad smell from coppier" ususally on a Monday morning. Mice got into the copier over the weekend because they were warm, when the copier was switched on to warm it up the lamps went into full-on mode - instant roast mouse.
    it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
    those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
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    Quote Originally Posted by init
    Started the bike up, waited. Just sat in neutral idling for 4 or so minutes while i inspected it. Smell started up. Decided it was *hopefully* something burning off engine casing. Smell stopped after about 1 minute.
    Went for a short ride, 25 minutes around town, came back and parked up. No smell.
    It seem i may have just been paranoid eg" oh my god, a strange smell"
    If you noted the smell while the motor was idling in neutral, that pretty much rules out the clutch
    it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
    those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
    (PostalDave on ADVrider)

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    Quote Originally Posted by pete376403
    If you noted the smell while the motor was idling in neutral, that pretty much rules out the clutch
    Yeah so its either the cow shit or the mice or the bird or the cat.
    Cheers

    Merv

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    Quote Originally Posted by merv
    Yeah so its either the cow shit or the mice or the bird or the cat.
    cow shit is a real possibility up in param

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    Or the socks you were drying because it's raining !!!

    I know that I had happen to me too....it turned out a plastic bag was stuck on the exhaust under the bike .....It's just the natural thing thing to do.....think that the bike is sick or misbehaving !!
    Enjoy the ride home......do you go the SH1 or take the long way via the Paekak hill ??
    A man can move much faster without a millstone around his neck, so if he gets the chance to lose her he'd better drop her and run like heck !! .. (10cc "Modern Man Blues" - Deceptive Bends)

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