Hornet Swarm Night City

[shingo]

I won't be able to make it, got someone coming to view my white cbr.

[EJK]

me , choco, badger, zeosen, nevets, imwhornet, macstar, bomma, 2wheeljunkie, nomis the Kendog family and many others are going to be volunteering of slowly removing EJK's fingetnails from his fingers.

and after that we get to do the real cool stuff...water torture

I guess that means I won't be lending you the use of my lil'ol'hornet anymore! Hurt his feelings you did!

Keep digging padawan!

Sorry guys. If you guys were joking, I'm sorry I don't find this funny.

I had a long day yesteurday and am not in the mood for jokes... Justin, this time I think you took it a little too far.

[gijoe1313]

Sorry guys. If you guys were joking, I'm sorry I don't find this funny.

I had a long day yesteurday and am not in the mood for jokes... Justin, this time I think you took it a little too far.

Waahbulance

[zeocen]

Oh come on EJ, you can't say "no NO NO!" about purchasing a hornet infront of your mates and not expect a bollocking. I hope your bike doesn't break down anytime soon because you might find the people you've insulted may not lend a hand this time! Just some food for thought!

[BANZAI]

But Hornetto is not everyone's cup of tea

[TOTO]

But Hornetto is not everyone's cup of tea

go stand up in the corner with your hands up facing the wall...

[madbikeboy]

GIJoe - you and I need to swap mighty steeds one night. I like the 900 though...

[gijoe1313]

GIJoe - you and I need to swap mighty steeds one night. I like the 900 though...

I think the mighty scoot might make my britches fill! But you know what I always say ... any excuse for a ride! Good to see you are perusing the dungeons of doom that is KB ...

Try and keep your sanity!

[gijoe1313]

Well, Badger8, Toto and I got together after fivish today to do some spannering. Pippi needed some long overdue love and attention!

I hear the throaty throb of the Hooligan and as I popped out to see ... I saw TOTO getting off the hooligan and Badger in a cage

Giving him the usual stick, we quickly got to talking shite about bikes and eventually whipped out the spannerific equipage.

Well that was as good as it got. Three hours of farfing about, my noobness with not wielding a spanner for ages saw me shear off a brass bolt head that was essential to good running.

We dropped out the engine, I undid an oil plug which didn't need to ... and basically hamfisted our way through the botched operations! Ahh good times!

For some reason, the piston wouldn't slip in easily - and I made lots of filthy innuendo which totally distracted Badger ... TOTO was just watching all of these proceedings with "is this what spannering is?"

Well, as the rain rolled in, night casted it's blanket over our fair land - we cleaned up the tools and ourselves and headed off to get a feed.

Cheers to the crew for giving me a hand - looks like I will need to sort out a couple of more parts to get Pippi going again ASAP!

Big Ol'Hornet was watching with horror ... Daisy and Betsy were kinda glad their little sister was being mangled first before they got seen to next!

Ah well, this is all good practise for when the Spanner evenings kick off again when daylight is done and dusted!

[Badger8]

Well what a day! Swarmers out and about... not all on their hornet's though!

I took the venerable Toto out with the mighty KDX to tackle a bit of offroad fun out at the sandpit (the old Woodhill bike park). He had a lot of learning to do... first time offroad, first time on a 2-stroke, first kick-starter. He got on the bike, then suddenly forgot all his bike knowledge!
"Umm... how do i change gears??"
"Dude... it's just like your bike..."
*Toto stomps right boot on rear brake*
"Erm... that's the brake..."
"Oh, yeah! "
*Badger smacks forehead*

But after a rough start, the young fella came along in leaps and bounds Popped his first stand-up power wheelie, was whippin through the trails, and got the hang of it nicely.

I somehow managed to blow the back end out of the cooling system (after just flushing it clean last week! ) Splashed some water in the reservoir and bunged up the cap hole with some electrical tape, that shit'll be fine... Boiled a bit more out, but she seemed to reach equilibrium eventually. The poor girl was roastin away through the forest trails, so just more excuse to thrash it down the straits for a bit of cooling

After a good 5 hour stint at the bike park, was time to head back. Stopped off for a compulsory strawberry icecream on the way back past kumeu, then back to chateau deu` Badger to unload. Toto had a nice cool shower while i waterblasted the dirtbike down and threw the gear away, tough at the top!

Then off we tore post haste to chateau deu` GIJoe for much spannering mayhem. And i DO mean mayhem... we started off pulling allsorts of things apart, then got half way done and started wondering why the hell we were pulling this bit apart to begin with!
Ended up dropping the engine out completely, removing and dismantling carbies (both petrol and oil carbs), removing chain, and more i'm sure i've forgotten... we got half way through each, and wondered why the hell we were pulling said piece apart! so reassembled everything... after about 2 wasted hours in which we achieved nothing but damage, we did the top end rebuild part in a matter of minutes! Well, as best we could considering only 1 split ring for the gudgeon pin, missing roller bearing for a while, 1 smashed piston ring, and a piston that wouldnt really fit up the barrel even with persuasion of the badger variety... Much innuendo around how bikes are clearly female, and two stroke oil used in connotations even i hadnt considered before

So in the end we cut our losses and got a feed, talked more rot, and headed for home

one heck of a long day, i smell like a rotten goat...
pics to come soon!

[Badger8]

Some pics from today...
1: There's a bike under all that sand somewhere!
2: Squid!
3: Lookin the part now
4: Pippi starts to get stripped down
5: Poser mechanic hard at work
6: Real mechanics hard at work

[imw-hornet]

Well it sounds as if all fun (kind of ) ,,, great to hear that you got TOTO out to play in the dust ,,, what is the track like at the mo ?
Well i think after an evening of learning from the master about taking things apart and putting them back ,,, maybe you need to do a bit on the KDX , dont want it to splatter deep in the forest and have to push the "BITCH" back now ,,, ha ha .
What was wrong with "Pippi " ???

[gijoe1313]

Our illustrious and spoonerism master of mixed up word play ... TOTO!

I don't think you are in Kansas anymore TOTO!

[Badger8]

Well it sounds as if all fun (kind of ) ,,, great to hear that you got TOTO out to play in the dust ,,, what is the track like at the mo ?
Well i think after an evening of learning from the master about taking things apart and putting them back ,,, maybe you need to do a bit on the KDX , dont want it to splatter deep in the forest and have to push the "BITCH" back now ,,, ha ha

Track was pretty good today, usually good (and also not many people there ) if you get out on a weekday. They've done a bit of work on the main road too, much better now.
Done far too much work on the KDX lately, was good to get out and ride her hard again! Done top end rebuild, coolant system, chain and sprockets, and various other bits and bobs in the last few weeks. Not much left to do, surely?
She really doesnt seem to like the forest trails though, the poor girl starts boilin her coolant far too easily it seems. Any tips to help avoid this? or just thrash her harder cause she likes it rough n dirty? She comes right fairly quickly once i get onto the main trunk roads and get some speed up for air over the radiator and keep the water pump ticking over, but that's nowhere near as much fun as the forest trails

[TOTO]

Oh what a great day. I am indeed deeply gratefull for deeply satisfying day full of adventures and interetsing stuff to both Badger and GiJoe.

I've seen a whole new world today. Dirt biking - here I come