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Haggler
Joined: 04 Apr 2013 Posts: 66 Location: Northants
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Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2013 9:28 pm Post subject: KH finally back on the road |
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Last Sat marked the first ride out on my KH400. This is how it was
And this is now, not mint but I'm happy
I started off keeping close to home and in fact ran out of petrol less than 1.5 miles from home, begger . Any how got the rescue service out (Ta Mand).
So got to filling station. Continued to do 130 ish miles with few probs apart from petrol consumption . Well I was now pretty confident so headed off for St Albans to meet up with the triples club guys. From there we headed to the ace for Blue haze day, I say headed coz just as i got to the end of the M1 my throttle cable became unattached and i cruised to a stop on the hard shoulder. As I was at the back no one noticed I was missing and carried on . Any how wound in tickover screws and mangaed to negotiate the north circ at between 15 and 30 mph much to the disdain of the following motorists . Got there where the lads were really apologetic (Needent to have been as there was nothing they could have done) but they did supply the tools to rectify the problem (Blinking dodgey pattern parts Anyways up got it sorted and had a cracking day.
Saw this down there what a fantastic piece of engineering and what an amazing sound. It was ridden there and away, beautiful
By the time I got home I had done over 300 miles on mine over the weekend so it is now passed off for open duty, just got to save for the petrol lol
Catch you later _________________ I was never as fast as I used to be !!! |
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Top-shaggy Show Star !
Joined: 05 Mar 2011 Posts: 1757 Location: Derbyshire
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Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 9:21 am Post subject: |
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Lovely photos.
Did you get the zorst re chromed or was it an overnight stay with mr autosol?
Funny, I've never really bothered with the triples but as I'm getting older the 70s stuff seems more appealing. Yours looks just right to me, clean and with real patina of the era - if it was immaculate I would probably never ride it..
As for the red four cylinder... I would like to hear that on a run past, simply gorgeous. Some skilled people out there.. Much cleverer than meeee !
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StrokerBoy Show Star !
Joined: 15 Nov 2006 Posts: 1293 Location: Oop North, UK
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Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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Very nice ! I used to have a S3A 400 triple and petrol consumption was its primary characteristic. I once pushed it 2 miles home - stopping for a rest in two petrol stations - 'cos I couldn't imagine it had drained the whole tank and assumed there was something else wrong with it.
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Haggler
Joined: 04 Apr 2013 Posts: 66 Location: Northants
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Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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Its amazing how some things look in photos, the pipes are not bad but chrome is well past its sell by(not same set that are on first pic) but it still looks relatively tidy and its mine _________________ I was never as fast as I used to be !!! |
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