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Offline GMC

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Loose nuts may cause you to lose nuts
« on: March 19, 2014, 09:11:22 pm »
Check out the first frame on the 21st second :o

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Re: Loose nuts may cause you to lose nuts
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2014, 09:54:44 pm »
ooooh :o

nasty, saw a bloke smash his RHS slider landing of a jump at Ravenswood years ago. fairly slammed him down too
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Re: Loose nuts may cause you to lose nuts
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2014, 09:59:13 pm »
Ravo is a bit hard on old bikes. YZ400 (pretty sure) had its steering stem separate from the frame after a jump. Youch!
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Re: Loose nuts may cause you to lose nuts
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2014, 10:16:59 pm »
"This bike is race ready, just a little tlc required."  ::) ;D shoulda gone to spec savers  ;)

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Re: Loose nuts may cause you to lose nuts
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2014, 10:41:13 pm »
It looks like he had not put the bolts in the bottom of his forks both sliders on the wheel and forks still in the triples . But I know a twit that forgot to put the shocky bolt on a 125x as well . Iain
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Re: Loose nuts may cause you to lose nuts
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2014, 12:50:44 am »
I know the story behind this, a factory trained suspension guy modded the forks [converted the YZ 125X airforks to spring/oil/damper rods and fitted emulator valves], needless to say, the guy stuffed up, rider was very lucky not to get seriously hurt. The bike was beautifully restored/built and the owner not a happy chappie.
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Re: Loose nuts may cause you to lose nuts
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2014, 09:33:34 am »
Quote from: Davey Crocket on March 20, 2014, 12:50:44 am
I know the story behind this, a factory trained suspension guy modded the forks [converted the YZ 125X airforks to spring/oil/damper rods and fitted emulator valves], needless to say, the guy stuffed up, rider was very lucky not to get seriously hurt. The bike was beautifully restored/built and the owner not a happy chappie.

Correct, I believe it was some circlips that failed, not loose nuts but in true journalistic form I don't let the truth get in the way of a good headline.

He WAS very lucky to walk away and who wouldn't be pissed to have there bike troweled 1 1/2 laps into the first test ride after their resto.
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Re: Loose nuts may cause you to lose nuts
« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2014, 09:50:32 am »
Sounds like the same thing that happened to a mates A65 forks, turned out previous owner used the wrong size circlips
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Re: Loose nuts may cause you to lose nuts
« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2014, 07:28:57 pm »
Quote from: Rookie#1 on March 19, 2014, 10:16:59 pm
"This bike is race ready, just a little tlc required."  ::) ;D shoulda gone to spec savers  ;)

Cheers, Brendan
And he should have bought a Jeep  ;D
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