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  1. The sole contributory factor in propagating this virus is social interaction. If you ride your bike in isolation there is absolutely no chance you will harm anyone else.  The risk you take if you break a limb and require remedial surgery is sharing an ambience with contaminated people shedding aerosolised pathogens that you will potentially breathe also. In this context you have wilfully exposed yourself and we reap what we sow as the saying goes.  There are worse things in life than someone enjoying motorcycling in a rural area and I face Covid patients every day.  No one bats an eyelid when ten thousand anarchist  protesters take to the streets of London and two months later the intensive care units are overflowing.  Bikes get a bad press at every opportunity from what I see no matter what the topic.

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  2. I have the jitsie protection, the knee pads are pretty good but at 18 stone I find the top of the elbow pads tight. Okay if you manage to keep arms relatively straight bur tourniquet effect if not, shame because they are a very good compromise between protection and bulk. 

  3. as arnoux has said, cut the zip ties securing the light and follow the wire back into the loom at the headstock. you could remove the tank for clarity. Just pull the plug at the first connector and seal the connector with electrical grease.  Great bike the 300 GP.

  4. Think its different decals basically same model. I have a friend who is an engineer that has rebuilt hundreds of bike engines and gearboxes over the years and recently rebuilt a 19 GG and said he was impressed  with the mechanical changes. I rode a 2020 GP for a while this year and I was very impressed with the bike coming from a vertigo.  Im not sure the reiger is better than the ohlins if that's what's on the racing model where you are. Would recommend one in a heartbeat. 

  5. three kicks from cold first kick every time when hot. !/4 to half throttle and engage kick at top of stroke, don't shut the throttle as you kick roll it off as it fires.  It needs to see fuel to fire hence throttle, you'll get the feel for it.

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  6. On ‎3‎/‎30‎/‎2020 at 11:47 PM, peterb said:

    There is a tiny breather hole in the fuel tank cap, is this still clear? Did you have the bike from new and was it ok when new? The brass screw on the throttle body LHS is an air bleed screw, set at the factory anywhere from fully in to 1.5 turns out. Have a look to see how far out the screw is by turning fully clock wise. You can richen up the mixture by turning clockwise. Bye, Peter B.

    Thanks for the info Peter. To answer your questions, the fuel cap hole is clear and yes I bought the bike new about two months ago and yes it ran fine.  I have spoken to vertigo for advice on this and they informed me dirt in the throttle body can cause a rise to revs and that if I have access to a tuning box I can enrich the mixture as I see fit. They also said that the bike runs slightly lean as normal due to the nature of the FI as I understand it.  I intend to alter the mixture at some point in the future to see how effective that is.

  7. 10 hours ago, misscrabstick said:

    If the idle went up have you considered you may have some extra air getting in somewhere? check all pipes, throttle body clips etc maybe.

    I get the logic of what you say, I don't think its anything like that the bike is still fresh.

  8. 3 hours ago, compactpete said:

    Does it do it in both map switch positions.

    Yeah I think it does.  It does it on the wet map and I believe the dry map is leaner so it is a definite problem. It may well be an idiosyncrasy of fuel injection so may need to get used to avoiding letting the engine get loaded to that extent, like what riding a 125 must be like if that makes sense.

  9. Not long purchased my 2020 vertical 250 and noticed it does not like pull from very low revs as the engine seems to bog down and rattle like its got a lean ping. anything above that its clean as a whistle right up to full throttle.  Do I need to get access to a tuning box and enrich  the mixture of the bottom to eliminate this?

    Another thing I have noticed is the tick over has gone up of late,, it now idles much higher than it did previously but I haven't changed anything.  Can I just turn the tickover down at the screw on the throttle body?

     

    Many thanks in advance for any advice.

  10. Three kicks to start from cold is normal. Engage the kickstart with the throttle closed and prime it with a soft push through the stroke, second kick engage top of stroke again and push through with some throttle on. It will go on the third kick with a swift kick from the top and approx. quarter throttle kept on as you kick through, it needs throttle to start don't roll it off.

  11. 19 factory beta had very good forks, had this discussion already several times. Beta suspension is really good, if you're a top rider you may feel the need for a different shock but I thought the forks were brilliant.

  12. It is unfortunate that you have both had those problems. It's hard to envisage because I have run a 19 Gold for seven months and the bike is near perfect, had two separate Allen screws loosen slightly in all that time not another single issue.  Very well designed and built, performs brilliantly.

  13. 3 hours ago, breagh said:

    The classes are gey odd as I would  say. Having 3 grades A,B and C to match the routes and forget all the name tags would be my ideal set up.

    To answer the question you could ride clubman don't think you need to ride any age related category.

     

    Thanks, that is what I meant but didn't make a very good job of wording it.  I want to ride clubman but not the over 50 category even though I am over 50 but wouldn't do it obviously if it excluded me from being able to score points at a championship trial.

 
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