Well, I have got her back home and read the invoice and the inspection report.
They popped £5 worth of fuel down the filler to check for any further leaks and say its fine.
Blimey! :eek: Pollen Filters are £17 ea. Wow! That cost more than the OIL & Oil Filter.
We never change them for that reason. As we neither of us get hay fever and they are so expensive. Are we wrong? Should we just take them out?
 
Well most of the wrapathon is now over.
These three boxes will be off to France tomoz, £40 and will be delivered in about 3 days. And one box weighs 7.5 kilos.
Used Parcel2Go.com., beats the bejasus out of the Post Office, and we trust them. Hermes for these three.

One as big as the biggest of these three, DHL, 5£ to Kiddyminster, from same site, and one other to godsons. Rest will eventually be delivered by hand
We will be celebrating tonite!:D:D:D
Just the rest of the cards to do now, plus our pressies to each other;)
 

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Nearly a full pint then.
I remember buying 2-stroke petrol at 6 shillings and threepence ha'penny for my moped (used as a field bike 'cos I wasn't old enough for a licence then, in 1968 :eek:). That was for a full gallon, and about 32p in todays foreign coin system.
do you mean 2 star petrol? never heard of 2 stroke petrol.. am i too young?
5-Star = 100 octane, 4-Star = 98 octane, 3-Star = 93 octane, 2-Star = 87 octane
 
yea i did see that, but given different engines like anywhere between 40-50:1 i don't see how you can seel it pre-mixed! unless the pump is a pre-mixer like the coke tap in a pub
Back in the days pre decimalisation, nearly all mopeds and many bikes were two stroke. you could buy it from a garage and I think you got it from a special pump which mixed it for you, but I cannot swear to it as we never bought it in my family.
According to this, i was right, for once.
https://rdlccrazy.proboards.com/thread/39131/petrol-stations-past
 
i don't see how you can sell it pre-mixed!
It wasn't premixed. Petrol stations had a cone shaped can with a plunger on top and a dial for the mix ratio, you had to squirt the 2 stroke oil into your tank before filling with regular pump petrol. But in 1974 I bought a brand new suzuki gt which had a separate tank for the 2 stroke oil which was injected into the engine at a regulated rate. That was a good bike ------ :D:D:D.
 
It wasn't premixed. Petrol stations had a cone shaped can with a plunger on top and a dial for the mix ratio, you had to squirt the 2 stroke oil into your tank before filling with regular pump petrol. But in 1974 I bought a brand new suzuki gt which had a separate tank for the 2 stroke oil which was injected into the engine at a regulated rate. That was a good bike ------ :D:D:D.
I've ridden an rgv250, that was oil injection
 

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