Old girl wounded in action again

[CRM250]

and i made her bleed too. went out lastnight for the usual weekly jaunt around a lap of bala lake and back home with a couple of mates on a RVF and 636, when we stopped for a slash one of the lads mentioned a huge puff of blue smoke came from my bike on the over run after passing a car. concerend i took a look around to discover a slightly oily rear tyre, and a dribble from the oil cooler. it appears the screws that hold the mesh on the V panel had rubbed through one of the oil cooler flats and it was springing a leak.
enough oil in the bike i head off back and aim for the toilets in bala (easy) to mop it up with bog roll. by the ime i got there there was oil everywhere and the bike was not really rideable. trying to pinch the area with pliers i made it worse and when i fired it up a huge jet of oil soaked the underside of the nose and dribbled all over the tyre and brakes.
So not only do i have to replace the oil cooler, i also have oily tres and brakes. confidence will never be the same.
anyway if it was a cat, this year alone its used 3 of its 9 lives. next time it will be subject to a humane mercy killing

 

[BDG]

Paul i presume of course it is one of your Honda's that caused this problem as for the life of me i couldn't see it being the 916.

Have it humanely put down, and of course i know where there is a very good 996SPS for sale

 

[Gizmo]

I had a similar experience getting a Laverda 668 back from Italy a few years ago. About half way through France I had a couple of slides, stopped and found oil on the back tyre but only on the right hand side. Hunted round to find the cause and it was a pipe connected to the oil cooler leaking slightly, it was getting blown back by the wind and ran along the underside of the tank( tank was under seat on the 668) dripped off the end and onto the right hand side of the tyre. It wasn't fixable so I kept on riding , headed for motorway and kept bike upright, every fuel stop involved my riding companion fuelling both bikes whilst I grabbed tissue paper and cleaned tyre and underside of tank and checking there was oil left in the engine. Luckily the chain was on the right on the Laverda as well not the brake so chain was nicely lubricated eventually it ended up where I was pulling into almost every service station to clean it but it got me back to Hitchin where I threw it into a van and dragged it home.

 

[CRM250]

Shaun, indeed the old 916 was the culprit in question. its an easy fix but have a spare cooler to fix it with anyway. its more the oil over the tyre and disks that bothers me.

As for the honda's no way would the 600rr do such a thing, however it hasnt turned a wheel since spain in may. nor either of the V4's, the 750 gets warm but is dead reliable.

dont fancy a deal with the CBR and 916 do you ??