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<blockquote data-quote="Robert Watson" data-source="post: 121875" data-attributes="member: 38"><p>OK Ian ---- hijacking you own thread back to its original intent will soon be banned if you keep this up, try not to do it again please and let us get on with our diversions..........................</p><p></p><p></p><p>My original rubbers on the flat slides didn't last too long and like others I reverted to a piece of reinforced hose that was the right size. When we did our big Europe trip in 2010 somewhere in the south of the UK in the rain it started running very badly and then on one cylinder. I managed to find a bit of cover in one of Tim's favourite petrol stations (supermarket) where I found one of the carbs hanging about on its cable and fuel line. One end of the hose seriously deteriorated, and fuel spilling everywhere. I managed to change the hose end for end and clamp it all back together, and carried on.</p><p>On rolling into Lubeck Germany a few weeks later, as we pulled into our evening accommodations it came off again, this time unusable. Out with the VOC "I need help" book (In fact Reinhard Augustine) and within an hour or two up turned Andreas Wagner (RIP). He duly traipsed me around to an industrial supply house where we found some absolutely perfect oil hose. I asked for enough to make 4 pieces, perhaps a foot. "By the meter only" I was told. I agreed to buy a meter but only if they would cut it a foot long! We were packed FULL. I changed the disintegrated one that evening and later on the other. Speculation from members on hearing this tale immediately blamed the fuel, and the fuel and of course the shite fuel. I did point out the the failed hose was if I recall a water suction hose and that it had been on the bike for many years and some 60 or 70 thousand miles and that I was really quite pleased with the service it had given. I now have two spares still sitting on the shelf.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Robert Watson, post: 121875, member: 38"] OK Ian ---- hijacking you own thread back to its original intent will soon be banned if you keep this up, try not to do it again please and let us get on with our diversions.......................... My original rubbers on the flat slides didn't last too long and like others I reverted to a piece of reinforced hose that was the right size. When we did our big Europe trip in 2010 somewhere in the south of the UK in the rain it started running very badly and then on one cylinder. I managed to find a bit of cover in one of Tim's favourite petrol stations (supermarket) where I found one of the carbs hanging about on its cable and fuel line. One end of the hose seriously deteriorated, and fuel spilling everywhere. I managed to change the hose end for end and clamp it all back together, and carried on. On rolling into Lubeck Germany a few weeks later, as we pulled into our evening accommodations it came off again, this time unusable. Out with the VOC "I need help" book (In fact Reinhard Augustine) and within an hour or two up turned Andreas Wagner (RIP). He duly traipsed me around to an industrial supply house where we found some absolutely perfect oil hose. I asked for enough to make 4 pieces, perhaps a foot. "By the meter only" I was told. I agreed to buy a meter but only if they would cut it a foot long! We were packed FULL. I changed the disintegrated one that evening and later on the other. Speculation from members on hearing this tale immediately blamed the fuel, and the fuel and of course the shite fuel. I did point out the the failed hose was if I recall a water suction hose and that it had been on the bike for many years and some 60 or 70 thousand miles and that I was really quite pleased with the service it had given. I now have two spares still sitting on the shelf. [/QUOTE]
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