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Author Topic: Dodgy gizmos - beware !  (Read 3700 times)

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Dodgy gizmos - beware !
« on: April 01, 2007, 06:17:48 PM »
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Re: Dodgy gizmos - beware !
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2007, 06:27:25 PM »
same happened to me last year on way to TT .....bloody front end went all vague and heavy......pulled over and feckin front tyre was goin down....stuck on the middle o the A66 middle o feckin no where 10 at night shit......luckily there was some road works goin on and a blagged a footpump off them still got it now  [rofl] [rofl] result eh
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Re: Dodgy gizmos - beware !
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2007, 06:31:06 PM »
Oh dear... don't think I will having one off them thingy bobs then as I aint super at riding wouldn't wanna bin the fecker  :dontknow:
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Re: Dodgy gizmos - beware !
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2007, 06:38:53 PM »
Sorry but am I bit think? but what is this gizzmo thingy your talking about???can somebody try and explain please?
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Re: Dodgy gizmos - beware !
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2007, 06:40:57 PM »
think he is talking about the tyre pressure checking thing  :dontknow:
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Re: Dodgy gizmos - beware !
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2007, 06:44:40 PM »
stil a bit vague! still do not see how this coming off would loose air pressure as they screw on top off valve.
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Re: Dodgy gizmos - beware !
« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2007, 06:46:50 PM »
dunno mate  :dontknow:
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Re: Dodgy gizmos - beware !
« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2007, 06:50:23 PM »

Sorry guys for being VAGUE... Those angle thingies, so you can get an air-line on your valve... SORRY !... and yeah, there's them other equally 5hit things to tell you......  " I've just let your tyre down "    [rofl] [rofl] [rofl]
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Re: Dodgy gizmos - beware !
« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2007, 07:04:00 PM »
Ah I see said the blind man as he fell over the cliff!! so you mean the 90o elbows! I thought these screwed on top off original valve?
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Re: Dodgy gizmos - beware !
« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2007, 07:15:50 PM »
wot happened wi mine was the angle thingie.....actually pushed the valve down inside the OE valve housing just very slightly but enough to un seat it and let the trye down....
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Re: Dodgy gizmos - beware !
« Reply #10 on: April 01, 2007, 07:30:45 PM »
I had a similar problem on my GSXR a few years ago but with a standard valve, it sprint was weak so at high speed the valve depressed and let air our all because I has some wank valve caps that didn't seal ............ it was scarey as hell wobbling around the roundabout at the end of a very fast straight.....



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Re: Dodgy gizmos - beware !
« Reply #11 on: April 01, 2007, 09:03:15 PM »
Quote from: Andy J on April 01, 2007, 07:30:45 PM
I had a similar problem on my GSXR a few years ago but with a standard valve, it sprint was weak so at high speed the valve depressed and let air our all because I has some wank valve caps that didn't seal ............ it was scarey as hell wobbling around the roundabout at the end of a very fast straight.....



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This was nothing to do with your tyres pressure. That bike wobbled everywhere.
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Re: Dodgy gizmos - beware !
« Reply #12 on: April 01, 2007, 09:12:12 PM »
Quote from: Patf on April 01, 2007, 09:03:15 PM
Quote from: Andy J on April 01, 2007, 07:30:45 PM
I had a similar problem on my GSXR a few years ago but with a standard valve, it sprint was weak so at high speed the valve depressed and let air our all because I has some wank valve caps that didn't seal ............ it was scarey as hell wobbling around the roundabout at the end of a very fast straight.....



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This was nothing to do with your tyres pressure. That bike wobbled everywhere.


Aye it did wobble now and then but that was pressure loss yer cheeky fekker............ hey the wobble never held me back on it  :occasion14:
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Re: Dodgy gizmos - beware !
« Reply #13 on: April 02, 2007, 01:05:19 PM »
yeah i would second that opinion on bining them angle do da's. I like most folk thought it would be a great idea making it easier to use the garage air machines. It happened to me with my last bike,in perth city. Again front end went really heavy, really lucky I was not in the middle of no where when it happened. luckily I pulled into a a parking area in front of a plant hire place. even though I was only 2 miles from home, it was too dangerous to carry on. Luckily the boy in the shop spotted me kicking the shit out of the front end of the bike !. He was a biker himself and said I could wheel the bike into his shop and use his air line !. sorted. As some of the boy's have said, when it screws onto the tire valve it pushes down on the valve, so when it works it's way a bit loose, it lets the air down, fecking dangerous. Now I just use a foot pump and digital pressure gauge, don't trust them garage gauges anyway.

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Re: Dodgy gizmos - beware !
« Reply #14 on: April 03, 2007, 10:43:30 AM »
we sell loads of the angled valve adaptors in he shop, the idea is keep 1 under ya seat then just screw it on when ya blow ya tyres up then take it off again it only takes a cpl of seconds, better still blow ya tyres b4 ya go out whiles ya tyres are cold up using a foot pump cos they have a  90degree angle on them anyway then check it with a pressure gauge, they airlines at garages are way out
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