{"id":878,"date":"2009-11-13T19:02:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T18:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/terraroot.neoneoism.com\/?p=878"},"modified":"2009-11-13T19:02:16","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T18:02:16","slug":"sarges-vulcan-1500c-its-not-an-a-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terraroot.neoneoism.com\/?p=878","title":{"rendered":"Sarges vulcan 1500c (it&#8217;s not an a anymore)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got the jets in, they were the wrong ones, but they&#8217;ll do for now, so i got on with putting the rest of the bike together.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-874\" title=\"1113Image000\" src=\"https:\/\/terraroot.neoneoism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/1113Image000.jpg\" alt=\"1113Image000\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/terraroot.neoneoism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/1113Image000.jpg 800w, https:\/\/terraroot.neoneoism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/1113Image000-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First obstacle, that can&#8217;t have helped the jetting<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-874\" title=\"1113Image000\" src=\"https:\/\/terraroot.neoneoism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/1113Image001.jpg\" alt=\"1113Image000\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was either shot or the man who tightened this deserves to be shot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-874\" title=\"1113Image000\" src=\"https:\/\/terraroot.neoneoism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/1113Image002.jpg\" alt=\"1113Image000\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A test ride was needed either way, so with only half an airbox and thus half the air going into the engine, off I went, so damn fast I broke the speedo lol. duck tape and a zip was used to temporarily block the dodgy air filter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-874\" title=\"1113Image000\" src=\"https:\/\/terraroot.neoneoism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/1113Image003.jpg\" alt=\"1113Image000\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After I sorted the head bearings (front tyres flat too) I popped off the exhaust to see if we could get the rattly inner baffles out, no joy, did discover more cracks which I welded up quite well actually and then as we were putting the pipe back on noticed that the jaw thing for the rear brake was nearly off its spline.<\/p>\n<p>Front brake worn to metal<\/p>\n<p>Front brake needed a bleeding (they didn&#8217;t work!)<\/p>\n<p>Rear brake barely hanging in there.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever about the crap exhaust piss poor jetting falling off pegs loose head bearing and flat tyres, brakes are fairly important like?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got the jets in, they were the wrong ones, but they&#8217;ll do for now, so i got on with putting the rest of the bike together. First obstacle, that can&#8217;t have helped the jetting It was either shot or the man who tightened this deserves to be shot. A test ride was needed either way, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":964,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","tag-vn1500c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terraroot.neoneoism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terraroot.neoneoism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terraroot.neoneoism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terraroot.neoneoism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/964"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terraroot.neoneoism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/terraroot.neoneoism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880,"href":"https:\/\/terraroot.neoneoism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terraroot.neoneoism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terraroot.neoneoism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terraroot.neoneoism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}