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johntog

Still awaiting a delivery date for my T100, but while I was at the dealer I noticed a chrome bolt on the exhaust pipe on the bonnies, about half way down, near the front. It doesn't hold anything to the pipe on the outside, does it secure something inside? Just curious, can't see anything in the Haynes manual.
John

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rodburner

Just a pollution control check point.Serves no purpose in "real" life except to snag your sponge on wash day.

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johntog

Thanks Rodburner. I wondered if it might be something like that. It's been peeing with rain all day here and I've nothing better to do than find out what that stupid bolt's for :-D

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rodburner

Same here. I took 4 days off and got in an hour ride yesterday evening. Raining days bore me so I mod stuff for no reason. Making fender mounts today to suspend some fenders I got from Hooligan.Think I`m gonna go back to the fat lowrider style for a while.The way my bike looks now,other bikers expect me to go faster than I like to and are always trying to run me on the back roads.Its fun to live up to the visual hype once in a while,but takes half the fun out of the ride when you get smoked by some twit with a real backroad bike [R6 yesterday] and more balls than brains.

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webonnielad

Snap johntog.

I'm just up the road in surrey, I really love this forum, but I prefer riding my Bonnie.

I dunno if you're interested but i just posted under the heading.

"UK ride Outs? Let's get it together".

Cut to the chase and go straight to it in the rides and events forum if you are.
I'm determined to meet some of you guys one way or another.

Jon (UK)

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790cc 2003 T100 Bonneville. 18T Front Sprocket, AI Removed, 125 Mains, 40 Pilots, Thruxton Needles, 1 Shim,3mm Air Hole, Mixture screws 3 1/4 turns out left carb, 3 turns out right carb, Unifilter, NH Belmouth, NH Classic Togas with no mutes inserted, Stock Ignitor Unit. Hagon 320mm rear shocks & progressive fork springs. Last measured. 61.60 hp, , Max torque 48.40 in 5th gear at the rear wheel at 7200 rpm, 105 mph in 5th at 6500 rpm.

johntog

I'll have a look

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grayghost

The little bolt is like a "mood ring". It will start changing colour to a dark yellow and then a deep bluish colour.

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johntog

If the rain doesn't stop the same might happen to me

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thebandit

The bolts plug a hole used for measuring the carbon monoxide in the exhaust. This tells you if the bike is running lean or rich. To tune the bike correctly, you want the carbon monoxide level at 1000 RPMs to be between 5.5 and 6.0.