Happy nbd Ray, sure you'll give it a workout 

That's tidy Kit, enjoy once you get it 

Started as pillion on my Uncles XT500, around 10/11 years old, spent time riding quads on fields/roads  until I was 16, by which time I had my DT50, which i run around the fields on until my provisional came through.   Spent about a 18 months riding it every day, until I got my car licence. Had to pick car or bike as couldn't have both and a car was a must for work.

Ended up back to being a pillion on and off for many years but kept my hand in riding other people's bikes, on mostly dirt /stone roads, until I could afford both a car and bike. Done my Direct access in 2004 and have had bikes since.  Don't get to ride anything like as much as i would like to, but don't plan to give it up anytime soon 

Always had a thing for bikes from a really young age, looking through old photos with my dad, there is a picture of me sitting on my uncles bike at about 4 or 5 ...... interest was sparked way back then!  Was always a Tom boy   

Have never owned a ninja 

Cheers all. 

Sena still cheaper than the one we saw in J&S ... at £390! Nearly choked   

  Welcome back .... nice to see folks popping back in (  myself included)

As per the title, does anyone have any recommendations for these?

Only need capacity for 2 riders to talk to each other, not fussed on music play options, connecting to mobile etc that appear to be available on many, just good intercom capabilities, with a reasonable range.

Cheers

Quote from: The Wizard of MOz on March 28, 2018, 04:59:41 PM
Look into an Oberon slave cylinder. Should be better than oem and cheaper.

Cheers Moz, will bear that in mind if/when the time comes 👍

Must still be a market for them though, especially the older ones, as they are now appear to be going up in value (should have hung on to my old bike - it's still on the road somewhere)

My godson is into older bikes and cars, and has been making some decent money from it in recent years, values definitely increasing now.

In saying that, it's definitely an age thing, there is not a cat in hells chance I could ride my old bike now, body wouldn't let me  but I still miss it in a funny sort of way!

Spoke to our 'trusted' garage, and straight away he said its more than likley the slave cylinder being the root cause.

Says the cb13's are bad for it. Won't see a leak as such, it's more of a mist, and because if where it's situated it's not obvious due to chain spray. Advice is just to keep an eye on it as the likelihood is that it will happen again, if it does, time for a new slave cylinder.

Hey-ho   

Visual  checks already carried out ar the time it occurred,  couldn't see anything out the ordinary whatsoever. Garage confirmed in one of the phone conversations that slave cylinder had been checked and was fine/dry and no sign of any issues,

The bike will get checked over by a garage we know and trust for piece of mind, was just curious if anyone had any other ideas or had any experience of something similer, just on the off chance.

It's all a bit odd. Garage really didn't want to discuss and stuck with the degraded fluid angle, and when we pushed it a bit yesterday the guy responded with ... 'ah well if you've left the bike bike sitting for a couple of days, maybe that's what's done it'  to which we responded, we leave bikes sitting for weeks if not months on end over winter periods, never had issues before.
Where we store the bikes now is a much warmer and drier place than where we used to have them, so don't have the same level of moisture/cold risk.

The bike is under currently under warranty, but from our perspective who says it won't just happen again out the blue as it did this time .... by which time warranty could be out, hence looking for thoughts on what could be underlying reason or just one of those things?

The garage attitude/responses makes us more suspicious, as they appear to be paddling for all they are worth.

Clutch had no pressure whatsoever

Just looking for thoughts here ......

CB1300, all working fine a matter of weeks back, then a week ago it was taken out the garage and the clutch was gone. No warning, no previous slippage or issues whatsoever!

Now in many years of biking between us, neither of us have ever had a clutch go on us, let alone having had something suddenly disappear like this. 

Now normally you would expect that at the right revs, you would be able to shift  up and down the gears without too much trouble,  this also did not prove to be the case!!  Safe to say, we were not amused or impressed as only purchased the bike a few months back.  Anyhow, got bike to garage it was purchased from (shall reman nameless for now).

Picked bike back up today and it is running fine, and the answer we got was, the clutch fluid must have degraded.  We changed the fluid and its working fine.

Now does this seem right to anyone on here?  ........ bearing in mind that the fluid that was in it when it went in was crystal clear and light in colour, no floaters etc .... and it can clearly be seen that there has been no screwdriver anywhere near the screws on the reservoir, so how can they have changed the fluid? 

They appear to be hiding something so curious as to what could have caused the clutch to disappear like this?

Have a great time folks,    sure it'll be a blast, not jealous ..... much!!!