Broke my Royal Enfield Motorcycle, AGAIN!?
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- Опубликовано: 25 мар 2024
- Gotta be the 4th time this has happened to poor old Daisy in 4 years? In today's video I take my friend Naim, who you may remember from our trips in France and Germany on our Royal Enfield Bullets, as a pillion passenger on Daisy. Unfortunately, disaster strikes before we reach our destination, Hook Lighthouse in Ireland, and Daisy's exhaust dislodges itself from the engine. Interesting sound, but would not recommend running the bike like this! Hope I can get her fixed properly soon 😢
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I like the way you said it sounds like a serious problem, but I’ll keep riding anyway 😏 not normally a good idea 🤔
Poor Daisy, a bit of cleaning needs to be done, not to mention repairs after this video! Check out Naim's channel here, and tell him to upload more frequently!
www.youtube.com/@thefrenchbullet4246
Daisy Bell sounds as if shes got a bad cough, hope she gets better soon..
Lots of TLC this week and hopefully she'll be right as rain 👍
I had that problem for a while on my 2013 Bullet. I carried extra studs, nuts, and a wrench. But there was no way to stop it. Even red Loctite wouldn't work on something that got that hot. I finally replaced the studs and nuts with bolts, then drilled the heads of the bolts and safety wired them. Haven't had a problem since.
Good to know it's not just me and poor Daisy having this problem! Think its the third or fourth time it's happened? Certainly the worst one yet though! I'll have to look into that 🤔
Love the adjusted animation at the start 😂
Glad it didn't go unnoticed 😂
Great beginning.
Well bloody hell, mate, that was an adventure. Exhaust studs can be real buggers to fix. It's a breeding ground for corrosion. Locktite, safety wire, pinch nuts (like nyloc nuts, but no plastic to melt) can keep everything together. Now I gotta go check Oddball's nuts. Yes, I said it. :)
I'll look into pinch nuts! Cheers Brian 😂
Wow that was an adventure! Glad you made it home. Poor old Daisy wasn’t sounding too happy. And thanks for saying where pillion came from I’ve always wondered about that word.
Only found out over the weekend as we were discussing it before the ride, imagine my shock when it was from Irish!
Love this video Bullet. Some familiar places and some familiar faces. Hope Daisy Bell is feeling all better now 🙂👋🏼
Cheers Saddlebags! Haven't had the chance to fix the things and clean her up yet, but all scheduled this week along with a service 👍
Magic shirt to jacket switcharooney in the first 30 seconds was smooth 😄.
When the bubbling song started, all I could hear is "who lives in a pineapple under the sea...." 😂
Glad you managed to sing back home I would say 😄👍.
After our Instagram messages yesterday, one of the first things I did this morning was check the bolts on Hans 😂
Unintentional while filming I assure you, but happy it worked out in the edit 😅 Haha, with the sea theme of Hook Lighthouse and everything it's probably the closest this channel will get to Spongebob 😂 Hopefully Hans doesn't start pulling this naughty trick Daisy likes to do 🤞
ive a classic 350 and heinkel tourist 1966 103 A2. Similar age to yerslef. id be happy to go on a few trips with ye.
Wonderful video Brendon, a little TLC and she'll be good as new!
Cheers Wally, hope so! 🤞
And that ladies and gents is why you always clean off your exhaust or they rust out 😂
".......f e c k" 😂 hilarious foreboding too, love it 😄
Sometimes it's all you can say 🤷♂😂 May be a little more time yet til we can do a bike meetup 😅
Hahaha love the bells of doom tolling :) I heard the zorst note change and the unaccustomed back fire hahaha A similar thing happened to me years ago when my front pipe and the muffler parted after a spirited ride through the Galloway forest "raiders road" , a gravelly "off road" route.. Wotta racket it made, and lost power too, I had to lie on my back at the side of the road and kick the two parts together hahahaha what larks :) all good clean fun :) At least yer Ma could hear you miles away and get the kettle on for you :))))) Biking teacher you resilience and self reliance. Thread lock ????
Glad to hear the bells of doom aren't tolling unappreciated 🔔 Raiders Road looks phenomenal! These things are such a panic at the time, but once you've limped home with the problem loudly announcing your arrival, it's always good for a laugh and a sit down with a cup of tea 😁 Thought about thread lock, but the problem is I've had the bolts shear before, and if they sheared off on the engine side I'd be afraid I wouldn't be able to get them out! Maybe for the nuts, but maybe its good to let them 'breathe'? 🤔 It's a conundrum!
ach it's all character building. My 1987 K75 stopped , just packed up at 40mph, I was with a lad riding a new GS thing and he was round eyed with panic. "How you gonna get home he said" , "same way as I got here" I said. He looked on in amazement when I nearly stripped the bike at the side of the road, found a broken earth wire and sorted it ( I carry a ton of bits and bobs and tools, crimped on a new connector, (told you I carry stuff" used my trust Gerber mulltitool, can recommend, and we were away in 20 minutes . More power to your arm young Sir :)@@BulletWanderer Oh and Dumfries and Galloway is a wee gem for bikes, not too far from you by ferry, BUT let's keep it secret right ? :)
A couple of years ago wife and I were out and about with our 500 (sidecar) in SW Wisconsin (great roads !).... We didn't the " gong of doom " to foresee a Royal Enfield moment. We were riding along waving at the farmers and suddenly the muffler broke from the head pipe. The bracket from the muffler to the frame had lost the bolt. When we got back to the cities my guy at the dealership had a near new replacement from another bike that the owner had changed to a " performance pipe "... How much " performance " it produced is questionable. These one lung paint shakers need to be given the once over often.... Grab..shake everything.... . fenders.. exhaust... Now if I remove anything... I use Loc-tic on bolts and nuts unless it's an adjustment piece. And a suggestion for us out of towners.... when you mention going between cities ... possible add... ( 25 miles ) ,,, on the screen .. ? Great vid.... keep Daisy going. 😎
"A Royal Enfield moment", well put 😂 Not sure how well performance pipes affect RE's either haha, but lucky for you! 'One lung paint shakers', I'll be using that term in a future video, cheers 😁 And I'll take your suggestion on board of distances travelled 👍 Thanks Mike!
A spare nuts and bolts of every kind is kind a good idea.. Stash it somewhere with the tools 😀
I'll be carrying a tool roll and a spare parts roll soon 😂 Definitely will stash some nuts and bolts somewhere!
Lovely video Brendan, what would life be without adventure?
Exactly! 😄
Bike sounds like it could do with a good service and a wash and brush up.
Absolutely! Service booked in next week, gotta wash her myself before 🤞
Love Daisy! she'll hold.
Very foolish to keep riding when it was obvious the exhaust was starting to blow,if you’d have checked it out at the first sound difference you’d have been able to fix it quickly and not lost any fixings ( copper exhaust pinch nuts are the best for this application)👍🏻
I know, but on these roads there wasn't much good spots to pull in, I figured just getting to Hook Head and taking a proper look there would be the best thing 😅 I'll look into Copper Exhaust pinch nuts, cheers!
You unlocked a new feature: Chortle Mode. When I took my exhaust off to fix the rear brake lever, there's a copper crush washer that had to be replaced, or it will sound throaty.
"Chortle Mode" 😆I see, does that copper crush washer go between the exhaust pipe and the engine itself, or the collar and the exhaust pipe? 🤔 Unless she spat it out during this video (its the first time she fully ejected the exhaust!), I don't think I remember seeing one there before.
@@BulletWandererit sits inside the exhaust head and the pipe squashes it. We tried reusing the old one, and it wouldn't tighten up properly and kept making that noise until we got a new one on. I just watched a vid installing Hitchcock pipe and they did same thing, can't remember who thought. Cheers, Bullet Wanderer.
@@MrMomo182If you haven’t a replacement exhaust header pipe to cylinder head gasket , use some exhaust paste, smeared on the existing gasket . The heat of the engine running will harden & help the old gasket to seal the header pipe & exhaust port on cylinder head . I have done this few times on various motorcycles for decades . 👍
Great video Brendon glad you got home OK um did you not think to stop and do some spannering🤔 😊
Cheers Jason! Day didn't turn out how I expected 😂 I figured we were so close to Hook Head anyways, I would try sort it out there 😅
To be a Royal Enfield owner is to be a Royal Enfield mechanic.
Thanks good to know
Just found your channel, love Hook Head, family from Camolin County Wexford, although live in London now, but get back to see my mum as often as possible. Ride a Moto Guzzi myself, so get “interesting” bikes.
Cheeers, Stuart, good to have you here! Hook Head is one of my favourite spots too, if you couldn't tell 😆 Naim, who's riding pillion in this video, just bought a Moto Guzzi too! Hoping to get to take it for a spin next time I visit him in France 😂
Ah, a soon you said "she seems louder, but maybe I imagined it", I knew you didn't imagine it. Had it a few times with Badger and I stopped to check out the exhaust. I could always give the bolts a bit of tight up, but the loudness would persist - typical blown exhaust gasket issue and then with the extra play, the bolts like to vibrate themselves off.
I once crafted a roadside gasket by stripping of the seal rope of an abandoned stove door, teasing out a few strands and with some grease from the drive chain made then sticky and lined the inside of the exhaust's port. It held for 500 km until I replaced it with a proper gasket.
Here's what I did to stop blowing out the gaskets: Stopped using the standard gaskets and replace them with a copper one (no more blow outs!) As usual I ordered 10 of them from India making their price per piece a whole lot cheaper then ordering a single one from mr H. And then safe but sure put on an extra nut to lock the nuts. Happy days after that!
Cheers Franky! Fair play, with the roadside fix for Badger! I'll have to look into ordering those copper ones from India, you don't happen to have a link to them handy do you?
Daisy spat her dummy out good and proper this time.
😂😂 well said!
Nice video (and view for that matter, with all the weather and gopro shenanigans). By the way (I'm not 100% sure but) I guess that Nyloc nut is not supposed to be used where heat is involved (although in an emergency as it was the case here it doesn't matter all that much).
Cheers! Good to know, I guess the heat can melt the nyloc over time? In this case, I didn't even have enough thread left over to reach the nyloc on the nut anyhow 😂
Never had any problems for 22.000km
Maybe you should clean her more often then you would see that coming before it happens!
Or don’t change the exhaust for aftermarket’s.. on my everything except the seat is original.
True, but Daisy’s past 50,000kms 😅 agreed though, it’s just in Ireland every time I clean her she gets just about as mucky the next time I ride haha . I don’t blame the bike though , despite any issues that arise , I love it and wouldn’t trade it for the world.
You ignored ALL the warning signs…wow
Just my observation.
You throttle very hard like fast bikes.
And as this is not stock exhaust you throttle hard to hear that thump sound.
Also spark plug or engine oil levels is the issue I doubt.
You have a nice bikers group.
BSA was awesome but ❤ for bullet always.
Normally I don't throttle so hard, but today riding pillion (And I presume cos of the spark plug issue), I was throttling extra hard, and paid the price! Engine oil levels should be fine as I recently checked it, but definitely think spark plug was a big culprit for this. Agree with you there, wouldn't trade my Bullet for anything, issues and all. 😁
How on earth did that come loose??
Think it was down to needing a new spark plug, and because of that I was over-revving the engine, and also having a passenger meant extra revving anyways, all this putting extra vibrations on the parts and resulting in the two bolts failing to hold the exhaust collar 😅 If I replaced the spark plug, I suspect it may not have happened at all!
As soon as I heard the bubbles I knew exactly what happened 😂. Ive found mine getting loose before. I've had the exhaust off of my classic 500 and it had me cracking up😅. Easy fix pardner 🍻😁👍
I'm glad to know i'm not alone, cheers John! 😁 Gonna take a proper look at it this weekend, and get her serviced next week 👍
My friend bought a brand new Harley something or other and in 70 miles the exhaust headers came off
I think the first time I had this problem happen, she was at about 7,000 miles? Quite a few more than the poor Harley 😅
Why didn’t you check for looseness?
Laziness/optimism really 😅 lesson learned!!
@@BulletWanderer lol 👍
Can't decide if you are the most unlucky or the luckiest biker in Ireland...... loosing all your fittings but then managing to find a random nut to fit your exhaust !
A little bit of both, but I'd say the unlucky part is self inflicted mainly 😂 Funny thing was I noticed that nut there earlier that day, it was stuck to the magnet inside the tank bag, proved to be very handy as there was no other nut in my saddlebags! Lesson learned... again 😂
carry spares
Will be doing that from now on! 😂
Are there no hardware stores anywhere near there? Just asking, not judging. Ok, maybe judging just a bit. Having a cold air leak on the exhaust valve is not great. Good thing you’ve got that old brick of a motor.
Nope, heading right home was closer than any hardware stores; she was grand after . 👍
Brendon! I recommended this site for you before, and I will do it again. It is specific to the RE B5 & C5. The gent dedicates it mostly to maintenance, but there is also preventative maintenance too. All gleaned from his personal Experiance owning something like 15 Bullets & C5's. One of the aspects I admire most about your videos is that you keep it real, and post the positive along with the negatives. Keep up the good work and quality of your work! Long Live Miss Daisey Bell! BTW - I think the stone that hit Marty's motor bike was the exhaust stud with nut that worked it's way out of your exhaust port. youtube.co/@RandomRides-hh8ex?si=XYSGd1KmQqJzAStv
Cheers George, I'll have a watch of the Best Spark Plug for the 500 clip as that seems most apt now 😅 Is he the same as Ride with Warro? I guess he's experimenting with starting a new channel 🤨 Glad you appreciate me sharing the bad and the good, sometimes I'm hesitant to upload clips where things go awry, but I think ultimately they're usually better stories, and people are usually very supportive! 😂
Yes, that is the same gent from Australia, Warro. Other main site is Ride with Warro. RandomRides is specifically for RE 500's made from 2009 to 2020. He said he was going to do 30 episodes if there was enough interest, but he seems to only have done a hand full. Watch them all, you should get a lot out of it. Cheers!
Here is a decent tip also, but from the main site. Search " Royal Enfield 500 - Engine Vibration Fix ". Hitchcocks Head Steadies.
Have you ever checked out Hitchcocks Head Steadied?
Buy a Triumph 😂
I love my Bullet, wouldn't trade it for the world, problems and all 😁
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Bro, I hate to be an asshole but.. Why did you keep riding after hearing bubbles? Now you should have the whole block checked for microfissures, the temp differential around the gasket can crack the entire thing.
probably could ,, As I could win the lottery, If anything the lean mixture will cause more problems and even then I doubt much will happen
When I started hearing the bubbles there wasn't really anywhere good to pull in, and we were about 3 minutes ride from our destination anyways so I figured I'd check it there. She's going in for a service next week so we'll see what happens 🤞