Hope everyone is well, Not been on in a while. Busy, Life etc..

I need some help with the YBR..

I took a trip to Cambridge and back to Peterborough and after the trip, there was a new sound from the engine. sound like its coming from the top end.

A sort of whirring, winding sound but only under load. So when accelerating. Just holding speed I could not hear it.

The bike has been running fine. No issues with it running etc but I was concerned about this new sound so I decided to investigate today.

I took out the cam shaft to check it out and make sure the bearings are ok as well as other tings. All seemed good in the top end so no clue as to where the sound was coming from there.

But upon putting it all back together it went to Cinnamon Swirl. The cam chain decided it was not going to seat correctly on the bottom end and slipped about 45 degrees. So now when the TDC mark was in the right spot on the magneto, the cam sprocket TDC marking was no longer at the top is was on the left point forward. Oh yay. and it did not sound healthy.. obv...

So some messing about and I got it to seat correctly but the bike would not start and sounded like it lacked compression. Virtually no resistance felt on the kick start. Oh Cinnamon Swirl. Has that things skipping teeth caused a valve to get bent?

So I went on a mission to take a look at the valves.. What fun dismantling an engine is. Took it apart enough for me to get in there and take a look. And do you know what I found?

Sweet Éclair all. It "looks" fine but looks can be deceiving. Before I started taking the top end apart, the engine sounded quite rough when turning over. So Once it was all back together I took the little adjusters out of the rockers so they would not move the valves much. They still pushed on them a small amount a few mm. I tuned the engine over to hear how it sounded and this time it sounded fine. Still Éclair all compression though.

I put the valves back together and tried to start it. Apart from the engine not sounding like its got rocks in it, it still did not start and still Éclair all compression.

Is a valve slightly bent out of shape maybe? I can get some new valves. Just a ball ache to get the engine apart again to fit them. Or could buy a new top end that has the valves in it already.

This could all be a deep rabbit hole that I am about to go down when it may not even be the issue. It could be bad luck and timing and something else is wrong.. who knows.

Also, when i say it wont start, Theres no attempt at all not even a little pop or bang here and there. Just turns over and over and over and over. With little compression. I took the spark plug out and plugged the hole with my thumb and turned it over. There is a little compression there but I can hold it in with my thumb and thats not something that should be possible. There is also a spark and Im sure there is fuel as the pump is running and i can smell it when i had the exhaust off.

A friend just gave me a bike lift. Looks like its going to get some use sooner than I thought.

Ill add some pictures I managed to take. Maybe someone can spot something I didn't or thought was normal.

That will teach me for going on a missing to find the source of a noise!

Cheers blokes and galls.

Just need some opinions on this as I think my ECU is faulty.

The bike does run and work with all lights etc working and so on.

It's just the bike does not rev up to 2k rpm on cold start like it should. It was working intermittently but not any more.

I noticed that the clocks on this bike are not the correct one as they should be white not black. And the white speedo/clocks like on my stolen YBR Custom had a diagnostic light on the right side vs on the black one a right indicator light. Some non custom YBR's do have the same diag light on the black clocks but most just have the indicator light. And to confuse it even more there's a 3rd style of clocks. I suppose I could buy the 3rd style that does have a diag light too but id have to check the wires are the same.

I want to get the white version but they are expensive when they pop up.. The reason for this explanation is to cover what I was trying to do today.

So I thought I could just wire that diag wire to the right indicator light and use it as my diag light. There is a wire in the connector of the loom that does not connect to anything in the connector to the clocks and the wiring diagram confirms this is the wire that would go to that diag light if I had the right clocks for the bike.

But up on trying to get this working I found that I'm not getting a voltage on that wire when turning on the ignition. When the fuel pump primes the diag light is supposed to come on.

I say no voltage, there is but it's wrong. When I turn the ignition on I am getting -0.25 volts. Once the fuel pump stops priming the voltage is 0. When forcing an error by unplugging the fuel pump the voltage starts bouncing around between 0.2v and 1v

From that behaviour I am guessing the ECU is a little faulty. Do you think the same?

A replacement on eBay currently is £40 or more so I don't want to spend that money and have it not fix the issue with the diag light and the bike not reving up when cold. Especially while I am only getting SSP. (Back to work in about 2 weeks)

A reminder not to follow to closely in slow moving traffic.....

Bad habbit of mine and it finaly bit me on the ass as they say.

Appoching a set of lights that had changed to green so everyone was moving off as me and the car in front got to the traffic so we slowed but never stopped... until she decided to slam on the brakes and come to a stop from about 10-15 mph. Her car is a new 71 plate and it stopped IMMEDIATELY.. and I was just a little to close. Hit the back of her in full front and back brake as hard as I could.

Slow imacpt but an impact non the less.

Her bumper had a scuff and scratch to some of the paint work where my screen/headlight came into contact.

My bike has slightly bent forks. Was able to ride away and damaged mud guard. so not to bad overall.

Me... I did not fall off as it was to slow for that to happen but I did not come out of it ok.

Thanks to grabbing a fist full of front brake as you do when Cinnamon Swirl hits the fan my hand, arm and wrist took the impact. It hurt a bit after but was fine riding the rest of the way to work.

But during the shift the pain got worse and worse and I could not move it at all or hold any weight.

Over NINE HOURS in A&E (midnight to 9.30am) later with an xray it seems i might have fractured my scaphoid. So my had is in a brace to stop it moving up and down. Back in 10 days or so for a 2nd xray to confirm if it is fractured.

10 days off work as well.


So moral of the strory... keep your distance cus one day your luck will run out!

I used all my luck for this year by leaving my keys in my top box lock and they where still hanging there somehow when i got to work! 

And for the most stupid thing ever... like.. ever..

The rear tyre is on... BACKWARDS. 

I feel so stupid for putting it on backerds a few months ago

I stopped at a roundabout, the woman behind me did not.... Crunch. Was about a 5-10 mph hit at the most. I'm glad there was no one else coming round the outside lane of the roundabout or that would of been game over.

Bike got a few battle scars for it, Bent clutch and footpeg, Broken mirror and rear left indicator and cracked rear mud guard. And it feels like the handle bars are also slightly bent.

Otherwise all seems ok. Got a nice bruise on my knee where it hit the road. Sadly I did not have my bike pants on as they where soaked Monday in all the rain. I bet my whole left side is gonna be sore in the morning!

The thing is, The woman says she just wants to pay me to get my bike fixed. Im not gonna take anyone for a ride and I said it would be £147 for the parts on ebay. I have sent her the payment info to send me the money but no money, and no reply to the txt that she has seen. I got photos of my bike and her car.

If I don't hear back from her by tomorrow afternoon I will tell her Ill go via insurance to get this sorted.

Her reg shows as insured (doesnt mean she is) but she said she was not sure who she is insured with so Ill have to get my insurance to do the leg work and find out.

Fun times ahead. Only had the bike for like 8 months! And not long changed the parts that just got broke again 

Quite some heavy rain today and boy did my new ybr not like that!

Managed to get her started and it cut out a few times, made it the 3 mile ride to work with a few splutters here and there.

When trying to start it just turned over and over with bo signs of life.
I had to bump it to get it going. Once running if it cut out it would strugglemto start on the electric starter but it get there.

Where do you think water is getting in to casue this? I was thinking around the spark plug..easy fix if that's it.

Popped into Tesco last night on the way home as I almost always do..

Left the lid on the mirror like I have done for quite litraly 20 years of riding. Unless I am going to be gone from the bike for more than 10 mins then Ill lock it up or take it with me.

But tonight I come out sort my shopping out and was kinda lost for a second as it dawned on me my lid was Éclairing GONE.

Good Éclairing job I have my old one still.... Had to ride home slow and steady 2 miles without a lid. Good job there was no police about 

I'll call the shopping centre in the morning and find out if they saw anything on CCTV... Camera facing the other way no doubt!

Good RIDENCE to the Chinese POS I cant find parts for and is falling to bits...

And hello YBR Custom... Ive had 2 of them before so this will be the 3rd.

Will be arriving tomorrow and I am so very much looking forward to being able to ride anywhere I want on a whim and not have to worry about the bike actaully surviving the trip!

Crdit where it is due though... the Engine on this Wuyang has been ROCK SOLID... Shame about the rest of the bike!