Tried to find a fuel leak coming from the Monkey, as the garage stank of petrol. Not even 1000 miles; I thought Hondas were meant to be reliable. Ashamed of myself for instantly thinking it was the Ducati.
Hosepipe only, that’s all that’s needed. Mate had his panzer coated, I can’t believe how much crap isn’t stuck to the bike in the first instance after a spin and how easy the hosepipe gets the rest off in the second.
As I have nothing better to do (in self isolation), I have washed and re-proofed my ancient Rukka textile trousers. I was looking at buying a new pair from the recently superseded Nivala range as they are being quite heavily discounted but £20 on the Rukka recommended cleaning and re-proofing kit looks like I’m not going to have to. I may have been educated in Yorkshire for a short time but some lessons stay with you Andy
Agree with @Multirider75 ..get it PPF now El T before it turns a wheel, far better protection than ceramic coating especially on the nosecone of the fairing, also get the seat hump PPF,…I caught the seat hump with my helmet one day just standing too close to the bike when I took it off, left a mark on the PPF , so I just took it off and cut another piece to replace it, job jobbed
I saw a bayliss at ducati Nottingham yesterday, must say they look better in the flesh than in pictures
Replaced the oil level sight glass on the BMW project. Simple job if the sight glass had not been sealed in with some epoxy type glue! Why oh why? Old one out eventually, new one in lightly oiled. Took over an hour for a 15 minute tops job. I can actually see the oil level now!
The fitter clearly had no confidence that it would seal or else bodged the insertion in some way? That’s still not such a long time for that particular task read some folk have taken 4hours plus to remove the offending item. From memory took me around the same time as you and that with no bonding agent present.
Whilst SWMBO went shopping in the Trafford centre I went to Ducati Manchester to sort out getting delivery back of my scrambler, arranging having the Bayliss delivered to the ceramic coating company, arranging for it to then be delivered to my house and the V2 to be collected at the same time. Oh and I then paid for all this.
Normally I simple put an old screw driver through the plastic lens heated to melt my way in. Seen people knock a screw driver through and end up with bits everywhere, worse still straight through the steel back. No debris and then let it cool.Use my seal puller and out they come! No need to drop the oil just lean the bike and support. No idea why epoxy had been used as it’s a 5 thou interference fit rubber to Ali bore. Must have done the same job many times on Bikes first for me! Live and learn
