(small) Bike Things You've Done Today

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by Cream_Revenge, Nov 15, 2018.

  1. Nice. My superlight is due an MOT in the next week or two
     
  2. Booked Almeria 4 days Sept 22nd.

    I'm fucking addicted
     
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  3. Yesterday, took my 19 year old son, and his bike, up to Three Sisters race circuit, so he could complete his CTC and BRA for his ACU Race License
     
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  4. Had a new pair of Metzeler Racetec RR K3’s fitted to the R6 and not before time too, date stamp on the old Pirelli Diablo Corse was 2012 :scream: Andy
     
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  5. As you gave me a dislike i've my voodoo doll out.;)
     
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  6. I can only apologise and it has now been corrected. I really should wear my reading glasses more often
     
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  7. Me too, i've been testing my eyes for the past two weeks on here with no glasses on.!........but quite frankly my dear i finished.
     
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  8. Today I took out the front wheel on my ST4 to get new bearings fitted as it seemed to 'rumble' a bit. When I took off the mudguard, one of the plastic cups the bolts go in fell apart so now i've got to repair that or get a new mudguard!!:mad::mad:
     
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  9. New Pgm arrived today for the Nsr250 (yes another one!) so fitted that and a pair of genuine Honda coils I managed to source the other week, I’ll test to see if I’ve cured the problem in a week when the rain stops.
     
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  10. Absolutely nothing. And the weather looks shite this weekend, so probably nothing for a few days.
     
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  11. Rode back home briskly and on a very long, scenic route from P&O ferries in hull.

    Cleaned my kit from a weeks grime in Germany, Holland & Belgium. Cleaned the bike too.

    Next trip is a long weekend in the Brecon Beacons…….can’t wait! :)
     
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  12. 200 mile round trip to the south coast on zee s1000rr.
    Got a numb bum now.
     
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  13. Did a Desmo service on a 749S - fecking tapered collets :mad:.

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    29,000 miles and I’m guessing it has never had a Desmo service in its life, 14 shims needed changing :astonished:. Spookily all closing shims were 4.70 and all openers 2.15 so I’m guessing that’s what was put in at the factory.

    Mind you, knowing what a faff it is and how much owners would get quoted by dealers to do the job it doesn’t surprise me it’s not been done by previous owners.
     
    #4653 West Cork Paul, Jul 13, 2023
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  14. Great work Paul.
     
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  15. deducted that a battery was fucked and swapped it with a "not quite fucked yet" equivalent from the other bike.*

    * cycled to Staines "upon Thames" to get a new one only to find store was shut early due to a computer malfunction. :neutral::(:confused::mad:
     
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  16. Chris, let's look at the positive side of things, you got some free exercise, that means you can fit in more junk food.;)
     
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  17. I fitted 848 stanchions and internals to a Monster 696. Perhaps I should say I fitted Monster 696 outer fork tubes to some 848 forks. Not completely straight forward but I now have adjustable, dual damped forks with linear springs instead of pogo sticks.
    I'm chuffed with that one.
     
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  18. Fixed my Nsr250!! At long bloody last, took it out for testing today and did 52 miles, It ran faultlessly. I checked the Pgm unit about every 15 miles and it never got more than slightly warm which is normal. The reason it kept blowing the Pgm unit was a faulty coil……wish I’d known that £1200 and 100+ hours of my time ago. :sob:
     
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  19. Was morepower any help?
     
  20. I didn’t ask them in the end, I’m a stubborn bugger and don’t like things beating me so I eventually worked it out. It was actually an article I read on the SP1 suffering the same problem that made me twig on to what was causing it.
     
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