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Sagebrush posted:The hottest fins on an air-cooled engine get up to what, 500 degrees? If the bike is running decently in 90 degree weather, I don't think an extra 20 is going to make a whole lot of difference to cooling system efficacy. Maybe on the racetrack, but not commuting.
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Snowdens Secret posted:There's a fairly recent recall out on the 2006-09 Street Triple / Daytona 675 R/R. If you think you might be able to take advantage of it or at least get some cash for your old dead reg you might want to look into it. I have my old r/r from my wrecked 07, wonder if I can get something for it. I think it works though.
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Oct 9, 2012 19:32
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Sold it...sold my 1998 KDX200 after many miles, crashes, injuries and fun. May be headed to look at a bike tomorrow which will be bought only to trade for a fun track toy.
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Oct 10, 2012 00:53
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Schlieren posted:I don't even think that's possible on an air-cooled bike, is it? It's literally a pain. I came out of Sturgis this summer with a first degree burn on my right thigh from the Buell, which doesn't cool itself properly below 50mph/3krpm. Mechanically, it did fine. But I was an afterthought for sure.
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Oct 10, 2012 01:07
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Today, I gave a bike hope. I brought it home. It's a 2001 SV650s that was a short-lived track toy, then a failed streetfighter project, then a legitimate daily driver. The guy I bought it from was the daily-er, but during his ownership, had a 4th kid with his wife, so the bike took was given the back-burner treatment for about a year.  All the important bits are there, but it's going to need a decent going over. At the very least, I need to: - clean the carbs - do all the fluids - new brake pads, battery, chain, As for the non-essentials, it needs: - a subframe - headlight and associated gauge to make it a naked, but I'll keep the clipons - fairings and a paintjob if I feel like it It's going to be a track bike after I get it running, and then I'll slowly rebuild it at my leisure until it's streetable, at which point I'll sell my Ninjette. It has a title. I got it for $200   I got it back kind of late tonight, so all I did was dremel off the old chain and dive into the carbs, but I figure I'll be able to crank it in a few days.  You'll be back on the road in no time buddy 
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Oct 10, 2012 05:05
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I suppose that's a pretty decent deal  Want to buy some SV parts?!?!?! (I'm thinking about selling mine (shocker))
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Oct 10, 2012 05:11
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Please yes, the last thing I want to deal with is eBay. PM me with what you have if (when) you do end up selling out.
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Oct 10, 2012 05:14
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Replaced the battery with a Motobatt battery, I think the RR might've cooked the battery since 2 days in a row I had to chuck it on a charger before the bike would start. weird part is that the bike started for me every morning this week, Anyway, after replacing the battery I did notice that the old one was a bit warped, it looks like it's been sucked in on both sides 
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Oct 11, 2012 09:04
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Finally got my new back tyre fitted yesterday and wrestled the wheel back into place before breakfast. Celebrated by enraging cagists on the way to work. Old BT016 mysteriously deflated with no sign of an entry or exit wound - suspect a bad valve. My LBS fitted some sort of big gently caress-off monster valve, it's like the Seattle tower. No really, I think it's a Skymall product. It probably makes toast as well as retaining air. The 016 must be a very light tyre, because it wasn't even down to cords and I swear it was only a couple of mm thick in the centre. Impressive or worrying, depending on how you see these things.
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Oct 11, 2012 21:57
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Replaced the handlebars on the Buell (PO bent them). Spent hours fiddling around with the throttle somehow sticking, only to discover that my throttle return cable is super frayed which either wasn't an issue with the housing having been set up just so previously, or maybe I just made it worse when taking it off/putting it back on. No idea how something like that breaks in just 8k miles. At least maybe this means my slow return to idle wasn't due to the intake manifold rubbers, we'll see.
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Oct 13, 2012 18:48
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well I didn't wreck it.. but I almost did. The CB125's brake stay bolt sheared off when I hit the back brake. The brake rod wrapped itself around the rear axle a couple times. The centerstand pin which is also the brake pedal mount is bent all to hell and the brake pedal is sticking out at a 45 degree angle. I'm hoping that's the extent of the damage though... I haven't pulled the drum off to see if the shoes are hosed up or a spring snapped or something. Kinda scary when you're going around a curve at 2/3 the bike's max speed (40mph)
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Oct 14, 2012 23:10
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Ordered all the replacement parts after my crash. I will say that Aprilia actually prices their parts pretty well. The foot peg assembly I ordered was 20$ cheaper than on my SV650, the tail plastic I needed was 50$ and so on. Pretty happy all up.
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Oct 15, 2012 00:25
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A new throttle push cable for the Buell is gonna be $100, well it's $50 if I order it in the US but then there's shipping. I think I'm going to try and replace just the inner cable first.
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Oct 15, 2012 18:05
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High Protein posted:A new throttle push cable for the Buell is gonna be $100, well it's $50 if I order it in the US but then there's shipping. I think I'm going to try and replace just the inner cable first. It might just have gotten some dirt down in it. They make throttle cable cleaner and lube. We had that problem once with my honda. VVV lovely. Errant Gin Monks fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Oct 15, 2012 |
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Oct 15, 2012 18:24
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Errant Gin Monks posted:It might just have gotten some dirt down in it. They make throttle cable cleaner and lube. We had that problem once with my honda. It's completely frayed, unfortunately.
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Oct 15, 2012 18:49
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Spent the weekend wiring and fiddling with my new battery and electrics project. I got everything together and routed, but I probably will redo this based on some lessons learned along the way. Here are some pics: First a couple "before" shots of the old battery box and electrics.   The bikes stock wiring had One Fuse To Rule Them All. I wired in that fuse block ($10 from O'Reilly) to convert to Suzuki's 1 + 3 fuse system for later bikes. Otherwise, my coil relay is the only real mod to the wiring. The new set up swaps in a Shorai (could not resist the sexy, sexy lithium) battery and an FH014 R/R from a 2008 CBR which will be . Here is that battery next to the old one.  I went back-and-forth from several earlier tray designs, trying to tuck the battery into the front tray. All options there, however left me with either a rear wheel clearance issue behind the box, or more of a visible box than I want. The new set up eliminated the old wooden platform I had before. That piece did 2 things (a) level my seat on the frame using the hinges (which sit about 3/8" above the frame tubes; and (b) provided a platform to mount my tail-light signals and plate. I kept a piece of the old board in the center for leveling, but in the next iteration, spacers on the bottom of the seat are a better way to do this. For the tail light, I fabbed up an extension from some aluminum angle bar, riveted that to the back half of the pan and bolted it (and the pan) to the old fender mount holes.  I drilled some holes to ventilate that battery box. Then I re-routed the wires to the new location and drilled more holes, installed grommets and snaked the wires into place. Where the pan or tray have flat edges near the wiring, I covered them with some black press-on auto panel trim. Here's what turned out:   This is functional and close to what I want. So, I'll use it for now, while I work up a cleaner new version. The next iteration will benefit from lessons on this one, especially with respect to routing the wires and drilling holes. A number of these could have been placed better had I followed a different sequence.
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Oct 15, 2012 21:17
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Reassembled my Ducati for the first time. It's been looking like this since about 2 owners ago when someone totalled it: Until today after I got the parts back from a painter and put them back on:  The paint still has some issues that will hopefully be resolved this winter with some more clearcoats. And the bodywork has more issues due to what looks like a bent radiator (???) causing the panels to not line up with each other under the engine. Not sure what I'll be able to do about that. Also needs a wash and a new left muffler that's in the mail curently. Anyway, as when you launch ships you have to hit them with a champagne bottle, when you inaugurate Ducatis you have to go here:  Jesus christ those coffees are expensive. But then while I was riding for a few hours I stopped and noticed something was a bit funny. Did you see it in the second photo? I didn't notice it until about 45 minutes after that photo:   Amazingly enough, the axle, despite being entirely out of the right side adjusting block, was still in the swingarm slot. So my drivetrain didn't explode. So I rode the 70 miles back home, looking under my right knee to see where the axle was, and stopping every 30 minutes to kick the axle back in from the left side. No biggie. But now I'll have to wait 4 months to get the parts from Italy.
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Oct 15, 2012 21:43
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That is a real nice bike! You drove home with that axle?  I would've called some friends with a van.
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Oct 15, 2012 21:57
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:
That is insane. 70 miles with no axle nut?
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Oct 15, 2012 21:59
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Fuuuuuuuck! I would have been making GBS threads myself so hard. Nice bike anyway.
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Oct 16, 2012 09:36
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 Brb, making sure my axle nut is tight and secure.
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Oct 16, 2012 09:47
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That makes me want to safety wire everything on my bike.
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Oct 18, 2012 22:45
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xd posted:That makes me want to safety wire everything on my bike. As a Buell owner, safety wire (we call it Harley wire) is part of my everyday toolkit.
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clutchpuck posted:As a Buell owner, safety wire (we call it Harley wire) is part of my everyday toolkit. You don't use the red safety wire in a plastic bottle?
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Oct 21, 2012 03:21
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I wouldn't have even noticed my axle was hanging out, thank god for cotter pins! Still, it's a beautiful bike!
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Oct 21, 2012 08:06
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I went to a buddies place to take off and remount my rear tire so I can clean all the grass and dirt out of it after crashing. He has a no-mar tire changing machine, its pretty slick and surprisingly easy to do. Except for balancing. That is some weird voodoo magic.
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Oct 23, 2012 05:02
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Changed the exhaust on my Honda. I removed the db killers but came to a conclusion that the bike was a bit too loud and decided to put them back. 
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Oct 23, 2012 07:02
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Speaking of loud look at that logo.
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Oct 24, 2012 04:56
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Went back and re-did the battery box and electrics tray for a bit of a cleaner look:  
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Chain and sprockets, almost. JT front, supersprox rear. DID x-ring chain. My harbor freight chain tool can't push the pins through the plate before I try to set the rivets, so I'm stuck until I get something higher quality. I took a picture of what came off. I knew it was in stupidly bad shape, and rode it 800 miles before parts showed up.  Points to note: rollers broken off, broken teeth on rear sprocket, horribly hooked front sprocket. I found a couple of rollers in the sprocket cover when I took that off. It sounded really, really, really bad the last few hundred miles.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Chain and sprockets, almost. I used vice grips to get the pins through the plate the first time I did a chain. After that I got the Motion Pro chain tool which works well if you're careful. I've broken the breaker pin and rivet pins though. I think the HF tool is pretty much just for breaking.
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Drunk Pledge Driver posted:I used vice grips to get the pins through the plate the first time I did a chain. After that I got the Motion Pro chain tool which works well if you're careful. I've broken the breaker pin and rivet pins though. I think the HF tool is pretty much just for breaking. I've got vice grips; I'll give that a shot. I have a hardened steel punch I ground to profile to rivet the pins. I load that in the HF tool and it worked pretty well to rivet. I use the standard pin to break the chain.
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Oct 27, 2012 21:06
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I ground the head of the old rivet with a cutoff wheel/dremel before pressing out the old link. I went slow and covered up the surrounding area from metal shavings, made it a lot easier even on a small cam chain. I've read that some of the companies require you to grind the head on larger chains (530?).
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Sold my beat-to-hell '88 Hawk GT last week. This weekend I bought my new ride! Today begins the mild wrenching. Previous owner apparently didn't know how to turn a singular bolt, the controls and gear shifter are in horrific positions, comfort and rideability wise, so they're both getting adjusted the moment I get home from work. Woo. Also pulling the battery from my buddy's '89 Hawk because it keeps completely draining trying to start in the chilly weather with no choke cable...
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Oct 29, 2012 20:53
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Traitor.
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Oct 30, 2012 08:02
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Hawk GTs came out when I was in high school, and were the most awesomest bikes ever...now they're just old beaters that need to be phased out. *snif*
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Oct 30, 2012 08:08
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Man, I want to get a Hawk GT someday, when I have the room for a second bike. They look super cool.
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Bucephalus posted:Hawk GTs came out when I was in high school, and were the most awesomest bikes ever...now they're just old beaters that need to be phased out. *snif* but but but you could invest $10k and have a bike that's somewhat competitive in vintage classes!!!!!
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Oct 30, 2012 16:47
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Mine was mildly hosed in a lot of ways. I bought it for $900, sold it for $700 when I found the front sprocket was welded to the countershaft. Just don't have the space or money to work on it right now. When I've got a garage or a spare room or something in the future, hopefully in my next place, I'd like to build a street fightered Hawk from the frame up with one of Hordpower's 700cc engines. 
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Haha, I had a feeling you were that guy. Guess you didn't need my cowl after all.
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