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Replaced the fork gaiters, adjusted the headlight aim height, drained the crankcase breather hose. Now to look for some metal clamps tomorrow to replace the plastic strips I had to use on the bottom, as the stock accordion ones only had metal clamps on top.
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Stainless zip ties should work great for that? Biltema, art nr 24391.
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Would those gaitors be safe for a daily ridden bike? On my GS I've had three fork tubes get dinged and start leaking over the past few years because the chrome is super soft or something. If I could avoid that it would be great but having them hold moisture and rust the chrome off.
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Edit: Well, I'd think so. The gaiters is 2 pieces, 1 fastened on top and one on bottom. on the back side of them is a velcro. If there is long periods of rain, or you've been out in a bad rain storm I'd just open the velcro and peel them upwards and downwards like a banana.Nidhg00670000 posted:Stainless zip ties should work great for that? Biltema, art nr 24391. Good call, I'll head there tomorrow. Supradog fucked around with this message at 09:23 on Mar 6, 2014 |
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I went downstairs to check (and inflate) my tires today. Turns out the front was about 10 psi low -- oops! I also did a lap of the parking garage with no helmet and scared myself silly when I did a head check and noticed something following me really close. I realized after a second that I was being tailgated by my tail case.
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Aired the tires, cranked it over and dusted it off. Like, literally dusted, it's been in a parking garage all winter and I took a swiffer to it.
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After the rain we had yesterday washing off my harley felt like washing a dirt bike that just came back after wallowing in mud.
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Mar 10, 2014 15:58
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duct-taped the left signal back on this morning
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Stared longingly at it before getting in my Jeep to go to work. drat you poo poo weather. Wheres spring already 
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I got your spring right here! High of 52 today! Yeah!
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Safety Dance posted:I got your spring right here! High of 52 today! Yeah! We had that two days ago. Went from 5 degrees to 49 in about 4 hours. Bunch of ice expanded in the spigot on the side of my house and exploded pissing a couple hundred gallons of water into my lawn before I got home to notice it. rip.
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Today I fixed the left front blinker. It was just a bit too much corrosion in the bulb holder. Contact cleaner, and some light filing was enough. Also I replaced the plastic strips on the bottom of the fork gaiters with metal ones and put in a new bar end on the throttle side.
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I rode the R1 in ratbike mode today. This thing has been sitting in the backyard for the like 6 years. Swapped the motor, carbs, wiring harness, forks, etc etc from a box of parts I was given. I'd thought about building it like six months ago and had budgeted $1700... Here I am having spent $50 total, everything was free - boxes of parts and the bike.  All I need to do is find a used race tail, some kind of undertray, find a set of race takeoffs, and sort a few things out for a <$500 trackbike.
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gently caress I'm jealous. How the crikey gently caress can anyone, anywhere, build a literbike from a free box of parts?
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It was certainly a weird set of circumstances to get to this point - friend owned the 2000 R1 with a blown motor, new guy started at my job who just moved from Chicago, Il with a 2001 R1 in pieces and traded me the parts in exchange for fixing another R1.  I ended up getting my GSXR750 from another guy at work who bought it off the dude with the blown R1, who prior to that I PPI'd the 750 and rode it home like two years ago. Woooo clusterfuck.edit: I guess my job is a bunch of motorcycle incest, along with coworker incest. edit2: You know what's fun? Dumping the full capacity of the cooling system onto the rear tire while in the middle of wrapping out third gear. Bahahahahahaha. This bike is retarded. What the gently caress am I doing with my life? BlackMK4 fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Mar 13, 2014 |
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What are you doing with your life? Umm winning?
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Safety Dance posted:I went downstairs to check (and inflate) my tires today. Turns out the front was about 10 psi low -- oops! The top-end cacophony didn't scare you before that?
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Coredump posted:What are you doing with your life? Umm winning? To be fair, I haven't slept in almost two days because I ran out of lunesta and I have no idea what's going on right now. I have work in four hours.
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BlackMK4 posted:To be fair, I haven't slept in almost two days because I ran out of lunesta and I have no idea what's going on right now. I have work in four hours. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-vDYOpkoWE
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BlackMK4 posted:It was certainly a weird set of circumstances to get to this point - friend owned the 2000 R1 with a blown motor, new guy started at my job who just moved from Chicago, Il with a 2001 R1 in pieces and traded me the parts in exchange for fixing another R1. Yeah maybe you shouldn't move to CA. You might turn into motorcycle/coworker voltron or something.
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Explain the voltron thing  I'm retarded
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BlackMK4 posted:Explain the voltron thing If we give you too much access to motorcycles and coworkers, you might end up a giant incestuous human/motorcycle/coworker hybrid?
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That sounds loving amazing. 
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Z3n posted:If we give you too much access to motorcycles and coworkers, you might end up a giant incestuous human/motorcycle/coworker hybrid? 
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Checked the valves on my girlfriend's Ninja 250. She had a valve cover leak so I figure I'd check while I'm in there. Gotta replace a few gaskets and do a coolant flush but her bike is looking pretty top! Well, for a Ninja 250, anyway.
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Replaced the oil drainer o-ring on the Hyosung. It has a bizarre setup where the drain plug threads into a round plate about 3" across, which itself is held to the engine casing with 3 8mm bolts. When you take it off, all you see is a machined passage going up with a grate over it which I think is the pickup, and a smaller passage at the side which I assume is a return. I guess it means the engine can't ever starve of oil because it acts like the world's most efficient baffle, and the pickup is right under the center of the gearbox. Anyway, the plate has a groove with an o-ring sitting in it that mates against a flat surface on the engine. Some nupty had replaced the o-ring, then for some reason smeared the whole thing in sealer, thus completely defeating the point of the o-ring. Now there are no more drips on the garage floor and I'd be a whole lot more proud if it weren't a Hyosung 250.
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Lubricated the sticky high/low beam button with some ptfe lube. Lets see how long it lasts.
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Dropped the DRZ cylinder off for 435 bore. Picking it up with a forged piston, hot cams, fresh gaskets, and FCR jets when it's done.
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Whatever that brown orb is made of, its highly polished.
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Zool posted:its highly polished. More than you could say for any DRZ
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You guys are dicks. Sorry about my plebe sumo. I envy every Husky and KTM, trust me.
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I think the main reason that's coming up is because for the typical cost of a DRZ big bore you could sell the DRZ and buy a KTM, husky, or whatever else.
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I guess. I only spent $300 on the bore and piston. The stage 1 hot cams were another $250 though so I suppose you're right.
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I get it, I dumped a lot of money into my DRZ and then had a bike that would only go 100 miles with the oversized tank cause gas mileage was poo poo and it was still blown out of the water by a stock 690. Sold it and bought the 690. What can you do? 
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Move to Scandinavia and fill a shed with Husabergs
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Yerok posted:Move to Scandinavia and fill a shed with Husabergs The best idea.
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If you really want to talk about turd polishing I'll look up the total cost of rebuilding my RD400 from barn find condition.
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Yerok posted:If you really want to talk about turd polishing I'll look up the total cost of rebuilding my RD400 from barn find condition. Speaking of polishing a turd, I cleaned my bike today! I finally washed off all the salt and crap caked all over everything. Before:  Close up:  After!   Tomorrow I plan on finally fixing my temperature gauge. Catatron Prime fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Mar 15, 2014 |
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A turd to break all tables.
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