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Razzled posted:Does that IMS tank come in anything other than yellow :S black, natural, blue, and green.
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Threw this on because my little 125 has no storage other than the little tool tube on the back, and some handguards in a vein attempt to keep some wind/rocks off.  Pretty happy for a grand total of £30
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Nothing to my ride, but stuck some instant gasket on my upper visor seal. gently caress knows if it'll actually work at keeping water out, but it's only got to stay in place for the next two days, and I'm hoping the mere act of performing this bodge will reduce the risk of rain (forecast for Thursday/Friday has been seesawing between deluge and dry two or three times a day for the last week, and I've got 120 miles of commute to cover  )
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Jan 6, 2016 19:16
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You just had to call out English weather didn't you  At leased those bags are slightly waterproof 
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Replaced throttle tube, replaced battery, and have a replacement petcock arriving (to take the place of the current one which only works on RES). Am really happy to get my CX650 back on the road. Perfect riding weather down here in Florida. The new Mikunis I put on are great, though my fuel economy is suffering for the fun I'm having twisting the throttle. Now to work on my brother's CL350...
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New clutch lever, left handlebar, grips, and  riser blocks  (not shown: handlebar. It's a bar.) I had an early, and thankfully, not too costly lesson in making sure my kickstand was well-planted. Victim #1  Victim #2  Dickbag clutch lever spring #1 (apprehended and reinstalled)  The grips came highly recommended on the EX-500 forums, so I figured it was worth the $15 to try them out. The stock ones are old and hard as rocks. The riser blocks went on smoothly, with a little coaxing from a rubber hammer, and they are the hugest 1.25 inches on the planet. My old man back is so much happier.  
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Cross-posting from the gear thread about shorty levers because I realized it belongs more here. I picked up speedmetal billet clutch and brake levers from cycle gear for my sv650. I broke the brake handle when the bike fell while parking on a hill (popped my cherry) and needed to replace it anyways, so I picked up the matching clutch lever as well I successfully installed the replacement brake lever; did a decent test ride after using only the rear brakes and checked the rotors at several intervals: the rear rotor was warm, the front cold so I'm assuming there's no contact and the lever is fitting correctly. When I started using the front the lever feels great. Ran into a problem on the clutch lever though. When I'm trying to insert the new lever it gets about half-way in and then its too tight to advance. When placing in the OEM lever (which is working fine) there's a lot of clearance there and it slips in super easy. Looking in the lever action its pretty dirty, but I can't imagine that there's so much grime that an aftermarket part that's machined properly won't fit where the original handle slots right in. Sound like a defective part?
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Jan 9, 2016 23:06
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Pikey posted:an aftermarket part that's machined properly Could be a defective part, could be that this assumption is defective. Not uncommon for aftermarket bits to have poor fit. If you hold the bits next to each other, do they have the same profile? Perhaps it's meant for a different spec. If it's a few fractions of a millimeter out, I'd just file it until it fit.
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Welp, just dropped about AUD $250 on Cyclops 3800 lumen LED bulbs for my Striple. Thought about buying one at a time to make sure they're able to be tuned to match the stock beam pattern but the decent shipping option is USD $53 or thereabouts so gently caress that. I will of course let you all know how it goes.
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Here4DaGangBang posted:Welp, just dropped about AUD $250 on Cyclops 3800 lumen LED bulbs for my Striple. Thought about buying one at a time to make sure they're able to be tuned to match the stock beam pattern but the decent shipping option is USD $53 or thereabouts so gently caress that. I will of course let you all know how it goes. I've been really happy with mine, and it's been about a year now with no failures of any kind, and no dimming of the light. I need to get one to replace my high beam next.
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Jan 11, 2016 23:58
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What bike is that, and what aftermarket gauge is that? Is it streetfightered? Looks like an ex250...
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I am assuming it's an EX500
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Coydog posted:What bike is that, and what aftermarket gauge is that? Is it streetfightered? Looks like an ex250... clutchpuck posted:I am assuming it's an EX500 Bingo. 2nd gen. I bought it already naked with that gauge, so I'd have to look, when I get home. I have future plans of putting a trail tech vapor on it, since that's just a speedo. The bike's conversion has become more clearly a rough job, since the "my first biek!" wore off. It's mostly cosmetic, though. The mechanicals are all good, and it gives me an excuse to farklebate, so I'm happy with it. [Edit]: I had a ton of stuff to do yesterday, and this slipped my mind. There is zero branding on the gauge, so I have no idea who made it. Probably some of China's finest. I'll include a couple more snaps, when I'm not phone posting at work. Clitch fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Jan 13, 2016 |
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I broke the center stand  Hopefully it can be bent back and welded
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It's steel, so it can certainly be hammered back and welded. I've done similar things a number of times. The cost will depend on whether you want it to look stock again (involving careful welding and filling), or just want it to be functional (blob on some metal with a buzz box).
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Functional is fine by me. I know someone with a welder so I'll try to get it fixed this weekend or next.
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Jan 14, 2016 06:59
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  SDG +1 seat. Can't wait to go on a thousand mile trip with this one. Bike also hit the big 3-0. 
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Replaced my burned-out tail light with a new one. Swanky, too! Got a Phillips LED and it's nice and bright and the brake light is nicer and brighter as well. I didn't know my taillight had two filaments, one for brake, and one for the regular light. Only the taillight filament was broken, so the brake was still working.
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cursedshitbox posted:
How on earth did you do 30k miles with that stock seat?
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Partial Octopus posted:How on earth did you do 30k miles with that stock seat? rear end of lead.  I bought the frame with 25 thousand. comfy boots + standing.iirc the PO had some lowered gel seat on the thing.
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Sagebrush posted:It's steel, so it can certainly be hammered back and welded. I've done similar things a number of times. The cost will depend on whether you want it to look stock again (involving careful welding and filling), or just want it to be functional (blob on some metal with a buzz box). Might be cheaper to just buy a new one. They're usually $15-40 on my bikes... I don't know about that guy though. Edit: The spring might be a bitch to put back on. But I have a trick: 
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Today I turned off the alarm on the cbf. I didn't activate it on purpose - I found the fob on the floor underneath a bunch of crap and I don't remember when it got there. Some of the crap must have pushed the arm button at some point, so the battery is probably flat as a pancake from running the alarm for maybe a week or more  Only found out when I bumped into it in the garage and the beeper went off.
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Swapped led headlight to a more road legal cyclops version, changed tail bulb to led. installed new screw thread in one of the 4 contact point of the front cowling, as i had spotted that one of the expanding screw plugs was missing when I winter stored it. Tightened the oil plug as it had dripped about 0,5 dl in the 2 months it had sat. I only had an adjustable wrench that didn't fit flush when I changed oil before storing it, used a proper socked now.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Might be cheaper to just buy a new one. They're usually $15-40 on my bikes... I don't know about that guy though. That's an awesome trick and I'm keeping it for future use.
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Jan 18, 2016 22:15
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Use this one awesome tricks goons don't know about: get a friend to help you
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Renaissance Robot posted:Use this one awesome tricks goons don't know about : get a friend to help you What, uh, what's a "friend?"
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Jan 18, 2016 23:33
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It's like a set of Helping HandsTM but made of flesh instead of metal.
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Renaissance Robot posted:It's like a set of Helping HandsTM but made of flesh instead of metal. Eewwww, siiiiiiick.
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I know right Best not to think about it.
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You can also use one of these if you're http://www.irwin.com/tools/clamps/xp600-one-handed-bar-clamps-spreaders
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So, my preliminary findings on the question of "will Cyclops 3800 lumen LED headlights drop into a 2013-onward Street Triple and give a beam pattern that's the same as stock?" could be summed up with "LOL nope", despite the manufacturer's advice that it should be no problem. To be fair, given most of his clients are ADV peeps or just people who don't really care much if light is spraying everywhere, he probably wouldn't know if there are problems. With the deepest shim installed the cutoff is not as lumpy as straight out of the box, but it's still not great, and I can't tell whether the light spill in other areas is worse because of the design of the bulb or just the fact that it's brighter. I'll be doing some more intensive testing, probably with the lights off the bike and mounted to something so that I can power them artificially (otherwise the bike has to be running) and dick with them in real time to see what can be done to improve the beam. Shielding the underside of the low beam emitter will be top priority, I reckon that will solve 95% of the riddle. Also, it's a bitch fitting everything in the bucket without stuff fouling and blocking the lens assembly when you try to seat it back in place on this bike. Another reason experimenting on the bike is extremely painful. /anal retentiveness
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Here4DaGangBang posted:So, my preliminary findings on the question of "will Cyclops 3800 lumen LED headlights drop into a 2013-onward Street Triple and give a beam pattern that's the same as stock?" could be summed up with "LOL nope", despite the manufacturer's advice that it should be no problem. To be fair, given most of his clients are ADV peeps or just people who don't really care much if light is spraying everywhere, he probably wouldn't know if there are problems. My brother, have you tried the superduke?
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builds character posted:My brother, have you tried the superduke? No, and I'm not sure which part of my post this pertains to! 
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Here4DaGangBang posted:No, and I'm not sure which part of my post this pertains to! It looks like he's a street preacher and he's telling the good news to everyone passing by.
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He's saying the headlights might be a direct fit for the Superduke, so try that.
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Forks rebuilt with new seals, bushings, Gold Valve emulators and RaceTech springs (.90kg). Finally making progress on my winter project.
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 New rear tire installed (Sport Demon). Despite only going up from 130/80/16 to 130/90/16, and being proper size, it looks MASSIVE. The old tire looked pretty much the same size as the front. The new one looks like some overstylized 80s race/anime sportbike and I kind of love it. Amazing stopping traction, so far.
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Did you take the flames off yourself? I still can't decide on mine, they're so silly, but then it won't be perfect and stock.
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Nope, the first owner removed them. Both times I saw a red ex250 for sale without the flames it was practically irresistable. The first time, I ignored it and got a different bike of poor choices. The second time I was in the market, I didn't make that mistake and practically stole this from someone. I'm admittedly biased against flames on any vehicle, and think they look atrocious. On a high volume Japanese sportbike, though? It's lunacy. It's like an afterthought design choice on a Friday ten seconds before closing, and they stuck with it. Without the stickers, the EX250 has a simple, yet defined, aesthetic that stirs me almost as much as the ducati supersports. I will accept rad 90s decal jobs, too, though. I remember you liked your flames, so just keep em on. But your black bike would look so sharp without them...
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