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Renaissance Robot posted:Oh yeah also I'm pretty sure a lot of the old chain oil is now coating my rear tyre and brake disc Don't worry too much about it. If you feel the rear brake braking, it will wear or cook away whatever prevents braking. Trust me, you can totally feel a little bit of oil making GBS threads on your braking experience, immediately. If you're worried about the rear tire, scrub it with sandpaper. But chances are it too is fine. You cleaned it with a solvent, the oily grime is loaded with solvent so it doesn't retain its deadly, Renaissance Robot-toppling lubricity. I'll add a different angle to your anxiety - shortly after I degreased by horridly clogged chain, the master link snapped. It was as if the grime kept it together somehow.
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Beach Bum posted:I've only lived in my house since October and there are already so many new and interesting stains on my garage floor 
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Also pee and poop in it, yknow, if you want
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Bonus points for sleeving your cable. Renaissance Robot posted:That's awesome, you're awesome. Those indicators came put really nice, what kind of printer do you have? Thanks! I am a bit spergy about use of heat shrink, sleeving, crimped connections, etc. in my electrical wiring. It does make a difference to reliability, though, and it sure looks better than the usual PO solution of a handful of loose wires connected with the wrong size of wire-nuts and insulated with crinkled-up My personal printer is a MendelMax 3 (started out as a 2, but I've been continuously upgrading as does happen). I did the carbon fiber parts on mine, because I'd worked out the calibration for the material, but printed the lenses on one of the printers in the university lab in order to save time. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Apr 15, 2016 |
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Installed the new left footpeg bracket so I can finally use the shifter again, removed the last four brackets for mounting the fairings from the frame, and finally shifted the bike into neutral for the first time since I got it. Oh, and started it up for the first time. It started easily despite only having spark on one cylinder since I lost the spark plug boot for the front cylinder somewhere while I was stripping the broken crap off last weekend. Actually idled well and revved ok despite basically being a thumper pushing the extra dead weight of a non firing cylinder. Not bad for a $500 bike 
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Renaissance Robot posted:Also took off the luggage rack to make my mechanic's life a bit easier this weekend (since the rack impedes the removal of the rear fairings, which need to come off for engine access. Yeah.) and managed to lose one of the nuts off the left rear passenger peg in the process. It's a standard 13mm nylock, so I'll take a walk down the timber shop tomorrow to get a new set. Did this, and in the process discovered that while all four bolts on the passenger footpegs are M10 thread, the rear nuts have a spanner size of 13mm but the front ones are 12mm 
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Renaissance Robot posted:Did this, and in the process discovered that while all four bolts on the passenger footpegs are M10 thread, the rear nuts have a spanner size of 13mm but the front ones are 12mm I forgot, do you have a Honda?
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I put on an FZ6R shock. Finally have balanced suspension! But stiff.
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Sagebrush posted:I forgot, do you have a Honda? Sold it, I'm team green now. (ZX6E)
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Installed a RAM mount and a hardwired USB port for my phone for navigation.
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Replaced my cowl and filled and bled my coolant after my bike was knocked over on St. Patrick's day.  
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HotCanadianChick posted:The axis of petrol, if you will.
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Today I put on this silly tank bra, in hopes that it would help me grip the tank a bit better. I got it for $shipping from a kind fellow who had an SV once but no longer does. I'm not sure if it helped any, but it doesn't look terrible so I'll probably leave it on 'til I get some proper tank gripz. Next up: Those godawful tires, and that godawful chain, and the godawful sprocket. Christ. solarNativity fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Apr 16, 2016 |
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Ola posted:Speaking of pot metal piece of poo poo, had the exhaust sandblasted today. Painting this weekend. Hopefully it can last a couple of years.  Painted exhaust back on. It'll go grey to match the layer of protective engine grime soon enough. Did fork seals as well. PO of the eBayed forks had put the damper rods (the one you drop in) on TOP of the spring instead of under. Strangely it handled ok.  Glad I opened them up and had a look.Also, I had problems getting the fork back together and absentmindedly fitted a bushing in the lower without the stanchion in place. The bushing stuck and I couldn't get it out or the fork through it. Idiot. Happily the old lower was in ok condition so I used that instead. Did a quick test ride to put some heat in the exhaust to harden the paint, all seems ok. Some oil appeared on the fork leg and I did notice a blemish which could be a ground down groove which might let the oil through the seal. Hopefully it was just oil I spilled when filling. If it still leaks, I will try the razor blade trick. And slit my loving wrists.
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Finally got it from the shop  While I was waiting, a guy out front had what looked like a Ducati 900 SuperSport, and man it sounded great when he took off down the road. Had some trouble idling, but I'd put that down to the Italian electrics 
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Ola posted:
I'd run some film or a thin card or something around the fork seal to see if you can knock any grit off. Also I once installed a fork seal upside down and it failed pretty quick. 
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Z3n posted:I'd run some film or a thin card or something around the fork seal to see if you can knock any grit off. It's a fresh seal and a clean stanchion, so it's either good or junk. $160 for a new repro stanchion. If I took the money I spend keeping this thing in good shape, I could probably buy a slightly newer bike which would need more expensive parts. That's my justification.
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I've cleaned the tank out of the GS500 I've inherited and have the carbs off waiting to do a clean on them. After I get the carbs cleaned it and back on the bike, I'll see if it will actually run with throttle applied this time. Bike sat for over a year before it came into my possession.
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 3,325mi on the packing. yeah uh, blew that all to poo poo. (repacked it)
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Rolled 12k on the S1000XR today I think, forgot to check.
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Got my mom's 1969 Ducati Monza Jr. tuned up on the dyno today. Had to put a resistor plug in it to get that done because the magneto on that bike puts out such a huge spark that it was freezing up all USB interfaces on the dyno computer, including the one to the dyno interface box itself. Hadn't seen a bike do that before.
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Vintage Italian electrics: Too Good
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Got my mom's 1969 Ducati Monza Jr. tuned up on the dyno today. Had to put a resistor plug in it to get that done because the magneto on that bike puts out such a huge spark that it was freezing up all USB interfaces on the dyno computer, including the one to the dyno interface box itself. Hadn't seen a bike do that before. Your mom is a badass.
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That's a real nice headlight nacelle.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Vintage Italian electrics: Too Good More like italian bikes: even the electrics leak.
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Chichevache posted:Your mom is a badass.
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Woke up excited to take the bike out this morning after three weeks on a research trip. Check tyre pressures and the rear is down by 2 bar (never deflated more than 0.2 since I've owned it). Sure enough, massive screw has been there since the last ride I took. Straight to the shop after a good pump to get fixed. On the plus side, I got to ride a CB500x for the day again. Man I missed my bike...
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Yesterday: completely re-set the sag, comp, and rebound on the Uly for my weight + 50 lbs. Why didn't I do this before?
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Picked it up. The wind grabbed my tarp and blew it over. Bent indicator and some scratches. Spring weather! 
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Rode 60km with loose grip on the throttle tube, was in an area with no late night stores and the gas stations apparently does not stock glue of any kind. I've had instant glue in my tool kit before, but I forgot to put more in it after the last tube ran out... Not forgetting that again.
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Picking it up from the shop tomorrow!  Can't wait to hear what it sounds like when it's not running like poo poo/a lumpy triple.
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I rode it to work with tiny new blinkers and didn't get run over by anybody who couldn't see them.
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This is me with the EX250 right now: -upgraded stiffer, adjustable, rear shock -dual usb charger tucked under fairing -glalfer steel braided front brakes -new pads -bled lines -speed bleeders -aux clutch cable installed and tucked -clear windscreen -clear laminar lip (which also fits the wr250x windscreen) -new black fairing/everything fastener kit Supradog posted:Rode 60km with loose grip on the throttle tube, was in an area with no late night stores and the gas stations apparently does not stock glue of any kind. I've had instant glue in my tool kit before, but I forgot to put more in it after the last tube ran out... Not forgetting that again. You couldn't find hairspray, coca cola, or some other suitable thing?
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Supradog posted:Rode 60km with loose grip on the throttle tube, was in an area with no late night stores and the gas stations apparently does not stock glue of any kind. I've had instant glue in my tool kit before, but I forgot to put more in it after the last tube ran out... Not forgetting that again. Safety wire. Carry some (you can wrap it around your handlebar if you're into that mad max stuff) and it helps you reattach all kinds of things.
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Uugh, fuuck. I actually had some cable ties in my kit as I remember it. I guess I was too tired and got single tracked on "glue". Hmm, the gas stations would actually have had both hairspray and cola. I'll remember that to the next time. Yeah. my bigger tool kit for longer trips has safety wire and super glue, my small kit should have had superglue, I was just an idiot who didn't restock it. Supradog fucked around with this message at 09:50 on Apr 22, 2016 |
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Put Kenda K671's on the Ninja. Even budget tires are better than old stock tires!
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I rode it home. All the way home, if you know what I mean  Uuuuhhh my god a properly functioning i4 feels so good. Turns out number 4 carb wasn't actually shutting off when I closed the throttle (the jet needle was getting caught up on a bit of rubber, or something like that), and was constantly vomiting fuel straight into the cylinder. It's so smooth now, and it sounds and feels so good that it's super tempting to blitz it on every clear stretch. Basically this was me the whole way back:  Bonus deal: oil in the radiator coolant  though given this bike's history with a wrench-happy but not especially competent PO I'm willing to bet it's highly likely he's dropped some oil down the coolant access cap by accident rather than it being a sign of the head gasket going. We'll see.
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Also apparently the airbox cover was held on with zip ties. 
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Renaissance Robot posted:Also apparently the airbox cover was held on with zip ties.
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Renaissance Robot posted:
Do you have an oil cooler too? that could be another possible culprit.
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