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helno posted:Confirmed. Is that a lean condition hole? (Meaning, the crank seal drying out is what caused this?)
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Taking care of any kind of actuated control really does wonders for every bike. Several months ago, I had to replace my clutch cable and my throttle cable at the same time, arguably the two most actuated controls. I also took that chance to replace the clutch lever. It totally changed the feel of the bike. Felt brand new.
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Disconcertingly, all of my rear sprocket nuts had come loose. The sprocket had about half an inch of angular play... Yeah, I had bent the tabs down on those long tab washers! Maybe that's what stopped the nuts from working themselves completely off. Seems like it'd been like that for at least a little while. Tightened them up and re-bent the tabs as close as I could manage. I was able to do this with the wheel still on the bike.
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Sep 28, 2023 17:37
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knox_harrington posted:I've finally got both of my wheels... and they're slightly different colours. gently caress. It'll probably look OK on the bike but I'll know, and now so will the internet. From here, I can barely tell the difference, and I'm an artist. Which means people 10 feet away and/or even 5 mph slower than you won't be able to, either. The wheel at the rear is already going to look darker due to being ensconced in the frame. Since that's the one that looks lighter here, they're actually well-matched. 
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Oct 19, 2023 04:48
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Pushed it 4 miles when it blew a fuse and I didn't have a spare. Made the unpleasant discovery that multiple gas stations will stock 2-cycle oil but no fuses. At that point, it felt like my femurs were gonna fall out of their hip sockets, so I had to take a risk and connect the fuse terminals end-to-end in order to ride it the rest of the 4 miles home.
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Dec 13, 2023 21:36
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This is an old bike, so it had a single 15-amp glass cylinder fuse. The terminals are split collars that fit over the ends of the fuse. To connect the terminals, I just slipped them onto each other using the split in each one.
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Dec 14, 2023 07:29
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The ignition tumbler on my GN125 has worn out to the point that the bike shuts off by itself mid-commute multiple times. Reaching over to twist the key back into the < 0.5 mm contact point left with no divot to hold it has become a reflex action. I got the new tumbler in the mail recently (and the action is so nice. Funny how all of these Chinese parts are higher quality than the OEM, at least at first use/glance). Looking forward to finally changing that out this Thursday, my only day off.
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Feb 3, 2024 18:30
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Replaced my brake master cylinder again, getting rid of the weird rock-hard-lever-pull one for one that, on testing, demonstrates a more normal action. Hopefully the brakes won't drag as much on this one. It seemed like gravity made the fluid leak out of the old one too quickly, so maybe it was some kind of casting issue with the cylinder body that wouldn't seal.... whatever. Tried to replace my worn-out ignition cylinder with another Ali Express special. First, I mistakenly ordered the six-wire version. Next, I ordered the correct four-wire version, but it lacks... taillight support. The taillight isn't on when the bike is on. I have no idea if this is a Chinese thing or not, where Chinese bikes might have an on/off switch for lights and it expects that. But, the headlight is on... Did a solder point break?? Switched back to my old jumpscare ignition cylinder with some rubber damping to help it not shut off in the middle of riding. Seems to work well so far—only one episode on the road for a month.
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Mar 14, 2024 19:20
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I love pressing old parts I kept around "just in case" back into service. The frugal bugle. I'd had a few front brake master cylinders now that had the problem of dragging the brakes, even though they were new. Manufacturing problem? Who knows. Chinese parts, but, it can't be solely because they were made in China, considering the first replacement I got back in ~2014 was also from China and worked great. In fact, that's the one that I put back on the bike. Its reservoir had been destroyed by 8+ years exposure to UV, so I thought that I needed to buy new brake master cylinders, which is when I started having this problem. At some point, I remembered that the reservoir, being mostly held to the master cylinder body with the reservoir cap screws, just pops off. I popped off the reservoir of one of these newer brake master cylinders and stuck it on the 2014 Chinese brake master cylinder... voilà. Would like to know what the hell was going on with those other brake master cylinders. They started to drag when cold, then stopped when, I suppose, the friction heated up the caliper again. One was worse than the other. Maybe the caliper needs to be cleaned??
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LimaBiker posted:There is a little return hole in the master cylinder that allows the fluid to get back into the reservoir, when you release the brakes. It's tiny. If it's clogged, your brakes will drag. Thanks for the info. Getting to the hole on this model of brake master cylinder is difficult because the reservoir covers it up with a baffle. I had a GS 750 20 years ago where I was able to poke a strand of wire from a wire brush down into the master cylinder's relief hole to clear it, but that's not as easily done on this model. In any case, this master cylinder is working better than the other two, and I'm just wondering where the temperature element comes from. I replaced the piston in the caliper recently because I was surprised at how cheap it was, about 3 years ago. I wasn't able to get one small nub of the dust seal all the way into its recess, though...
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Changed my front tire last week and my rear tire this week. Like usual, bike is transformed, especially because the last time I changed them was 7 years ago. Heavy wooden chairs make great bead breakers.
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Are you using the centerstand in this pic? It just looks like a jack stand and a jack. I'm interested in this because it seems like a way to work on bikes that don't come with centerstands i.e. all of them.
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