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After a little driving I really like the metzeler tourance tires. They're not so lean happy as the pirelli scorpion trails but better than the anakee 3s was. I'm not missing any grip on sealed surfaces while they're more grippy on gravel. I've yet to try them in really damp conditions though. In hindsight, the front pirelli must have been really uneven in weight because I used 40 grams less in weights.
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Managed to be a retard and not strap down a bag properly for a short 10km trip. That caused my right rear indicator to melt as the bag pushed it onto the exhaust.  So saturday was a trip to the local Biltema for some aftermarket generic led indicators. Kinda wanted to keep the old one of the left, start a new lopsided style trend. 
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Jun 29, 2015 14:47
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did oil/oilfilter and sparkplugs at 109000 km for my transalp. Leaving on a long trip so wanted fresh oil for it. Oil looked good, no contamination or metal residue, plugs had even soot.
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Jul 16, 2015 09:02
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Stripped a Phillips screw head on the front brake reservoir that I don't have a spare of. I'm really liking my preventive maintenance schedule, sure I was going to replace my front brake pads, but I don't really need to yet, I can still ride this weekend without stressing out to get the right one to be able to hit the road after work tomorrow.
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Jul 30, 2015 19:17
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Yup, gonna dremel a slot in it and use an impact driver with a slot head bit. Just need some spare 2x12 machine screw with flat head to replace it with.
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Jul 30, 2015 20:14
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Changed the front brake pads after drilling out the stuck screw on the brake fluid reservoir. Also bled and changed brake fluid front and back. I had a brake fluid tester so I used that for fun before changing them anyway. front was okay with 1% moisture, Back was peaking above the scale of 4%.. The fluid was changed at the same time last time. Only difference is that I don't use the back brake as often as front, and the reservoir is plastic not metal as the front is.
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Aug 9, 2015 15:56
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Checked the valves and synced the carbs. Only one intake valve on the rear cylinder that needed adjustment. 
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Sep 19, 2015 19:52
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Ordered a cheapo aftermarket slipon and a sw-motech metal bash plate for my transalp. The stock exhaust is rusting to bits(and is known to do that) and I can't be arsed to spend more time on it. A new stainless steel lighter aftermarket is only 20 US$ more expensive then the cheapest used stock can I could find too.. Some polish brand called DOMINATOR. Some PO had rested the bike on its side while warm.. so the plastic bashplate was melted on one side, and since I actually use it on gravel the old brittle plastic is getting torn up by rocks  .
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Sep 23, 2015 11:28
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 Time to bounce some gravel of it. Seemed like a nice and solid construction, though was a little more fiddly to get on and off than the old ratty stock plastic bottom plate.
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Oct 2, 2015 13:23
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Got the new exhaust on. Lessons learned: never buy a ultra generic exhaust, because they might not fit properly without modifications of side panels/move rear brake fluid reservoir, luggage rack. Buy a proper aftermarket model specific one. 20 year old never removed bolts on stock exhaust will break. Stock exhaust will not be dismantled with out hammer/chisel/cutting tools. You will need new/longer bolts. 
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Oct 11, 2015 17:08
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Ziplocked it for the winter
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Nov 22, 2015 16:50
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It's a vcl bag.
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Nov 24, 2015 19:26
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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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Jan 18, 2016 21:13
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Bought a new tire change stand. Foot actuated helper arm for 3 pressure points without a helper, much better design than the cheapo one I've used up to now.
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Feb 23, 2016 14:16
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I ordered it from Xlmoto.no Old was the cheapo biltema one, this one:  It's okay for getting tires on, but a nightmare to get off tires gracefully, like if you derped and got distracted while putting it on mounting it backwards... I usually ended up cutting one tire side wall wire on the old tires as you cant use the arm to push tires down off it, as the rim/tire already rests on the frame of the machine.
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Feb 23, 2016 16:18
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Took it out of the storage garage and drove it back home. It was a typical first trip of the season, ie stressed out. I forgot my entance card to the garage, forgot to put on my gps logger and forgot my helmet strap.. Also had a "wtf, is there something wrong with my back wheel? oh, ah, it's just crap road surface here." And added + adjusted the length of of the straps on my new reindeer fur seat mat. Naturally water repellant, hide part is impregnated, and warm.  
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Mar 11, 2016 19:32
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 140 km in +4 - +7 C weather, the seat pad was awesome, nice and warm. Had to walk the bike under power the last 200m gravel road up to where I park at the cabin, was 10cm snow with some ice /slush. Not sure if I'll bother to replace the green straps with black ones, it will never look good anyway
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Mar 12, 2016 19:49
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adjusted the air/fuel mix. still got some popping on deaccel, but less on idle, and smoother idle in general.
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Mar 15, 2016 18:51
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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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Apr 21, 2016 22:02
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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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Apr 22, 2016 09:45
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Changed both tires and sprockets + chain. Suddenly I have a new bike.
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Apr 27, 2016 12:57
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What I didn't do with my ride today, change rear brake pads. Apparently rear brake pads sometimes take the form of youth sized offroad pants according to Xlmoto.no. With thursday being a holiday and having taken time of on friday for a 4 day weekend of riding the new pads have no chance in reaching me until after the weekend. 4 full days of riding is up to 1000km/600 miles for me usually and one of the rear pads was like 1-2mm thick only. So I'll stop by the local "we got everything under the sun but only in no-name/ own brand quality" store, biltema, and get me some cheapo pads to cure my mechanical angst of wrecking my rear brake disc.
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May 2, 2016 21:54
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Changed rear brake pads as they finally arrived from the webshop that cant tell the difference between youth offroad pants and brake pads. Never shopping from them again if I can't avoid it. It was about time..   Very uneven wear. Either the sliding pin has been abit more grimy than usual, most likely because I ride more gravel now. or the brake has been sticking a little. It's also a crap old nissin single pot brake. From what I can find from my maintainance notes I got about 35k km /21k miles out of them.
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May 11, 2016 21:50
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryAJUZRjGLo (you need sound to hear the clicking) edit: Turns out someone was cheapo last ball bearing change and used ones with only dirt shield on the outside, so inside the hub they where only protected by grease. The failed side had big rust discolouration both on the bearing and also over on the internal spacer/sleeve. The good side also had some rust spots and some droplets of oily water with rust colour. These are rims I bought as spares as the old ones got the aluminium rust (too much zinc in the alu blend is the theory on transalp forums). The bearings looked fine, and they lasted 15k miles for me, but I don't know how old they where. Supradog fucked around with this message at 17:12 on May 14, 2016 |
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May 14, 2016 14:50
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My cluch cable broke last weekend, so I had to use a clutch cable repair kit with a screw on end bolt. Luckily the cable has frayed at the lever so it was repairable with the kit. To get to the cable I had to remove the left hand guard. I had been thinking about changing the half ratty hand guards because they where an integrated part of the lever holders, ie you can't change the angle of the protector without also changing the angle of the lever. They also looked kinda crappy with scratched sun bleached white plastic. So I changed to some Acerbis hand guards with integrated extra lights, because why not  Old:  New:  Spotters:  Full disco: 
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May 26, 2016 08:35
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This is the kit i got, spare wire in clutch/brake dimensjon and 1 for throttle cable, and a range of end anchors. 8 usd. I bought 2 so I have a complete spare to keep in my travel tool kit from now on. I ordered a new cable on monday but the store didn't have it in stock locally.
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May 26, 2016 16:38
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Deeters posted:There's also a few companies that make neoprene covers with velcro. I like the look of the rubber ones, especially on an older bike like Ola's. Yeah, I use Dirtskins. They got velcro and I've got no problems with em. They have lasted about 30k km so far.
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Jun 23, 2016 11:56
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huh. what bike is that? Looks so similar to my transalp 600, just a little different hardware around the water pump and shifter.
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Aug 3, 2016 19:20
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Became my own previous owner  To be fair, it is still dismantlable.
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Sep 13, 2016 09:05
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And my jbwelded exhaust didn't cope with the twisting motion of the crap mounting of the crap aftermarket can. Oh well, now I gave a good join to reinforce.
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Sep 14, 2016 23:27
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New tires front and back, Heidenau k60 silica. Most offroady tires I've run on my transalp. You notice that they're abit more rumbly but it's not annoying vibrations. Will be interesting to try them out on more looser stuff/gravel this weekend. Also changed one ball bearing on the front as it had a slight loose feel with some play in it, looks like bad manufacturing quality, only had them 10k km.
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Sep 21, 2016 23:11
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I just use a Google spreadsheet with dates, milage and what was done. Easy to look up from wherever, no book to loose or get soaked by oil/grime.
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Sep 23, 2016 16:29
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Prepped the new-old exhaust with removing loose paint and rust, painted rust converter on the few spots that was bad. I'll hit it with high temp paint tomorrow. Ordered new brake line, disc, pads and caliper rebuild kit for the front. Put new type sintered pads in last time and that hosed the old disc straight up, especially with the caliper plungers being abit sticky from the rock hard old rubber. measured it to 3.3mm in the worst part (service limit is 4mm). It's gonna be the first time I refresh rubber in a caliper, looking forward to getting that back in top working order.
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Oct 22, 2016 17:49
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Please get some proper pants though, kneecaps and skin on your legs are nice to have. If you prefer Jeans there actually are reinforced denim pants that does not look like rear end available, many with quick removable knee pads.
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Dec 19, 2016 11:55
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Rebuilt the front brake caliper. One of the pistons was seized pretty bad so I had to use the grease gun trick. worked nicely and wasn't that bad to clean out with it being a 2 piston single sided nissin caliper. You really want air available to help move the grease out afterwards though. First time I've rebuilt a caliper, took a while, but learned a lot. like that mid 90s honda banjo bolts are m10 (or was it m12?) but has finer threads than normal bolts. Had to plug a banjo with solder to use the grease gun. Take your time with the caliper in place on the bike and verify that all pistons move. 8 bar on the air hose was only enough to move one of the pistons. Pistons was okay, there was just a bit of dirt that had gotten past the real old dust seals which was disintegrating.
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Jan 8, 2017 23:41
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Completed the rebuild of the front brakes today. Hit a little snag when changing to the new brake disc as one of the bolts was missing it's head. Cut a slot for a screwdriver and got it loose. I seem to remember that the torc spec on the bolts felt abit high according to the Haynes manual when I swapped rims some years ago. I'll order me some new bolts and replace the lot later. For now the disc is on with 5 out of 6 bolts so I could mount, fill the system and bleed it properly.
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Jan 12, 2017 00:30
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Reinstalled a new refurbished stock exhaust system on my transalp. My old can was full of extra holes and rusted as hell. But the Dominator brand can i got didn't properly fit under the side panels or fitted properly with normal side luggage racks, it lacked proper mount points vs my bike so it was wiggly and broke the flange to collector pipe. I learned my lesson, no name/unknown generic slip-ons are crap, i'll never buy that ever again. If you ever need to replace exhaust stuff on older bikes, go refurb stock or akra et al high end stuff. I also changed the fork oil, but had less oil than I needed.. Sealed it up and I'll top it up before I use the bike. Edit: had a picture 
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Jan 28, 2017 23:14
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Refreshed the seals in the rear brake caliper, and wired up switched power source from the rear light to a USB contact and the gps cradle. I also finally wired up the brake light feature of my rear led indicators. 
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Feb 18, 2017 19:36
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Did a valve check, set the air / fuel mix back to default since I have the stock exhaust again and synchronized the carbs.
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Manhandled it out the too narrow door and got it outside. https://goo.gl/photos/e1QhWEv6YWbVppes7 Also changed the footrests from stock to sw-motech. A little bit over twice the surface area + not installing the rubber for better grip. https://goo.gl/photos/CFe7KsR1WfZMuXpX8
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Mar 11, 2017 21:51
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