Bodges or GTFO

[connornrg]

I want to see your best bodge jobs
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Bikes (Not Bikes Really Just Shitty Mopeds)
**04 - Piaggio NRG MC3**02 - Yamaha Aerox 50/100**07 - Piaggio NRG Power - Shit.**

[N cee thirty]

does posting my whole bike count?
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'00 Aprilia RS50 > '92 Honda CG > '99 Yamaha Fazer > '91 Yamaha RXS > '79 Suzuki X5 > 01' Honda Cg > 07' Honda Cg > 82' Kawasaki Z200 > suzuki gsxr 400 gk73a > honda vfr 400 NC30 Mod 2 Passed 09/06/2011

Jewlio Iglesias wrote: I actually did vote BNP once

[G]

Nobody makes an adventure fairing for your bike which has only been out a couple of months?

Make one yourself.
https://gees.zenfolio.com/img/v1/p577426687-4.jpg
Note the red metal on the left which holds an extra 5l slim fuel can each side as there's also no aftermarket fuel tanks available.

Also, folding back rack to hold pop-up tent and tyres but looks a bit more elegant this time!
https://gees.zenfolio.com/img/v0/p1038908455-4.jpg

[c_dug]

[Marmalade]

Had a bolt snap in the rear hub on a pan euro, no spare bolt and couldn't get broken bit out so refitted broken one (pushed it back in) and welded a bit of metal to it and bent it round the shocker.

Result, bolt not screwed in but the newly attached bit of metal would stop it falling out

https://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo141/bramble43/shockbracket.jpg
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Nobby the Bastard: How yo tell the difference between the actual japanese and her just screaming because she's had live fish stuck up her arse? [url=https://www.nicks-shop.co.uk/bcf-goodies-15-c.aspGet BCF stickers and things here[/url] Reflective helmet stickers - Legal requirement in france - Clicky

[c_dug]

I see two different types of bodge appearing.

1) Keep it on the road at minimum cost bodge
2) Home improvements because nothing else/better is available

I like G's fairing
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I am a bellend, I am a man of constant sorrow, I am a gummy bear, I am a rock.

[Marmalade]

Another one.

A mate, who is a BCF member had an unplanned bike/car/tarmac interface which removed his left hand mirror and indicator.

The result was this below. Just an orange bulb in the indicator bulb holder and it stayed like this for weeks before the inevitable and it got stripped for very few parts

https://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo141/bramble43/indicator.jpg

Looking at it the pic shows an almost roadworthy bike, do not be fooled
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Nobby the Bastard: How yo tell the difference between the actual japanese and her just screaming because she's had live fish stuck up her arse? [url=https://www.nicks-shop.co.uk/bcf-goodies-15-c.aspGet BCF stickers and things here[/url] Reflective helmet stickers - Legal requirement in france - Clicky

[Pernig]

Helmet cam mounted with Lego Technic.

https://files.myopera.com/Pernig/albums/7301122/2010-11-17%2022.02.40.jpg

Not bike related but I'm quite proud of this one.

https://files.myopera.com/Pernig/albums/7301122/2010-10-13%2014.06.01.jpg
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H100 Breaking for spares

[Pernig]

The seat lock was broken on my XJ so I opened it up and found the round metal tab that stops the release lever from being pushed down when in the locked position had been broken off. To fix it I drilled a hole where the tab was and put an appropriately sized small computer screw in its place. Top tip if you have a similar lock that has been broken into in the past.

https://files.myopera.com/Pernig/albums/7301122/bcf%20bodge%201.jpg
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H100 Breaking for spares

[Pernig]

Clutch cable bodge.

https://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/155642_10150119202741729_773591728_7377937_7614517_n.jpg
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H100 Breaking for spares

[Fairies attack]

What happened about the pie tin, tank patch that actually held?

I d a lot of bodging, generally to any bike that comes round my house, before it is taken up the street for wheelie practice.

[m0l0t0v]

[Dazbo666]

I have part of a curtain pole bracket modified and used to mount my Stebel Nautilus horn....
so, from this bracket...
https://www.terrysfabrics.co.uk/images/P/poles-apart-Chrome-support.jpg

to this mounting solution...
https://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e312/Dazbo666/Bike%20Bits/Photo065stebelsecured.jpg
(The hex bolt against the frame is the one that fixes the Stebel into the P-shape of the bracket)
https://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e312/Dazbo666/Bike%20Bits/Photo066stebelcomplete.jpg
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1st bike (Sept'06 - May'10) : 1991 GPZ500S / Current bike (since Nov 2009) : 2003 Suzuki Bandit 600N
Word of the day : DILLIGAF

[27cows]

Had to laugh at G's interpretation of a bodge Making your own components isn't a bodge. Well, a fairing made out of old tin cans riveted together would be, but that on the KTM isn't. Should start making them and selling them to order

My RXS is pretty bodged these days. Exhaust has two holes in it, both patched with Gun Gum which is held in place with Jubilee clips. Leak between downpipe and main pipe is fixed with aluminium tape, also held in place with a Jubiliee clip.

The two exhaust studs were both missing when I got this engine. And the holes seem to have been enlarged. I managed to get a helicoil in one but the other I had to Dremel away a bit of barrel fin material in order to fit a nut on the end of a bolt. This bodge has held for over 100,000 miles.

Light/indicator switch was made up of bits from six different old switches at last count.

Tank sprang a minor leak and is repaired with Poundland epoxy resin. This was meant to be a temporary measure until I Petsealed the tank but it's held for about a year now, so I've just left it.

The forks have old RD125 springs in them to stop the front end twitching about like an alkie with Parkinsons. Suppose that's more of an improvement than a bodge really.

The swingarm bushes had a bit of play before the last MOT so I employed a bit of PTFE tape to good effect to take up the slack. This continues to hold after about 8000 miles - no idea how

One bodge I've not sussed yet is one to take up the massive amount of wear to the mainstand/rear brake pedal pin hole that passes through the frame. There's literally about three inches of side to side play in the mainstand. I fear that may be the thing that finally kills off the old RX. Sure there must be a way round the problem, I just haven't figured it out yet

There must be other bodges on the elderly Yam but so many have been there for years that I don't even think of them as bodges any more.
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The RXS100: vehicle of choice for Chuck Norris

[Blau Zedong]

[G]

[hellkat]

How nice to see that other people's POS's are more shite than mine

My bike is currently SO shite that its been prohibited off the road, and my boyfriend has had to take it away and is attempting to make it roadworthy again.

Meantime he has donated me a very nice GSX 750 POS instead - which (although I have a few issues with handling) goes VROOM!! extremely well.
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[hellkat]

In fact, he's just text me to say the GPZ looks like a different bike now that its clean (!!) .. he's had to clean it before he can fix it.

How guilty do I feel

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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[Daimo]

[.Bishbash.]

Did a bodge after a coming off my GS500.

Had a hole in the generator cover;

https://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r94/Neileng/Bike%20stuff/GS1-1.jpg



Couldn't be arsed to buy a new cover and gasket, so cut a piece of mild steel and a packet of Araldite, then painted it and hey presto;

https://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r94/Neileng/Bike%20stuff/GS2.jpg
https://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r94/Neileng/Bike%20stuff/GS3.jpg
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Current bike - GSX-R1000 k8

[stinkwheel]

Stripped thread holding stator plate onto the distributor casting of my Enfield:
https://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/stinkwheel/distributor/DSCN0679.png

Drill out hole all the way through. File rounded end of casting square:
https://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/stinkwheel/distributor/DSCN0680.png

Grind flat onto end of a bolt:
https://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/stinkwheel/distributor/DSCN0682.png

Push bolt all the way through and glue in place with green bearing seal:
https://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/stinkwheel/distributor/DSCN0683.png

Chemical metal over the back to stop it pushing out easily:
https://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/stinkwheel/distributor/DSCN0684.png

Repeat for other side and the job's a good-un:
https://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/stinkwheel/distributor/DSCN0685.png
https://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/stinkwheel/distributor/DSCN0686.png
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[stinkwheel]

Posted this before but fairing repair And the fairing is off a later model:
https://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/stinkwheel/gpz/gpzright.jpg
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[stinkwheel]

Enfield mainstand sitting too far forwards, stand stop receeding and bending, pivot wearing due to repeated use with lots of load. Weld a bit of flatbar to the stand stop:
https://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/stinkwheel/distributor/Image000.jpg

Place a cunningly bent bicycle spoke through in place of the splitpin to prevent the pivot rotating in the frame lugs:
https://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/stinkwheel/distributor/Image001.jpg
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[stinkwheel]

VFR750 clock wiring printed circuit corroded to hell. Rip it all out and rewire from scratch:
https://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/stinkwheel/clockwire.png
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[Teflon-Mike]