Bike Stuff

[SpuceLee]

Hi,

I just wondered what bike stuff you recommend keeping handy, I've gathered oil is useful to have around but what else is wise to purchase?

cheers!
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ybr125

[Mark 37]

ACF-50,

chain lube,

a good degreaser.

Chain brush,

couple of old jars for putting petrol in to clean chain with the afore mentioned brush,

WD40 for cables.
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[Doovy]

Cable ties.

Spare fuses.

Spare bulbs.

A good set of tools (allan keys, screwdrivers, pliers)
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[SpuceLee]

[Robster]

Adjustable spanner under the seat....

...Condoms...

[-Matt-]

List seems almost endless, i've been gathering bits since day 1, but gone into overdrive the last couple of years as I started working on the bike myself.

Toolkit with a fairly decent range of stuff is extremely useful if you are going to have a go at stuff - even if its simple tasks. Various sockets/allen keys/wrenchs/spanners/torque wrench for more complex bits if you're a newbie is probably handy.

Cleaning stuff similarly is the same - ACF 50 / chain lube / brushs are fairly essential, after that its just a case of how often and thoroughly you want to clean your bike really. Can get by with some toothbrushes and kitchen rags, or you can spend a ton buying professional polishes, soaps and microfibre mits etc

Less obvious 'general' items like cable ties are very handy to have around though - saved me a big headache on a few occasions when things have snapped/not gone on right to temporarily keep a panel on for example.

Tyre pressure gauge, pump, battery charger - and having learnt today - a puncture repair kit are also fairly crucial sooner or later.

[Doovy]

Definitely a yes on the battery charger, tyre pump and puncture repair kit.

I highly recommend this tyre plug kit.
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Yamaha RXS 100 > Honda CD 250 > Honda Hornet 600 > Honda CBR 600RR > Yamaha RXS 100 > Kawasaki ZX6R J2 > Yamaha FZ1

[Mark 37]

The items I listed are all I've needed to keep the bike in shape but you will possibly need what others have mentioned for repairs and roadside
Patch up jobs.

Another good thing to carry along with the tools is a small roll of gaffa tape for your plastics/fairings should you drop the bike and crack them.
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[thewhyoffry]

For me WD40 is always a must, that and latex gloves. So many times I have not bothered to glove up when cleaning/lubing my chain and been left for weeks with black hands.

Be safe out there. Glove up.
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[Rogerborg]

[Ambitions0far...]

[Tamsin]

I use olive oil and table salt, then a bit of liquid hand soap

Olive oil is moisturising (bet you guys dont care about that though)

[TheSmiler]

My list would include, spare spark plug, chain grease, throttle cable, clutch cable, oil, sugar, washing up liquid (for removing grease on your hands) and cable ties.

Regarding tools this I got before from teffers.

- Two sets of metric combination spanners from 6mm to 24mm.
Means you have one for the nut and one for the bolt.
- One socket set covering similar range, with extension bar and knuckle joint for awkward access fasteners. Set with deep sockets like mine can be a real boon.
- One breaker bar for undoing stubborn bolts
- One impact driver for really stubborn bolts
- set of pliers; small pin nose, long pin nose, one bull nose.
- one DECENT quality vice grip - this is NOT a substitute for a spanner under ANY circumstances!
- One 12ox ball head hammer
- One 8 oz ball peen hammer
- Set of plain flat blade screwdrivers; one long thin electrical, one short standard, three regular
- One set standard/Philips scredrivers, sizes as above
- set of 4-6 chissels / drifts for knocking stuff in out or apart instead of bending or fucking up screwdrivers!
- One pair tyre levers - removing motorbike tyres applying leverage without fucking up screwdrivers!
- One electrical Multi-Meter
- One pair of electricians pliers

Those are your 'basic' mechanics tools. Things like torque wrenches, valve spring compressors, you get on an 'as required' basis when you find a job that needs them.

Decent tool-box to keep it all in though is first thing on the list.
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A2 completed 23/07/15 Ready for the Golden Crisp Packet

[wr6133]

Keep an eye on halfrauds website they often have massive savings on their professional range toolkits.

You can never have too many tools. This is what I keep in the tool roll that is on the front of my bike if I go anywhere more than about 50 mile from where I live. As well as that I have a load of cable ties and leccy tape under the seat and a can of tyre weld in the panniers.

https://i1249.photobucket.com/albums/hh504/wr6133/LPIC4857_zps9f96f2e3.jpg

On top of tools things to have at home

WD40
ACF50
Big chain to lock it up
At least enough oil for 1 oil change at all times
Spark plugs
Battery Charger
Puncture kit

A paddock stand can be nice to have too though not essential.

[Spireite]

This looks a Good bit of kit
https://www.stopngo.com/tubeless-puncture-pilot-for-motorcycles-scooters-atvs/
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[Polarbear]

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

Stuff I use daily - EP90 (to oil chain), diesel and bog roll (to clean chain, and rest of bike). Stuff I use regularly - 10w40 to top up oil, 2 or 3 spanners to tension chain and undo sump bolt.

Stuff I bought 2 years ago and are still in their original boxes - couple of torque wrenches.
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[Teflon-Mike]

I buy bikes to fuck around with oil and grease and spanners.... but I'm odd that way. YOU probably bought the thing to ride.

Smilers already provided my basic list of essential service tools; if that sort of thing interests you... can be fun... but be warned; dangerouse slippery slope into tinkering; ideas strike, and fitting an after-market headlamp when the MOT man moans becomes a full rewiring job, and that becomes a full tear down, and that begs silly ideas of doing a full restoration, that then leads to notions of building a Cage Racer/Street-Fighter/Custom/Bobber/Rat or whatever your preffered brand of masocism may be!

What he DID forget was THE number ONE item on the list....

BUT THE FUCKING BOOK FOR IT!

All well and good having tools to twiddle stuff, but if you dont know what to twiddle? No damn good are they? Like as not to just make matters worse!

Haynes or Clymar or Genuine Manufacturers Service manual, can answer SO many 'silly questions' before you even know you need to ask them.... for what? £20? Just buy the book. for new spanner monkey; best investment you will make.

Otherwise?

Cargo Net.

Number one favourite bit of biking kit. Can roll it up and stuff it under the seat or other convenient storage area; or strap over pillion seat or tail or wherever. And you NEVER know when its going to come in useful, to strap something, from a spare crash helmet, to a new cake mixer to the back of the bike. Even good for lashing down a 5l can of oil to do a service, or a bag of shopping from the supermarket.

Brilliant invention! Would say I dont know what we did before they were invented... but I do... all too well! One reason I SO like them!

WET WIPES & Tissue.

(Having just read that back... suggestion begs scenario I DIDN'T initially envisage... but what the heck, if you can find alternative use for them!)

What do you do, when a ballast truck pulls out in front of you and sprays you with gravel slurry out of the gap in the tipper? Car drivers give a quick tap on the 'Wash-wipe' button.... what you got?

[wr6133]

[panrider_uk]

Optimate if you don't ride all year round.
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[TomReilly]

A motorcycle is handy to have.

All them tools are pretty useless without one!
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[jeddy11]

Most of these kits shown haven't got a madame tootsie persuader i.e a hammer !!
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[TheSmiler]