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Started putting new chain & sprockets on, but sheared caliper torque arm bolt!
See workshop thread ____________________ Fazer Thou Gen 1 |
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Not only did I actually speak (in a surly sort of way) to another Harley rider ...
... but I pulled up beside one at the traffic lights, revved me engine, and grinned at him.
Shit. I never meant for that to happen ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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Posted: 21:37 - 19 May 2019 Post subject: |
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My rear-right indicator looked a little sad:
https://i.imgur.com/oDtDi6T.jpg?1
I noticed it was loose the other day so just wacked some tape round it... didn't survive the ride back from the city
All fixed now plus some threadlock this time! ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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Posted: 14:43 - 20 May 2019 Post subject: |
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Finally got the chain & sprockets done. Runs so smoothly now, but I didn't think I'd notice much difference, considering the wear wasn't that bad on the old metalwork.
The previous geezer had put the nut on the front sprocket spindle the wrong way round, though - friggin duffer! So that accounts for how much quieter it's running - no wobbly sprocket.
Don't think it'll come loose, either:
https://i.postimg.cc/kGsxGmJ5/sprocketdone.jpg
that tab was ridiculously big. The soft link (just to the left there) went on easy peasy too, which was a relief. ____________________ Fazer Thou Gen 1 |
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insured it, 1hr and 7 minutes before insurance expired.
but, no procrastination bonus |
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Posted: 16:15 - 23 May 2019 Post subject: |
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Experimental seat repair complete.
The last time I rode the bike was over a week ago before going on holiday. It had taken only a few rides for tiny tears in the seat cover to grow into huge splits. I wasn't happy with how it looked. Nothing makes a bike look like a scrapper faster than a damaged seat.
I could have just recovered the whole seat with new, elastic seat vinyl. That's cheap and it does work, but it would have meant throwing out the original seat cover and giving it a more modern, plain look.
A company online makes seat covers for this bike that look as if they might be original, but they don't have the same pattern on them as the original, and no doubt they would be paper-thin, unlike the beefy original vinyl. Plus they want £40 each for them, and yes I have £40 in my life to spare but it just wouldn't ever be worth it for some embossed vinyl. Plus, you don't learn any new techniques by just replacing stuff.
What I had to hand were a few scraps of vinyl fabric, a can of Rustoleum direct-to-vinyl spray and a half-used bottle of gorilla glue. I took out the seat cover staples and completely removed the seat cover, put patches of vinyl on it from underneath (slathered in Gorilla glue front and back). I put the cover back on and sellotaped it down where the glue was, for the glue to work. Then stapled the cover back onto the seat base again, and removed the sellotape.
As the glue dried, it expanded and you can see where it slightly seeped into the gaps where the splits in the vinyl were. The fix appeared to be good, and so today I just removed it from the bike and gave it about 3 coats of Rustoleum direct-to-vinyl. This is supposed to be a flexible spray. Currently, appears to be a drying to a half-polished-shoe sort of shine.
I'll give it a couple of months riding around with the seat like this. If it turns out to have been a successful repair, I'll replace the Kawasaki logo which got lost under the direct-to-vinyl application. If it hasn't worked, the splits reopen, the respray cracks, etc. then I'll just replace the seat cover.
https://i.ibb.co/0y224gp/seat-repair.jpg |
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Posted: 20:14 - 23 May 2019 Post subject: |
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Carbs off of the NC23. It had been pissing petrol out so obviously a sticking/dirty float valve. I found what looks like a piece of fingernail in one of the valve seats so that explains that. There was a reasonable amount of crud in the float bowls plus one of the main jets was partially blocked and one of the idle jets too.
Hopefully it should run a lot better now. |
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Posted: 13:54 - 25 May 2019 Post subject: |
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Rode it, in the evening sunlight, from Bermondsey to Docklands.
In my t-shirt sleeves and jeans with my trouser legs rolled up.
People stared and were awestruck by my glorious biker-chickness.
A man in a white Audi slowed down and waved at me on the A13.
On the way back, it pissed down, summer storm stylee, and I was a sorry-ass no wet-weather gear drowned-rat dickhead.
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 12 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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