What have you done to your bike today?

[Johnnythefox]

What did I do to my bike today? left it covered up cos it's pissing down and my Rainpal never got delivered.

[Weisse Schlange]

Arghh. Fitted Hel brake lines to the laddies ZX6R

Bloody sure they put the yellow tag on the wrong end of one.
Took a power of lining up thats for sure.
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Hing Oan

[A100man]

Went to the Super Sausage to meet a mate..
Saw a Husqvarna 401 thingy in the car park. Liked it..
https://photos.app.goo.gl/HtbXmFaun5Jifsqy8


My FZ in the far background.. got home and dumped the oil and drained the carbs for winter..https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/C68uUlCO7uFCVEp8f5xTaNM7JFdJS2-MK6ELgNs2Xfp_FUsuOb8O2jrWlxjSdCMGaD_V4pMnzkJPxtxXNZZStqC-ay5DPTjIDyOjZ-06AgvjxZ6r8U15BD1N9gGalkDir5ZkaOMe9-FBe1e15RLQV2e5dVyvEp6Xi4ZhUIR1olUZx3wANOSOhLYJQnivbua2bX6Y8pjteR3fHQudfFKWVuimlJ0C6JHP02l_sHKNgfZSWX7WgDEbR0jvfMgz_3Q2wO20Eoxf63KobqpQ2HGVJd6Ge3a8Qibju6zgyX56GO9TpaDJE69TJBM1wHt3Gvip70I0JHJNP9YaMeL1cgbbnKfGnpCp0slw1djgy-Acr6aLdJr78eoeIRf9Pqa63pcAISzxSvLg3mAgTv8-iiS-0mDJR-N0l-EM_sf89oFAVJU90LS5LbqCVJ7D43D8bBroLPoD3hjmgeKs20jcbJD_vxwNk4BKMYGDQlA_EWDlSzHx4UqgMLDRD-KU18spDhMDI2C5gw55KFsXLRLgS-vOmujOsVDx9bilJqrYcC5oLBcH86Zpskjd9EKRSRMkavDM00UxmFo4Gaxy8afGc8Nj5rNlrCdrmlG84ZLZy4tdtEcECHex3ll2gBqR21_R1cJUgXQYR3QutXuABB8iNFSNOX6mR6jXDjja5w4e5-TeskKIG9we_b2pFl6HYsL45mW_pjyNlcmA2-7XmYImLJCumcd-=w1292-h969-no?authuser=0
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Now: A100, GT250A, XJ598, FZ750

Then: Fizz, RS200, KL250, XJ550, Laverda Alpina, XJ600, FZS600

[Ayrton]

[xX-Alex-Xx]

[Prawny]

I hurriedly and slapdashedly (I’m sure that’s a word) fitted some heated grips to mine yesterday after nearly losing my thumbs to frostbite on Thursday morning.

My good they look cack, going to pop the tank off and hide the 6 miles of extra cable that Oxford provide later in the week/next weekend and then research how to wire them in so they’re not going to run my battery down if I forget to turn them off.

The whole job was made more difficult by the discovery that the old grips were tapped in somewhere around the back of the headlights and wires from previous are’s grips where just hanging loose.

It’s beyond my current knowledge, so I’m going to have to track down a cheap Haynes manual so that I can do it properly
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Yamaha Vity 125 (gone) Kawasaki ER6N(dead) 2022 Royal Enfield Meteor 350 (nicked) 2003 DL1000 V Strom

[pepperami]

I hooked up the bike to my Optimate trickle charger.
And looked at it forlornly as the rain pissed down .

I love this country, but sometimes I fkin hate it .

I have the time and opportunity to get out and about on the bike and it rains like a feckin monsoon .

At least my battery is charged!
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I am the sum total of my own existence, what went before makes me who I am now!

[Ayrton]

[Prawny]

[Mysteriass]

[Easy-X]

You could also try and find a switched feed. Quite a few bikes have a specific accessory socket if you stare at the wiring diagram hard enough. Just check the current rating.
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[Easy-X]

Fitted a new battery. Worth noting it actually sits on its side in the tray for the XSR (probably the MT07 too) precluding the use of an unsealed battery, no biggie in this day and age. The usual palaver with the battery terminal nuts
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[Mysteriass]

Finally laid out a tenner for new handlebars to replace my bent ones (Previous owner damage of course)

They were only bent by about a centimeter but it was enough to niggle my neural autopilot; forcing me to acknowledge a slight manual correction on every bend to the right.

Took all gizmo off the old bent ones earlier. Washing up liquid under the grip-lips to free them up.

Then took a look at the new one's (for a tenner) and... the hole for the throttle switch-gear tag is drilled in the wrong place.

So tommorow, the new handlebars will be drilled. It's all absolutely bloody fascinating. The suspense. Could write a thriller about the stuff that goes on in this shed when I receive crap / bust / inscrutably configured parts off ebay.

(I ordered a front wheel couple weeks back. It had a back tyre on it...and they'd put its rotation on the wrong way round - How. Do. You. Confuse. A. Back. Wheel. From. The. Front? - Yes it's a disk brake front wheel. All you can do is laugh, or cry...at the absolute state of it all)

[PotatoHead202...]

Fitted Titan Classic Titanium disc bolts to the CBF500. Sick of the rust spots on the standard ones. Just the wheel spindle to go now and the rest of the front bolts are all either Titanium or High Tensile SS.
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Honda VFR1200F, Honda CBF500 ABS, CZ125 now CZ175

[ThatDippyTwat]

When I was in them last week I wasn't happy with the sliders, so I replaced them and the slider covers in all the calipers. Chances are they're original so 25 years old. red rubber grease on the actual sliders, copper grease on the threads and between the slider head and cover.

Chucked some W4 clamps on the downpipes and link pipe as the W2's were getting a bit cruddy. Still waiting on a V-Band turbo clamp so I can try to seal the exhaust onto the cone gasket properly. They've sent the wrong one 3 times so far, and even my mates drag bike (1300-ish cc oil burner with a turbo) doesn't need a 90mm/3.5" pipe, but whoever was in QC assures me they've personally checked it's a 2"/51mm clamp in the post this time, but I'm not holding my breath.
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'98 VFR800 (touring) - '12 VFR800 Crosrunner (Commuting) - '01 KDX220 (Big Green Antisocial Machine)

[A100man]

[xX-Alex-Xx]

[Easy-X]

[Mysteriass]

[A100man]

[Easy-X]

Managed to wrestle the engine out of the old Triumph without taking off the head or rocker covers:

https://i.imgur.com/dDALcUj.jpg?1

Looks quite clean for its age, it did conceal a little patch of dirt on the frame:

https://i.imgur.com/NkR0VdF.jpg?1


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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[Prawny]

[Hong Kong Phooey]

Headstock bearings in the CBR were notchy, got picked up on the MOT. I'd not noticed them and put the slightly hard steering feeling down to worn tyres. After putting a new set of tyres on it felt normal, until it was pointed out on the test.

Riding home after the test failure made me realise how awful the steering was lol.

New set greased and put in, new seals too. Can't wait to ride it as it was handling really nicely even with the issue on its new tyres, and with a washer on the rear shock the tip in was superb.
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'81 CG125, '97 FZS600 : '99 CBR600F4, '09 KTM RC8

[Mysteriass]

[Hong Kong Phooey]

^ weird. Nipping them up is easy, getting the old buggers out is a pain in the arse. At least you've got fresh bearings in.

Can you bore out and fit an insert or sleeve where the centre stand goes through the frame/engine? Admittedly it'll be a large insert, but better than the alternative.

Maybe do away with the centre stand if it has a sidestand too, or just live with it?
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'81 CG125, '97 FZS600 : '99 CBR600F4, '09 KTM RC8