What have you done to your bike today? Archive.

[kramdra]

New Road 5 front fitted, edit - 117,700 miles.

[Courier265]

Picked up my bike from the shop, had it's first proper service 48K, thankfully no serious shim issues.

Rode the bike home the long way so I could open her up.
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CBF500 - 2 x Inazuma 250

[NJD]

Gave it a muff and then proceeded to stick my whole hand in. My first rodeo but I don't think it was hers.

Oxford £39 ones. Turns heated grips into a mini oven. Not restrictive beside very tight manoeuvring at full lock/close to (ie: moving around to park).

Spent some time laughing at myself and then proceeded to venture for a ride smiling at how comfortable I was in crappy conditions.

https://i.postimg.cc/76Qj3dNX/M4FF.jpg[/i]
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[hellkat]

Rode Southwest
With no visor
And occasional bursts of rain
And no back light
Felt rather vulnerable
Made it before it got completely dark

But missed my connection
Got "rather cross"
Cold hands, wet arse, rain in shoes.
Went to McDonalds, nasty chips.
Rode back towards London again
Less rain, but still no back light
#intrepid #stupid #bravado #stupid #hardcore #stupid

Stopped at Fleet services bang on midnight, McDonalds has no hot chocolate
Got even more cross, texted ex boyfriend (insomniac) to see if he awake.
He awake.
Turned up at ex-boyfriend's in Shepherds Bush around 1.00am
Ex Boyfriend had cup of hot chocolate ready for me.
Also dispensed much needed cuddle without threat of required reciprocal sexual behaviour.

Slept on his floor
Watched the rugby
He taking bike to shop on Monday to get electrics fixed.
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[kramdra]

Exhaust refitted with new gaskets.

[ThatDippyTwat]

Chain clean and oil.
Wiped it down.

Broke down and ordered fork seals for the VFR.
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'98 VFR800 (touring) - '12 VFR800 Crosrunner (Commuting) - '01 KDX220 (Big Green Antisocial Machine)

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[NJD]

[WreckTangle]

Today, as being the first day of having a full A bike license (passed mod 2 test yesterday) and having a day off work, took my yamaha ybr 125 (not the best bike in the world, as about as fast as a Lada full of elephants going uphill) for its first spin ..without those sodding L plates!!!!!

only planned to go for a spin for 2 hours......but got carried away and was on the road for about 4 hours
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My wife asked me to get her something that goes from 0-100 in under 5 seconds for her birthday. ......................I got her a bathroom scale.

[recman]

[WreckTangle]

[ThatDippyTwat]

Work hack:-
Topped up coolant - had a suspicion she was running hot. Needs a coolant flush really.
Chain tension.
Gave it a wipe over.
Got an idea of where paint needs touching up.
Viffer:-
Unhooked battery to charge - replacement forks will be here next week sometime.

[RhynoCZ]

Fresh oil and filter, to test my new stator. 14.5V at the battery, everything alright, no oil leaks!

Then, I had a short ride (roughly 60km) with my mates, everyone on a single cylinder machine.

By the way, I forgot how good these big reflector ''classic'' headlights were. A cheap H4 bulb combined with a big reflector results in a very good beam pattern/coverage. I could actually see where I'm going, which is a pleasant change, as my previous motorcycle, ZX7R, had a projector which wasn't very good at all and the MZ's headlight is pretty much useless at night.
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'87 Honda XBR 500, '96 Kawasaki ZX7R P1, '90 Honda CB-1, '88 Kawasaki GPz550, MZ 150 ETZ
'95 Mercedes-Benz w202 C200 CGI, '98 Mercedes-Benz w210 E200 Kompressor

[om15]

Gave the Tracer a proper clean and polish, general spray over with WD40 and through chain clean and lube with banana slip lube, first time I have used this and will see how it goes, found the dry lube rather gritty and the wax lube rather messy, will see what the fling is like on this stuff.
Set clocks on both bikes to new time, I don't know why I did that as my eyes are so old I can't read the digits, going to buy a nice round clock to stick on the handlebars.
Tracer is going in for first service next week, I have done 5.5K since new, no problems, having the seat lowering mod done, a collar on the mono shock will lower the bike an inch, see if that is more comfortable.
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Alcohol doesn't solve problems, but neither does milk

[ThatDippyTwat]

Beemer tried to squash it. (can't find the spill thread, if there is a '19 one).

Stopped at the lights. 3 cars, then BMW, then me. Beemer is indicating right, I am going left. Beemer pulls into right-hand filter lane, I start left, and they pull hard left, making me hit the left rear door/quarterpanel. Manage to keep it upright. They stop for a second, then feck off up the road. Caught up with them, told her to pull over, she does so down the road. Almost no damage to my bike, minimal scratch on their door/quarter panel. She was happy she was in the wrong (her boyfriend was an argumentative, anti-bike cumguzzler though), and wasn't interested in taking my insurance details.

Obligatory paint diagram. Blue is me, right is car.
https://i.imgur.com/0AsxQt6l.png
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'98 VFR800 (touring) - '12 VFR800 Crosrunner (Commuting) - '01 KDX220 (Big Green Antisocial Machine)

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[ThatDippyTwat]

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[ThatDippyTwat]

[martin734]

Changed the brake pads this morning. 40 mins to change 3 sets of pads with the back brake taking 20 mins on its own.
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Current bike: ST1100 "Big Red"

[kramdra]

Pre-mot, cleaned up the left weaping fork seal. Seals perfectly without grease, used grease anyway. Replaced rotting indicator bulbs.

[WreckTangle]

Replaced front bulb..........as front bulb died when I was driving down a pitch black country road........with no street lights........

you really brown your pants when you are travelling at 60 mph and everything goes pitch black!
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My wife asked me to get her something that goes from 0-100 in under 5 seconds for her birthday. ......................I got her a bathroom scale.

[1198]

Today I’ve - sorned a bike. Sad but it seems that the winter is pretty much here!

(I’ve got two still taxed so if there’s a decent day (maybe, one day, fingers crossed perhaps) I’ll be out - but I’m not holding my breath!)

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[mohit]

Today i replaced new tyre of my Benelli tnt600i. Previously i had Pirelli anget gt 180/55 r17. This time i wanted to try a more stickier tyre. I have installed Pirelli diablo rosso 2 this time.
Please watch this video and let me know if the decision was right.

New motorcycle tyre for benelli 600i
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