What have you done to your bike today? Archive.

[wr6133]

[Beehive Bedlam]

[kramdra]

[notabikeranym...]

[UncleFester]

Started it. Ran it. Stopped it.

Did all the pre MOT checks and got it booked in for 2 weeks time.
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Module 1 and 2 passed - October 2014. Happy owner of a 2017 Z1000SX, ex owner of a YBR125 / CB500 / VFR800.

[stonesie]

[Poecilotheria]

Toady step 1, decide what bike to pick up my lady on. Step 2 picked the lovely red gsx6r since valentines day and all step 3 ride out on a romantic trip and lunch. Got to clean it, drop it off and pick up my ninja and more than likely have to clean that too.
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Need more bikes!

[thx1138]

[Petemate]

Tidied up the wiring on the recently installed relays for my DRLs. All working OK.
Swapped the front weak grommet for the nearside side panel for the good one on the rear (bottom one is also OK). I had noticed that the front one was not holding the corner of the panel on that tight, so I will be ordering a new one. (plenty on the bay, nos)
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82 not out....1983 Honda LA250 Custom
2008 Saab 9-3 1.9 Tid 150 Vector Sport estate
2005 Stirling Eccles Topaz 2-berth

[lukamon]

remembered that if i want to ride it to work tomorrow, i need to setup my scottoiler dual injector as was just a pipe sticking out side of the bike where i removed the single injector (its 11pm at this point)

all done, 20 mile ride to comfirm all good with new chain and sprocket set, ready to go
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[M.C]

Replaced my horn with a cheap chinese one. Genuine part would have been £20, this was less than a fiver, could have got one even cheaper but I didn't want to wait a month for it to arrive.

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[pompousporcup...]

changed the oil, filter and plugs. I've been topping it up so often that the old stuff came out still looking golden but a tinge of carbon. Still.. at least the filter is new

[NJD]

Decided that since I cleaned the rear brake and haven't died and or the bolts haven't come undone I could be trusted to turn two, the front, crusty neglected calipers into ones more suitable for their intended purpose.

No after pics, not that they're needed, because was in a rush/half asleep/trying to get done before it rained. Convinced myself I've gotten copper grease on the actual pad and will die upon next test ride, wheey.

Fair to say I was generous with the brake cleaner, more crud than I'd anticipated. Long live winter, boo.

Having calipers that don't need the pistons touched or pushed in to remove the pads are a god send for simplicity/time.

Turns out I managed to dislodge the rubber that holds the brake line to the fork leg and was like "oh noes wut do?" for a moment. That and the fact I've noticed my speedometer cable isn't routed in its holder, not that it matters.

Plus I did learn how small the legal limit of 1mm brake pad is. Think I'd long replace it by eyeball before it gets that low. I got the ruler out and was like "wut?".

Basics clean and lube is a more simple job than I, long ago, imagined. To think I used to pay monies for someone else to do this.

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[Groove]

[M.C]

[Paulington]

I removed the Acumen alarm because I am sick to death of not knowing if my bike will start or not when I fancy a ride.

My life is vastly improved. .
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"Four wheels move the body, two wheels move the soul."
Current Vehicles: '89 Kawasaki KDX200, '99 Yamaha XV535, '00 Honda ST1100 Pan-European, '08 Suzuki GSX-R1000, '08 Mitsubishi Lancer GS4 2.0 TDCi, '15 BMW 1 Series 116d Sport Turbo.
CBT: 27/08/08. Theory: 04/09/09. Module 1: 16/09/09. Module 2: 01/10/09.

[Hong Kong Phooey]

[Petemate]

Replaced one of the indicator flasher units today with one from a classic Mini parts dealer (lovely ride down to Nettlebed but I digress)
Let me explain. I have wired the DRLs through relays because I wanted them to go out on the side of which I am using the indicators. So needing there to be two flasher units, one for each side, I had got hold of a cheapo Chinese one. It was playing up and now both sides are working steadily and correctly. FWIW, another unit the same as the original comes at approx. 50 GBP. The unit from the Mini specialist - 4 GBP. No contest. (sorry, no pound sign available on my keyboard - Mac PC configured with Windows 7, pound sign doesn't work)
Next job today will be to start on my mirror mod. Son bought me a lovely new pair of mirrors a week ago, and I am fed up with dragging a 17mm spanner out of my pocket to slacken them off at the stems to get the bike through the entry. Can't pivot the mirror heads like I could on the old ones as these are too tight. So I'm going to make up two pairs of small brackets which will allow the complete mirrors to pivot inwards. (I suppose I could do that for SERIOUS filtering but maybe not at my age lol)
I will eventually get a couple of rubber bellows to make the set-up look neat.
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82 not out....1983 Honda LA250 Custom
2008 Saab 9-3 1.9 Tid 150 Vector Sport estate
2005 Stirling Eccles Topaz 2-berth

[davethekwak]

Snapped the nearside front indicator off
I was busy making a ramp for van as picking a bike up tomorrow. Didn't realise how close I was to the bike and stood up. Hard the crack and one indicator hanging by the wire.
They came as a set of 4 so guess I'm going to have 3 spares for the future.
All the wifes fault. She made me store a tumble dryer in MY garage which reduced my working space.
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ZX6R G2 (1999) & ZX6R F2 (1996). I like ZX6!

[jessicatee]

Got the battery off to charge it and see if it will start tomorrow....has been sat since approx Oct 2015 so a new battery is on the way but I'm impatient and wanted to see how much work will be needed to MOT it!

[Kaya75]

Fitted Exhuast flange gasket with a folded strip of copper sheet to act as a crush gasket as my flange is a tad bigger then normal due to past collector box repair and the aftermarket link pipe a tad slimmer, covered in gas gunk and bollocked the clamp up tight as, leak now you bastard

Dropped both front calipers to polish the pad / slider pins as the salty roads this winter had had a good binge on them, causing the pads to drag a bit too much.

Cleaned, lubed and waxed chain

Covered the whole bike with a good'ol rub of acf50

Sorted, looking forward to the test ride tomorrow morning, excuse to get out for a bit fun for a change to the daily grind
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ybr125 Sold, GSF600 K1 Bandit (For Sale), FJR13000 gen2.

[155mph]

Washed it and lubed chain. So much easier with paddock stand.

[Groove]

[craigT19]

Ok so it was monday so not really toady but ive been too busy to post.

New mirrors and tail tidy fitted, abba stand used for the first time and bike cleaned easier because of said stand
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Bikes owned :- 2001 nsr125, 1999 zx6r, 2006 yzf-r1, 2009 xmax 250, 2012 yzf-r1, 2015 MT-07
Current bike : - 2016 MT-10
BCF member pops. sadly missed 1945-2003

[Howling Terror]

^^^Did you sit on it and go brrrum-brumm? I do.

Also good for getting the foot and hand controls exactly where (you think) they should be.
Only faff with the Abba stand is when using the front lift arm and those slippy ratchet straps they send you.
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