What have you done to your bike today? Archive.

[Tracer1234]

This bothers me immensely.

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Riding: Yamaha MT-09 Tracer Occasionally Riding: 08 Suzuki SV650, Potato: 2011 Yamaha YBR Custom.
Used to ride: 2015 Yamaha MT-09 Tracer (smidsy) 09 Triumph Street Triple (P/X'd) 08 Yamaha YBR (Sold)
CBT 04/14. A: Mod 1 & 2 13/04/15

[owl]

[Jiving Joe]

[stonesie]

Not much, just fitted some V-Trec levers.

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I will get out on it tomorrow and see how they feel, they look very nicely made and less floppy than the standards (which weren't bad).

[recman]

Wash, blow dry, polish, chain clean and lube, rode it.

[Pigeon]

Plug + air-filter change on XR250

[kramdra]

Fitted a metzler roadtec 01 rear to the cbr6.

Before this I had a racetec part worn. The centre only had 3mm and got 3k miles out of it. Id suggest a new one might get 6k I dont know how much they start with...

[Hong Kong Phooey]

Dismantled the couch in the garage and took it to the tip, which created enough space in the garage to actually work on the bike. So I cleaned and oiled the chain, checked the tyre pressure and acf'd it.

Must get electricity in there next, and a light would be helpful.
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'81 CG125, '97 FZS600 : '99 CBR600F4, '09 KTM RC8

[Pigeon]

Mirror + indicator replaced on XR after bouncing it off the dirt and tarmac a few times today.

[Falco]

This is really the weekends work:

rebuilt rear caliper (including dremeling one of the sliding pins into something approaching smoothness) with new seals.

Replaced chain and sprockets (first time with riveting a chain - not so hard, assuming rivets don't fail on dual carriageway).


Removed battery, positive power lead and starter relay for sanding and cleaning.

Put it all back together.

Turns out the bottom of the mounting point on the chain guard had broken off. Since a new one costs north of £70 () I rebuilt this one out of cable ties and a bit of plastic lying around from when a careless car driver hit the wall near where I park


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It's (surprisingly) not total shit. quite pleased with it

EDIT: oh and put on a radiator guard from a breakers.
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I tell you what, mathematically, I'm having it

[Tracer1234]

I mourned my bike.

Yes, i am still very much indulging in my own pity party, it will pass.
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Riding: Yamaha MT-09 Tracer Occasionally Riding: 08 Suzuki SV650, Potato: 2011 Yamaha YBR Custom.
Used to ride: 2015 Yamaha MT-09 Tracer (smidsy) 09 Triumph Street Triple (P/X'd) 08 Yamaha YBR (Sold)
CBT 04/14. A: Mod 1 & 2 13/04/15

[Irn-Bru]

[Fizzer Thou]

Took the FJ for the MoT,which passed with no advisories

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Although a Cat C write-off,the MoT tester said that after several MoT passes then the bike is removed as a write -off.Not sure how true this is
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Just talk bikes.What else is there?

Always have a 'Plan B'

[M.C]

[waffles]

MOT successfully passed with no advisories, went out for a ride around afterwards in the sunny sun
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Theory test - 19/8/09, CBT - 11/10/09, MOD 1 - 16/8/10, MOD 2 - 27/10/10
Past rides Yamaha XT125X, Triumph TT600, Honda XR250
Current rides Suzuki GSXR 600, Honda MSX125

[ThatDippyTwat]

Ripped the loom apart - crimped, heatshrunk and sealed with 'malgy tape, the metric fuckton of bodge jobs (wrapped ends, cable ties, poundshop insulting tape) by a PO, she now starts after almost 2 weeks off the road.
Oil and filter change.
Sorted the floppy indicator.
Put fan on a switched relay, I suspect the thermistor is fucked and I'm not paying that kind of money for one.
Changed uber-dim headlamp for LED that gives a decent beam pattern that won't blind oncoming traffic.
Removed "brush guards".
Removed heat wrap from exhaust, it's nasty, unneeded, and a fucking 125 not a nitro drag bike.

Chain tension and lube.

Oh, and fried to a fucking crisp in the sun. It was a good day.

Pads tomorrow I reckon, there's plenty of meat on the ones in both ends, but I have a suspicion they're contaminated... the YBR stopped better.
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'98 VFR800 (touring) - '12 VFR800 Crosrunner (Commuting) - '01 KDX220 (Big Green Antisocial Machine)

[Falco]

-put new clutch cable on (cleaned out all the gunk out from behind the level )

-Half drained coolant and removed themostat and test it in a pan of boiling water (it works)

-removed the fan switch plug, grounded it on the engine to test fan (also works)

So now I know that the prime suspect for the tendency to run hot on hot days in traffic (I have read the gauge shouldn't get much over half). Next step is work out if the fan is cutting in at all.

- filled up the coolant and then ran the engine with the pressure cap on guess I get to pull the fairing and the tank *again* tomorrow.

- Fitted new starter relay
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I tell you what, mathematically, I'm having it

[bamt]

Needed a new rear tyre on the Pan, which turned out to be far more work and expense than normal over the last couple of days.

To remove the axle, you have to displace one of the exhaust cans. But this time, after I loosened it and gently rotated it to break the seal, I had the ominous crack. At the end of the downpipe, where the clamp goes over the slitted end to connect the can, two of the bits of slitted pipe rusted off (looking at the rust in the break, it had been going for a while and definitely wasn't me being too gorilla like). I knew that that area of the exhaust wasn't in great condition so no major surprise, but it meant that the can can't go back on easily. If it was a case of slapping it on and hopefully never having to touch it again, I'd have considered doing a baked bean can and putty bodge as it is all held rigidly - but a back tyre only does about 7-10,000 miles so I need to remove it three or four times a year. It might have been possible to get it welded, but then I start hitting the time/effort tradeoff as I don't have a welder so would need to find someone to do it. It's on my list of things I should buy, but a thin, rusty exhaust whilst under time pressure probably isn't the ideal way to start learning to weld. A few days messing around without the bike costs me more in time/money/aggravation than just sorting it out so I decided to replace.

Luckily (!) I'd done this on Wednesday night to drop off the wheel to my tyre place on Thursday. That meant I could get new headers ordered for delivery on Friday - when I normally only work the morning and work from home so would be in for the delivery and with a clear run in the afternoon. Removing all the plastics is always good fun - though it gave me the opportunity to do a few other niggly jobs that I put off because of the effort involved (cleaning up some cable runs, adding a run for some auxiliary lighting, replacing some fasteners where the previous owner had butchered their heads or that had rusted in place).


Luckily the headers came off cleanly, so no nightmare scenario of having to remove broken studs, and everything went back together pretty easily - though annoyingly the new headers only came with two copper gaskets not four. That was sorted out with a phone call and the missing ones arrived Saturday morning, but I couldn't reassemble on Friday. Instead, I played at being a Harley owner, and sat in front of the telly on Friday night going over the end cans with chrome cleaner to get all the areas I normally miss because they are on the bike.

All back together yesterday, and a quick shakedown ride showed all is well again - albeit close to £400 lighter in the wallet (including the tyre).

[chickenstrip]

[M.C]

[chickenstrip]

[pompousporcup...]

took advantage of this fantastic weather to replace the 15 year old tyres with fresh rubber and give the ol girl a good wash n wax

new motobatt fitted along with avon roadriders (stupid 18inch rear wheel limiting choice).
I also fitted a jet kit to help it run better after using pod filters.

It cleaned up really well and after using MER i could see my reflection in the panels.

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MOT is a week today.


I also painted a red tank black. Not perfect but passed the 5ft test. I'l add Kawasaki sticker.
Unfortunately a lot of the original decals are no longer available, even direct from kawasaki

After 3 coats of primer, satin black and clear.
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[B5234FT]

Pulled them both out and washed them, once over the tyre pressures, fluids, bulbs, cleaned and lubed the chains and then wired in a relay fed ignition live feed for the heated grips and a voltmeter on the Triple and booked it in for the MOT. Removed the bar muffs from the GPZ so I can use it in the meantime.

[Tigerlea]

Got down and dirty and covered in grease to replace the snapped gearshift and bent rear brake levers, along with replacing the rider pegs for shiny new ones while completely removing the passenger pegs.

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After nearly 2 hours of struggling with placing the rear brake in the correct position, I've decided I'm never doing any work around it ever again. There must be an easier way, but that spring caused serious agro.

Attempted to replace the plate holder while the tools were out but a stripped bolt prevented that from happening. Next job...

[chickenstrip]