What have you done to your bike today? Archive.

[Beehive Bedlam]

[Wheezybiker]

Bought and fitted a screen to my bike see other thread

Very pleased easily fitted seems to be effective on my short test run
Looks good in my eyes
Will see how it fares over the winter and see if I need to get a bigger one
May even try and make one using this one as a pattern

[M.C]

[ThatDippyTwat]

More on the carb learning curve.

Pulled old and new carbs apart (PZ26, Chinese/Korean clones). Find out they are running a Keihin CV/PW main (Great, I have spares) and a Mikuni pilot. What the fuck?
Set float heights to 14mm, replaced float valve in older carb, made sure jets were clear, float bowls clean, butterfly and slides moved freely. Set adjustment screw to 1 turn out and idle 4 turns out. If I can get it started, I can go from there. I still need to free up locknuts to adjust the arm that pushes accelerator pump on new carb, but I'll settle for getting it started before I go thinning any spannners down.

Give me Fuel Injection any day. I now understand how carbs work, but they still seem like inefficient, hard work in comparison to FI.
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'98 VFR800 (touring) - '12 VFR800 Crosrunner (Commuting) - '01 KDX220 (Big Green Antisocial Machine)

[Howling Terror]

Prepped for a wee welsh 'oliday.

Pumped tyres...fitted tankbag.
Stashed the puncture kit under the seat.
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[ThatDippyTwat]

It Lives! I suspect float height was the problem. Still need to play with getting it right. It takes a moment to let off the revs. Throttle cable does not appear to be sticking, grip snaps back promptly.
Found nice big linear crack under the mounting flange. Gungum + VHT paint to the rescue.
Think the clutch springs are about toast, wont fully engage, feels sloppy. Will chuck new plates in as well, they're not that expensive.

Cush drive changed & new chain on, old one was at the end of the adjustment range.
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'98 VFR800 (touring) - '12 VFR800 Crosrunner (Commuting) - '01 KDX220 (Big Green Antisocial Machine)

[SophR so good]

https://i.imgur.com/FoTlqeh.jpg

Cleaning out the dirt bike bits, I have learneded what a carb is. There was a bit of dirt in the float bowl but hopefully it hasn't got into the engine as that might be a bit too hard.
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[ThatDippyTwat]

Clean your jet's out, it's unlikely to have got past them but may have clogged them. You'll see when you look through them.
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'98 VFR800 (touring) - '12 VFR800 Crosrunner (Commuting) - '01 KDX220 (Big Green Antisocial Machine)

[SophR so good]

I did. Well ste did. That was the entire reason for taking the carb out.
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[mudcow007]

Became the owner of a new (to me) Blackbird

many lol's where had on the ride back to mine, goes a bit err quicker than Bandit I had before

[Tracer1234]

[Petemate]

Sorted a loose connection which caused the failure of my right-hand DRL. Planned is an ugrade of the LEDs from 3 each side to 2 each side better ones which my lad will sort for me. He reported last time I passed him going the other way in our village that while they are nice and bright, they are not multi-directional and lost their impact as I passed him. Must sort that out to allow for myopic drivers at roundabouts etc.
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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

[Fizzer Thou]

SORNed the R1.

Ridden more miles on that bike than any of the others,even the FJ1200.

Looking forward to riding it next year
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Always have a 'Plan B'

[Courier265]

Puncture repair...


Got the screw Friday morning, rode all day no problems, Saturday checked and the tyre was flat.. repaired it with my crafty plugger kit and Sunday it's still inflated.

[pompousporcup...]

tried to get the 900 running properly. Used newly purchased IR gun to confirm that one cylinder was not doing what it is meant to. Temp never got anywhere near the other 3

Removed and tested the coils, ht leads, plug caps among a few other things. Turned out 1 out of the 4 plugs was wrong. Has EA instead of ES.

Next i looked into why the water pump was leaking oil. Seal had failed.. Upon draining the oil (that had done ZERO miles) i noticed it was much runnier than usual and that my coolant level was dropping..
Removed pump and spent an hour splitting it into its component parts. Parts ordered so now waiting on delivery so i can rebuild it, refill with fluids and start it up again

Very soon i will have replaced almost every part except the frame and wheels

[Fisty]

Attempted to fit an Ohlins shock. Removed the old one before finding out they have sent me one for an 08 bike.

Refitted the old shock after greasing everything. Changed the oil and filter.

Gilles rearsets arrive tomorrow as do the new tyres, so thats tomorrow evening sorted.
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[mudcow007]

[pompousporcup...]

That ^^^ is lovely

[Petemate]

Cut the hoop off of the rear of the grab rail, as when I get my new top box, it will stick out too far with the hoop there. My lad turned up two nice plastic bungs to finish off the ends of the tubing, neat job. Now the box and its plate will sit nice and snug against the rear of the seat. Top box should be here tomorrow. Pics once the job is done.
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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

[ZX-7R]

[Beehive Bedlam]

[ZX-7R]

[DrSnoosnoo]

Finally changed my clocks to ones I can actually read. Last ones were mega bleached and the speedo needle stopped at 65.... if I could even read the numbers correctly.

Then cleaned the chain, put some gearbox oil on the chain and thought, best buy a new clutch cable.

It's all much easier in my shed!!!
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[pompousporcup...]

Rebuilt the gpz900 water pump. Both the oil and mechanical seal has failed. Bit of a fiddly job but managed to bodge it back together in my own ham fisted fashion with a selection of long sockets, a toffee hammer and elbow grease

These kwaker water pumps were not originally intended to be rebuilt. Even says so in the Haynes and workshop manuals but due to a couple of dedicated people, replacement parts were made up. New pump would be £180 or so and the rebuild kit is £55. Big money saving by rebuilding it

Plumbed it all up, turned around to put the Ratchet on the bench, well happy with myself...only to spot an O ring left over.