What have you done to your bike today? Archive.

[linuxyeti]

Finally managed to get he crud of the worst of the crud encrusted bikes today ..

It's taken 2 washes with Dirt Busters bio-degradeable bike wash, and water spray another day today with parafin to finish off. Then, lube teh cables etc, and finish off with a bit of acf

Anyhow, that's that bike ready until Autumn now, with a bit of luck.

https://cdn.bcf.44bytes.net/files/2018-03-06_11.30.14.jpg
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[Skudd]

Tried to fix the horn, but stumped on cause of fault, Bloody side panels need to be taken off to get to everything, why can't things be under the seat and easy to get to?
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[Beehive Bedlam]

Lost the injector for my scottoiler well I say injector it was actually part of a byro pen and had been feeding used engine oil to my chain for the past 20K which worked just fine.

https://i.imgur.com/Xwu9acJ.jpg

Sort of want a dual injector but I'm not paying £3 a pair of single nibs and I'm certainly not paying £26.75 for the dual injector. I need another byro.

[Pigeon]

[Pigeon]

[M.C]

[Pigeon]

We have different versions of the same bike. Mine does not allow flashing of maps.

Cable option is only available to Windows users (for my bike) if I also buy Dealer Tune. I don't use Windows.

Plus, I think I only paid £2.99 for the app.

Anyway, is what it is.

[Courier265]

Just a ride to the bike shop for an MOT (CBF500) which sadly failed on damaged front wheel bearings... SHIT!!

[kramdra]

Almost new rear roadtec 01 ordered for 58 quid.

Cleaning spare brakes.

[M.C]

[ThatDippyTwat]

Tested some soft panniers out on it. I'm off for a week at the end of the month and fancy a few nights out in the middle of nowhere.

Made heat-shield for the exhaust to stop the pannier getting toasty.
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'98 VFR800 (touring) - '12 VFR800 Crosrunner (Commuting) - '01 KDX220 (Big Green Antisocial Machine)

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Wired up the electric door in the garage with the bike in. Now when it's nice enough weather for me to want to take the bike I can do so without faffing around with keys. Annoyingly there's no good way to put an internal door through to a garage so I have to go outside first. Iife's hard.

[Pigeon]

New BMC filter for Striple

https://i.imgur.com/uE95Y9T.jpg


That's it now. Done tinkering (hopefully). Looking forward to giving her a damn good thrashing

https://i.imgur.com/LzI1XON.jpg

[Beehive Bedlam]

Fitted a new nib to the scottoiler.

https://i.imgur.com/kbAq9aJ.jpg

Topped up the engine oil.

https://i.imgur.com/SMXHeq9.jpg

[NJD]

Removed the rounded screw head holding the fairing on, at long last.

Four pound red tool (from Asda) did the job of cutting a slot into the head nicely. Turns out Oxford locks are useful for something <sarcastic dance>.

https://s9.postimg.org/bbvrkl92n/1_-_Copy.jpg
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[Courier265]

Adjusted and lubed the chain again, this chain isn't lasting so well so I've
just ordered a new Swift chain kit... I can't really complain because this
current kit has got me through the wet and winter weather, just wished
it lasted a bit longer.

[UncleFester]

Ripped off the hideous stock exhausts and fitted a set of Arrows .... crashbungs and also the bagster tank bag cover i'd had for a while.

Nice taking something to bits that isn't 20 years old and brittle in all the wrong places.
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[kramdra]

[MarJay]

[UncleFester]

Indeed... the fling from that would be terrible.
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Module 1 and 2 passed - October 2014. Happy owner of a 2017 Z1000SX, ex owner of a YBR125 / CB500 / VFR800.

[Beehive Bedlam]

[linuxyeti]

.. finally some sun, and spare time today, meant I could remove teh last vestiges of winter from the other bikes, granted mainly the TR, as that's been on a few long runs since January, and was pretty well caked up with road salt & grime.

Still, cleaned up pretty well, and sorry to say, that, despite the bikes being either chinese, or korean, still have't become rust dust!!

The TR, which is pretty much my main workhorse..

https://cdn.bcf.44bytes.net/files/2018-03-13_16.12.21.jpg

The Mash, survived another winter ..

https://cdn.bcf.44bytes.net/files/2018-03-13_16.12.38.jpg

And... The ST7, although used relatively sparingly over winter ..

https://cdn.bcf.44bytes.net/files/2018-03-13_16.10.45.jpg

In fact, they've all cleaned up rather well !!
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[Petemate]

Stripped the front end down, ready for the fitting of taper roller steering head bearings. I will also be replacing the split fork gaiters, which lasted all of 2 years but only cost a few quid.
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[Wheezybiker]

Cleaned it and put WD over electrics
Polished the metal work a bit
It's my commuter so be in use again tonight for nights

[NJD]

Reluctantly left my bed to clean the caliper only for it to then start raining once I'd gotten all the bits into the tray so made my self a make shift tent and sat under the cover while going about the task. Smart thing would have been to: bolt the caliper on loose, put cover over and go inside but.. urm.. my brain-cells seem to take several hours of charge to find a solution to an issue.

WD-40 sprayed over the electrics (a recommendation on a separate thread of mine regarding non-starer issue) worked a treat for fixing, for now, the passing light not working so many thanks for that <thumbs-up.gif>.

More: snow, rain and freezing temperatures on the way makes me glad I haven't washed the bike yet even if seeing all the crud on the rear of the bike makes me want to cry.

The post winter checklist of things to clean and lube grows longer the more I look at it.
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