What have you done to your bike today? Archive.

[Bhud]

[P.]

[sulphur]

[recman]

Rode mine to work, in the drizzle, which is something I am usually loathe to do, however, there are extensive roadworks happening in my employer's area which is making exiting the carpark an absolute nightmare.

[NJD]

Can't find hand-guards for the CBF -- ones that will suit the weighted bar ends -- so bodged some lever guards out of a pair of old Oxford hand-guards to cure some boredom.

No idea if will stay together. Feel temporarily clever.

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[slowside]

Sold it.

[P.]

[kramdra]

Found puncture in rear, was completely flat. Tyre doesnt have much left so used a string,that will do until I replace it soon.

Took 8 worn tyres to dump. The guy said 4 quid each, or goto kwik fit around the corner. Kwickfit happy to take them for nothing. Will have another 5 to go soon!

[Easy-X]

I signalled that I was turning and my knob got stuck Must be sticky because it hasn't been used for a while.

I stopped and jiggled it for a bit and now my knob flops back and forth as it should
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[RhynoCZ]

Today, I put a new stator into the stator cover of my XBR. It's a Made in Britain unit, so it required some modifications to be done. Definitely not a quick swap item . Then a friend of mine put new ends on my wires (he's got fancy pliers for the job), as the stator came without plugs. Tomorrow, I'm putting everything back together, hoping it'll work.

EDIT: Rewinding the old stator would cost me more, than a brand new unit. However now seeing how cheaply is the new British unit put together, I should have paid a local lad to rewind it.

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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

[1198]

Today I’ve done -

Bugger all bike wise. It’s pissing it down.
I’m still planning my Monster’s refresh though - does that count?

[ThatDippyTwat]

Sold it.

Rat has gone to a new home.

Paddy - what's that TNT like. Found one locally that seems very cheap for a new-ish bike. May buy for shits and giggles or to flip if it's any good.
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'98 VFR800 (touring) - '12 VFR800 Crosrunner (Commuting) - '01 KDX220 (Big Green Antisocial Machine)

[P.]

[LustyLew]

New tyres.

Took the Death Wings off and put trusty BT023s on.

Just need some dry weater to properly scrub them in.

[RhynoCZ]

I assembled the alternator of my big single last night, almost overslept today (I wake up at 5:05 to go to work), but it's done! It took me crap loads of time to clean the old gasket off, I wanted to make sure it won't leak. I hope it doesn't. After that, I did the starter clutch assembly, which took me three tries to do it, as I somewhat kept putting one of the ''screw lead tubes'' in in the wrong order, well I was very tired.

TL; DR: The stator cover has it's brand new stator in it, the wiring is sorted, the next job is to fill the engine with some oil and I hope the charging system will work. All the measurements that I could with the stator out on the table seem promising.
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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

[ThatDippyTwat]

Chucked a dual camera on the new work hack.
Too many fuckwits round here to not have one, and I CBA doing the whole "he said, she said" routine if something does happen.

Oil, filters and Coolant on the next day it's not pissing it down.
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'98 VFR800 (touring) - '12 VFR800 Crosrunner (Commuting) - '01 KDX220 (Big Green Antisocial Machine)

[Easy-X]

[kramdra]

Sundays puncture repair got me 55 miles and then shit out in the rain at about 90. New road 5 fitted. Opened my tin of bead sealer, just incase. Comes with a brush in the lid, but it is so thick may aswell be a spoon!

[ThatDippyTwat]

[Easy-X]

[Tdibs]

Fun times of trying to find why sidelight circuit is dead.

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Clean broken wire and lots of previous bodgery uncovered it seems....

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Previous : 09 Vanvan 125| 02' Sv650s || Current: 1999 Xj600n | 1992 DR650 RSE | 2005 Fazer 1000

[ThatDippyTwat]

[Easy-X]

Went to the Post Office to register the old DT175 as a "vehicle of historic interest" i.e. no tax, no MoT
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[redeem ouzzer]

Spent the best part of £1300 with Robinson’s foundry on GSXR1100 engine bits. Shells, rings, camchain, gearbox bits.
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Be a REAL MAN!

[Fisty]

Farted in its general direction while I got sausages out of the freezer.
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Quietly and consistently taking the piss.
TL1000R | Hayabusa | ZXR400 | TL1000S | Bandit 400 V
Fatter and faster than Fret