What have you done to your bike today?

[Islander]

[Easy-X]

[Nobby the Bastard]

You have to make things really simple for yanks...
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha:"Remember this simple rule - scooters are for men who like to feel the breeze on their huge, flapping cunt lips."
Sprint ST 1050

[ThatDippyTwat]

Went to swap forks on the 91 over to what I now know are CBR600F3 ones. Was assured by several people it was a straight swap. Nope. Calipers foul on the rim of the disc, it's not by much, they fit on the trough on the wavy discs. May see about doing one in CAD and having it machined at mates rates.

Had given forks I took off to friend that "has done hundreds of fork seals", so I could put them on the 4th gen. He proceeded to bring them back having hammered the upper bush into the fork lower without having the stanchion in there. No fucking idea how I get that out. He'll be paying for it, or a replacement lower though.

I'll do the 3rd gen for seals myself tomorrow and put them on so shes not out of action.
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'98 VFR800 (touring) - '12 VFR800 Crosrunner (Commuting) - '01 KDX220 (Big Green Antisocial Machine)

[Bloke]

Trying to get my bike back on the road after a hiatus of a few years and decided to give it a good flush of all the fluids and a bit of TLC that has been long overdue.

Today was a fun exercise of draining all the oil, finding out that the mechanic that previously serviced my bike appeared to have used something like PTFE tape/some goop on the sump plug threads in lieu of any sealing washer at all and finally getting the filter off, it must have been put on by a gorilla.

Great stuff.

To find that I had only added the oil filters to my basket, not actually bought them the week or so ago that I was buying all this crap.
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2008 VFR800 VTEC

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[pepperami]

It’s the small things in life that make you smile.

I bought a packet of seal-picks, 8 different picks for £3.50.
It made getting the seals out of the front caliper of ‘Project Scrappy Hyosung’ so easy. (They were a little awkward before )

My usual practice of digging at seals with a screwdriver is no longer the way to I do it. .
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I am the sum total of my own existence, what went before makes me who I am now!

[Bloke]

[Islander]

I use a chain wrench for overtight oil filters. Fantastic things - they distort but don't puncture the filter body and leave a lot less mess to clean up.

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

i used to use a chain, now i tap an oil filter cup/socket type remover on, w/ a 3/8ths drive

can be a pain getting the cup off the filter after sometimes but it's easier than using a chain imo (chain is fiddlier to get on)
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"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."

Mobylette Type 50 ---> Raleigh Grifter ---> Neval Minsk 125

[Islander]

[blurredman]

I use one of those strap wrenches for external oil filters.

And, even though I don't overtighten them I do find they can be stuck on a bit fast initially. I think lots of people complain about previous owner's tightening up filters too much but I do feel that a certain amount of heat cycles, and the contact rubber being in place for a year or so certainly tightens things up a little.
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CBT: 12/06/10, Theory: 22/09/10, Module 1: 09/11/10, Module 2: 19/01/11
Past: 1991 Honda CG125BR-J, 1992 (1980) Honda XL125S, 1996 Kawasaki GPZ500S.
Current: 1973 MZ ES250/2 - 17k. , 1979 Suzuki TS185ER - 9k, 1981 Honda CX500B - 91k, 1987 MZ ETZ250 (295cc) - 38k, 1989 MZ ETZ251 - 49k

[ThatDippyTwat]

'91 - I got 4th gen forks split apart. PX'ing them with some painted, sorted, lowers a mate has. Ordered new bushes, seals and bolts. Debating some 15W oil instead of the 10 it's recommended to use.

'96 - Cleaned rear caliper out, cleaned pistons, red grease on slider. Test rode it. Got very irate, as did a car driver in the opposite lane, with WVM pulling out without looking or apparently giving any fucks. I was a foot from hitting him, car was maybe an inch. The car driver went to pull him out of the van, big fella too, not surprised he fucked off down the road sharpish. I gave the ride up as a bad idea and fucked off home.
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'98 VFR800 (touring) - '12 VFR800 Crosrunner (Commuting) - '01 KDX220 (Big Green Antisocial Machine)

[Bhud]

Pinholes in fuel tank, repaired.

Not the most enjoyable job. It took a few tries before it started holding water. First attempt: silver solder, with lots of flux. Invisible porosity - damp patch when tested. Waste of two silver solder rods. Second attempt: bronze brazing rods with siflux. Didn't get them quite hot enough. Damp patch again. Third time lucky - didn't dare to grind down the brazed lumps though.
Rough and ready sand-prime-paint, in a hurry (I'm tired of working on this tank). When done, the carb got blocked up with rust particles en route to the petrol station. All sorted now, though. I'm just glad it finally holds petrol.

https://i.ibb.co/sHmhptK/pinholes-repair-2.png

[pepperami]

Got the new seals and pistons into the cleaned front brake caliper on ‘Project Scrappy Hyosung’ , yay!

Simple job, easy enough to do .
Happy Pepperami is happy.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I can’t remember the last time I rode the R1 but today I decided to fit the new windscreen and battery, then wash it ready for an as yet unbooked MOT. I meant to see if it would run first but I wound up doing those tasks in reverse order. Now it sounds like it’s running on only three cylinders and I can’t be sure whether I’ve got water somewhere or if there was a pre-existing fault. I’m going to leave it to (hopefully) dry and try again.

[blurredman]

Added oil. This baby burns a pint every 250 miles, and is not a two stroke.
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CBT: 12/06/10, Theory: 22/09/10, Module 1: 09/11/10, Module 2: 19/01/11
Past: 1991 Honda CG125BR-J, 1992 (1980) Honda XL125S, 1996 Kawasaki GPZ500S.
Current: 1973 MZ ES250/2 - 17k. , 1979 Suzuki TS185ER - 9k, 1981 Honda CX500B - 91k, 1987 MZ ETZ250 (295cc) - 38k, 1989 MZ ETZ251 - 49k

[pepperami]

[TaffyTDM]

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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Spoke too soon. The R1 idles OK now but it doesn’t like being under load. New spark plugs on order and I’ll check for air/vacuum leaks too because it seemed to be hanging a bit.

[Pete.]

New stoppers going on the old tractor today. Full brake system service as part of the job, naturally.
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a.k.a 'Geri'

132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[pepperami]

Been twatting about with the two Hyosungs today.

I put the GT250r on charge, only for the charger to indicate a battery fault?, however the bike started first time on the button?

Been fiddling around with the choke on the GT125r (Project Scrappy Hyosung)
Had the engine running today .
Trying to work out why the right side indicators work but the left side indicators don’t??

I fugkin hate bikes with little intermittent faults .
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I am the sum total of my own existence, what went before makes me who I am now!

[hellkat]

Thinking about buying another one.
(just a little one, just a little knockabout til my other two get sorted, then I'll sell it, I promise )
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[Easy-X]

The old fella's KZ1000 is running a bit rough on idle. I'm hoping it's just some of the pilot jets being blocked as getting a bank of 4 carbs off for a proper clean is a nightmare on this bike.
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter