What did you do to your bike today?

I have a set of these too. Great for touring - really helps being able to chat to your pillion :) also with an iPhone you can activate Siri and ask it to read your text messages and reply to them - useful when the mrs texts me mid ride asking when I'm going to be home!
 
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Ah cool, I actually use Porta Pro's at work and when travelling and really rate them.
Got a link to the mod? I noticed the bass on stock headphones wasn't great.
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I followed this video..


..as I ran the scala headset originally. The Sena headphones come apart pretty much the same, velcro backing is stuck down a little better but causes no grief.
 
I fitted a new radiator protector to protect, in particular, the lower oil radiator. As you can see from the first photo, the short length of the front mudguard results in a lot of mess hitting both radiators and there's already some minor damage at the bottom of the oil radiator.

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Spent the best part of 2 hours lying on my back on the drive, trying & failing to budge a seized bolt that's jammed in the exhaust clamp of my collector box, im bloody frozen & cheesed off, all I want to do is change me end can. :mad:
 
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Spent the best part of 2 hours lying on my back on the drive, trying & failing to budge a seized bolt that's jammed in the exhaust clamp of my collector box, im bloody frozen & cheesed off, all I want to do is change me end can. :mad:
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I had that problem last week. In the end I just got a long breaker bar on the wrench and sheared it off. Then bought a new nut and bolt.
 
And im done, I hate working on old bikes, sodding bolts allways put up such a fight.

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First ride out today after refurbishing the clutch slave cylinder and fitting heated grips (Oxford Hot Grips Premium Touring) and a screen extender (MRA X-creen). My heart sank on the way to the local petrol station when the fuel injection warning light came on, but it stayed off after filling up so all is well.

As for the new kit... firstly the grips. Very easy to fit, the most difficult part being getting the old grips off and filing down the ridges on the throttle slider. They are pointlessly hot on full so I just left them on 50% and they do the job perfectly. My only complaint would be the control box which is very fiddly to use when wearing gloves, but I don't think I'll need to adjust it on the move. The screen though must be the best £80 I've spent on it so far. It's quite steep for what is essentially a bit of plastic, but the mountings make it really easy to adjust - very useful when my first attempt got the angle too low and made the buffeting worse. With it properly adjusted the buffeting was eliminated completely and after a 50-mile run I could still hear and my neck didn't ache at all.

Next up, ACF-50 treatment and an automatic chain oiler. I'm leaning towards the Tutoro or Scottoiler but open to recommendations.
 
So, before and after shots of my CB400 after it's ACF50 treatment:

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I know she's nowhere near mint but for a cheap little fun runaround, it's great. Maybe come summer I'll sort the flaking paint on the engine block but at the moment it's living outside and doing 200+ miles a week so it's not worth it.
 
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And today I spent a few hours fitting a loobman http://www.loobman.co.uk/ chain oiler. £20 inc delivery - it's a manual system but not one you have to turn on and off. That big button at the top of the reservoir, you press that for 10-15 seconds which allows oil into the feed pipe, this displaces the oil sitting in the pipe and by a clever system of an oil 'catch' loop with an air hole by the sprocket, only 2-3 inches of oil in the tube actually goes through to the nozzle of the sprocket. So you control the amount of oil - press the button right before you set off, if it's wet, press it more often, if it's dry - less often. I can press it sitting at the lights if I feel my chain needs a little more oil.

So basically, fit and forget apart from pressing the button once every so often. I'll probably do it at the start of my journey to/from work. Once it was fitted I went out for a quick blast up and down the A20 and there was a little bit of oil flicking off but then my chain was dry after the ACF-50 treatment and I pressed it a good 4/5 times in the space of about 30 miles to get the whole chain nice and loobed up again.

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Feed pipe and final oil 'catch' - only oil to the right of/downhill of the air bubble will be released onto the sprocket
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The delivery nozzle - again you can see the oil that will go onto the sprocket
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Compared to the £60+ they want for an automatic Tuturo I thought I'd take a chance on this one, it's made by a London bike courier and has gone through loads of revisions.

On my quick half hour blast out (to test the oiler, of course ;) ) as it was nice and dry I did my first full revs from a few mph/standing start... :D:D The CB400 is deffo quick enough for now.

Also had a little play with a KTM RC8 on the way home for a few miles, didn't know what it was until he passed me as we went into a 30 zone, had a quick chat at a set of lights and he remarked that my bike "goes well enough" :D did some proper cornering too, bum shifting off the seat, my god it's fun!! :D
 
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Does anyone know anything about returning written off vehicles to the road?

Everything I google says you need to get it in for a 'VIC' test, and to run the vehicles details into https://www.vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk/ and there should be a note saying this vehicle needs a VIC done.... heres the issue, my bike does not have this note on there, just its SORN and the MOT is still valid until March!

I am thinking the insurance company just haven't bothered to tell the DVLA about the write off?
 
idk,if theres no note then id be tempted just to tax/insure it anyway

upto you whether you wanna chase it up with insurance or dvla
 
I might give the DVLA a call closer to the time just to double check, it will be going for its MOT before going back on the road anyway.

And yeah I can try to tax it online, if it goes through then there is definitely no VIC note on it.
 
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