What did you do to your bike today?

GothicGhost · 8 Mar 2015 at 21:16

Got new smaller top box for my xj .
Comes in handy when gf sends me out for Chinese

ElliorR · 8 Mar 2015 at 21:24

And the gun comes in handy to stop you having to pay for it

Yaka · 8 Mar 2015 at 23:01

it looks better with top box, mabe a pannier on the left side to finish it off ?

and am i seeing things or no ground anchor?

MowyTone · 9 Mar 2015 at 07:12

Bought her to work for the first time! Strange though, I thought it should have been quicker...Takes me 15 mins in the car but took me an hour on the bike?...

GothicGhost · 9 Mar 2015 at 11:34

Yaka said:
it looks better with top box, mabe a pannier on the left side to finish it off ?

and am i seeing things or no ground anchor?

I got a ground anchor just need to put it in the ground soon.
I was looking at something for the left side but I can sort after get the bike working again lol

Fireskull · 9 Mar 2015 at 15:21

Had a nice ride out yesterday lunchtime

I know I ride everyday but it was nice to go out purely for a ride rather than commuting through traffic
Joined by my mate whos recently got a K6 1000 also.

Then when I get home I notice some spots of oil on the drive.....
Turns out that small weep of oil I found a while ago must have been something more serious, oil all over the inside of the lower fairings, its ran all along the bottom edge of the fairing and even dumped some onto the rear wheel, good job I wasn't going for silly lean angles on the ride otherwise I would have been on my arse....

So then I took off the offending oil cooler pipe expecting it to be a dodgy o-ring, nope whole mount on the actual cooler itself has cracked to hell, I would imagine from last years accident but as someone else pointed out to me that right hand thread doesn't look normal either so possibly a helicoil fix at some point before?
Either way its new cooler time, bought one last night and guy calls me this morning and says he has damaged the cooler

no luck! But someone on a FB group has one so hopefully have something sorted asap.

I did try a new o-ring but if anything in taking it apart its made it worse, within 2 mins of putting it back together and starting it up it literally started pouring oil out

Kreeeee · 9 Mar 2015 at 15:55

I hope you get it fixed for the nice weather coming up soon.

TallPaul_S · 9 Mar 2015 at 16:36

First ride in this morning with the new loud exhaust, it really does make a difference. Loads of people moving over/aware I was there.

And by god it pops and burbles nicely on the overrun from high revs, must be the extra fuel being dumped into the exhaust from the vtec 4 valves rather than the 2 valves under 7k rpm.

Shame you never really get to hear your own exhaust properly!

robin7 · 9 Mar 2015 at 16:58

Went for a spin and purchased a Scala Rider G9X, what a great bit of kit!

MatteH Oxford · 9 Mar 2015 at 19:11

Cleaned the project ,just waiting on the tank & screen

looks almost black in the photo

wazza300 · 9 Mar 2015 at 20:32

what colour is it supposed to be? looks black to me aswell

looks better with the baglux tank cover on it

unKle · 9 Mar 2015 at 20:47

Fireskull said:
Then when I get home I notice some spots of oil on the drive.....
Turns out that small weep of oil I found a while ago must have been something more serious, oil all over the inside of the lower fairings, its ran all along the bottom edge of the fairing and even dumped some onto the rear wheel, good job I wasn't going for silly lean angles on the ride otherwise I would have been on my arse....

I did try a new o-ring but if anything in taking it apart its made it worse, within 2 mins of putting it back together and starting it up it literally started pouring oil out

Well that could have ended badly! Thankfully it didn't

Judging by those stress cracks it definitely looks like the accident has unearthed a dodgy botch.

Fingers crossed you get it back on the road soon :cool:

Fireskull · 9 Mar 2015 at 21:53

Yeah unlucky and lucky at same time, a new one for me

Got a decent looking rad coming this week sourced via the Facebook group, see FB is good for something!

MowyTone · 10 Mar 2015 at 07:31

TallPaul_S said:
First ride in this morning with the new loud exhaust, it really does make a difference. Loads of people moving over/aware I was there.

And by god it pops and burbles nicely on the overrun from high revs, must be the extra fuel being dumped into the exhaust from the vtec 4 valves rather than the 2 valves under 7k rpm. Shame you never really get to hear your own exhaust properly!

I agree! I bought my SV with the can it has on it but wow it really is good for filtering. A quick blip now and then and most people are good enough to start looking for you.

It's also good for "Get off your ******* phone, you ******"

wazza300 · 10 Mar 2015 at 15:33

do you notice all the pedestrians turn and look way before you get level with them? haha

loud pipes really do help everyone

Kreeeee · 10 Mar 2015 at 15:47

Took her out for a spin at lunch and saw 3 lakes, 6 mountains and 4 birds of prey.

I love this place!

tom_e · 10 Mar 2015 at 16:28

Kreeeee said:
Took her out for a spin at lunch and saw 3 lakes, 6 mountains and 4 birds of prey.

I love this place!

I seen some sheep, some ponies and some fields on my way to work. I think you win

wazza300 · 10 Mar 2015 at 16:31

have you been on those swiss railways yet kreee? up in the mountains,looks amazing

smuggle me in your suitcase

MatteH Oxford · 10 Mar 2015 at 16:55

wazza300 said:
what colour is it supposed to be? looks black to me aswell

looks better with the baglux tank cover on it

It's a very dark blue, way darker than the repsol colour they are supposed to be. Doesn't matter much now as the tank is going to be orange like the later bikes.

wazza300 · 10 Mar 2015 at 17:01

it looks alright to me

I don't envy you keeping those white wheels clean though