What did you do to your bike today?

Went to a meet last night and found this there!

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Given that there are very few of these I'm guessing this one belongs to a forum member?

It sounds F'ing awesome btw :D
 
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Dogbreath said:
At about 17 seconds you overtook a bus within a controlled area, i.e. within the zig zag lines. That is an offence, so I'm surprised he didn't do you for that as well - maybe he wasn't watching at the time.

Edit, and again right before he pulled you.
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There's nothing wrong with that as long as he didn't overtake the last vehicle in front of a pedestrian crossing (that has stopped to give way to pedestrians wanting to use it).

Rules 165/191 in the highway code

Zig-zag lines are there to stop vehicles parking on them rather than to prevent any overtaking. Besides, he performed the first overtake before the zig zags started by the looks of it?.
 
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how to rivet a chain (soft link) ??

you use the press plate to squish the rivets? then the pin one to flare the pins? that right?
 
Fireskull said:
Which bit of his riding are you referring to?
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Overtaking on the zigzags
Overtaking between cars and the island
Overtaking a bus with oncoming cars, while they are overtaking a parked car
Moving to the incorrect lane to undertake a whole line of cars, then cutting in

yes some of them may not be an offence, but it’s not riding defensively, it’s an accident waiting to happen
 
wazza300 said:
how to rivet a chain (soft link) ??

you use the press plate to squish the rivets? then the pin one to flare the pins? that right?
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Use the plate on the chain tool to press the link plate onto the pins, then once pressed on enough, use the flaring tool to open up the end of the pins. My DID chain had 'hollow' pins at the end so the ball shaped flaring tool was the one I needed.
 
Dale V said:
Overtaking on the zigzags
Overtaking between cars and the island
Overtaking a bus with oncoming cars, while they are overtaking a parked car
Moving to the incorrect lane to undertake a whole line of cars, then cutting in

yes some of them may not be an offence, but it’s not riding defensively, it’s an accident waiting to happen
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my thought completely
 
Note to self spend some decent money on a rear paddock stand and work on a level surface, had to wrestle my back wheel back in last night after doing the back brake because the bike was at a wonk and the paddock stand just seemed to be twisting got so pee'd in the end that I just got the back wheel back on so I could get it in the shed and left it to be finished this morning.
 
Will be getting her out for a spin soon but for the last couple of hours I've been going through Ebay & Amazon adding things to my Wish list, So much Bling so little time. :p
 
Back brake stripped, cleaned, greased and replaced the shoes.
No more sticky pedal leaving the shoe dragging :D

Anyone know the size of the cotter pin on the torque arm on the YBR? Mine snapped when I took it off so I've just thread locked the nut on until I can get a replacement and the official Yamaha part is massively overpriced and seems to be a special order item with a 10 day lead time but there's plenty of cotter pin packs on eBay for pennies if I can find the size.
 
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Fitted a new set of indicators in not much over an hour. The old ones had corroded connections and would cut out every so often, and were amber lenses so not that easy to see.

Set of cheap £7 per pair clear lens indicators from Sportsbikeshop, job sorted. If I had a nicer bike I'd have gone for some LED indicators at about 10x the price but not worth it for my little run around.
 
tom_e said:
Back brake stripped, cleaned, greased and replaced the shoes.
No more sticky pedal leaving the shoe dragging :D

Anyone know the size of the cotter pin on the torque arm on the YBR? Mine snapped when I took it off so I've just thread locked the nut on until I can get a replacement and the official Yamaha part is massively overpriced and seems to be a special order item with a 10 day lead time but there's plenty of cotter pin packs on eBay for pennies if I can find the size.
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measure it with a tape measure or ruler,should be so many mm thick/long
 
Thanks for the comments and advice regarding my video, this is why i posted it up.

Only been riding for just over a year so every piece of advice is welcomed. To be honest since that incident iv noticed around town i tend to just follow the traffic instead of overtake.
 
There's nothing wrong with overtaking and filtering, the art is knowing when, and when not, to do either.

Not one of us, or anyone who rides a bike, has not made mistakes.
 
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