What did you do to your bike today?

Griffo said:
Ah good luck! What will a fork service include exactly? Will you be doing fork seals? That's something I fear is on the horizon, and forks is the only big thing I've yet to ever mess with.
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Thank you! Yeah new fork seals and dust covers as well as new oil . Honestly, its a fairly straightforward job on most bikes but its time consuming. Just be methodical and take loads of notes/pics!
 
Rimsy said:
What sort of problems did you get? It had 6k miles on it when you purchased it?
Hope you enjoy the SP!
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6k when I got it in feb.
Headlights set on fire, cost £200 eBay.
Cheers, the mt09 sp is ablast & much more suited to me. Did a big day yesterday, all Lakeland passes, Penrith over hartside pass to Hexham.
On to near Darlington, then south to Bernard castle, Richmond,leyburn,middleham & kettlewell.
320 miles, loved it
 
Waved good bye to it as it was loaded onto the van. Sold it to a we buy any bike type place in the end to get away from dealing with numpties on FB/Gumtree/AT. £3.5k not bad considering I think I bought it for £5k 4 and a half years ago.
 
Test rode it after it dying on me and getting recovered. Gave the carbs a little clean and a rejet as it'd been running rich. Also treated the tank for rust. Not great results on the test ride... Managed to get home as I only took it around the block but it crapped out on me turning back onto my road.

First thing I did when getting it back was checked spark. Nothing. Checked battery. Fine. Checked connector to coil, getting voltage. Swapped out coil for a replacement, spark returned! Put old one back, no spark, new one again, spark. Bad coil.

So that's good... but, the HT leads are too short, and are touching the engine. I think I can get some longer plug caps rather than having to extend the HTs, only need a few more cm...
 
bloodiedathame said:
Test rode it after it dying on me and getting recovered. Gave the carbs a little clean and a rejet as it'd been running rich. Also treated the tank for rust. Not great results on the test ride... Managed to get home as I only took it around the block but it crapped out on me turning back onto my road.

First thing I did when getting it back was checked spark. Nothing. Checked battery. Fine. Checked connector to coil, getting voltage. Swapped out coil for a replacement, spark returned! Put old one back, no spark, new one again, spark. Bad coil.

So that's good... but, the HT leads are too short, and are touching the engine. I think I can get some longer plug caps rather than having to extend the HTs, only need a few more cm...
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At least its an easy enough fix!
 
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