What did you do to your bike today?

Yep about £10-15 fitting for a loose wheel is normal. If you've got a paddock stands and a car you may as well take the loose wheels, saves money for half an hour of your time.
 
Just putting this out there you can get a bead breaker for about 30 nuggets on the bay.. tyre levers are pretty cheap too.

Iv heard good thing about openeo, im mixed about mytyre nowadays after it took three weeks to deliver a tyre to me!
 
TallPaul_S said:
Yep about £10-15 fitting for a loose wheel is normal. If you've got a paddock stands and a car you may as well take the loose wheels, saves money for half an hour of your time.
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Car yes, paddock stands nope. :( I could probably use a car lift, that's what a guy from one garage told me he was really nice and helpful. but I'm concerned that the bike might tip over to one side...

BTW Everywhere they seem to charge £15 or £25 (wheels on the bike)...

ConTRo13R said:
Just putting this out there you can get a bead breaker for about 30 nuggets on the bay.. tyre levers are pretty cheap too.

Iv heard good thing about openeo, im mixed about mytyre nowadays after it took three weeks to deliver a tyre to me!
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The problem is that I don't have a garage, in this weather I have a stormex cover and I made it so the water doesn't gather up under the bike. I have one more option, but I still need the wheel to be weight out. I wonder how much that'll cost me.

Never used MyTyre, only used TyreLeader when I ordered some tyres for my dad, the service was pretty quick. They missed out 1 tyre, but the courier said he'll bring it at the end of his shift in the evening.
 
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Made a start on priming my fairings ready for paint, I'm wanting to go for a VTR 1000 castrol theme look... How it will turn out... Who knows :D

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Stripped it down to have another look at the carb, Yep it looked like a Carb. :p

******* thing nowt I can do till I get my new petcock so slung it back together as I fancy a decent ride out tomorrow. :cool:
 
Kreeeee said:
He swapped it for a proper bike :D
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You mean "Fix it again tomorrow" bike? :p

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Charged battery and checked if its holding the charge, sadly its not. The Motobatt should be here monday morning hopefully, although DPD are unpredictable in my area... :mad:
 
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Won some Oxford Big Black Big paddock stands off eBay cheap so went and picked them up.

Spent the afternoon giving my chain a well needed clean which is 100x easier with the stands! Also adjusted my rear brake as the travel was massive, very fiddley with some very stiff Allen bolts but done.

My rear brake is still shocking on the power front though :p
 
Grrr... changed the battery still having this warning light about 'low battery'. The bike runs better then it did on the old one, but still...

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From my google lots of people are saying stator, this just shows you how good non japanese bikes are... Same with cars... :(
 
sure its not the rectifier? you can test it easy with a multimeter,it should be putting above 12v back into the battery

you can also unbolt it and clean the earth up,so its making good contact
 
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Seems like it's being more trouble then it's worth, I'll give you £100 and take it off your hands because I'm nice like that.
 
wazza300 said:
sure its not the rectifier? you can test it easy with a multimeter,it should be putting above 12v back into the battery

you can also unbolt it and clean the earth up,so its making good contact
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Clean, making good contact... I would have to order a multimeter, if I order now should be here tomorrow.

The 125, 200 and 390 are made in India that explains it all... should have done my research before buying. :p
 
take it into a local friendly bike shop and ask them nicely to check the rectifier/regulator output

they shouldn't charge you

if it is the stator id be very surprised and they are expensive,mines 17 years old and still going
 
wazza300 said:
take it into a local friendly bike shop and ask them nicely to check the rectifier/regulator output

they shouldn't charge you

if it is the stator id be very surprised and they are expensive,mines 17 years old and still going
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I'll give it a go, how expensive is the stator? :(
 
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