What did you do to your bike today?

tom_e · 1 Oct 2015 at 16:32

TallPaul_S said:
IC3 - New CB400 model being release by Honda... The Bol D'or custom. Not likely to be launched here though, it's a shame, but they're still making them!

http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news-new-bikes/honda-bol-dor-customs/28233.html

I quite like that, in the 1300 flavour!

acemastr · 1 Oct 2015 at 16:41

New tires delivered... everywhere wants $130 to fit to the bike... ordered stand for front to take both wheels off.

tom_e · 1 Oct 2015 at 16:45

acemastr said:
New tires delivered... everywhere wants $130 to fit to the bike... ordered stand for front to take both wheels off.

I was flinching at £30 to get a set fitted haha.

TripleT · 1 Oct 2015 at 16:46

TallPaul_S said:
IC3 - New CB400 model being release by Honda... The Bol D'or custom. Not likely to be launched here though, it's a shame, but they're still making them!

http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news-new-bikes/honda-bol-dor-customs/28233.html

That's frigging ugly! Guessing it's supposed to be a bit "retro", just looks like an old fazer though

p

Just had s new Battlax 023 fitted on my rear for £23 on the bike.

TallPaul_S · 1 Oct 2015 at 16:53

Yeah it's basically the naked model but just with a bikini fairing added. They've done a few versions of it over the years for the CB400. I really don't know why they don't see them here, although they probably would be quite expensive, maybe £6k or so.

RyanF · 1 Oct 2015 at 17:06

TripleT said:
That's frigging ugly! Guessing it's supposed to be a bit "retro", just looks like an old fazer though p

Each to their own I guess, personally I love the look of it

Captain · 1 Oct 2015 at 18:27

wazza300 said:
ohh

I dont have a double chin or a pot belly (its funny though one arse and so many machines,no need)

I hate selling bikes,all I seem to attract is timewasters,only bike I flogged in a matter of a few weeks was a kmx 125

was only banter mate

For the first time today i felt my back wheel slide, some stupid bint was indicating left at the roundabout to take the exit i was leaving, only to carry on straight across the island, then looked at me like i had done something wrong

IC3 · 1 Oct 2015 at 19:22

TallPaul_S said:
IC3 - New CB400 model being release by Honda... The Bol D'or custom. Not likely to be launched here though, it's a shame, but they're still making them!

http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news-new-bikes/honda-bol-dor-customs/28233.html

I didn't read your post about it being new, I thought you sent me a ad with some old honda from 1989. lol That thing is ugly as hell, I wouldn't ride it...

Thanks for the info though.

tom_e said:
I was flinching at £30 to get a set fitted haha.

40 quid with wheels on the bike.

TallPaul_S said:
Yeah it's basically the naked model but just with a bikini fairing added. They've done a few versions of it over the years for the CB400. I really don't know why they don't see them here, although they probably would be quite expensive, maybe £6k or so.

£6K would be madness, around 4k would be decent.

BTW

I've seen a black SV650SA with full fairings, had nice after market mirrors. Some little bobs and pieces, small details which had a big effect on the visual appearance of the bike. V-Twin means there's plenty of torque and this thing hits 0-62mph on 2nd gear easily. I'm just amazed by the torque, as long as it'll do around 135mph top speed I'm cool with that.

Not sure what budget to set for a sv650s, I'll definitely look for one with full fairings.

ConTRo13R · 1 Oct 2015 at 19:33

Fitted some blue spot calipers of an R1 to my cbr today, spent an hour trying to bleed the fudgers before giving up

went out and bought an ezibleed kit that uses a spare tyre only for it to not have a cap big enough for my master cylinder, all in all not a good day.

tom_e · 1 Oct 2015 at 19:49

IC3 said:
I've seen a black SV650SA with full fairings, had nice after market mirrors. Some little bobs and pieces, small details which had a big effect on the visual appearance of the bike. V-Twin means there's plenty of torque and this thing hits 0-62mph on 2nd gear easily. I'm just amazed by the torque, as long as it'll do around 135mph top speed I'm cool with that.

Not sure what budget to set for a sv650s, I'll definitely look for one with full fairings.

It'll do 55 at the limiter in first, 0 to 60 in "holy **** how did I get there!?" And it'll happily sit at 120 on a private road. 2-2.5k will get you a nice example.

Picked up one of those aldi base layers today only the top got plenty of long johns already.

Captain · 1 Oct 2015 at 19:55

Not bike related but i forgot to mention, i booked my DAS today.

Tuesday 3rd of November, reckon it's a bad idea? Could be really cold and poor conditions?

RyanF · 1 Oct 2015 at 20:03

Clov!s said:
Not bike related but i forgot to mention, i booked my DAS today. Tuesday 3rd of November, reckon it's a bad idea? Could be really cold and poor conditions?

Great time. If it's too poor they won't risk it and will reschedule you. You'll get so much more confidence by learning in worse conditions, I learnt to drive in December / January through heavy rain, late nights and snow; did me wonders when it came to being on my own for the first time.

TallPaul_S · 1 Oct 2015 at 20:08

Clov!s said:
Not bike related but i forgot to mention, i booked my DAS today. Tuesday 3rd of November, reckon it's a bad idea? Could be really cold and poor conditions?

Nah could be ok, I passed my on the 15th October last year, so did it on the 13th, 14th and 15th.

Got my helmet mount all sorted for the xiaomi yi, just doing the firmware ugrade.

IC3 · 1 Oct 2015 at 20:10

tom_e said:
It'll do 55 at the limiter in first, 0 to 60 in "holy **** how did I get there!?" And it'll happily sit at 120 on a private road. 2-2.5k will get you a nice example.

Picked up one of those aldi base layers today only the top got plenty of long johns already.

So the 0-60 is around 3.5-3.8 seconds, right? Oh yeah, private roads only.

Yep, those Aldi layers are awesome... all gone in my store.

Clov!s said:
Not bike related but i forgot to mention, i booked my DAS today. Tuesday 3rd of November, reckon it's a bad idea? Could be really cold and poor conditions?

The worse the conditions the slower you have to ride and the shorter distance you can travel in that time so it should be less likely to make one?

TallPaul_S said:
Got my helmet mount all sorted for the xiaomi yi, just doing the firmware ugrade.

Do a picture of how you mounted it, and what mount did you use? (links are welcome)

TallPaul_S · 1 Oct 2015 at 20:27

Amazed by how small the box is, it's tiny! Didn't think it'd all come at first!

Mounted

The curved mount isn't quite curved enough, but it's bloody strong already - it ain't going anywhere. (genuine gopro curved mount)

Question - the wifi doesn't turn on when charging is that normal?

IC3 · 1 Oct 2015 at 20:31

Nice, I'll get some gopro mounts too. The cheap Chinese ones are really bad...

I'll check that for you now, give me a sec.

Edit

It turns on whilst you turn on the camera, it won't turn on when its off. The LED is only showing that the battery is charging whilst the camera is in sleep mode.

BTW whilst recording turn off the WiFi and set the LED's to enabled only, there're 2 LED's whilst camera is on and not recording they're static and whislt the camera is recording they're flashing. The one next to record button.

The battery lasts longer that way

TallPaul_S · 1 Oct 2015 at 20:43

Yeah I tried the LED settings, however I want the front ring LED to be flashing to indicate recording, all the setting does is turn off that one and not the tiny 2 red ones you can't see!

Giving it a full charge now, use the rainforest for the gopro mounts, the ones that say "by GoPro" are the genuine ones, everything else is probably chinese copies.

The wifi thing isn't a big deal I just wanted to charge it whilst updating the firmware/setting it up.

IC3 · 1 Oct 2015 at 20:48

TallPaul_S said:
The wifi thing isn't a big deal I just wanted to charge it whilst updating the firmware/setting it up.

Yeah, it needs to be turned on though. So even whilst its turned on and you connect it to the charger it'll have to be re-powered back on. That way you should be able to charge and use the WiFi...

I prefer those 2 little red lights though, it doesn't creep people out so much as a massive ring at the front dose.

MowyTone · 1 Oct 2015 at 21:41

SHE LIVES!!!! Had to replace a vacuum hose and then had to a loose wire...which just happened to feed the front HT lead.

I had a bit of a shock at the end of the road when i realized I had 5 down and 1 up though! Turns out it's just the elbow for the gear shift should be above and not below the gear axle

TallPaul_S · 1 Oct 2015 at 22:12

MowyTone said:
SHE LIVES!!!! Had to replace a vacuum hose and then had to a loose wire...which just happened to feed the front HT lead.

I had a bit of a shock at the end of the road when i realized I had 5 down and 1 up though! Turns out it's just the elbow for the gear shift should be above and not below the gear axle

Ha, I've done that before, took me a while to figure out why it woudn't go into neutral!