What did you do to your bike today?

in the end of that fork leg

you have to be patient and one will pop up,though a single fork for sale will probably be rarer than a pair,usually they always sell em in pairs
 
Not yet, but have done a bike parts search that the shop recommended which is supposed to contact all the breakers. Only got one reply offering a fork for £400 though lol.

Will check out dk, thanks

Edit: dk spares seems really good, loads of forks on there (although none for my bike), will definitely keep an eye on that site.
 
Fitted the Bridgestone S21's today, nearly threw the rear wheel out the garage at one point, ******* spacer kept dropping out on the calliper side when getting it into position. Many swear words were used.

Well worth it in the end, bedded the tyres in on a long ride. Amazing tyre, puts the Battlax 014R's that were on it to shame.
 
Replaced the rear brake pedal, fitted some renthal bars and replaced the rear exhaust in the morning. The Ixil Hyperlow sounds sooo good, really didn't expect it to make so much of a difference, caught quite a few people looking out of the car at the noise, loud pipes save lives and all that :D

Quite relieved as the removed bars showed a visible twist and the forks seem dead straight with the new bars on. Feels good to do the work myself, going to try and tackle more and more jobs myself.
 
So i retorqued the head bolts, did the strobe timing. I order to do this I had the carbs off. Now it's misfiring pretty badly between 2k and 3k rpm I went up to 4k and it was fine, went like a rocket. I'm fairly certain this is to do with where the carb switches over from the idle circuit to the main jet.

That's a carb rebuild next then :( Nothing but hatred and despair when you read the triumph forums though about my carbs. Apparently they were awful when they were new and they only get worse with age :p Might look into a carb upgrade.
 
Yup, mk2 concentric. I think I just need to check the jets are okay, not bent and still held in the correct position. Going from idle to mid throttle it relies on the tapering of the jet so hopefully it's something that's obviously wrong and easy to fix..

Actually, it might be the mk1.
 
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Had a go at spraying the replacement downpipes. Since it doesnt matter about how they look thought it would be a good thing to learn on. Came out not bad either (very high heat paint used)

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Very nice. Will look good on the bike. Might do that to my Hornet some time in the future once I've sorted the fork & if I can be bothered risking taking rusty header bolts off.
 
Attached some stickers, switched out some rotten cheese bolts for some decent ones then gave it a good wash and a couple of coats of wax looks lovely. I bet it'll rain tomorrow :mad:
 
Never have I had such a faff just tighten up the chain...
The right side wouldn't budge so decided to clean up the bolts, loosen loads and line up from scratch, only to realise the markers for the chain are ****. They're in a plate that can move and do move in opposite directions when tightening the axel bolt, useless.
No problem I thought, I'll just measure from the swing arm pivot to rear axel either side, like I used to on a previous bike. Only problem being, it's kinda hard to measure like that when you've got an abba stand rammed in the swing arm pivot.

Then, I was cleaning the front and found this:

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Looks like the dink in the radiator is causing it to leak. Bottom right due to being on side stand.
I've wiped it and ran it and it has dried up, I'll check tomorrow to see if it's back.
Buying a radiator cover right now.
 
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I fixed the mid range issue although now it's stuttering at the top end... hopefully that's just because I was just twisting my right hand too much. Will have to give it a proper run next time I get some time.
 
That shouldn't make it leak I don't think.

Also used to be a nightmare to adjust my hornet, markers weren't accurate and was always just a pain to get it the right tension and lined up. Then I bought a single sided swingarm bike, it's a dream to do the chain on that :D
 
I'll check tomorrow and see what it's like.

I was meant to clean up the front sprocket and the gear indictor sensor as well but after all that, I didn't have time. Doesn't help that it's a pain in the butt to get to the front sprocket, got to remove the cover, remove the gear selector linkage, detach speed sensor, remove casing with slave cylinder, then huzzah!... Balls ache just to clean something.
 
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