What did you do to your bike today?

wazza300 · 29 Jun 2016 at 14:14

The Shock itself or swingarm bearings?

Diddums · 29 Jun 2016 at 14:15

That S1000 is absolutely beautiful. Love it! :cool:

acemastr · 29 Jun 2016 at 14:24

tom_e said:
Rear shock blown? It may well have peed all it's oil out before it ended up back with you so it might not be obvious.

I have considered this, my thought is that the guy who had this bike before me did motocross, he was jumping ridiculous jumps and the shock was perfectly fine, it was fine before it was stolen, it'd take some serious skill (or lack of) to blow a shock on a dirt bike.

Emailed a suspension guy, it most likely does need rebuilding annoyingly

acemastr · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:03

Confirmed, suspension guy says the shock is blown (what did they do when they stole it?!).

$75 to rebuild, taking tonight

tom_e · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:07

Anything will give up eventually nevermind what it's built to put up with, that's a bargain rebuild price though!

Snaggle · 29 Jun 2016 at 17:08

TallPaul_S said:
Yep - DID X-ring chain (VX525) and JT sprockets, that was the wemoto chain and sprockets deal. No point in going for a gold chain as it'll be covered in filth on my bike I have Sunstar currently on the bike as that was the bundled deal last time, there's not much difference. Again, it's not worth getting renthal/supersprox or anything nice on this bike.

Once I get a Tuono that'll get treated to a Supersprox rear and gold chain

£97 for chain and both sprockets, decent deal IMO.

Make sure you go 2 up on rear and 1 down at front

tom_e · 29 Jun 2016 at 22:11

Just bought a spare pair of forks so now I can strip and paint a set along with replacing all the seals and bits without any real down time.

tom_e · 30 Jun 2016 at 09:54

tom_e said:
Just bought a spare pair of forks so now I can strip and paint a set along with replacing all the seals and bits without any real down time.

Having a think about this while I build up to actually doing some proper work.

I'm going to need a seal driver type tool, my thoughts at the moment are rather than splashing out the best part of £50 is take the old seal and use my dremel to sand down the inner and outer diameter then get a length of PVC pipe slightly wider than the fork stanchion and a bit longer then place the old seal over the top of the new one then the waste pipe on top of that and gently hammer it down.

Sound vaguely workable?

Are any special tools needed for the bushes as I may do them while I've got it all in bits.

Snaggle · 30 Jun 2016 at 22:07

I just done the seals on my sons new bike . 2 bits of 40mm pipe about 6" long . Split down the middle and place over the upper fork leg . Then put the other one over the top of the first one then clamp with 2 x 45mm exhaust brackets . worked a treat.. cost £5

unKle · 1 Jul 2016 at 00:11

Tested the limits of the reserve tank on my way to work this evening...and went beyond them.

1/4 mile push to the nearest petrol station and late for work

First time I've run out of fuel for nearly 20 years. Bikes definitely get heavier as you get older

Minibiker · 1 Jul 2016 at 08:34

Sin_Chase said:
Why not?

Can do whatever you put your mind to!

Just know i wont get finance, Happy with my 600RR at the mo so hopefully get my Credit score up and up

russell664 · 1 Jul 2016 at 13:19

unKle said:
Tested the limits of the reserve tank on my way to work this evening...and went beyond them.

1/4 mile push to the nearest petrol station and late for work

First time I've run out of fuel for nearly 20 years. Bikes definitely get heavier as you get older

That happened to me with my SV in the first 2 weeks of having it

robin7 · 1 Jul 2016 at 19:49

So added a gear indicator (no pic)

A full titanium micron system (which looks like it's falling off in the pic but it's fine

)

A power commander 5

A dynojet quickshifter, and changed the graves rearsets to GP shift

And did a few other little bits and pieces

Craig321 · 1 Jul 2016 at 19:52

Are the PCV quickshifters any good? I want to get a PCV - once you have that installed, is the quickshift plug & play?

robin7 · 1 Jul 2016 at 19:55

Craig321 said:
Are the PCV quickshifters any good? I want to get a PCV - once you have that installed, is the quickshift plug & play?

This one so far is awesome. I didn't install it though, friend of mine did it for me. Set it up to work above 2,500 rpm and it's lovely. I find myself shifting up all the time just to feel the smoothness

Scooby_WR1 · 2 Jul 2016 at 14:21

Fitted a tank protector and TechSpec grips today, just finished when it started to rain.

acemastr · 5 Jul 2016 at 16:56

Rode the CRF250R and a friend rode the newly built YZ125, apart from a couple bolts working loose on the YZ it ran great!

Ordered some hand guards for the CRF, few too many close calls with trees. Also ordered a new rear brake pedal as the current one is too close to the engine casing and too far for my foot to reach.

*edit*

I have an issue with right hand burms... so I practiced... didn't go so well as I went far too slow into it and didn't give it power when needed

I found it funny lol

Flack88 · 5 Jul 2016 at 20:10

acemastr said:
Rode the CRF250R and a friend rode the newly built YZ125, apart from a couple bolts working loose on the YZ it ran great!

Ordered some hand guards for the CRF, few too many close calls with trees. Also ordered a new rear brake pedal as the current one is too close to the engine casing and too far for my foot to reach.

*edit*

I have an issue with right hand burms... so I practiced... didn't go so well as I went far too slow into it and didn't give it power when needed

I found it funny lol

Done that quite a few times in deep ruts.

Yaayuh! · 6 Jul 2016 at 08:28

I got some new vibrations through the footpegs, not sure what it could be. I think it's worse with speed, but i notice it all the time.

Any ideas what to look at?

Fireskull · 6 Jul 2016 at 09:34

Tightspots in the chain, engine to frame bolts.