What did you do to your bike today?

Yesterday I put new air filter in (2 second job on the Hornet) and cleaned the rear caliper: pads out, cleaned them up and copper grease put on backs, pots cleaned, slider pins lubed with rubber grease, all threads coated with copper ease, pad slider pin cleaned with the drill, caliper cleaned with water and some brake cleaner.

Also put my bar end mirrors on. Bit of a nightmare. Bar ends had to come out, so throttle tube off (which was good, needed to lube and clean all that anyway), then had to get the bar weight out. You have to compress a little thing through a hole on either side of the handlebar and kind of push forwards while compressing the circlip which is in the bar end (2 person job). Managed to get it far enough out in the end to get pliers on there and it tore in 2 coming out.

Then put the old mirror bolt back in and started yanking for a while. Weight eventually came out with lots of force & plusgas. The washers were all rotten. No real rust though which was good.

Then the mirror went in. It's one of those that you insert and then tighten it to expand. That of course didn't work, it just kept spinning in the bar rather than actually tightening.

In the end I wrapped an old piece of inner tube round it and hammered in, then it'd tighten :p.

I'm impressed with them for £8. Can see everything & they look good. I just have the one on the right at the moment.
 
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Yep!! Halogens? Forget it.

If a £25 Chinese bulb can be that a good proper purpose built LED headlight must rival modern car headlights. I'll be swapping out the H11's in the Tuono over winter, and any other bike I own will get them fitted too.

There's almost no need for full beam on an unlit country road. And zero flashes from other cars :) Them beam is just set so the cut off is around numberplate height on a car 2-3 car lengths in front.
 
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How much effort is it to fit these? Or is it just plug in place of? The CBR actually has pretty good lights in comparison to other bikes I've had...but there's always room for improvement


Any before and after pics?

edit: Ah ok once you select one from the list it shows pics of the whole kit
 
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MowyTone said:
How much effort is it to fit these? Or is it just plug in place of? The CBR actually has pretty good lights in comparison to other bikes I've had...but there's always room for improvement


Any before and after pics?

edit: Ah ok once you select one from the list it shows pics of the whole kit
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Plug and play, they're straight drop in replacements for normal bulbs.
 
yeah, the only issue is fitting the cooling 'bands' and the driver unit. Otherwise, plug and go.

No before pics and the after pics, well - my phone camera doesn't really do it justice!

You can get newer gen ones with solid heatsinks on the back rather than the copper ribbons, they're much more expensive though.
 
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yeah, the only issue is fitting the cooling 'bands' and the driver unit. Otherwise, plug and go.

No before pics and the after pics, well - my phone camera doesn't really do it justice!

You can get newer gen ones with solid heatsinks on the back rather than the copper ribbons, they're much more expensive though.
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That's the type I've got, everything is contained on the back of the "bulb" so as long as you've got enough clearance behind your reflectors they just drop in.
 
Yeah my headlight bowl is full of wiring, it's tight in there even with a normal bulb.

I'll get a set with the heatsinks for the Tuono as the bulbs are in free air on that, loads of space.
 
exhaust bodged and it passed.

bolts wouldn't budge to get it off, could have tried getting the nuts red hot but couldn't be bothered.
so gun gum, metal, exhaust wrap and some jubilee clips has fixed the holes.
now to get it on ebay and see how little i get for it.

remembered how silly low the gearing is on the wy home. im not sure why they bothered putting a 2nd,3rd, or 4th gear on it, its pointless. 1st and 5th is all you need, could do with a much higher gear though.
 
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New rear tyre time, I got 9500-10000 miles out of the angel GT, it was new back in February.

That should be it for maintenance on the CB400 for winter, the sprockets and chain are good, brake pads not long been replaced on the rear, just it's mot to get through in a few weeks.
 
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The XR is now officially laid up for winter. Steam clean and ACF-50 treatment, and a new set of boots. Horrible weather to be riding in today - cold, wet and miserable. Still always love getting a new set of rubber on though - feels like a new bike every time!

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