What did you do to your bike today?

Need to splash some chain lube and acf50 around when I get home, forgot to reapply the acf50 after washing it a few weeks back and some parts are going a little orange :o
 
IC3 said:
Has anyone actually done any engine work on their bike without a garage? I'm so slow at working on the bike, I wouldn't be able to change e.g. clutch in a day. :p I'm that person that checks everything 2-3 times just to make sure its right haha
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I replaced a primary chain in a z500 which is bang in the middle so crank case spit in my bed room when I lived at home mum loved it :D also gsx 1100 and gsx 750 engine rebuild in my flat plus frame spray job shimming up motors you name it I have done in doors before a garage.

A friend of mine washed his crank casing in the bath after it was shot peened we have done many jobs in doors when younger.
 
IC3 said:
Has anyone actually done any engine work on their bike without a garage? I'm so slow at working on the bike, I wouldn't be able to change e.g. clutch in a day. :p I'm that person that checks everything 2-3 times just to make sure its right haha
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Fork seals in 2 days, just needed the shed overnight but the kitchen table would do the same job :D

I've also stripped and re-built both front calipers, all with no garage.
 
**** fork seals! If you take the first dust cap off and below is rusty and rotten, don't even bother trying yourself. My brother and I pulled at that leg the entire day, so tired, massive headache, shredded hands. Ended up having to source a new fork leg (shop was kind enough to try for free and didn't have any luck either). Got both with perfect seals & happened to be set up for someone a similar size to me for £100 which is actually cheaper than the normal labour and parts for seals :p

If the dust seal had done its job and kept the rust out, it would have been a pretty easy job I suppose. Was also 30k miles and 11 years of all weather and never been changed or maintained :p
 
.one. said:
I replaced a primary chain in a z500 which is bang in the middle so crank case spit in my bed room when I lived at home mum loved it :D also gsx 1100 and gsx 750 engine rebuild in my flat plus frame spray job shimming up motors you name it I have done in doors before a garage.

A friend of mine washed his crank casing in the bath after it was shot peened we have done many jobs in doors when younger.
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:eek: :D I think my mum would kick me out the same day I did that. :p
TallPaul_S said:
Fork seals in 2 days, just needed the shed overnight but the kitchen table would do the same job :D

I've also stripped and re-built both front calipers, all with no garage.
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Fork seals yeah, calipers surely didn't take that long? I took mine apart, but all the seals were pretty much new so put them back together. :)
 
Craig321 said:
**** fork seals! If you take the first dust cap off and below is rusty and rotten, don't even bother trying yourself. My brother and I pulled at that leg the entire day, so tired, massive headache, shredded hands. Ended up having to source a new fork leg (shop was kind enough to try for free and didn't have any luck either). Got both with perfect seals & happened to be set up for someone a similar size to me for £100 which is actually cheaper than the normal labour and parts for seals :p

If the dust seal had done its job and kept the rust out, it would have been a pretty easy job I suppose. Was also 30k miles and 11 years of all weather and never been changed or maintained :p
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There's a very simple trick to that.

Take the top cap off, remove the internals (spring, spacers etc) drain the oil. Pop the dust cap off and remove the retaining spring. Now fully extend the fork leg and fill it to the brim with water, make sure there is no air in the fork and put the top cap back on. Don't compress the fork, it needs to be fully extended.

Now you need to find someone with a chest freezer, stick it in overnight. As the water freezes it expands and forces the leg out with the seal.

This also works very well if the bottom bolt won't come out and the internals are turning with the bolt, freeze the internals and you can then undo the bolt.
 
Foghorn Leghorn said:
There's a very simple trick to that.

Take the top cap off, remove the internals (spring, spacers etc) drain the oil. Pop the dust cap off and remove the retaining spring. Now fully extend the fork leg and fill it to the brim with water, make sure there is no air in the fork and put the top cap back on. Don't compress the fork, it needs to be fully extended.

Now you need to find someone with a chest freezer, stick it in overnight. As the water freezes it expands and forces the leg out with the seal.

This also works very well if the bottom bolt won't come out and the internals are turning with the bolt, freeze the internals and you can then undo the bolt.
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Good idea :D will remember that for next time.
 
I didn't do what I had planned for today, but at least I've done something...

-Desnorkled
-New Oil + Filter
-Lubed & Tightened the chain
-Warmed her up and took her around the block, even though I have no front brakes. :p

One thing though, why would someone think that putting the holder mount in this spot be a good idea? ...

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Ended up stripping the whole front end of the bird just to change one bulb in the clocks! Changed every bulb over to LED as well as replaced the bulbs in the headlight to some Ring 130%'s.

Job for the weekend is an oil and filter, as well as replace the CCT to hopefully make it sound a bit more like it should instead of the stomach churning rattle at 3k.
 
eddie101 said:
Ended up stripping the whole front end of the bird just to change one bulb in the clocks! Changed every bulb over to LED as well as replaced the bulbs in the headlight to some Ring 130%'s.

Job for the weekend is an oil and filter, as well as replace the CCT to hopefully make it sound a bit more like it should instead of the stomach churning rattle at 3k.
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I saw a kit to change the CBR clocks to LED lit. It is a straight forward change?

Edit: Looking at vids for car dashes it's just a point of swapping the bulbs for LEDs
 
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MowyTone said:
I saw a kit to change the CBR clocks to LED lit. It is a straight forward change?

Edit: Looking at vids for car dashes it's just a point of swapping the bulbs for LEDs
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If the bulbs are just standard T10 bulbs then it's just a case of swapping them out. On the blackbird there are 4 main bulbs which light up the whole dash. Unfortunately with my sausage fingers I had to take the nose off. Someone with smaller hands could have probably done it with just removing the screen.

Took it as an opportunity to clean the inside of the fairings.
 
Argh.
Still waiting to get my licence back from DVLA, my trike hasnt been run for while and last night, just before it decided to pee it down, I went to start her up to keep her happy.

Dead as a dodo

So, I put the bettery on charge overnight and I just went to her about half an hour ago to see how she wasdoing and the ruddy battery is more than likely dead.

I wasnt 100% happy last night when the chatger pointed out that the battery has only got 8v comign from it... That would certainly explain the half hearted attempt at trying to turn her over but yet still giving me plenty of lights.

Just now she was still only showing me the same thing.

The charger is a half decent one too, and it does have options for life saving batteries and all manner of stupid stuff that quite probably does nothing but bump the price of it up, but what I going to do, is chuck the Car Charger onto it for the next few hours to see how that goes. Its a K100RS and as that has a car-sized battery anyway, it will be fine.

Funny really... I have a BMW 1000 and a few years ago I had a Guzzi Cali 1100 and both of these have very large ( for bikes ) batteries and yet my Goldwing which can have lights like a bloody xmas tree, and is designed to pull sidecars and caravans etc has a battery thats only about half the size of these, perhaps a bit smaller? weird.
 
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