What did you do to your bike today?
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Soldato
Track pics look great bud... RSV4 *DROOL* 
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Sorry to hear mate, what was it locked up with?
The little ***** have been known to carry around angle grinders. Makes me feel paranoid today, I don't have my disc lock with me today.
Bled my brakes again.
Really easy method: attach hose to bleed nipple, put other end of hose in jam jar or whatever (submerged in a little bit of brake fluid), make sure hose and jar are ABOVE the bleed nipple, undo nipple and pump. No need to open, squeeze, close, release, repeat, etc. and no need having a fancy bleed nipple or non return valve.
Basically the liquid sits on top of the bleed nipple, so it's impossible for air to go back in, so you don't need to close it between each squeeze
Really easy method: attach hose to bleed nipple, put other end of hose in jam jar or whatever (submerged in a little bit of brake fluid), make sure hose and jar are ABOVE the bleed nipple, undo nipple and pump. No need to open, squeeze, close, release, repeat, etc. and no need having a fancy bleed nipple or non return valve.
Basically the liquid sits on top of the bleed nipple, so it's impossible for air to go back in, so you don't need to close it between each squeeze
Associate
2 disc locks, alarm and Almax chain, sadly couldn't attach it to anything though, so presumably they just lifted it into a van.
My bad for not fitting a tracker. Next bike will have two trackers- a cheap one for them to find, and a BikeTrac buried deep so I can get the bike back, but more importantly to give 5-0 a chance to nab the pond life.
Soldato
Finished fitting my rearsets, my god it's wierd having a working rear brake again after never really having one that did anything on the Tuono! My brain needs to re-calibrate itself 
Used this exact method, got a lovely firm rear brake now
It's a 2 person job the Tuono though, one to hold the rear caliper in various different positions to get the trapped air out and to pump the brake lever. The other person needs to top up the brake res and hold the bottle (mines a stubby beer bottle!) above everything and make sure the tube stays submerged. I pumped half a stubby beer bottle of brake fluid through.
Bled my brakes again.
Really easy method: attach hose to bleed nipple, put other end of hose in jam jar or whatever (submerged in a little bit of brake fluid), make sure hose and jar are ABOVE the bleed nipple, undo nipple and pump. No need to open, squeeze, close, release, repeat, etc. and no need having a fancy bleed nipple or non return valve.
Basically the liquid sits on top of the bleed nipple, so it's impossible for air to go back in, so you don't need to close it between each squeeze
Used this exact method, got a lovely firm rear brake now
It's a 2 person job the Tuono though, one to hold the rear caliper in various different positions to get the trapped air out and to pump the brake lever. The other person needs to top up the brake res and hold the bottle (mines a stubby beer bottle!) above everything and make sure the tube stays submerged. I pumped half a stubby beer bottle of brake fluid through.
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Man of Honour
That's it all, I've got the same setup on mine.
Soldato
Yeah thats the whoe reservoir, that's the 'HRC kit' - probably as much capacity as the small **** pot that was on there though.
Soldato
Gave the VFR a wash, still surprises me how clean it comes up for a 17 year old bike! I need to remove the rear wheel/chain cover at some point to properly clean the swingarm, the bits I can get to come up well but there's loads I can't reach.
Only managed a few hours on the bike Saturday evening, a nice run down to Hastings - riding to work and back all week you feel less inclined to ride at the weekend, espcially when it's a bit too hot.
Only managed a few hours on the bike Saturday evening, a nice run down to Hastings - riding to work and back all week you feel less inclined to ride at the weekend, espcially when it's a bit too hot.
Soldato
Really good nick that mate.
Thinking about doing a DIY respray on the bike. The paint is all faded, scratched and sad looking really. Father in law has a garage big enough and a compressor I can use. This will probably be a slow-ish transformation as the plastics are one color and have large stickers on them as well.
I'll use epoxy to smooth out the crash damage. Will probably go for a satin or gloss black once I've done isolator and filler primer.
Has anyone chosen to do this before? What were the results?
Thinking about doing a DIY respray on the bike. The paint is all faded, scratched and sad looking really. Father in law has a garage big enough and a compressor I can use. This will probably be a slow-ish transformation as the plastics are one color and have large stickers on them as well.
I'll use epoxy to smooth out the crash damage. Will probably go for a satin or gloss black once I've done isolator and filler primer.
Has anyone chosen to do this before? What were the results?
Man of Honour
So my piece of crap YBR that looks like it may well have been ridden into battle by the Taliban in a past life passed it's MOT this morning with one single advisory for a bent foot peg where I dropped it.
Need to get my SV into that garage this time, after the bullcrap advisories and fails that got from my usual place last year!
Need to get my SV into that garage this time, after the bullcrap advisories and fails that got from my usual place last year!
Man of Honour
Keep an eye on the brake lever to make sure it's not constantly applying a tiny bit of pressure due to being a bit big apart from that I've had mine on for 2 years and over 20k miles and they've been perfect.
Man of Honour
Cable or hydraulic? Cable that's down to how you adjust it, hydraulic I guess the pin that acts on the MC maybe a slightly different length causing a different feel.