What did you do to your bike today?

NooBish AbbZ · 8 Oct 2017 at 17:14

********. This reminds me mine is due for a big service, which I don't have the capability to do here really. Off the top of my head, new fuel line, oil filter/oil of course, brakes bled and new fluid, coolant drain and fresh coolant... think there was a few other things aswell

Going to have to find a specialist around here to find out cost. When i looked at parts i think it was going to be £300+. As soon as i get a price I'll decide to do it myself anyway, struggle or not

tom_e · 8 Oct 2017 at 17:59

If the fuel line is in good shape it doesn't need replacing just give it a good check make sure it's not splitting or cracking. Everything else you've listed is as easy as an oil change and can be done on the side of the road if you really need to.

mattcrane · 8 Oct 2017 at 19:43

Craig321 said:
The biggest job on the 12/24 service is valve checks which rarely need doing anyway unless you run at red line all the time. If you had them checked at 12 then it porbably isn't worth doing again yet

Yep thats almost exactly why the Service Manager said to leave it for the next one, (although on my bike there are a few other big items to be replaced according to the book but they said they will check them and only replace if needed), especially as next year I am hoping to put a lot more miles on it than I have this year.

Looking at 2 weeks in Morocco hopefully, plus I really want to do a UK based tour as well maybe Scotland.

NooBish AbbZ · 8 Oct 2017 at 21:18

tom_e said:
If the fuel line is in good shape it doesn't need replacing just give it a good check make sure it's not splitting or cracking. Everything else you've listed is as easy as an oil change and can be done on the side of the road if you really need to.

Just had a quick check; it's replace -

spark plugs
air filter (R&D last year so not a problem)
Oil/Oil Filter
Fuel Line (4 years old)
radiator hoses
engine coolant
brake hoses
brake fluid
and inspect throttle valve sync, air supply system? clutch

So quite a few things

Next opportunity will be in November, so at least it'll be nice and warm when i do it :rolleyes:

acemastr · 13 Oct 2017 at 14:01

Exhaust fits now!

2 foot blue flames shooting out the back are impressive but it's so damn loud... seriously loud. Tune next week to hopefully settle things down and get more powahhhh

*Before I put the exhaust plates back on, below the engine has a plate to hide most of the exhaust.

Kreeeee · 13 Oct 2017 at 14:07

Good job you mentioned the plate because I was going to point out how ugly the pipes are

Also I can read your plate if that bothers you.

acemastr · 13 Oct 2017 at 14:14

Wrong country so I don't mind lol

Kreeeee · 13 Oct 2017 at 14:17

How is the tank range on that? It's pretty much the only thing that stopped me buying an MT10.

acemastr · 13 Oct 2017 at 14:26

Kreeeee said:
How is the tank range on that? It's pretty much the only thing that stopped me buying an MT10.

A few runs up to 150 but keeping it fairly sedate for the 'break in' period got me 95miles until the light came on, so... terrible. It's a toy for me though so it isn't an issue.

IC3 · 13 Oct 2017 at 15:25

What mileage was on it when you bought it?

acemastr · 13 Oct 2017 at 15:28

IC3 said:
What mileage was on it when you bought it?

0

Freeman · 13 Oct 2017 at 15:53

acemastr said:
0

I asked for my bike to be 0 when I collected it but they said they had to put a few miles on it to test it before selling (it had 4 in the end). Regulations or something like that.

I guess in the US it's different.

Snaggle · 13 Oct 2017 at 18:09

Fitted the decat to the MT10 . Saves loads of weight but dam is it LOUD!! Took a little fiddling to get it all the line up . But some gentle massaging with a rubber mallet sorted it . Might have to get a aftermarket can with a baffle though as i think its abit to antisocial . Going for a ride tomorrow so we shall see .

acemastr · 13 Oct 2017 at 19:54

Snaggle said:
Fitted the decat to the MT10 . Saves loads of weight but dam is it LOUD!! Took a little fiddling to get it all the line up . But some gentle massaging with a rubber mallet sorted it . Might have to get a aftermarket can with a baffle though as i think its abit to antisocial . Going for a ride tomorrow so we shall see .

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Beastly huh? Are you shooting flames too? A quick rev from idle and it'll pop one out. Do you not like the light dash display in daytime?

Snaggle · 13 Oct 2017 at 20:09

Only revved it to 5k as my garden is quite enclosed. Was making enough noise so never noticed any flames as yet . I know they run abit rich when you take the cat off so we shall see tomorrow

acemastr · 13 Oct 2017 at 22:24

Quickshifter on!

Also took the passenger pegs off as there's no way people can sit on that rear seat

The_Abyss · 21 Oct 2017 at 23:56

I don't think I've ever cleaned my bike so much, but perhaps that's because I haven't used it quite so much before.

Gave it a decent clean to scrub off the Deutschland dirt from a couple of weekends ago. Gave the chain a good clean and re-oil too, as I don't think I've got too many more days out planned for this year. I'll try to sneak a cheeky weekend to Wales if good weather aligns with a free weekend, but other than that it is pretty much done for the year, aside from a few hours now and then at weekends.

Captain · 22 Oct 2017 at 15:48

Is that a stock seat or comfort?

unKle · 22 Oct 2017 at 18:32

I imagine that's the BMW comfort seat as I had the stock seat on mine..

Freeman · 22 Oct 2017 at 19:08

Snaggle said:
Fitted the decat to the MT10 . Saves loads of weight but dam is it LOUD!! Took a little fiddling to get it all the line up . But some gentle massaging with a rubber mallet sorted it . Might have to get a aftermarket can with a baffle though as i think its abit to antisocial . Going for a ride tomorrow so we shall see .

Sounds good!