What did you do to your bike today?

tom_e · 17 Apr 2018 at 14:39

Crack the banjo at the master cylinder just enough to get a weep of fluid, there's almost always a pain in the arse bubble caught around there. I fitted a bleed nipple banjo for that exact reason when I changed my lines, gets them bled solid in five minutes flat now.

Kreeeee · 17 Apr 2018 at 18:11

I just waxed it for the first time. It makes such a big difference!

I'll get pictures of it tomorrow.

TripleT · 17 Apr 2018 at 20:57

Brazilian?

Kreeeee · 17 Apr 2018 at 21:12

TripleT said:
Brazilian?

If you're going to bother you may as well do it properly and get rid of it all.

TallPaul_S · 18 Apr 2018 at 08:12

Kreeeee said:
If you're going to bother you may as well do it properly and get rid of it all.

Make sure you get all the little nooks and crannies too.

Karl · 18 Apr 2018 at 13:14

Draeger said:
Fitted a new phone/GPS mount. Tenner from eBay. Been out for a spin and it works brilliantly.

Hi mate, have you mounted that to the brake reservoir? Just looking for the connection, as my bike's similar to yours and doesn't have any gaps on the handlebars

Kreeeee · 18 Apr 2018 at 14:57

Today was too nice to waste it indoors doing work so I went for a little photo shoot.

tom_e · 18 Apr 2018 at 15:04

Just ordered some new front discs as my current ones are pretty much down to the minimum and rather hilly. Fingers crossed they'll arrive before Saturday.

Malt_Vinegar · 18 Apr 2018 at 15:45

Oops

Junglist · 18 Apr 2018 at 15:46

Booked it in for the MOT. Yay.

IC3 · 18 Apr 2018 at 16:04

Malt_Vinegar said:
Oops

That's a funny looking butt plug.

Malt_Vinegar · 18 Apr 2018 at 16:05

IC3 said:
That's a funny looking butt plug.

Yup, extra bendy, swapped it over for a straighter one last night

lesson learned:
If rebuilding a motor, replace BOTH valves, not just the visibly knackered one....

TallPaul_S · 18 Apr 2018 at 16:14

That's a valve?! :eek:

Yeah, I think you've found the problem...

IC3 · 18 Apr 2018 at 16:22

TallPaul_S said:
That's a valve?!

It deffo use to be...

Kreeeee · 18 Apr 2018 at 17:39

Where was that?

Malt_Vinegar · 18 Apr 2018 at 20:44

TallPaul_S said:
That's a valve?!

Yeah, I think you've found the problem...

Amazingly it didn't do much to the piston!

The_Abyss · 19 Apr 2018 at 00:42

Kreeeee said:
Today was too nice to waste it indoors doing work so I went for a little photo shoot.

You need to raise your shadows and get some better dynamic range to do justice to those views

Kreeeee · 19 Apr 2018 at 07:18

The_Abyss said:
You need to raise your shadows and get some better dynamic range to do justice to those views

It's a phone photo.