What did you do to your bike today?

Gave the Bird her first wash. Followed by the usual chain clean and lube. Applied a bit of ACF 50. This is my first time doing this, I mean apart from washing the bike thing. Have washed my smaller bike loads of times in my home country.

Managed to finish the Motul Chain Clean Can. Don't know if that is normal but I was happy with the end result.

Hope it looks ok. :)

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Me and a few chums got a good ride in today, met up in Reepham, out to Fakenham, then on to Sunny Hunny, round the coast road to Wells-Next-the-sea, then back home. Couple stops for coffee, donuts and merciless **** taking!

Also had a play with some different mounting options for my go-pro. I like the view, but the mount seems prone to loosening up, resulting in the camera slowly drooping. Like the clamps for the balls can't be done up tight enough. The main clamp is fine. It's quite an ask with the weight being far away though, I know. Any ideas for a better mount? The clamp has 1/4 and 3/8 holes, and ideally needs the articulated ball type or similar capability

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Camera on a stick, crappy mount though. Circled bit is the weak point/loose part.

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My equivalent RAM stuff for my Insta360 X3 thing has rubberised ball parts, which helps, and one of them - or maybe the official one as I've bought various - is also like a golf ball and many facets which also helps it stay in position.

Something like this style: Amazon link. And looking larger than yours too, so more surface area.

Oh, though their new motorcycle kit appears to have a new approach which I assume is to address such vibrationy movement: Amazon Link.
 
haaammit said:
Me and a few chums got a good ride in today, met up in Reepham, out to Fakenham, then on to Sunny Hunny, round the coast road to Wells-Next-the-sea, then back home. Couple stops for coffee, donuts and merciless **** taking!



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I'm yet to get my old girl out that way, she's primarily used for the commuter run down the A47:D. With some of the roadworks that are happening down that way at the moment I'm glad i don't take the car very often.
 
Took the Bird out of the garage to get her some air as condensation builds up inside the heavy duty cover. Was not going to start it but remembered about the condensation forming in the exhaust. Ten cranks on the choke and she roared to life.

Idled for 6 odd minutes. Gave a wipe down meanwhile to clean up the moisture and then back in. Intend to ride once there is decent weather (7+ degrees) and dry. Hopefully in the next two weeks.
 
I started the Speedy the other day, much steam from the pipes! The day after wasn't too bad, but deffo the smoky/steamy-ist bike I've ever owned
 
Crashed it

In the wind on the way home from work a small tree fell down right as I came to it slammed on but no chance of stopping managed to slow enough though that didn't get hurt.

Bike when down as it went over the trunk broken front brake lever (snapped at the notch perfectly tbf so now it's a racing shorty) bent right handle bar and rear brake, right side plastics ruined rear grabhandles scuffed and exhaust ground down but still intact, crash bung is toast but other than the bar nothing metal ruined tan had some grime but looks like it's not even scratched the clear coat all the engine cases good too, crash bung snapped off and hasn't damaged its mounting point which is good.

Front indicator lens cracked but works kawasaki sell a front mirror/indicator for 350 quid! Rear indicator works but rattles 150!

Plastics 800 ish and one bent bracket that will have to be straightened lever and bar are about 150 each.

All in all not too bad managed to get it home OK.

Gear has some scuffs but cause I basically just plopped off the side its all still good.

No1 thing though the beer in the backpack didn't break so brightside
 
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LowEndTorque said:
Took the Bird out of the garage to get her some air as condensation builds up inside the heavy duty cover. Was not going to start it but remembered about the condensation forming in the exhaust. Ten cranks on the choke and she roared to life.

Idled for 6 odd minutes. Gave a wipe down meanwhile to clean up the moisture and then back in. Intend to ride once there is decent weather (7+ degrees) and dry. Hopefully in the next two weeks.
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This makes me feel guilty for my blackbird who had to endure winter slots to manchester and London :D
 
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Wish I'd done the same tbh. Yeah I'm fine not a scratch but I do love the bike and feel overly sentimental to it despite its mistreatment as a winter commuter lol
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Glad you (and the beer) are alright - these things are sods law, and if you try to avoid them all - you never end up doing much - ask me how I know!
 
Gutted for you Tefal, is this still the H2? Such a lovely bike.

I remember your last off too, that was a proper nasty one iirc.

Get 'er patched up and count your lucky stars that you had a reminder of the dangers at a relatively low cost. We all need a reminder sometimes, unfortunately that reminder can range from a few scratches to a lifetime wheelchair subscription.
 
In the last year or so the clutch on my 1290 SuperDuke has been off. Recently, after a service, the clutch lever needed to be FULLY depressed to the maximum position with the lever adjusted to the furthest reach to even get the clutch to disengage. If I had the lever on any closer adjustment point then the clutch would not disengage at all. Feel was really spongy with no ability to modulate the clutch. Felt like 100% engaged or 100% disengaged and nothing in-between.

Decided to get rid of the stock clutch slave cylinder, which is a known failure point, and replace it with an Oberon one. Night and day difference once done! Feel is much improved, can actually dis-engage the clutch at a reasonable point on the clutch pull and can use all of the lever adjustment points. Can also now modulate the clutch engagement without the on/off switch feel.

If anyone is thinking of doing the same then I recommend taking the original slave cylinder off without taking the banjo bolt off, keeping all the fluid in the system. Get the new slave on, then pre-fill with fluid and bleed before swapping the line over. Made life SO much easier when coming to bleed the system and I did not need to reverse fill/bleed in my case.

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All done!
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Diddums said:
Gutted for you Tefal, is this still the H2? Such a lovely bike.

I remember your last off too, that was a proper nasty one iirc.

Get 'er patched up and count your lucky stars that you had a reminder of the dangers at a relatively low cost. We all need a reminder sometimes, unfortunately that reminder can range from a few scratches to a lifetime wheelchair subscription.
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Yeah fortunately the big plastics have taken all the hit no engine damage etc.

But even at walking pace 255kg of steel slides a distance lol

Yeah its been think 7-8 years since I had an off still annoyed with myself that I went that way as its more sheltered but I suppose the other way would have been more likley blown over on a road with cars doing 70 and I still rember that truck on the m62 and I honestly still have issues with that and never want to be in the position of thinking "just crawl, get your waist over the white line you can live without legs" again.
 
Ah yes, mine went half way across Albania a couple of years back. Had to get lifted to a garage where it was just bled. Then a horrible ride back home before it got too bad. Have a more discrete black Oberon now too :P.

Though recalling all this, I may be paranoid but it does seem to drift after service so I might look at the master next.

Still, love the machine! Mine is the GT.
 
Griffo said:
Ah yes, mine went half way across Albania a couple of years back. Had to get lifted to a garage where it was just bled. Then a horrible ride back home before it got too bad. Have a more discrete black Oberon now too :P.

Though recalling all this, I may be paranoid but it does seem to drift after service so I might look at the master next.

Still, love the machine! Mine is the GT.
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Do you have the adaptive suspension?

I nearly went for that bike because of that
 
Griffo said:
Ah yes, mine went half way across Albania a couple of years back. Had to get lifted to a garage where it was just bled. Then a horrible ride back home before it got too bad. Have a more discrete black Oberon now too :P.

Though recalling all this, I may be paranoid but it does seem to drift after service so I might look at the master next.

Still, love the machine! Mine is the GT.
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I was torn between black and orange but orange won out :D

Mine is 8 years old now, parts slowly starting to need more and more attention.

Had the bike half stripped last week cleaning all the grounding points and cable connections.
 
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