what have you done to your "bike" today

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after stormyrobs forks got finished he added to my ever growning pile of flywheels :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Started my swingarm strip down. It's creaking when I sit on it. Found a broken header.

Bummer. Have a track day on the 16th and need it all back together by then.Image
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I've made an executive decision.

I've bought this:

Crappy headers

I'm going to put everything back as is for the track day, clean up the new headers and refurb the swingarm and headers at leisure. Procrastination. Always feels good.
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KermitLeFrog wrote: Thu May 03, 2018 8:15 am I've made an executive decision.

I've bought this:

Crappy headers

I'm going to put everything back as is for the track day, clean up the new headers and refurb the swingarm and headers at leisure. Procrastination. Always feels good.
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buy some harpic cleaner, the stuff in the black bottle.
spray it on the headers, wrap them in cellathaine and leave for 15mins, then wash off, do it twice and the vast majority of crap will come off... :thumbup:
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Nice tip Marty


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Duffy1964 wrote: Thu May 03, 2018 5:47 pm Nice tip Marty Image
+1 !
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Well the storm I had shipped over from England arrived on 27th april. I took a few hundred quid of extras off her and she has just sold without them for a nice little profit. Chuffed to bits as it was all pretty easy and a quick turnaround.
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And its another storm in northern ireland 😁
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im just checking the blue girl over, first trackday this saturday for it, so lets see how that goes :eek2 :eek2
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fabiostar wrote: Thu May 03, 2018 7:11 pm im just checking the blue girl over, first trackday this saturday for it, so lets see how that goes :eek2 :eek2
:eek2 break a leg.
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freeridenick wrote: Thu May 03, 2018 10:30 pm
fabiostar wrote: Thu May 03, 2018 7:11 pm im just checking the blue girl over, first trackday this saturday for it, so lets see how that goes :eek2 :eek2
:eek2 break a leg.

lol as long as thats all i break its a result lol
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See Duffy’s Streetfighter Project
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CCT's fitted to Blonky, did most of the stipping down a couple of weekends ago, so just cam covers off today. Fitted a pair of Bazza's finest. Boxed it all back up...Pressed the button...whir, whir, whir...Nothing much happening, turning over OK just not fireing...Not panicing as I expected a bit of turning over as the carbs were dry...Thinks...give it a tickel of throtle...

I'd forgoten to conect the throtle cable...DOH! :oops: :redface

So tank back off, air box back off...Reconect the go go cable...Air box back on, tank back on...Pressed the button...whir,whir...chough...Rumble, brum, brum... It lives... :lol:

Just have to decide now whether to carry on refurbing it to replace Custard as No.1 commuter hack...or burn the peice of crap... :lol: :lol:
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That's a shame, it would have been much more entertaining tomorrow during the ws day...
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tony.mon wrote: Fri May 04, 2018 10:43 pm That's a shame, it would have been much more entertaining tomorrow during the ws day...
I have other entertaing issues to entertain you with tomorrow... :lol:
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