VTR1000.ORG

MacV2 wrote:Vanstub brought his butcherd Blade over & together we changed the fork seals,a bit of Laural & Hardy style of mechanics but we got it done in the end...The second fork was a lot easier & quicker to do...

Is that old shed still running


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Fitted new swingarm.. new clutch slave.. gold 954 calipers off and black cbr600 on.. new rear brake reservoir and good clean/polish... then I goes and drops the bloody thing into another storm also think it's fair to say that those cheap chinese mirrors ain't up to much

Duffy1964 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2019 9:14 pm

MacV2 wrote:Vanstub brought his butcherd Blade over & together we changed the fork seals,a bit of Laural & Hardy style of mechanics but we got it done in the end...The second fork was a lot easier & quicker to do...

Is that old shed still running

Just like a good shed thats getting on in years, things start to fall off & go wrong, leak here a leak there, you know the sort of thing... Still he is in his 50's now so its no supprise really...

As for the DogBlade its rounded & seized nuts that cause the greif + of course the fact that its a shitebox built by a moron with a bodge it & that'll do attitude to mechanics...

Filled it up with diesel

thelens wrote: ↑Sun Aug 25, 2019 10:05 pm Filled it up with diesel

Did you realise before you finished filling up?

StormyRob wrote: ↑Sun Aug 25, 2019 11:13 pm

thelens wrote: ↑Sun Aug 25, 2019 10:05 pm Filled it up with diesel

Did you realise before you finished filling up?

Hell no !
Filled it last Sunday. Started her up last night after prepping it for today.
Thought my bike was knackered at first. Had no idea I had done it, as the petrol station is only half a mile from where I live.
Spent half an hour scratching my head. Then I just knew or guessed I had used the wrong pump.
Trip to Halfords this morning and bought a £4 syphon ..... easy
Sucked the fuel out.... put 5 litres in.... added petrol treatment... job done
Had a run to the cat n fiddle... fuels up again after light came on.... added more stp .... right as rain

Well on the plus side its all sorted. Don't think diesel onto petrol systems does any real damage in a short time but the other way round can be pretty crap.
I think we've all been there

i done the same last year on old yellow . drained it out and it was none the worse for it

fabiostar wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2019 9:46 am i done the same last year on old yellow . drained it out and it was none the worse for it

I did it twice with my triumph ST lol
Its so easy done. So easy in fact I was wondering if its perhaps worth taking the £4 halfords syphon everywhere. Its pretty small and likely to fit under seat ! hmmmmm not a bad idea actually. Its not so bad when it happens at my local but one of the times it happened, I was 120 miles from home in oxford I got it done, but what a bloody nightmare ! That cheap little syphon is like having a get out of jail free card

Stripped, cleaned, rebuilt, refitted & bled up the Brembos on Nue Red...

Nice firm leaver...Sorted.

I looked at my bike today!....

Not done anything to mine since the dyno day. I have been otherwise preoccupied sorting the mess called the back garden - moved 30T of rubble & soul out & moved 18T crushed concrete in for patio base in & layed 150m2 of turf! All this with no access to back garden except via garage! House renovating sucks

i looked at the aprilia today, then sorted .............................nothing im liking this non working at them malarky..

not my bike, but my boots

I have had a pair of Held top end race boots for a year now, and I have been very impressed especially as I got the price knocked down to £120 because there was some decolouration on part of the plastics, they are waterproof and have high protection with a full inner boot system.

this inner boot is laced up by a BOA wire thingy, but when I was up in Scotland the other week, one lace was not happy to release when the ratchet dial was popped out. ... so I though that was the boots scrapped because of a bit of plastic not rotating.... I took them apart and bodged it so they kept working, but while surfing the interweb for instructions on how the get into the mechanism, I discovered that boa lace system has a lifetime warranty.
last week I contact the USA offices, send photos of the boot so they can work out which system you need [they don't want proof that it is broken] and they just sent me 2 sets of repair kits [2x rachet dial thing and 2x lace wires] free. which arrived today.

happy days

Result


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

AMCQ46 wrote:not my bike, but my boots

I have had a pair of Held top end race boots for a year now, and I have been very impressed especially as I got the price knocked down to £120 because there was some decolouration on part of the plastics, they are waterproof and have high protection with a full inner boot system.

this inner boot is laced up by a BOA wire thingy, but when I was up in Scotland the other week, one lace was not happy to release when the ratchet dial was popped out. ... so I though that was the boots scrapped because of a bit of plastic not rotating.... I took them apart and bodged it so they kept working, but while surfing the interweb for instructions on how the get into the mechanism, I discovered that boa lace system has a lifetime warranty.
last week I contact the USA offices, send photos of the boot so they can work out which system you need [they don't want proof that it is broken] and they just sent me 2 sets of repair kits [2x rachet dial thing and 2x lace wires] free. which arrived today.

happy days

Sweet!
That’s better than taking the drill to it


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk