what have you done to your "bike" today

[BigVeeGrin]

given my Storm is in a damp garage miles away I can't contribute so thought I'd interpret the rules for this thread, so....

I went out on the push "bike" with a couple of guys, snow and wind and wombles cold, and notched up my longest ride to date - 48 miles at an avg of 15mph. Totally chuffed with that

[whitestorm pete]

they are super nice marty where did you get them?

got them from kev who got them from ebay, i'm not 100% on them tho, they're a little bit big for my scorpian oval cans, i've had to fit the backing rubbers to them to make them fit better, and this in turn takes away from the beautiful carboness of it all....
tbh they still look better than the s/s ones.
when it stops raining i'll post some pictures of them on the bike...
me and carl got some more work down on my second bike today, we swapped the bent front wheel and tyre for a straight wheel and tyre, sorted out the wiring to the rear brake light and fitted the aforementioned c/f hangers, but it was ferking freezing and i had to be a taxi driver for my nan, so we called it a day early, we didn't get a chance to fit carls spare lhs original rearset(carl forgot to bring his ratchet.... )
we also didn't get round to tinkering with the steering lock issue, or fit the original bikini bellypan, i just wish this weather would pick up its pissing me right off atm.....

well if you dont get on with them i will buy them off ya sounds like you need a man cave ( garage) like me mate as u cant trust the British weather

[agentpineapple]

i'd kill for a garage mate, i'll let you know how i get on with them, if i do decide to sell them on, you'll get first dibs fella....

[whitestorm pete]

tar geeza could u put a shed up or something where you are ?

[VTRDark]

If I had a garage I would move into it. A toilet, a kitchenette sink area, a bed in the corner.

(:-})

[benny hedges]

fitted akropovics, speedo healer, power commander, checked the map is still there and it is
gave it a clean - just about to go frighten some old ladies on it

[agentpineapple]

tar geeza could u put a shed up or something where you are ?

nah, got no room in my nans garden, i could turf out her mobility scooter and use that shed tho.....
heres some pics, i was going to take a video aswell, but it stared snowing....ferk that......
i would prefer for there to be no rubber strap behind them....

[BigVeeGrin]

can you trim the rubber so it sits under the carbon only???

[agentpineapple]

can you trim the rubber so it sits under the carbon only???

probably mate, and i could also glue it to the carbon fibre, they still don't fit that well against the cans, i'll have to gauge if theres any movement with the vibration of the exhaust?

[whitestorm pete]

If I had a garage I would move into it. A toilet, a kitchenette sink area, a bed in the corner.

(:-})

i keep telling the mrs as soon as the airal conection gose in im moving out

[VTRDark]

can you trim the rubber so it sits under the carbon only???

That's what I done with mine.



(:-})

[Kev L]

They look much better on stainless pipes rather than on my Carbon ones Marty

[lloydie]

Them carbon straps look great .
I've been looking for one for mine but they fetch silly money .

[Kev L]

Not always mate, they were £25 ish.

[lloydie]

Started to retro fit the sp1 oil cooler today .
I'm using cbr600fl 1990 oil lines as they have the correct fitting where it meets the oil cooler .
So I removed the fittings from some spare vtr oil lines

As the cbr oil lines are a lot longer than the vtr I can cut them down to size once fitted
Next up is to make a little hanging bracket for the oil cooler to bolt onto the frame
Watch this space !

It's all fitted now

Now time for a good clean and polish oh and new coolant !

Bracket pic

I ran it up and oil was pissing out !! Some dumb twrt forgot to put an O ring on the oil cooler :-( .
So I fixed that and ran it again . All good now :-)