what have you done to your "bike" today

AMCQ46 · Post by **AMCQ46** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 3:46 pm

bigspanishmarty wrote:i've heard the soft renthal grips don't last very long, so it'll be interesting to see how you get on with them....

That's why I went for the dual compound as they are sold as longer lasting, but easy enough to replace .

The other option is the Kevlar loaded ones they do

lloydie · Post by **lloydie** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 3:59 pm

I fitted a set of renthal firm grips to mine also not tested yet

Sorry officer
The voices made me do it

marravtr · Post by **marravtr** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 6:02 pm

wheeled her out the garage, warmed her up while getting me gear on, started pissing it down with rain

, took me gear off, put the bike back in the garage, kicked the cat, and got the vodka out!

simo · Post by **simo** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 9:05 pm

Dropped the front forks and repacked the head bearings,a job i was going to do last year. Next on the list is to strengthen the Rentek rack with some additional brackets as it shakes about with a load on.

tony.mon · Post by **tony.mon** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 9:51 pm

Pulled cover off, no volts at all on the indicator, plugged in charger and went back indoors to strip an SP1 motor and get the bits on Eblag.

Maybe next weekend.....

agentpineapple · Post by **agentpineapple** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 9:53 pm

tony.mon wrote:Pulled cover off, no volts at all on the indicator, plugged in charger and went back indoors to strip an SP1 motor and get the bits on Eblag.

Maybe next weekend.....

might be a new battery time for you mr mon.........

tony.mon · Post by **tony.mon** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 9:57 pm

bigspanishmarty wrote:
tony.mon wrote:Pulled cover off, no volts at all on the indicator, plugged in charger and went back indoors to strip an SP1 motor and get the bits on Eblag.

Maybe next weekend.....
might be a new battery time for you mr mon.........

Might be time to put an isolator on one of the battery terminals- something's drawing a tiny bit of current somewhere, and there's no alarm fitted, so it's not that.....

agentpineapple · Post by **agentpineapple** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 9:59 pm

good luck sherlock, the games afoot...........

Kev L · Post by **Kev L** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 10:00 pm

Late on here tonight but that's a very nice installation there AMCQ. Very tidy, much better than the majority of after market efforts.

tony.mon · Post by **tony.mon** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 10:07 pm

Kev L wrote:Late on here tonight but that's a very nice installation there AMCQ. Very tidy, much better than the majority of after market efforts.

Don't encourage him, he's already gone for dual compound grips, next he'll be getting a set of wet compound ones for rainy trackdays.

lloydie · Post by **lloydie** » Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:25 pm

Test fitted the steering damper prior to sending it off for a service

A word of warning if you have fitted wider forks and fit a side mounted damper you will have to cut the infill fairing on the of side as the damper will fowl on it

Sorry officer
The voices made me do it

Furrybiker · Post by **Furrybiker** » Tue Dec 06, 2011 10:19 pm

Sorry I hadn't read this thread for a while! I got one of these http://www.motorcyclepowersockets.com/

There are cheaper ones, but it is quite well put together, apart from the dust cap coming off..

chric wrote:
Furrybiker wrote:Fitted a power outlet for phone, sat nav, air con, kettle.

how you do this

AMCQ46 · Post by **AMCQ46** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 1:04 pm

Got it all bolted back together last night after fitting the stick coils, heated grips (and eastern beaver relay supply for the grips), SP1 quick action throttle tube and the billet inlet trumpets, but was to late to start it up, so did that today.

Good news is it starts so the coil wiring is good, and the grips are great....no more freezing fingers on the 1st ride out in spring.

With the trumpets fitted I think there will need to be some jetting checks, as it was more lumpy at idle and bogged a little if you blipped the throttle (fast)..... but as it is cold, roads are salty and then it started raining, there was no way I was going to go for a little spin to test. Will plan a dyno early in the spring to get it running just so.

Any recommendations for a midlands dyno man? Lloydie, who have you used? Last one I used was Allgears but that was 23yrs ago on my MZ racer

Just got to fit the R6 brembo rear master cyl and start looking at the swing arm brace now.

lloydie · Post by **lloydie** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 1:38 pm

i use http://www.projex-uk.co.uk/ for dyno
kev at projex holds a dyno day every year and charges Â£10 a run .
i did try to organize one earlier this year but didn't have enough interest so it got scraped lol

i have been told this guy is also good
http://www.mphtamworth.co.uk/
and one more also told hes good
http://www.diablomoto.hinckleyanddistri ... ntact.html

tony.mon · Post by **tony.mon** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 3:51 pm

Got mine salty.
I'll hose it down in the spring.

Anything that goes rusty will just have to be replaced with go-faster carbon or titanium racing bits, I suppose.
Bummer!

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