Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 10:41 pm
A friend of mine just finished rebuilding one of them , cracking little bikes
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Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 10:44 pm
fitted new chain gaurd redone harris sets tinkerd with led just waiting on a few more trick bits and all good to go
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 10:57 pm
Did you give it a bath.cybercarl wrote:I've been playing with this today. It's not mine it's my mates and hasn't been started in about 7 yearsI've volunteered to service it and get it going. So today I gave it a wash.
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Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 11:01 pm
XR's are nice bikes. One of the bikes I learnt on was an XR125. That thing was bloody nippy in first!cybercarl wrote:I've been playing with this today. It's not mine it's my mates and hasn't been started in about 7 years
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If he's looking at selling it cause it's obviously not getting used... 
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 11:10 pm
That's another job on the list. I've also had a hammer and bolster out taking tiles of the bathroom wall today.Did you give it a bath.
Lovely bike but I'm a bit of a short butt for it and my feet just about touch the ground. It's come all the way from the Algarve and I washed the orangy clayey mudd/dust of it.
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Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 11:17 pm
you slut carlos, working on another mans bike, will never forget this, oh the betrayal.... 
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 11:19 pm
cybercarl wrote:That's another job on the list. I've also had a hammer and bolster out taking tiles of the bathroom wall today.Did you give it a bath.
If they are sound just re tile over them saves all the mess
Lovely bike but I'm a bit of a short butt for it and my feet just about touch the ground. It's come all the way from the Algarve and I washed the orangy clayey mudd/dust of it.
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Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 5:09 pm
I want something like this, now I don't need a commuter bike, I want to sell the fazer or swap it for something along the lines of this!. Tempted by a trial bike, but that means trailer etc, so thinking of getting something barely road legal to ride to the local green lane sites.
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 6:53 pm
Taken a lot of work, sick of flatting down, but just finished my tank and refitted it, So chuffed with the overall effect. Tank and seat unit/hump painted, fairing t cut and painted the white flash over the headlight. Best result I have ever got myself with rattle cans, but it'll do!
Trouble is, now I can see all the rest of it looking tatty, so I will turn into a bolt polisher! Swingarm needs to come off for a bearing grease and proper clean, and I have some orange wheel tape on the way.
Trouble is, now I want to paint the wheels as they are tatty, before doing stripes. I need to get them powder coated, thinking white? what do you think. I am not looking for subtle, I like colours that stand out, I reckon white with orange wheel tape would go with the screen and look a bit unusual.
Trouble is, now I can see all the rest of it looking tatty, so I will turn into a bolt polisher! Swingarm needs to come off for a bearing grease and proper clean, and I have some orange wheel tape on the way.
Trouble is, now I want to paint the wheels as they are tatty, before doing stripes. I need to get them powder coated, thinking white? what do you think. I am not looking for subtle, I like colours that stand out, I reckon white with orange wheel tape would go with the screen and look a bit unusual.
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 6:55 pm
White wheels with a red stripe to pick out the RED in the sticker, bit like mine!!! i love em
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 6:59 pm
good work matty.....
wouldn't want to keep white wheels clean myself....
wouldn't want to keep white wheels clean myself....
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 8:35 pm
I looked at my VTR fleetingly when I got the rabbit food out of the garage. Oh, and I also thought about changing the exhaust again.
At least the mileage is keeping down
At least the mileage is keeping down
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 10:16 pm
i polish them once a month with good polish ( Mer) and then simply wash then after each ride, they keep lovely!!!.agentpineapple wrote:good work matty.....
wouldn't want to keep white wheels clean myself....
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 10:18 pm
@Matty, nice work fella
Started sorting the brakes - rear one fine, can't seem to get any fluid in the fronts though, sits in the M/C Reservoir whilst I pump nothing......ah well, beer it is.
Started sorting the brakes - rear one fine, can't seem to get any fluid in the fronts though, sits in the M/C Reservoir whilst I pump nothing......ah well, beer it is.
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 10:56 pm
swapped some cam covers over, ready for another pairs removal, then i fitted a rear subframe, I also fitted a renthal grip over the quick action throttle tube, jesus that was hard work, lots of boiling water and swearing, I ain't ever taking it off....