what have you done to your "bike" today

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8541Hawk wrote:
jonjonsocal wrote:Nice Mike! let me know if you need me to go recharge you battery again.. :D looks really good and I bet It sounds awesome.... See you soon.. lol
Yeah I know you want to ride it now.....lol and actually she doesn't sound that much different than the Leos did. :wink:
You got me! ;) the leos did sound pretty good.... I hope you have a quick recovery so could show me some of your bike skills jk... :lol::lol::lol: :)
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Virt wrote:
8541Hawk wrote:
Its a Puig and it does look huge in that pic for some reason but it looks like it will work well for me as I am 6'3" :thumbup:
I have a puig and it does a bloody good job! :lol: Not quite 6'3 but I ain't far off :thumbup:

Best of luck with the surgery and recovery :thumbup:
If you're 6'3", then I'm bloody shrinking...

Mike, fingers crossed :)
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Nothing at all....feels weird. I know the exhausts have to come off and be cleaned, the forks are going off tomorrow, my bodywork is at the sprayers, my calipers are with Jonesy, the wheels need cleaning/degreasing and the tapes doing, but it's cold and my knuckles are sore from smacking them doing the steering head when the c-spanner slipped. There's two frozen bolts in the swingarm/footrest, a stripped screw in the airbox, fookin depressing....so I'm taking the evenings off this week, sod it.
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8541Hawk wrote:
sirch345 wrote:Nice job Mike 8) 8)

What make is that double bubble screen :?: it looks like it should do a good job of getting the wind above your helmet.

Chris.
Its a Puig and it does look huge in that pic for some reason but it looks like it will work well for me as I am 6'3" :thumbup:
Mike, thanks for the info on that :thumbup:

Wishing you all the very best for the 17th of next month,

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Welded up a small frame that takes an axle so we can spin the front wheel off the bike and clamp something to reference disk bend. Tried my sets of storm discs and found each set had the opposite side bent, so by mixing sets we have a complete set that while not perfect are certainly good enough to go through mot. so mot booked for the morrow and hopefully it will be 'unsorned' so I can ride it!
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mattycoops43 wrote:Welded up a small frame that takes an axle so we can spin the front wheel off the bike and clamp something to reference disk bend. Tried my sets of storm discs and found each set had the opposite side bent, so by mixing sets we have a complete set that while not perfect are certainly good enough to go through mot. so mot booked for the morrow and hopefully it will be 'unsorned' so I can ride it!
Success! :thumbup: Well done mate

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Had an hour in the garage tonight Image

That front engine mount bolt is well stuck in the engine .
It moves in the frame so tomorrow in going to get the angle grinder in there and cut the bugger out .
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Painted a small ally bracket using gloss black caliper paint, really chuffed with how it's dried and it's REALLY tough paint too!

Will use that for my swingarm linkages :thumbup:

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mattycoops43 wrote:Welded up a small frame that takes an axle so we can spin the front wheel off the bike and clamp something to reference disk bend. Tried my sets of storm discs and found each set had the opposite side bent, so by mixing sets we have a complete set that while not perfect are certainly good enough to go through mot. so mot booked for the morrow and hopefully it will be 'unsorned' so I can ride it!
Well done mate :thumbup:
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Had the flywheel zapped up last night so when I got the engine home I fitted the swing arm and rear sets the rebuild had begun :-)
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lloydie wrote:Had the flywheel zapped up last night so when I got the engine home I fitted the swing arm and rear sets the rebuild had begun :-)

Photo's! Photo's! :)
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Jamoi wrote:
lloydie wrote:Had the flywheel zapped up last night so when I got the engine home I fitted the swing arm and rear sets the rebuild had begun :-)

Photo's! Photo's! :)
Not much to show but I will take some and update the frog thread :-)
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Another shady 'car park' meeting dealing in Class A Firestorm parts...

:wink: :wink: You ain't seen me right.

No Pineapples were involved in this deal.
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is it possible to make your own rearsets and leavers using lost foam casting?

any one on here done any lost foam casting?
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Went to torquay to check i still love the yoke mod!!! defo the best money i have ever spent.
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