what have you done to your "bike" today

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agentpineapple wrote:keep up the good work ymv............ :thumbup:
so are virts brakes all sorted now?
All but a little air bleed from the top banjo in the next few days
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lloydie wrote:
agentpineapple wrote:keep up the good work ymv............ :thumbup:
so are virts brakes all sorted now?
All but a little air bleed from the top banjo in the next few days
Yarp, Lloydie did a good job on the brakes. Got caught out by their strength when a car wanted to occupy my space in the overtaking lane of a dual carriageway :lol:

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lloydie wrote:
Watty wrote:Not the bike, started mucking out the man cave so I can get on winter modding, think a bomb had gone off in there 8O! Will post before and after pics WHEN :roll: I'm done :thumbup:
It's got to get worse before it gets better ! It's worth it in the end :-)
Yeah first I had a mess, then an untidy mess I'm now midway between the 2 :crazy:
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kenmoore wrote:Fitted mesh to the running light and front fairing vents, can't decide whether to do the radiators .

Also am making up mesh in fills for the gap between the swinger and hugger that I have fitted.

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Any thoughts?

Will the radiators be too much?
Rads and scoops yes, running light no no no, makes it look mad max lol

I did mine and sent what spares I had out to some others on here, you will love the look when you finished the rads,

I'll try dig out a picture soon

what did you use to hold it in place? High temperature silicone is best as hot glue gun glue will melt in summer

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Today I drained to cooling system as one hose had a pin hole in and the front cylinder drain plug was weeping . So with them fixed i changed the fan fuse than I ran it up to temp to see if all was well and it was
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Carbs are a little out as you can see with the rough idle so I will sync them and set the tps .
Oh and I replaced the clutch slave cylinder as the other one was letting air in .
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Gave the chain a good clean down to get all old stuff off then adjusted it and put fresh chain lube on, polished all the bodywork with autoglym and swapped the Penske shock back to the original one.
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popkat wrote:Gave the chain a good clean down to get all old stuff off then adjusted it and put fresh chain lube on, polished all the bodywork with autoglym and swapped the Penske shock back to the original one.
Why you swapped the shock to standard mate?
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Watty wrote:
popkat wrote:Gave the chain a good clean down to get all old stuff off then adjusted it and put fresh chain lube on, polished all the bodywork with autoglym and swapped the Penske shock back to the original one.
Why you swapped the shock to standard mate?

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popkat wrote:
Watty wrote:
popkat wrote:Gave the chain a good clean down to get all old stuff off then adjusted it and put fresh chain lube on, polished all the bodywork with autoglym and swapped the Penske shock back to the original one.
Why you swapped the shock to standard mate?

The bikes going to a new home next week :(
What no storm 8O , how dare you :lol:
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You found a home for the Penske shock fella? Got one on mine and i've been impressed with it. :thumbup:
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Watty wrote:

The bikes going to a new home next week :(
What no storm 8O , how dare you :lol:[/quote]


Yes but will stick around here as for some odd reason I like the place :lol: must try and get in to more of the chit chat and general bollox else I won't have anything to say :p
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Kev L wrote:You found a home for the Penske shock fella? Got one on mine and i've been impressed with it. :thumbup:
Yes, well I thinks so. It will be going on to my big engine popup Katana at some point. It's 15mm too long at the moment, but will offer it in to see how ridiculously high it makes the bike then get it shortened but not by much as I want the kat raised a bit at the back anyway :thumbup:

On the firestorm it was good but the spring was a bit too hard for me, never got round to ordering another spring though.
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If it helps mate Spa design on 01543-434580 do all the bit's you need to rebuild Penske shocks, springs, hoses, etc.
Good luck. :thumbup:
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Kev L wrote:If it helps mate Spa design on 01543-434580 do all the bit's you need to rebuild Penske shocks, springs, hoses, etc.
Good luck. :thumbup:
That's interesting Kev because I'm aiming to send mine to Penske uk for service etc. and weight related spring as it was on the bike when I got it this year so I don't know it's history. Wonder if they'll be cheaper for a spring :?
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I think it's the same place mate -
http://www.penskeshocks.co.uk/penske/contactus/
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