what have you done to your "bike" today

[AMCQ46]

Your storm is looking good there Jamie

Today I went out on the trials bike for the 1st round to the amca winter championship. Had to go out to middle of Shropshire in the pissing rain, but the day got brighter and the course was great.... But I was a bit rusty

[8541Hawk]

Well it was actually yesterday but I actually took her out for a quick ride......
It has been rather nice here with an average temp of about 24c

It was only a quick 20 mi round trip to pick up meds at the Hospital but it was fun even though it kicked my butt and I needed a nap when I got home.....

Though it was the first ride since my rash of mods.
I still need to do some tweaking with the adjustments but I am pretty happy with the results so far.
The double bubble makes a nice pocket and is a big improvement over the stock screen for my height.

Massive brakes once again...... Sure it's just a SP2 system, nothing radial but with the larger rotors I am more than happy with their performance.

I need to tweak the adjustments on the rear-sets a bit but so far they seem to be working well.

The Akra system is also working well, It has a bit deeper tone than the Leos and the bottom end is either a touch rich or the larger I.D. head-pipe has lost a touch of bottom end or at least she doesn't run quite as smooth but other than that the jetting is very close and the new flo-commander will let me get it dialed in again rather painlessly.

So all in all it was a good day.......

[Kev L]

Good to hear mate, got to make you feel better. Keep up the good work

[Jamoi]

Crumbs Hawk, good to hear you're on your bike alread a lovely bike it is too

[lloydie]

Hawk I'm glad to read your up and about even riding the vtr keep it up and you be through the finish line of recovery . Your an importation to us , happy new year mate

[Watty]

Good man Hawk keep up the recovery and biking. All the best for 2014

[Watty]

Not the bike but the cave over the last couple of weeks . Before After

[lloydie]

nice cave wish i had more space

[Watty]

nice cave wish i had more space

Yeah realise I'm a bit spoilt compared to some mate, loads more space at my dads if needed , but unfortunately my bungalow is only rented . Make the most of it as long as it lasts though

[Virt]

Ridden it home. And on an almost motorway-free route too first one of them in a while

Also about to clean it, lube chain etc. She deserves a reward

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[lloydie]

Removed chav tastic pillion pegs tho it took 4,5 hours :-( both the main pins were seized solid so a lot of heat and bashing with a hammer and they were removed .
Then dug out 2 sets of cct for bazza and tried to find the matching front chav pegs but I think they got binned

[AMCQ46]

cleaned the BMC air filter and its now drying waiting to oil in in a few days time.

replaced the front CCT as I was getting a noise at idle, used one from CKennedy and swapped the stopper over…..but the reason it was rattling looks like the stopper was vibrating inside the CCT …. lots of wear on one end of stopper and it there was a full 1 turn rather than the 1/2 turn i built it with

I use hollow 8mm aluminium bar, and it looks like the inner diameter is big enough to start a conical wear pattern when rubbing against the spigot at the mechanism end of the CCT. will replace it with solid 8mm steel bar to prevent this.

Virt, if you start to hear a rattle at idle, it will be the stopper moving about, so bring it round and I will put steel bar in for you.

then I removed the return throttle cable and removed all the lash.

then I went to the pub

[Virt]

Virt, if you start to hear a rattle at idle, it will be the stopper moving about, so bring it round and I will put steel bar in for you.

Filling me with confidence that

I'll keep an ear out for it, cheers

[AMCQ46]

don't worry, even with 1 turn before the stopper works it will protect the engine, so don't get concerned.

I use the same bar stock on my last engine and they never wore, so there is something about this engine I think

[Virt]

Fair enough, sounds odd that then

Hopefully it's just an anomaly within your bike