what have you done to your "bike" today

[podman]

236 glorious dry sun warm miles, i am loving the new suspension so much.

Very jealous, im hoping to get a day off on Thursday when it seems it may be nice and warm all day again...

[StormyRob]

Put the starter motor back on the bike with a couple of M6 allen bolts and nuts.

Brought the fairings back to be redone as I was not happy in the end with the purple-ish blue they ended up. Going towards more of a Candy Blue.

[bigtwinthing]

weathers looking good, blast to Devon tomorrow. Anyone about ?

[lloydie]

I'm about but not that far southwest !
Enjoy the ride

[agentpineapple]

I just got back to Spain, I've missed my bike for the last month, and just before I left for the Uk I had a friend weld a broken bracket on the front subframe. so it's been naked for the last month
so there I am at 10pm tonight re-fitting the fairing and I couldn't be happier
roll on Sunday when I can go for my first ride for over a month....

[geoff996]

Well I stripped the sea salted rear shock off then swapped it for the nice clean new to me £7.99 one money well spent, spare rear subframe fitted swinging arm and calipers steam cleaned nice and clean now. Tomorrow if i decide not to work ( all the perks of being self employed) I'll hopefully get the calipers and body work on then tax it on Saturday and then ride it

[bigtwinthing]

washed it for 3 hrs after almost getting into Devon, the weather was terrible, straight at 80 leant over lol

[agentpineapple]

Well I stripped the sea salted rear shock off then swapped it for the nice clean new to me £7.99 one money well spent, spare rear subframe fitted swinging arm and calipers steam cleaned nice and clean now. Tomorrow if i decide not to work ( all the perks of being self employed) I'll hopefully get the calipers and body work on then tax it on Saturday and then ride it

we need pictures mate............

this evening I re-connected my battery and it fired up first time....
I then gave it a polish with some autoglym resin polish, I've used it for donkeys years, even going back 20+ years to when I did car valeting.

[Pete.L]

Was out on the storm most of yesterday and today, with a blat on the RD before tea but yesterday I had a ride on my friend bought GSXS jobbies, I thought this sort of thing would be perfect for me but having ridden it and both old and new Fazer 1000's of recent, I found the front end heavy and whilst the wide and upright bars make for a very comfy position up to 100, after than on smaller A roads, when pushing on, the bike felt disconnected and vague from the front, wider bars and sitting up like a sail maybe or just too road focused?

Either way, my Firestorm was far more happy when pushed with much more accurate and lighter steering and I know they have a reputation for a being a soft-ish ride.

Engine was mega thou, pulled really hard from anywhere in the rev range and the standard can even had a nice bark to it. That element was certainly far nicer than the FZ1.



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Nah!
You don't want one of them, they're a poofters bike. They can't keep up with a Storm any day of the week


Pete.l

[fabiostar]

i made the mistake of not remembering that four stroke cam timing is the the biggest fukup in the world.

[lloydie]

i made the mistake of not remembering that four stroke cam timing is the the biggest fukup in the world.

Only if you have a wombles doing it lmao .
Take a chill pill and start again and take your time .

[Pete.L]

Please tell me you haven't broken your new toy!

[fabiostar]

Please tell me you haven't broken your new toy!

aaaaah yes it appears so. tried to rotate the timing 180 and got so lost its been chucked in the corner until i can find somebody over here who knows what they are doing with a storm engine, my we engine man has retired and moved away..

[fabiostar]

i made the mistake of not remembering that four stroke cam timing is the the biggest fukup in the world.

Only if you have a wombles doing it lmao .
Take a chill pill and start again and take your time .

lol . il start trying to fine somebody over here to look at it when i get the yellow one finished and up and running again..

[lloydie]

That's not fighting talk !
Just think of the sense of achievement you'll get when you sort it .