what have you done to your "bike" today

[Duffy1964]

Vanstub brought his butcherd Blade over & together we changed the fork seals,a bit of Laural & Hardy style of mechanics but we got it done in the end...The second fork was a lot easier & quicker to do...

Is that old shed still running


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[Shauned71]

Fitted new swingarm.. new clutch slave.. gold 954 calipers off and black cbr600 on.. new rear brake reservoir and good clean/polish... then I goes and drops the bloody thing into another storm also think it's fair to say that those cheap chinese mirrors ain't up to much

[MacV2]

Vanstub brought his butcherd Blade over & together we changed the fork seals,a bit of Laural & Hardy style of mechanics but we got it done in the end...The second fork was a lot easier & quicker to do...

Is that old shed still running

Just like a good shed thats getting on in years, things start to fall off & go wrong, leak here a leak there, you know the sort of thing... Still he is in his 50's now so its no supprise really...

As for the DogBlade its rounded & seized nuts that cause the greif + of course the fact that its a shitebox built by a moron with a bodge it & that'll do attitude to mechanics...

[thelens]

Filled it up with diesel

[StormyRob]

Filled it up with diesel

Did you realise before you finished filling up?

[thelens]

Filled it up with diesel

Did you realise before you finished filling up?

Hell no !
Filled it last Sunday. Started her up last night after prepping it for today.
Thought my bike was knackered at first. Had no idea I had done it, as the petrol station is only half a mile from where I live.
Spent half an hour scratching my head. Then I just knew or guessed I had used the wrong pump.
Trip to Halfords this morning and bought a £4 syphon ..... easy
Sucked the fuel out.... put 5 litres in.... added petrol treatment... job done
Had a run to the cat n fiddle... fuels up again after light came on.... added more stp .... right as rain

[StormyRob]

Well on the plus side its all sorted. Don't think diesel onto petrol systems does any real damage in a short time but the other way round can be pretty crap.
I think we've all been there

[fabiostar]

i done the same last year on old yellow . drained it out and it was none the worse for it

[thelens]

i done the same last year on old yellow . drained it out and it was none the worse for it

I did it twice with my triumph ST lol
Its so easy done. So easy in fact I was wondering if its perhaps worth taking the £4 halfords syphon everywhere. Its pretty small and likely to fit under seat ! hmmmmm not a bad idea actually. Its not so bad when it happens at my local but one of the times it happened, I was 120 miles from home in oxford I got it done, but what a bloody nightmare ! That cheap little syphon is like having a get out of jail free card

[MacV2]

Stripped, cleaned, rebuilt, refitted & bled up the Brembos on Nue Red...

Nice firm leaver...Sorted.

[Beef]

I looked at my bike today!....

Not done anything to mine since the dyno day. I have been otherwise preoccupied sorting the mess called the back garden - moved 30T of rubble & soul out & moved 18T crushed concrete in for patio base in & layed 150m2 of turf! All this with no access to back garden except via garage! House renovating sucks

[fabiostar]

i looked at the aprilia today, then sorted .............................nothing im liking this non working at them malarky..

[AMCQ46]

not my bike, but my boots

I have had a pair of Held top end race boots for a year now, and I have been very impressed especially as I got the price knocked down to £120 because there was some decolouration on part of the plastics, they are waterproof and have high protection with a full inner boot system.

this inner boot is laced up by a BOA wire thingy, but when I was up in Scotland the other week, one lace was not happy to release when the ratchet dial was popped out. ... so I though that was the boots scrapped because of a bit of plastic not rotating.... I took them apart and bodged it so they kept working, but while surfing the interweb for instructions on how the get into the mechanism, I discovered that boa lace system has a lifetime warranty.
last week I contact the USA offices, send photos of the boot so they can work out which system you need [they don't want proof that it is broken] and they just sent me 2 sets of repair kits [2x rachet dial thing and 2x lace wires] free. which arrived today.

happy days

[Duffy1964]

Result


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[Pete.L]

not my bike, but my boots

I have had a pair of Held top end race boots for a year now, and I have been very impressed especially as I got the price knocked down to £120 because there was some decolouration on part of the plastics, they are waterproof and have high protection with a full inner boot system.

this inner boot is laced up by a BOA wire thingy, but when I was up in Scotland the other week, one lace was not happy to release when the ratchet dial was popped out. ... so I though that was the boots scrapped because of a bit of plastic not rotating.... I took them apart and bodged it so they kept working, but while surfing the interweb for instructions on how the get into the mechanism, I discovered that boa lace system has a lifetime warranty.
last week I contact the USA offices, send photos of the boot so they can work out which system you need [they don't want proof that it is broken] and they just sent me 2 sets of repair kits [2x rachet dial thing and 2x lace wires] free. which arrived today.

happy days

Sweet!
That’s better than taking the drill to it


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