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Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 7:24 am
by SmileyVTR
QAT fitted, return cable removed
Rear linkages removed, cleaned and lubed up (got my little pinkie into all those deep crevices and gave a good wiggle around...calm down Lloydie!)
- which included forgetting to support the bike - DOH!! That bike's heavy - got under and lifted with shoulder while neighbour quickly put bolt back through. Muppet.
Sprayed radiators and starter motor black
Philips Extreme Vision bulb ordered
Going to get front Rodgered and then once the bike is put back together, with the newly polished cans/black pipes, I'll post some pics
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 8:15 am
by bazza696
This Sunday on the biffer managed to finally get the rusty bits treated and painted, fitted my eastern beaver switched relay kit installed, sparkbright charge monitor fitted, the shitty wiring from the existing heated grips have now been removed, ready for new shiny Honda grips. Now to get all the plastics back on, easier said than done.
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 5:14 pm
by lloydie
SmileyVTR wrote:QAT fitted, return cable removed
Rear linkages removed, cleaned and lubed up (got my little pinkie into all those deep crevices and gave a good wiggle around...calm down Lloydie!)
- which included forgetting to support the bike - DOH!! That bike's heavy - got under and lifted with shoulder while neighbour quickly put bolt back through. Muppet.
Sprayed radiators and starter motor black
Philips Extreme Vision bulb ordered
Going to get front Rodgered and then once the bike is put back together, with the newly polished cans/black pipes, I'll post some pics
It's hard not to when someone has trapped themselves under a bike and can't move and with lube being around that's just asking for trouble !!!
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 5:16 pm
by lloydie
Mav617 wrote:agentpineapple wrote:torqued up lots of bolts, removed battery for charging, put fresh brake fluid in the rear brake and bleed it, loosened off the 4 exhaust nuts, so I could fit the rear header to the main header, then did them back up again. just need to sort out one of the pipes under the tank, put some fresh coolant in it and it'll be ready to fire up....
Good work fella. Anyone use/recommend brass nuts for the manifolds?
Anything has to be better than the monkey nuts Honda use !!
Tho if you remove them twice a year and re-coperslip them you should never have a problem.
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 5:39 pm
by agentpineapple
those nuts/studs are a terrible combo, unless like lloydie said, you keep them well lubed....
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 9:29 pm
by chris vtr virgin
Cleaned all the road kill of the front
Deed bugs all over the fairing
Tried to start it, wouldn't start
Chucked covers back over it will come back once new battery ordered
Whent home in the huff
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 9:40 pm
by Seeker 77
Walked into the garage, looked at it, rubbed it with a cloth, walked out if the garage. Love my Storm
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 10:21 pm
by SmileyVTR
mellis wrote:...rubbed it with a cloth, walked out if the garage. Love my Storm
We are talking about rubbing the bike, yes??? (either way can't blame you, I catch myself secretly gazing at mine)
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 4:21 am
by lloydie
I ordered a new Brembo brake lever for piggy .
Lubed birds chain ,
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 5:45 am
by bigtwinthing
mellis wrote:Walked into the garage, looked at it, rubbed it with a cloth, walked out if the garage. Love my Storm
i did the same but with the CB i love my CB
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 10:30 am
by fabiostar
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 2:35 pm
by ConTRo13R
SmileyVTR wrote:QAT fitted, return cable removed
It's amazing how much snappier the throttle feels without the return cable. I recently did the same and also fitted the HTC qat tube.
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 3:56 pm
by agentpineapple
ConTRo13R wrote:SmileyVTR wrote:QAT fitted, return cable removed
It's amazing how much snappier the throttle feels without the return cable. I recently did the same and also fitted the HTC qat tube.
and I thought HTC made phones......
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 5:18 pm
by stevegringo
Took mine for it's mot today thinking that it might fail because of the integrated indicators in the rear led light unit !
But Mot guy was in a good mood and didn't mention it !
..so she sailed through !
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 7:32 pm
by vanstub
tony.mon wrote:MacV2 wrote:Rode the spluttering beast over to Tony for some major surgery which included Tony taking a hammer & chisel to the front cam cover to rectify a rounded off cam cover bolt...
Rear cams out & reset I now have a fully working Custard Crumble...
Boxing it all back up, just did the last air box screw...Went to put the front plug cap back on...The throttle cables are hanging down un-conected...
DOH!
Air box back off...throttle conected...Air box back on reached over for the last air box screw, which is sitting next to the intake stacks !
DOH! Air box lid back off...stacks on...Lid on for the final time...
Meanwhile Tony has wheeled Steve Vanstubs bike down so he can ride off & notices no mirrors...at this point I felt better... Mirrors fitted I said to Tony 'cor I just forgot to put the satcks in...' Tony thinks for a moment then walks back up to the garage & gets Steves stacks...
Finaly rode off after I rememberd to reconect the front indis ...
Rides like a different bike now...a proper Storm...
Cheers Tony...
Enjoy that beer tonight.
Oh & Kev, Steves wallet was empty...Tony saw to that...
Yeah, I was getting cold and tired, but nearly got two spare stacks......(He'd have noticed the mirrors!)
I wouldn't mind but one of the stacks was mine anyway; the one he rode in with had been butchered with a hacksaw by some clown trying to cut a slot in the bolt.....
Bugger, I didn't charge him for the bolts, either....
And it was fun refitting the airbox lid, it was fitted with three Honda screws and an assortment of woodscrews...Ah well, it was still sealed, I suppose.
LOL Mr Mon the cold must of really affected you letting me get away with that 
and thanks for the balaclava too new 1 been ordered for you along with fairing bolts
