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Nowt, anyone want to buy a SV1000K3? Thought not.......

tonight I took the clothes (plastics) off my ride
20,000 mile service to do. big clean and polish,oil all moving parts

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Pulled the SP2 to bits, shock out ready for a rebuild at HM Racing, don't bikes look sad when they're half torn apart?

norry rc8 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 18, 2019 8:22 pm tonight I took the clothes (plastics) off my ride
20,000 mile service to do. big clean and polish,oil all moving parts

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i love seeing them naked. you can see the engineering that makes them work

Ram tubes arrived...fitting today..trying later tonight

Arrived quickly with concise fitting intruction sent online in advance...

Borrowed the damper off storms 996 stablemate

spent some therapy time in shed. getting her down to the bare bones .

its the time of year men spend time in cold sheds, gotta love it..

fitted a wee sneeky 4 row oil cooler to mine today from an SP

Started a bracket to attach damper to the fork tube.

Swampy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 9:35 am

Started a bracket to attach damper to the fork tube.

Impressive work

Chris.

SWMBO is having her kitchen rebuilt so I'm having her for dinner on a regular basis. I've had to move the Storm out of the lounge and put up new curtains! FFS!!!

sirch345 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 10:46 am

Swampy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 9:35 am

Started a bracket to attach damper to the fork tube.

Impressive work

Chris.

Cheers

Damper back on 996

Had a bit of a staring match with my storm last night...Just seemed wrong somehow to borrow a damper when its never really misbehaved. I could sorta justify a damper to compliment the bark busters but wonder how effective it would be in a collision. I guess the damper would lock the steering to the limit of the assembly. But it means the damper being a permanent thing.

So I dwelled on it for a bit longer... chained it to the rafters, pulled the top triple to find the steering head lock nut loose.
Stripped, cleaned, greased, made a hideous tube socket and torqued and tried.

The high speed shimmy and little lane wander has been replaced by a stable line and burning desire

I know! I think I've read the same advice on every VTR forum.

Feeling relieved but dumb

KermitLeFrog wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 1:11 pm SWMBO is having her kitchen rebuilt so I'm having her for dinner on a regular basis. I've had to move the Storm out of the lounge and put up new curtains! FFS!!!

almost domesticated now! ... so will the storm still have these Curtains fitted when you come to Yorkshire?

norry rc8 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 18, 2019 8:22 pm tonight I took the clothes (plastics) off my ride
20,000 mile service to do. big clean and polish,oil all moving parts

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now I can see why that exhaust is so loud