Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 8:56 am
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Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 1:18 pm
....an extra strong one?
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 4:18 pm
Head stock bearings in Custurd & some minor tweaks & cleaning.
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 4:19 pm
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 5:13 pm
Nah I just replaced the ones in there with some old ones I found in the scrap bin...cleaned all the old grease off first of course...
Of course I fitted Tappered ones...fresh out of the box...
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 5:56 pm
Oh errrrr, Mr that told me !!!!!! 
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 7:40 pm
sat and looked at mine,,,
then looked some more trying to work out how to make it more comfortable to ride bar wise..iv already got 3" apexi rise bars on it and it still turns me into a gimp after about 20 miles
i know what the answer is but it would be so wrong to do it..
then looked some more trying to work out how to make it more comfortable to ride bar wise..iv already got 3" apexi rise bars on it and it still turns me into a gimp after about 20 miles
i know what the answer is but it would be so wrong to do it..
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 7:48 pm
Africa Twin?
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 8:41 pm
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 10:13 pm
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 8:58 am
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 10:52 am
Put the rack and top box on ready for when I transition back to going to the station to get on the rattler rather than riding all the way in to London once the snow and ice get here. Makes it practical but ruins the looks.
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 7:20 pm
Swore at it a bit...quite a bit...
I thought it would be prudent to go for a test run today, to check thet the new head bearings were not either too tight or too loose, so pulled the bike out, got me kit on... Fired it up... Revs like a bastid 3k +...
Pillock that I am I'd routed the throttle cable wrong...
De kit, bikes all out to get to tools... the thottle housing put up a fight, got the nipple out, re routed...not enough slack to get it back on...Bastid fek fek fek...ect
An hour plus later having taken the tank & air box off to access the carb end of cable...
On the bright side I gave it a new air fillter & sub fillters whilst in there...
I did test ride & it was ok.
I thought it would be prudent to go for a test run today, to check thet the new head bearings were not either too tight or too loose, so pulled the bike out, got me kit on... Fired it up... Revs like a bastid 3k +...
Pillock that I am I'd routed the throttle cable wrong...
De kit, bikes all out to get to tools... the thottle housing put up a fight, got the nipple out, re routed...not enough slack to get it back on...Bastid fek fek fek...ect
An hour plus later having taken the tank & air box off to access the carb end of cable...
On the bright side I gave it a new air fillter & sub fillters whilst in there...
I did test ride & it was ok.
Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 8:31 pm
@poppers and mac.... ya shortist huers lol... short lives matter
but anyhow,, 170 miles today on the dorsoduro and actually pretty comfy
its taken a while and iv near sold this bike a few times but at last its got under my skin, and i cant think what id change it for.
but anyhow,, 170 miles today on the dorsoduro and actually pretty comfy
its taken a while and iv near sold this bike a few times but at last its got under my skin, and i cant think what id change it for.Re: what have you done to your "bike" today
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 9:06 am
in a twist of madness i sold my bike today, or rather swapped it 
the sexy good looking Aprilia is away and in its place is..................................a yamaha MT09, the strange tracker version..
back to back with the MT, the italian wins on handling, braking,looks. looks again.
what the MT has going for it , the seat, and the engine thats a total turbine torque monster, its a 2105 model and has yamaha history and only 11k by a very careful owner.
lets see how i get on with this.
the sexy good looking Aprilia is away and in its place is..................................a yamaha MT09, the strange tracker version..
back to back with the MT, the italian wins on handling, braking,looks. looks again.
what the MT has going for it , the seat, and the engine thats a total turbine torque monster, its a 2105 model and has yamaha history and only 11k by a very careful owner.
lets see how i get on with this.