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The "Today I did something to my bike" thread
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Finally put the 10 Yr old anakee 2s on the silage heap.
Wheelmate gets the vote now I've finally clicked with it.
Tourance take some psi to seat.
Interestingly these tyres are way lighter, rear alone was over 700g lighter!0 -
cantdecide wrote: »New shifter arrived but the rose joint had a RH thread instead of the factor LH one. I was about to throw it in the bin but realised I could chop a broken extra long screwdriver and die the forward thread into both rose joints...
Absolutely Class
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Henry Ford III wrote: »Latest purchase is some Renthal G149 grips. About €14 delivered on ebay. Looks like a handy job to fit them too. The old ones are well worn.
Can't beat an air compressor to fit grips, just put the nozzle into the grip and it just slides on. If you are using grip glue then apply that to the bar first.
I use safety wire on mine usually though.0 -
My grips are shabby looking, loads of life left but they have a yellow part that looks manky so ordered oxford heated grips. Hopefully have them this week so I can pop them on. Off work next week woth no plans so plenty of spins
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Got swingarm removal adaptors for my abba stand.
They bolt into your front foot hanger bracket.
Very handy to have.
There's also an arm and strap you can get which allows you have the bike in front wheel or both wheels off the ground positions.
You can then have both wheels, swingarm and front forks off the bike all at one time.
Think I'll purchase.
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Handy bit of kit there blade. Never bought one as all my bikes have a centre stand (pre requisite I'm afraid, now I'm old) but my piece of shyte front stand must go, hate it with a vengence. Recommend one?
Any desire to swop the clutch slave for aftermarket?
I got sick of this craic fast. ..
... So replaced it with Oberon about 8yrs back. Fluid don't blacken as much and still on the same seal.
Pulled the blue dr wilbers springs, gone right off progressives and they're fuggin harsh in the final third of stroke.
Have about 5 sets of oem springs and picked the longest of them and bunged them in. It will be softer for sure but with the intiminators brake dive will be reeled in. Wilbers shock needs a service, rang Paul, 180 bliparoos. Will hold off till winter, which feels about now...
Despite having immersed the patched tube in water to assure myself.... she was soft yday so spat, cursed and pulled the wheel, bunged in a uhd Mitas tube I bought and balanced her up again.
I'm pulling the 530 chain and sprocks tomo (conversion I fitted during rebuild) and fitting stock gearing with 520 zfm extreme did chain. Chains got stiff links and was damn heavy in comparison to the red dr's. That and bigs kill chains and they nearly always punch through the case when the let go so not chancing it.0 -
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Handy bit of kit there blade. Never bought one as all my bikes have a centre stand (pre requisite I'm afraid, now I'm old) but my piece of shyte front stand must go, hate it with a vengence. Recommend one?
Any desire to swop the clutch slave for aftermarket?
I got sick of this craic fast. ..
... So replaced it with Oberon about 8yrs back. Fluid don't blacken as much and still on the same seal.
Pulled the blue dr wilbers springs, gone right off progressives and they're fuggin harsh in the final third of stroke.
Have about 5 sets of oem springs and picked the longest of them and bunged them in. It will be softer for sure but with the intiminators brake dive will be reeled in. Wilbers shock needs a service, rang Paul, 180 bliparoos. Will hold off till winter, which feels about now...
Despite having immersed the patched tube in water to assure myself.... she was soft yday so spat, cursed and pulled the wheel, bunged in a uhd Mitas tube I bought and balanced her up again.
I'm pulling the 530 chain and sprocks tomo (conversion I fitted during rebuild) and fitting stock gearing with 520 zfm extreme did chain. Chains got stiff links and was damn heavy in comparison to the red dr's. That and bigs kill chains and they nearly always punch through the case when the let go so not chancing it.
I have two rear stands, and two front stands but they are only cheap and cheerful ones.
If I have to recommend something, I'd say buy something made by abba.
Fantastic stuff.
I have now ordered the front lift arm.
Yeah the slave cylinder will be going.
Both my other apes got treated to Oberon's when I bought them.
Just seem to have a constant flow of things to buy at the moment but I'll get there.
Would Paul use öhlins parts if I gave him my front and rear suspension?
Öhlins seals seem to be a bit softer than others.
A bit more prone to leaks but kinder to the nitride coating on the forks.0 -
I have two rear stands, and two front stands but they are only cheap and cheerful ones.
If I have to recommend something, I'd say buy something made by abba.
Fantastic stuff.
I have now ordered the front lift arm.
Yeah the slave cylinder will be going.
Both my other apes got treated to Oberon's when I bought them.
Just seem to have a constant flow of things to buy at the moment but I'll get there.
Would Paul use öhlins parts if I gave him my front and rear suspension?
Öhlins seals seem to be a bit softer than others.
A bit more prone to leaks but kinder to the nitride coating on the forks.
Steve in ndm in Dublin is ohlins trained but I'd be surprised if Paul wasn't doing them, give him bell.
There loads of opinion back n forth bout using non ohlins fork seals. Hard to argue with lads using gixer seals for tens of thousand ks insisting the nitride's fine on theirs, but then again tis the interweb so believe little.
I know if I had as many bikes with gooooold forks as you I'd be buying the tools (surely it's just the peg spanner for the caps?!) to do the work myself otherwise that sh1ts gona get exp.
Talk to him about those green skf low stiction seals. Was it Galway or CJ here mentioned them and I've been doing a little reading and reports are ++ and Paul was in agreement bout them. Could be an option for you, bout 60 quid a set.
Here's my hitec tool I made for my suzukis:D
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I've seen loads of nitride coating worn from gsxr seals.
Wouldn't be putting them on my bikes anyway.
You make a tool for ohlins and do mine for me!
A good fitting peg spanner would sort the caps, unsure what the craic is thereafter with any specialist tools. I'd have thought that the usual bracket for an usd fork would see you good but ain't been inside a set so unsure??
I've no skin in the gixer seals in ohlins forks buzz but considering the ti ni wear on k1 to 4 I'd be going oem or skf green myself.
Powers out so had to do this with a file lol
....so I could drive the link out, wanna keep as spare for emergency.
New tyres, c&s (15/48 - 520), fork springs, revalved the intiminators (4 x 0.6mm shims) and she's a lot more supple. The stock 520 set is 786g lighter than the 530 I had on there and what surprising is how that's very obviously felt! Now if this feckin storm fooks off I can get out on er for a proper test.0 -
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Yeah i pumped them out and had the cleaner at them and regreased the pins.
I'm hoping that did it.
If not yeah its time for new seals, i'm pretty new to bikes (only did the IBT in November)
But Dad has been on them for just under 45 years, heading home in a few weeks, so might order the kit and rebuild the calipers while im up there, He's done it before on quite a few bikes.
Yer laughing so, tis a very satisfying job when you have all the bits and prep done:)
How do like thew bike, has it been a good first bike? Anything you don't like bout it?0 -
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Yer laughing so, tis a very satisfying job when you have all the bits and prep done:)
How do like thew bike, has it been a good first bike? Anything you don't like bout it?
Great bike, I find the sitting position incredibly comfortable compared to the lean down sports bike style, paid about €3,500 for it
Insurance wasn't bad on it considering its really a 800cc engine, (€700 for the year for someone with no previous motorcycle riding experience)
My only complaint would be the side stand, has a huge lean over angle, so i can't put it down in certain areas or i would be having no fun moving it off.
Have an wide plate on it now that really helps though.
Really easy to get parts for as well, anything that fits the F700 & F800 will fit onto this bike, plenty of aftermarket stuff too.
I wanted a bike that I would hold onto for a while and be able to tour on, so this would do that.
Plus being a BMW i can get parts in most shops for it in any city, but they might just be expensive
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Alright so I'm in this shot but feck it, today with the help of a member of the club I was finally able to get the batwing fitting to the bike. It took a lot of fiddling, messing with making new brackets to hold it but it's on and it's perfect.
Next thing is to look into new lights for the bike.
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Got a used set of Gilles Tooling levers for my MT10 from ebay. A guy in the UK had a lot of genuine Yamaha aftermarket stuff for sale but I was outbid at the last second for most of it Happy enough with the levers though. Nicely made and are far nicer than the ugly cheapo stock levers.
Whenever I can spare the cash I plan on replacing the handlebars/risers with the Gilles Tooling billet aluminium versions (all black) with Rizoma grips and bar end mirrors. I will probably replace the front brake master cylinder with the R1 version, as the brakes do lack a bit of bite and this mod apparently fixes that issue. Also on the shopping list are the Yamaha rad gaurds/crash protectors etc.
I might get the wheels powder coated (keeping the original color) as the paint is quite thin and has flaked away a lot around the rims.0 -
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ACT FAST!This week I am mostly getting a new gearbox
FML :mad:
https://www.donedeal.ie/motorbikes-for-sale/gs-500/249941700 -
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