General chat thread... Links, pictures, banter etc

give overlanders in Gorey a shout, Chatting to Aran the other month and he mentioned they can get them in.

I got YSS for my airhead,

Wemoto have a .ie website so should be able to sell to you VAT free.

Hope the health recovers. What do you think of it anyway? I have a 2020 XT, bought last September, only recently added the crashbars etc. Just as reference I paid €6,900 in Germany, then 18m.o., 16k on it, +€800 VRT (& I guess ferry etc etc if you don't count it as a "trip").

For anyone out there considering it I think they're a great bike, I've only had smaller bikes so maybe I can't give compelling comparisons, but extensive youtube & magazine research 😳tells me they're a very solid purchase. Hope you get a good price for it and best of luck.👍️

Congrats on the new machine!

Insurance is mental in this country, Principal want €850 to insure me on the current bike (CBR 600F) and add the 954 Blade.

CN want €650 for just the Blade but if I add the 600 it's... €648, both fully comp.

There really needs to be more transparency. The quote with CN also includes €50 loading because I was rear ended.

Out spinning the last 3 days.

I am going to try to squeeze one more spin in today.

A piss stop somewhere in the middle of nowhere

Thats grand!

They're not bad shocks from whats I've read, very hard to beat on price for new

The SW-Motech power socket blew its fuse for no apparent reason again 🙄

The wires enter at close to 90 degrees so can't get the supplied rubber boot over the connections. Shrink wrap tube I suppose for the win... This is in the upper fairing and should be completely dry short of a firehose aimed up from beneath so I'm baffled as to why it blew but you never know with electricals, shrink wrap both wires (only live is currently shrink wrapped - see what I did there), shrink wrap the both of them then try to get a large diameter shrink wrap over the whole lot

That's that gone anyway!

Well it's one of two connectors between the reg/rectifier and the stator.

The second one is a barrel type connector and is located between the cylinders.

It is more robust than that brown connector but can still be a bit prone to overheating.

Yeah those brown connectors are fairly shite.

Heat shrink and self soldering heat shrink connectors means insulated tape can take early retirement for the most part.

Not certain what the standard ones are.

From my experience, they don't give trouble once the connectors are gotten rid of on gen1 rsv's

On gen2 rsv's (up to 2009)I know some fit a series reg/rectifier but the main cause of the problem on them is the flywheel is too powerful so burns out the stator.

An upgraded genuine flywheel costs about €1000

There is a lad working in austria with Rotax that for €70 can de-magnetize the flywheel which takes it from 500w to 370w.

So a no brainer really.

I've a mod done to the oil return line (dry sump) on my gen2 Tuono where it sprays oil onto the stator to help keep it cooler.

It's kept it good with around 5 years but if the stator does ever fail I'll be whipping out the flywheel and sending it to yer man in Austria.

Another regular poster here has also done the oil return mod to his recently aquired Tuono so I hope it does the job for him.

If buying a regulator the series ones would be the best I think as they only use what's needed when needed..

Those kits like you linked will definitely be a big improvement but if you want to sort it properly once and for all it's the flywheel that needs sorting.

Tapped into the oil return where the arrow on the left is.

Extra oil line added and enter flywheel cover where arrow on right is.

if its a complete rebuild you could still have air in the system. it took me most of an afternoon to sucessfully bleed the DR650 front brake.

If you can force fluid in through the bleed nipple and out the master cylinder you should push more of the bubbles out.