The "Today I did something to my bike" thread

Apparently 7.5w needed so I'll have to mix 10w and 5w.

Motul.

I got Motul 7.5 from Louis for the V

Replaced the seals and oil a while back

https://www.louis.eu/artikel/synthetic-fork-oil-7-5w-1-litre-factory-line-light-medium/10037680?list=121c1c09dbc9b24b44d8c7ebba3fb716&filter_article_number=10037680

I’m doing brake pads and a bleed tomorrow on a 89 dr750(1st time in nearly 20 years of being on bikes) I’m sure I’m overthinking it but the workshop manual says to only put silicone grease on the calliper axle, with no other grease anywhere. There’s a world of youtube videos out there that mention red rubber, lithium, copper grease etc. and then there are some that say to use no grease. Should I stick with just the silicone or has grease technology come on in the past 30 years.

One nice clean freely moving caliper done

That's brakes and forks good for another while.

Yeah,I did it for years like that.

The older I'm getting, I just had to give myself some comfort.

I'll be 50 in 2 weeks time and I get sciatica every now again after hurting my back when I was 15.

Once I hit 40, my back was hurting for a week or 2 every time after working on bikes/cars.

Latest thing with the last few years is tendons in both arms are giving trouble.

If I have my elbow bent for a while, it get weak and when I go to straighten it it feels like it nearly after locking.

HaHa I'm not in much better nik myself at 57

Happy brithday 2 weeks :-)

...when I bought this not long ago, I had zero interest in ever seeing what it was like underneath.

However - and I promise I'll do a thread on it separately to sate your interest - you might as well have a look at what I spent Saturday (and more..) looking at.....

Ladies & Gentlemen, meine Damen & Herren, a Dhaoine Uaisle.........the unredacted 2021 Gold Wing..........

And later when I had it all back together...

I dunno about ye, but I'm still traumatised ............

on my GS you need a computer to bleed the ABS servo unit

I use tubing with a one way hydraulic valve to help with the bleeding.

Last week put on a lightbar, top case, crash bars (removed Puig Frame Sliders....bit of "rack" to get round metal pieces off!), skid plate, radiator guard and fork brace. That's pretty much it on this lady, more 50/50 type tyres at some stage, get her (more) dirty, Africa Twin style mirrors awaited, maybe fog light brackets out front and strobes (for the blind feckers driving cars!), crash bars are a bit back for that job, but waited to see how it would work out first. All the bits from Cosmo, Greek crowd, seems decent quality.

I VRT'd mine today. My wall of plates is growing, removing a plate that ended in '46' felt wrong though!

I passed him on the M50 around 3.30ish

CBR 954 is what I VRT'd

I've a 3D pen, basically just the heating element and the feed motor from a 3D printer. Cost about €10-20. As they're so simple to make there's a million of them online so check reviews carefully.

But definitely don't get ideas of how well they work from YouTube, some people can do crazy stuff with them.

Clean area, then rough it up a bit. Use paper, card, or acetate as support then just layer it up. I did it with the bolt in place through the paper and it formed tight enough to have the thread in it so it actually screws in and holds. You can use different plastics so if using the same it can bond very well, I didn't and it still held on good but I could remove it so then just used glue to stick the new part together.

Looks like someone use old spaghetti and then partially sanded it with a bit of wrong coloured paint on top but it's still better than having to cut a cable tie each time. It'll get a second pass eventually.

I've only used it to replace a pair of tabs but I suppose you could make something fully if you did a DIY mould out of any remaining ones. I've also used the pen to weld cracks together sometimes paired with a soldering iron with a flat head.

Put a deposit on a BMW R18 Classic today, second hand but only has 850kms on it, and has a nice pipe already.

Time to sell the Harley now.

Depening on the fairing material you might be able to melt it together. But Plastics tend to only want to stick to the same composition when melting.

I would definitely do something to reinforce where you are gluing or it could just come off again.

What bike is it again?

I've seen lads on the DR650 forums asking the same thing, but quickly getting told it was a jetting kit they needed.

Dynojet do a few different ones, but for the price of them it could nearly be worth getting the bike properly tuned

https://mototuning.ie/

definitely not the two I saw then haha. Theres some difference in the engine physical size compared to the airheads.

What are they like to drive? I did notice they come with an optional reverse gear they're that heavy.

I havn't driven anything above 800cc yet, but hoping to get a chance to take Dad's R1200gs for a spin soon.

I can't see him ever getting a R18 though, he's looking at a R100gs as his next bike. One of his friends is after one, and a close friend of his has two airheads, I got his airhead last summer and now he wants one too since he'll be the only one without one xD

...fitted 2 new shocks and 2 new silencers to my H-D. Got 15 years and about 50k out of the originals, so can't complain really. I only changed the exhausts because the old ones were getting scabby and I got a set of brand now OEM ones for....... £50. Nobody want's standard ones, so that's a Win for me. The H-D shops are full of OE pipes that end up in the skip eventually.

Shocks are Hagon, and suit the bike, and we great value, and made & shipped to me in 3 days to a slightly custom spec. The best buying experience online I've ever had tbh.

After my near-trauma with my GoldWing a while ago, you appreciate the sheer simplicity of an old school, twin-shock, simple bike to work on. Both shocks & pipes done in....30 minutes with very few tools needed.

oooh, I like them, I do......

Lots of torque and character, it is very smooth and just trundles along. The reverse is a bit gimmicky to me but I could see a use for it, I just see it as something that could break TBH.

Agreed, for some spots is a pain to move a heavy bike, I had a GSA1200 and moving that was like moving a barge.

My shed is a mess. But I have the 600f in there now and changed the airfilter, on seeing the state of it I pulled a plug, need to order a set if them too.

Kinda gutted I dropped this bike. Not sure what I'm going to do with it.

There was a K&N sticker on the airbox bit it was a standard filter.