Stu
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I have had the pilot road 4's 5's and 6 and I must say they are probably the best tyres I have used! Especially in the wet!
I had the fjr fully loaded up with a pillion scraping the pegs! I thought that was impressive! Wife not so much
I haven't had a tyre as confident inspiring as these are so I find it odd you want to change them through lack of confidence
What is it you don't like about them?
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On 05/03/2024 at 19:15, RAYK47 said:
For some reason the photos were the wrong way round. I have the inline £20 one. The other is about £50 ish.
Photos fixed for you!
Can you not remove the switch to eliminate that?
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See this thread for rally details
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You are supposed to take the most direct route to the MOT station and thats it!
I would find another tester thats open on a Saturday
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Sigh!
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Those are the calipers you want! Triumph also do some but they say triumph on them which can easily be machined off them painted up
They are 90mm between the mounting points
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4 hours ago, k3lv said:
Yeah it does feel real sketchy shimming , think I'm just gonna replace the front brakes completely.
What's your location? maybe someone close could take a look and give a second opinion?
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Good point @oldgrumpI forgot about the maniac!
Although I never knew he had been banned for 4 years!
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10 hours ago, Blackholesun said:
I like to look at the sharps ratings and noticed none of the ls2 ones scores higher than 3 stars.does anyone else pay any attention to sharps ratings
Nope!
In fact I stay well away from their website
It is well known that their testing is flawed
https://www.motolegends.com/reviews/Why-we-don-t-really-rate-the-Sharp-helmet-test
There is plenty more of information out there if you look about
When they started testing they was doing stupid stuff like dropping the helmet on to a blunt object to replicate a kerb
An helmet never hits anything square on like that! it always glances off due to the fact you are traveling forwards
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Anyway thats enough about why eurosport is shite at recordings
Any predictions for champion this year?
Personally I think its still too early to predict but Bulega looking good out there as is Alex Lowes!
I think my money is going on those two
I think toprak is going to struggle with the bike but I do think he is still going to do well
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I strongly advise against trying to shim the lever and the piston
You could cause the pads to bind which generates heat and locks on the brakes!
A member did this a few years ago with a set of aftermarket levers that didn't fit right luckily he had ABS so the bike came to a rather quick stop without issues! He has to walk home and get spanners to release it
I can confirm though that you have stock levers
I can also tell you that I have had 2 GSXR SRAD's and a TL1000s with the same brake setup and i they was shockingly bad and also extremely hard to bleed all the air out
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@k3lv have you got the tociko calipers on the bike?
If so get rid of them! they are shockingly bad
You can get a set of nissin calipers that bolt straight on and are much better
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6 hours ago, rennie said:
We've struggled with eurosport recording! The times are very hit and miss ! I just record the whole day now and use the fast forward button
Pretty much this! It's been hit and miss with the recordings and some times show in the wrong order or miss some of the racing!
BSB is better it just records all day
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We've struggled to get decent recordings on eurosport of the world supers!
This weekend we signed up to Discovery+ which is free if you have sky and was so much better at getting what you want when you want
Anyway
Good bit of racing from the weekend with some promising riders this year instead of it being a one man race like last year
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Happy birthday
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I have the XT and I also have My Route app
Both work fine together I have gold membership as it was offered at a good price
My mate uses the free version and it works just fine for creating routes
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The sidestand switch is operated every time you use the side stand and it has a permanent live feed
The clutch switch is also operated every time you use the clutch and has a permanent live feed
The gear position sensor is also operated with every gear change and also has a permanent live feed and on a lot of bikes it also has a built in resistor to alter the voltage so the ecu know what gear its in
These lot work together for safety cut out so you don't set off with the side stand down
They may wear out eventually but this would be through normal use and not by using it to stop the engine
The emergency stop on the bars was made just for that purpose and should be used just for that! I have known failures due to overuse but saying that a lot of manufacturers are now using it as a start stop switch and are building them more robust
I do stop mine with the side stand at times but not all the time it just depends how I feel at the time!
Knock yourself out using it as it won't cause any damage to any of the associated components
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I have had a set of these for the last 4 or 5 years
https://mercurycustomplugs.com/
I can't complain! they are comfier than the foam ones over a long distance/time but not as good as the foam ones at blocking sound but more than good enough
The wife has a set too and she doesn't moan!
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11 hours ago, S-Westerly said:
- Buttertubs in the rain must have been a bit horrible. Did you do the ford or miss that out?
After today's rain everything was a ford
No we skipped it!
To be honest buttertubs we OK compared to some of the other roads we did!
At one point we was in the clouds and couldn't see more than 20 metres in front of us
made interesting riding on narrow twisty gravel filled roads with cars coming the other way!
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Today I did almost 300 miles in mostly rain!
Squires, Hawes, Butertubs pass then home!
A jetski would have been more appropriate
I was dripping when I walked in!
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@Vic101 is your bike getting to temperature?
You usually find on injected bikes they have two fuel maps
One for when the engine is cold and one for when its at operating temp
they switch over automatically
One major issue that suzuki did with their first injected bike (tl1000s) was to put the coolant temp sensor in the radiator which made the bike think it was always cold despite that thermostat doing its job and keeping the coolant at 84 degrees or above although this was still a little too cold too and an 87 degree stat from a nissan micra was classed as an upgrade as well as a later thermostat housing which relocated the temp sensor to the correct place reading the correct temp
If your bikes not getting to the correct temp it will constantly be running a cold map and over fuelling this can also lead to fuel running down the cylinder walls and would also raise your oil level too this is called cylinder wash and can lead to damage to the liners rings and piston
Did the issue only start as the temperature dropped?
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9 hours ago, Ian Frog said:
Oh good grief yes Toc 6 pots Arrgh ! ask anyone who has ridden a Busa!
Awful brakes best replaced with Triumph 2 pots or similar, strangely enough the calipers work fine on my ZRX which probably backs up the comments about Suzuki master cylinders.
Cheers
Ian
Or anything with Tokico 4 or 6 pots!
I replaced mine on the TL with Nissin calipers! I didn't have to rebuild those every year
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has it had the lever replaced at any point?
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3 hours ago, Bender said:
They have old non mesh units or don't know which buttons to press
They are fairly new! Just no mesh
And haven't got a clue what to press
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Facebook login/account creation
in Forum Advice and Updates.
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Not sure if anyone uses the facebook login to access the forum but for whatever reason they have restricted the API
Basically this is because they can't login to test it so clearly an issue at their end but we get penalised for it
As such I have removed the feature as its useless if its not working!