What did you do to your bike today?

[bonio]

15 hours ago, veracocha said:

Returned it to showroom condition. Six hours of washing/scrubbing/detailing ready for selling. I realise that it's just too big a bike for me and I don't feel confident when coming to stops. In Scotland last week I took a tumble whist stationary and that helped secured my decision to sell. I had a Tracer 7GT before moving onto the F900 XR and I was sure footed with that being a much smaller, lighter bike. Shame as I like the bike very much.

That a shame mate. If you like it that much, have you thought about fitting lowering links? Or perhaps you've already got your eye on something to replace it with?

[veracocha]

8 hours ago, bonio said:

That a shame mate. If you like it that much, have you thought about fitting lowering links? Or perhaps you've already got your eye on something to replace it with?

I have thought about fitting a Touratech lowering kit (front & rear) springs for £250 which will get me flat footed however the weight is a consideration also. 196kg vs 220Kg might not sound much but lugging the bike around the yard you feel the difference. I might go back to a Tracer 7GT; I really liked that bike and without doubt, a comfier ride than the BMW. 

[Bianco2564]

Stripped and repainted the rear subframe on the RGV.

Fitted it back to the frame and started reattaching everything; oil tank, coolant reservoir,cdi box, battery box, loom.

[bud]

I've had a slow leak from the front tyre for a while now. It will lose 5-6 psi in a week.

I could never see anything piercing the tyre. So today I removed the wheel and found it leaking from the rim.

Broke the bead, cleaned and inflated again. There did seem to be a small amount of corrosion inside the rim.  It doesn't seem to be leaking now. Fingers crossed. 

 

Edited Tuesday at 12:43 by bud

[Simon Davey]

1 hour ago, bud said:

I've had a slow leak from the front tyre for a while now. It will lose 5-6 psi in a week.

I could never see anything piercing the tyre. So today I removed the wheel and found it leaking from the rim.

Broke the bead, cleaned and inflated again. There did seem to be a small amount of corrosion inside the rim.  It doesn't seem to be leaking now. Fingers crossed. 

 

 

I feel your pain.

I had this issue for months, and months, even on holiday I had to inflate every morning as I was losing 3-4 PSI per day.

Proper mechanic looked at it and called me, he says, "when they fitted those new tyres Simon, they ignored the valve seats".....

That's all it was, nine months of thinking I had corroded alloys leaking air, and all it needed was for the valves to be removed, the valve seat in the rim cleaned up, and new valves fitted.

Edited Tuesday at 13:58 by Simon Davey

[Mickly]

Gave the KTM some love before a weekend at Motojunkies, starting with an oil change, don’t know when it was last done, the magnetic drain plug didn’t have any debris on it & the strainer was clean, the oil was very black.

created a chute for the oil with some foil to stop it coating the stand.

[RideWithStyles]

Nice. Think the chain could do with some loving

[Mickly]

17 minutes ago, RideWithStyles said:

Nice. Think the chain could do with some loving

Indeed it does & I will be giving a good seeing to later today, it’s gagging for it the dirty thing

[Mickly]

This afternoon the KTM chain got a good going over.

First  gave the area adjacent to the action a quick wipe down 

Then gave the chain it a good scrubbing with a wire brush to remove most of the caked on crud and wiped it down

I then used this, I won it in a raffle

Here is the result after about an hour, a clwan

lubed chain that  no longer has a grindy sound when spinning the wheel.

Just need to fill it with oil & it’s ready to go

[Mickly]

Oh No !!

Luckily this is not all it seems, It’s the first time I’ve ever seen this in a workshop manual..

Any how, it’s all done now and ready to rock at Motojunkies tomorrow 

[Simon Davey]

Flippin eck, nice and simple then.