What did you do to your bike today?

[megaross]

Got one of the old knackered clutch cables on there to get me by, and a spare in the topbox with them tools to swap.

 

Hopefully venhill sort me out, had to dismantle my printer to clean to print head so I could print the label. It's not really going my way this week, told work "f**k this, I'm off" about 3 o'clock. They already pissed me off adding me to a 3 hour meeting I did not need to be in but with clients so I couldn't tell them to piss off and put it in an email like I normally would.

 

Had every other job piled on me by my mum and all today "Can you fix these computer speakers, oh can you look at this drill charger, I got them free off gumtree" there's a reason they're free, they're f**ked, not particularly valuable and not worth fixing. But obviously it's my mum so I'm not allowed to say no.

 

Must find strength to visit my Nan and crawl to the local for a very well needed pint(s). Can bore the landlord with my incessant bitching and have the old boys give the old "You're lucky! Back in my day we went on to the production line, got beaten savagely, burnt, poisoned and sworn at for 37 hours a day. IF WE WERE LUCKY"

Edited October 27, 2023 by megaross

[RideWithStyles]

you should always just say nope they're junk, but to up lift say she could recycle it...to the tip.

Oh don't forget to add (said with a northern accent); Dang right luckly little shite, young laddie never heard of asbestos let along had to mess about with, used to play with that stuff in the old mills when we were kids.

No sodden health and safety back then you either go stuck in or some other FoOka would do it and ya bee daan the road.
couldn't afford meals so eat owt including road kill cos we weren't paid enough, we went nicking apples or find stuff out of bins...dont even know ya was born .

 

 

 

 

[megaross]

Not far off, always good banter though.

 

Finally got the gaskets done today, and I only cut myself on the Stanley blade 3 times. Do I get a sticker?

Edited October 28, 2023 by megaross

[Tinkicker]

23 hours ago, RideWithStyles said:

you should always just say nope they're junk, but to up lift say she could recycle it...to the tip.

Oh don't forget to add (said with a northern accent); Dang right luckly little shite, young laddie never heard of asbestos let along had to mess about with, used to play with that stuff in the old mills when we were kids.

No sodden health and safety back then you either go stuck in or some other FoOka would do it and ya bee daan the road.
couldn't afford meals so eat owt including road kill cos we weren't paid enough, we went nicking apples or find stuff out of bins...dont even know ya was born .

 

 

 

 

Stuff in bins?  Woo lardy dah.

 

We had no bins cos we ad nowt to chuck in em.  We ate t'ashes straight from t'fire grate.  Twas the only hot meal we got.

Me mam was reight clever.  She knew the chippy owner poured old fat down the drain, so she would send us out in't snow to lift up manhole cover outside chip shop.  We scraped t' dripping off the sides of the drain and took it ome.

 

Mam made some grand ash cakes with it. 

 

Hee them were t' days.  

Edited October 28, 2023 by Tinkicker

[Joe85]

Installed a new carbon fibre air box cover and transferred the mirrors from the Touno. 
 

Not sure if I like them or not.

[bonio]

I know you weren't asking for opinions, but the mirrors look a tad crap tbh. 

[veracocha]

Just fitted a SW Motech top box that I won on the auction website for a tenner!!

[Joe85]

3 hours ago, bonio said:

I know you weren't asking for opinions, but the mirrors look a tad crap tbh. 

I think im in agreement - they're just too large.

[RideWithStyles]

Dont think its cos their too large, more like the fitment and joints look nasty.

[Joe85]

Alright. I’m starting to get offended now.

[megaross]

Yeah those mirrors scream "I like wearing ladies underwear and dancing to aswad in the mirror, don't tell my wife"

 

I think you should swap them mate, before the wife finds out

[RideWithStyles]

Maybe she already knows and it just amuses her.

[megaross]

Job for today.

 

Take the crank cover off and replace the pinched gasket I discovered yesterday so it doesn't hose the engine and exhaust with oil.

 

Worst thing is had I not been lazy and just bought some more gasket paper instead of buying pre cut oem jobbys I'd have saved about £30 by now.

 

And tbh given gasket paper is usually a bit meatier I probably wouldn't have pinched it so easily.

 

If I have to take that f**king cover off again I'm throwing myself in the bin. (I couldn't do that to the bike.)

Edited October 31, 2023 by megaross

[RideWithStyles]

Yep never the bikes fault, always the owner!

[RideWithStyles]

Put two brand oxford rainex new covers over the bikes...they've gotten better than the last one i bought a good few years ago..

[Guest]

22 minutes ago, RideWithStyles said:

Put two brand oxford rainex new covers over the bikes...they've gotten better than the last one i bought a good few years ago..

They should make covers like this for the riders too

[RideWithStyles]

Maybe they should, Cheaper than goretex.... 

[KiwiBob]

12 hours ago, janinej said:

They should make covers like this for the riders too

What colour do you want?

 

[Guest]

7 minutes ago, KiwiBob said:

What colour do you want?

 

Ideally pleather with tassels and my gang logo/ 1% patch on the back. 

[V650]

Got around to a couple of bits

Replaced the garmin Zumo Mount as the ball clamp one stuck too far out  so replaced with ali one that was a better fit on to the existing bar

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000993642247.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.11.63fe1802fH4pnl

Also fitted Honda Tank pad 

 

 

[KiwiBob]

As the weather is turning cooler I fitted some Oxford Hotgrips today! .. Easy enough job and they're working well now that I've fixed a dodgy connector.

[megaross]

Got it through it's MOT, failed on the number plate bulb.

 

Easy fix. Except triumph designed it so it's a dickhead to change with a non captive nut hidden behind the undertray, totally inaccessible without some dismantling.

 

Anyway I managed to bend the undertray back, get a socket on the nut with a bit of locking flex head magic, get it undone and then drill out and rivnut it (and change the bulb obviously).

 

That done it sailed through. Which is good because I'm super hung over after a wedding reception last night and really really suffered for that pass.

[JRH]

As it was a nice day took it out for a ride. 

Went to the Piston Club @ The Stag on the A46 Alcester road out of Stratford on Avon (B49 6NQ).

The do good breakfasts.

Sunday is bike day and there was a good attendance.

[Trooper74]

 

Had the best of days yesterday, Sunday.

My 19 year old grandson passed his CBT last week, took delivery of his Aprillia Tuono 125 last Thursday.

We spent Sunday morning 0800hrs - 1000hrs with him learning to use clutch and gears .... rev stall, rev stall, rev stall ..... then smooth pulling away without any issue.

Sunday at 1400hrs I got my 650 V-Strom out and we went for a ride together, Rotherham through the lanes to J&S in Doncaster, then back via Barnsley ..... 

The Tuono is a physically large bike with 14.7 bhp available ... it's a cracker .... The plan is get him through his A2 before May so he can come to the TT with me ..again... but this time not as a pillion !!

 

Magic day ....

 

 

 

 

 

[Trooper74]

On 03/11/2023 at 14:20, KiwiBob said:

As the weather is turning cooler I fitted some Oxford Hotgrips today! .. Easy enough job and they're working well now that I've fixed a dodgy connector.

The number 1 best bike accessory ..... i ride all winter long with mine