what have you done to your "bike" today

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Enjoy
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Tyre on and quick shake down run

Not ideal bedding in brakes with a new front tyre, wet roads and no abs as the sensor ring is not ready yet.

But felt good and nothing fell off or pitched me over the bars

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Custurd got a wash & a chain clean adjust n Lube.

Neu Red got fired up, run up to temp, till fan cut in.

Rusty the Storm got attacked with various hammers, impact drivers, hacksaws, cold chisles & drills. Conventional tools used as well... Bits stripped off but not without a fight in most cases... :lol: :lol:

Next week downpipes & try to drop the motor... Gawd help us... :lol: :lol:
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AMCQ46 wrote: Sun Nov 22, 2020 11:26 am Tyre on and quick shake down run

Not ideal bedding in brakes with a new front tyre, wet roads and no abs as the sensor ring is not ready yet.

But felt good and nothing fell off or pitched me over the bars

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Al, have you stuck a caster off of a shopping trolley on yer KTM mate? :wink: :lol:
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Kev L wrote: Al, have you stuck a caster off of a shopping trolley on yer KTM mate? :wink: :lol:

It’s got a bit of that about it, Image
but it was always an unconventional beast even as standard, and I liked the old 990 KTM SMT in the past, so thus is it’s modern solution.


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Looks a whole heap of giggles mate, enjoy
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looks good. reminds me a bit of my orange versys. best bike i've ever had, and great for hooning around the back lanes. till my hip went...
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AMCQ46 wrote: Sun Nov 22, 2020 11:26 am Tyre on and quick shake down run

Not ideal bedding in brakes with a new front tyre, wet roads and no abs as the sensor ring is not ready yet.

But felt good and nothing fell off or pitched me over the bars

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now that looks like proper fun :clap:
the older i get,the faster i was :lol:
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AMCQ46 wrote: Sun Nov 22, 2020 11:26 am Tyre on and quick shake down run

Not ideal bedding in brakes with a new front tyre, wet roads and no abs as the sensor ring is not ready yet.

But felt good and nothing fell off or pitched me over the bars

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There is a ring, Al.
It puckers up every time you pull the brake lever.



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MacV2 wrote: Sun Nov 22, 2020 4:04 pm Custurd got a wash & a chain clean adjust n Lube.

Neu Red got fired up, run up to temp, till fan cut in.

Rusty the Storm got attacked with various hammers, impact drivers, hacksaws, cold chisles & drills. Conventional tools used as well... Bits stripped off but not without a fight in most cases... :lol: :lol:

Next week downpipes & try to drop the motor... Gawd help us... :lol: :lol:
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AMCQ46 wrote: Sun Nov 22, 2020 11:26 am Tyre on and quick shake down run

Not ideal bedding in brakes with a new front tyre, wet roads and no abs as the sensor ring is not ready yet.

But felt good and nothing fell off or pitched me over the bars

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Good work Al :thumbup:

It will interesting to hear what you think of this mod once we have some better weather and dry roads so you can get some miles under your belt :)

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Couple snaps from last ride for season, weather was cold and a little rain. But no snow and awesome mountain roads.
Other bike is my friends 86 VMAX it moves in straight line but rubbish in the corners
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Good to see the photo's, thanks for posting :D

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What, no bins in the picture? :lol: :wink:

VMax was one of my favorite bikes when I was wishing a lot for another 2 wheel ride years ago.

Your yellow Storm is gorgeous and I wish I could have had that color when I bought my FireHawk. I love that yellow color ever since I had my Paseo for 12 years which was called the highlighter due to the bright yellow color. :p
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not on my own bike but was shipped over to bonny scotland to pick up a yamaha R3 for a friends daughter :clap: . what a bloody hoot of a time i had, so much so i near missed the boat home :lol:
the older i get,the faster i was :lol:
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