BLUE bike refurb log

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Good work with the cleaner, and the new heel plate :clap:

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Yea rearsets at my age......I'm 60 this year and if my ritic' bones can take it I won't be wombled beat..... 8O
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Before and after......not really couldn't be arsed trying to clean up the swinger so bought one cheap
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Its cleaning up nicely
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The Chinese,don't you just love em',spot the missing hole in the lever
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Noticed this whilst removing the front end,what do you think,disc seems flat!!
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You know your getting tired when you can't figure out why the spindles grown an inch
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Oops swingarm spindle in the wrong place.

Your bike is coming along nicely. Very clean. Those front disks have a bit of wear but will most likely be good for while yet untill you can afford some nice ones. You can always measure them to see if they are within spec.
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Well spotted Dark,it is indeed the swinger pin...
If you look closer at the disc pic you can see that the lattice has a ding in it,don't know if this will affect owt'
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That is coming together very well, looking good :clap:
TaxiDriver wrote: Sun Apr 01, 2018 4:09 pm If you look closer at the disc pic you can see that the lattice has a ding in it,don't know if this will affect owt'
That ding is in the disc carrier by the looks of it, it may have been caused by someone trying to ride off with a disc lock fitted. Not ideal to use it like that,

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thats some work your getting into. very nice i have to say, strangely i have a spare disc that looks the same and iv no idea how it happened. it wasnt always like that but one day while cleaning i noticed it.. :eek2
the older i get,the faster i was :lol:
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Talking of rear disc's, where did you get that one from :?:

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sirch345 wrote: Mon Apr 02, 2018 3:22 pm Talking of rear disc's, where did you get that one from :?:

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Its from Wemoto Chris,£64 inc vat.

I initialy bought one for £10 of ebay new,when it arrived it was about 3mm thick so pretty useless.
Its the perfect crime,they know you ain't gonna send it back at that price..... :evil:
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TaxiDriver wrote: Mon Apr 02, 2018 3:51 pm
sirch345 wrote: Mon Apr 02, 2018 3:22 pm Talking of rear disc's, where did you get that one from :?:

Chris.
Its from Wemoto Chris,£64 inc vat.

I initialy bought one for £10 of ebay new,when it arrived it was about 3mm thick so pretty useless.
Its the perfect crime,they know you ain't gonna send it back at that price..... :evil:
I checked out Ebay for one like yours, but no luck. I never thought about Wemoto :lol:
That was a bit naughty with the one you bought :thumbdown:

Many thanks for the information :thumbup:

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Managed to get some more work done today,still waiting for the shock to come back from Hagon
but got the rearend togrther...
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Mcct,s next week then just waiting for the forks to be worked on by TW Suspension.
Oh, and stuck some of this on too....
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Looking clean !!
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It is looking clean you're right Martinz 8)

Your rear-sets look good too :thumbup:

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We'll get onto those mcct s on saturday mate
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Great morning spent with graham(taxidriver).

If we hadnt found one rear exhaust clearances out of range we would have had both tensioners fitted, but we got the front one done and graham knows what tappet shim he needs now.

The bike is looking great overall with some tasty mods to it.

Hopefully he will get the shim soon and we'll finish this bit of the journey

Top bloke and a really good morning, with another enthusiast
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