what have you done to your "bike" today

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MacV2 wrote:Vanstub brought his butcherd Blade over & together we changed the fork seals,a bit of Laural & Hardy style of mechanics but we got it done in the end...The second fork was a lot easier & quicker to do... :lol: :lol:
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Fitted new swingarm.. new clutch slave.. gold 954 calipers off and black cbr600 on.. new rear brake reservoir and good clean/polish... then I goes and drops the bloody thing into another storm :x also think it's fair to say that those cheap chinese mirrors ain't up to much :lol:
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Duffy1964 wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 9:14 pm
MacV2 wrote:Vanstub brought his butcherd Blade over & together we changed the fork seals,a bit of Laural & Hardy style of mechanics but we got it done in the end...The second fork was a lot easier & quicker to do... :lol: :lol:
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Just like a good shed thats getting on in years, things start to fall off & go wrong, leak here a leak there, you know the sort of thing... Still he is in his 50's now so its no supprise really... :lol: :lol:

As for the DogBlade its rounded & seized nuts that cause the greif + of course the fact that its a shitebox built by a moron with a bodge it & that'll do attitude to mechanics...
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Filled it up with diesel :wtf:
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thelens wrote: Sun Aug 25, 2019 10:05 pm Filled it up with diesel :wtf:
Did you realise before you finished filling up? :wtf:
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StormyRob wrote: Sun Aug 25, 2019 11:13 pm
thelens wrote: Sun Aug 25, 2019 10:05 pm Filled it up with diesel :wtf:
Did you realise before you finished filling up? :wtf:
Hell no !
Filled it last Sunday. Started her up last night after prepping it for today.
Thought my bike was knackered at first. Had no idea I had done it, as the petrol station is only half a mile from where I live.
Spent half an hour scratching my head. Then I just knew or guessed I had used the wrong pump.
Trip to Halfords this morning and bought a £4 syphon ..... easy :lol:
Sucked the fuel out.... put 5 litres in.... added petrol treatment... job done :)
Had a run to the cat n fiddle... fuels up again after light came on.... added more stp .... right as rain :lol:
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Well on the plus side its all sorted. Don't think diesel onto petrol systems does any real damage in a short time but the other way round can be pretty crap.
I think we've all been there :roll:
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i done the same last year on old yellow :eek2 . drained it out and it was none the worse for it :thumbup:
the older i get,the faster i was :lol:
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fabiostar wrote: Mon Aug 26, 2019 9:46 am i done the same last year on old yellow :eek2 . drained it out and it was none the worse for it :thumbup:
I did it twice with my triumph ST lol
Its so easy done. So easy in fact I was wondering if its perhaps worth taking the £4 halfords syphon everywhere. Its pretty small and likely to fit under seat ! hmmmmm not a bad idea actually. Its not so bad when it happens at my local but one of the times it happened, I was 120 miles from home in oxford :( I got it done, but what a bloody nightmare ! That cheap little syphon is like having a get out of jail free card :lol:
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Stripped, cleaned, rebuilt, refitted & bled up the Brembos on Nue Red...

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I looked at my bike today!....

Not done anything to mine since the dyno day. I have been otherwise preoccupied sorting the mess called the back garden - moved 30T of rubble & soul out & moved 18T crushed concrete in for patio base in & layed 150m2 of turf! All this with no access to back garden except via garage! House renovating sucks :x
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i looked at the aprilia today, then sorted .............................nothing :thumbup: im liking this non working at them malarky.. :lol:
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what have you done to your "boots" today

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not my bike, but my boots

I have had a pair of Held top end race boots for a year now, and I have been very impressed especially as I got the price knocked down to £120 because there was some decolouration on part of the plastics, they are waterproof and have high protection with a full inner boot system.

this inner boot is laced up by a BOA wire thingy, but when I was up in Scotland the other week, one lace was not happy to release when the ratchet dial was popped out. ... so I though that was the boots scrapped because of a bit of plastic not rotating.... I took them apart and bodged it so they kept working, but while surfing the interweb for instructions on how the get into the mechanism, I discovered that boa lace system has a lifetime warranty.
last week I contact the USA offices, send photos of the boot so they can work out which system you need [they don't want proof that it is broken] and they just sent me 2 sets of repair kits [2x rachet dial thing and 2x lace wires] free. which arrived today.

happy days :D
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AMCQ46 wrote:not my bike, but my boots

I have had a pair of Held top end race boots for a year now, and I have been very impressed especially as I got the price knocked down to £120 because there was some decolouration on part of the plastics, they are waterproof and have high protection with a full inner boot system.

this inner boot is laced up by a BOA wire thingy, but when I was up in Scotland the other week, one lace was not happy to release when the ratchet dial was popped out. ... so I though that was the boots scrapped because of a bit of plastic not rotating.... I took them apart and bodged it so they kept working, but while surfing the interweb for instructions on how the get into the mechanism, I discovered that boa lace system has a lifetime warranty.
last week I contact the USA offices, send photos of the boot so they can work out which system you need [they don't want proof that it is broken] and they just sent me 2 sets of repair kits [2x rachet dial thing and 2x lace wires] free. which arrived today.

happy days :D
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