Replaced a worn out mirror
Snapped the gear shift lever off.

I understand snapped gear shift lever.
But I've never heard of, can't comprehend 'worn out mirror'.

Quote from: Cablebandit on June 23, 2018, 03:51:25 PM

Replaced a worn out mirror
Snapped the gear shift lever off.

I understand snapped gear shift lever.
But I've never heard of, can't comprehend 'worn out mirror'.

They're known to get a little floppy.

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Paint it black and orange and sell it to the HD people as a high tech willie G kickstand pad.

If you do, don't forget the Made In Maylasia sticker. They love that.

Quote from: chornbe on June 24, 2018, 11:02:25 AM

Did more of the tear down on the Burgman that's in for work; I need to knuckle down and give that more time and attention; I feel bad it's taking so long, but work has been kicking my ass lately, and I thought I'd have more freed-up weekends of late than I have.....Then I'm grabbing a cold beer and lighting the grill, and I'm not doing no nuffin' the rest of the day.

 


Grab two or three cold ones! The trip I had planned for July will be done on the Goldwing. There is another planned for the first two weeks of September, but I'd rather have it done right, than rushed, and I still have the Goldwing or Majesty to use, if I have to.
 Back on subject-Ordered a new rear tire for the GL1500. After 5 years and 30K miles, the car tire is getting close to the wear bars.

If you want to shake it up a little, you're welcome to grab something from my garage, too. I won't offer Liz's FZ09 because she'd kill me in my sleep if it wasn't available for every time she opens the garage. But I've got a Bonneville, Bandit, and a PC800 sitting here. The Bandit is the 2-up bike, or the long distance bike, and it's been tip-to-tip gone over and all maintenance is set. The Bonne belongs to a friend, but I'm riding it indefinitely, and it's on my insurance, ready to go. It's my daily rider.

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Quote from: chornbe on June 24, 2018, 11:02:25 AM

Did more of the tear down on the Burgman that's in for work; I need to knuckle down and give that more time and attention; I feel bad it's taking so long, but work has been kicking my ass lately, and I thought I'd have more freed-up weekends of late than I have.....Then I'm grabbing a cold beer and lighting the grill, and I'm not doing no nuffin' the rest of the day.

 


Grab two or three cold ones! The trip I had planned for July will be done on the Goldwing. There is another planned for the first two weeks of September, but I'd rather have it done right, than rushed, and I still have the Goldwing or Majesty to use, if I have to.
 Back on subject-Ordered a new rear tire for the GL1500. After 5 years and 30K miles, the car tire is getting close to the wear bars.

If you want to shake it up a little, you're welcome to grab something from my garage, too. I won't offer Liz's FZ09 because she'd kill me in my sleep if it wasn't available for every time she opens the garage. But I've got a Bonneville, Bandit, and a PC800 sitting here. The Bandit is the 2-up bike, or the long distance bike, and it's been tip-to-tip gone over and all maintenance is set. The Bonne belongs to a friend, but I'm riding it indefinitely, and it's on my insurance, ready to go. It's my daily rider.

Uhhhhmmm... Isn't it about time to come out of the closet on the PC800? Worlds largest scooter.

Uhhhhmmm... Isn't it about time to come out of the closet on the PC800? Worlds largest scooter.

Oh, no real closet or secret... Since the Triumph Thunderbird Liz bought me didn't work out, she got me this. <3

'97, 40k miles, damned little money, not ridden much the last couple of years, but thankfully enough to keep the carbs from needing any work. Dude was good about prepping the fuel for storage, and running it periodically. I've had to do some minor maintenance, and basically touch everything on the machine with a wrench, just go get to know the machine. I found a weight-class compatible sport radial for the whacky 15" rear tire, so now it's got some kick ass rubber on it, rather than the rock hard cruiser tires that are typically available for this thing. Angel GT up front that I had here already, Pirelli Diablo Corsa on the back. Couple of minor body issues, mostly due to age and brittle crap tupperware, and one tip-over on a trailer by the PO.

For those not familiar with this bike, it's a weird, multi-departmental hybrid thing from Honda; body designed by the Accord team, and the overall design mandate was to bring drivers in as riders, and make it as low-maintenance as possible. They wanted Accord owners to have another option in the garage with the same-enough design intent; what you need and not much more.

But low maintenance and easy to live with were key. It's got the hydraulically-adjusted valve train engine from the Shadow 800, tractable flat power curve (and not a lot of it, mind you!), low seat height, upright ergos, and storage capacity that even the Goldwing sometimes is jealous of. Ridiculously easy to ride and very forgiving. Soft and undersprung from the factory, it benefits greatly from the typical suspension work most bikes really need. Nothing terribly unusual in this thing's mechanical and feature appointments, and it's not known to have more than it really needs.

I lusted after one of these big time when they were new, but couldn't make a new bike happen in my younger years. But now, getting this thing so cheap, and seeing as it's so stupid simple and easy to maintain, it seemed a good, low-cost bet. We fell into it at just the right time for her to be able to snag it for me.

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My Chinesium DR350 custom fit rear rotor is in the country!  I hope to see it by the weekend and pray it fits for me. 

My Chinesium DR350 custom fit rear rotor is in the country!  I hope to see it by the weekend and pray it fits for me.

 


It's on the wheel and everything clears.  Time to get this bitch put together.

. Turns out that the S/S brake lines may be causing me to brake harder and create more dust...  probably need to replace brakes sooner than expected...

I understand S/S lines allowing you to apply consistent pressure, and preventing fade, and allowing more pressure to be applied at the caliper because there is no loss in line expansion. 

I’m not understanding the physics behind why that causes you to brake harder.   Still takes the same amount of force on the pad to haul you down from speed to zero.   SS lines allow more force to be applied quickly, as opposed to lower force over a longer time period, but the end result is the same amount of velocity change, just at different rates of acceleration. 

Does that make a difference in brake wear?   Don’t know cause I have always has rubber hoses. 

Just trying to get my head around the dynamics of it.  After 1+ bottles of wine.  Maybe that explains my lack of understanding

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Mother's Mag & Aluminum Polish and some 0000 steel wool.

Quote from: mr.awesome on June 23, 2018, 09:49:51 AM

Mrs.awesome's TW 200 has been sitting idle for over a year. Time to get it mobile again. Installed a new agm battery and it fired up first crank.  Need to get some new tires on it now. Not that they are worn out but because they are the original 1999 tires 

Cool!   I always wanted to try the more street oriented tires.  Not that the T-dub can break traction on the street with any tire...

I've been tempted to do the 80/20 Street biased tires. I would like it to stay like a goat (its our zombie apocolypse bike) so will probably go back with the stock rear and a shinko 241 trials tire on the front or the dirt tracker tire that comes on the van van.

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. Turns out that the S/S brake lines may be causing me to brake harder and create more dust...  probably need to replace brakes sooner than expected...

I understand S/S lines allowing you to apply consistent pressure, and preventing fade, and allowing more pressure to be applied at the caliper because there is no loss in line expansion. 

I’m not understanding the physics behind why that causes you to brake harder.   Still takes the same amount of force on the pad to haul you down from speed to zero.   SS lines allow more force to be applied quickly, as opposed to lower force over a longer time period, but the end result is the same amount of velocity change, just at different rates of acceleration. 

Does that make a difference in brake wear?   Don’t know cause I have always has rubber hoses. 

Just trying to get my head around the dynamics of it.  After 1+ bottles of wine.  Maybe that explains my lack of understanding

Less physics and more human factor. Braking has more initial bite, and 2 fingers (less hand pressure) is all that is required to apply braking pressure. So naturally, my brake markers have decreased. I'm hitting them harder because I CAN, with no worry that they are fading. At various points, I've felt the squish that comes with aged rubber hoses, and the S/S lines make that extra 'flex' go away, and seem to decrease the effort involved to do it. So I blow in hotter, and squeeze harder (because I have the extra pressure headroom). The increased wear is a seat of the pants observation. Since putting on the S/S lines, my production of brake dust has increased dramatically. Or I've just noticed it more because of the pretty green lines and powdercoating getting gunked up with it...

LT

The exhaust valve clearances have been closing up at each valve adjustment.  I actually did a couple valve adjustments whilst on a 2000+ mile road trip, including one at 3:00 in the morning in Ely Nevada:

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I'd have done it the afternoon before, but it was 100+ deg F out there.  62ish degrees under the full moon.  Yes, I'm using TP for shop towels. 

So going over my logbook, the valve clearances had been stable until the past year.  They've closed up at least .020" since then.  That's enough recession, quickly enough, that it's time to get the heads rebuilt.  I need to have this bike ready for pillion auditions this fall.  My local guy gave me a quote for $$$ and time, and he'll get the heads tomorrow, when he opens for business.  Today's task was to get the heads off.  Here's the right one:

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And the left one:

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I don't know if it comes across in two dimensions, but both exhausts are flush with the surface of the seat.  I don't know if it's the margin used up on the valve or the seat receding, but it's time to replace both.

Reassembly posts to come in a few weeks.

Pillion auditions. 

Precisely.

Finally have the trail tech vapor done on the KLX. Originally ordered from thumpertalk store. After delivery date got pushed back 3 times I cancelled and ordered the kit specific for my bike direct from trail tech. It showed up in two days. Great, I thought. Tried installing and the temp sensor cable is too short to reach the dash and the speed sensor is the wrong style for the application. So much for a bike specific kit. Called trail tech and they shipped me what I needed to complete the job. So far I'm impressed with the little unit. I still need to get it out on the road, hopefully today. Riding around the yard everything seems to work. Now I can go back and forth from dirt to SM wheels and just change the wheel setting to have an accurate speedometer.

Corrected the clock on both my bikes.  I realized one was off when I was sitting on the bike waiting for the fireworks to start.

Washed it, waxed it and added some.....personalization. After a nice ride.

Still waiting on a review of the new steed now you have a few miles on it. 

On our way back from AZ, I brought the Speed Triple along.

As I was positioning it to load on the trailer, it was noted that some rubber hoses were on the floor.  Seventeen years paid a toll on the evap plumbing.

As such, tomorrow, I'm prepping Speedy for a cannister-ectomy.

The CA plumbing will soon become 49-state plumbing.

Better yet, no one of any official capacity will ever care about the change.

On our way back from AZ, I brought the Speed Triple along.

As I was positioning it to load on the trailer, it was noted that some rubber hoses were on the floor.  Seventeen years paid a toll on the evap plumbing.

As such, tomorrow, I'm prepping Speedy for a cannister-ectomy.

The CA plumbing will soon become 49-state plumbing.

Better yet, no one of any official capacity will ever care about the change.

CA Foo-foo-rah as Busy Little Shop would say.

I reblinged the exhaust while it was off.  Back to shiny stainless until I run some heat through it again.

I pressure washed it yesterday. On I64

Changed the brake fluid on both bikes. The KLX looked like coca cola. A bit over due on that one.

Replaced the aux LED lights on my wife's bike.
One of her Denali mini had failed.
Denali stepted up to the bat even though the waranty was long over.
They offered me a great discount on the new version.

Quote from: melville on June 26, 2018, 08:07:45 AM

OK, I can accept all that except for the 'lusted after when new.'

A PC800 really maxes out at 'kinda sorta thought they were neat when new.'

For me, it was total bike lust in the day.

I mean, I rode a CB750A full dresser for like 4 years and about 40k miles, and had a ball.

I like oddball machines.

I had one of those for a bit.  That was a top-heavy beast.