Quote from: Zookmang on December 02, 2013, 08:29:26 PMUnder warranty. Will definitely be doing my maintenance myself as of august next year. 

Aaaah fair enough then!

As for me... the rear chain guard mount let go descending Mt Mee on Sunday on the way home. The front mounts stop most side to side movement so almost no risk of interference with the chain, but the knocking was driving me insance 



Potentially not the most elegant solution but it's hidden behind the registration sticker once it's on the bike:

Got taken off it on Friday by a car driver who just turned straight in front of me. I'll find out this week what happens to the bike,  I'm bruised by alive and nothing broken in my.

'07 Haybusa bar weights.

Instant +17 horsepowers and hawt chix will not be able to fight the urge to sit on the handlebars.

Quote from: makman on December 03, 2013, 06:23:58 AM
Got taken off it on Friday by a car driver who just turned straight in front of me. I'll find out this week what happens to the bike,  I'm bruised by alive and nothing broken in my.

Bugger! Glad to hear you're relatively ok, the bike at least can be fixed or replaced.

Busy day in the Bike Cave.

First, 6000 watt 240v heater really helps!

Zak: His school project is fine. The oil leak seems to have been not torquing down the head enough. There might be a small leak from the cam chain tensioner, but minor if at all. He learned all about the fun of baby powdering your bike. Waiting for him to post pictures. We gambled it was just torquing. Spare head gaskets were available if needed. We lucked out.

Matt's POS bike is running fine now. All oil leaks taken care of because we knew the $200 motor transplant was a success. Soon it will be street legal. (When he comes up with a name it won't be called a POS. Remember that blown engine with the shattered cylinder?)

We spent time on some HUHSKY items: progressive springs in the forks. Installed forks, temporary wheels (while waiting for the purple wheels to come). Did a valve adjustment on a 2001 motor that has been sitting here for a couple years. Seems good. Realized the motor is not seen with the fairing so we won't worry about SUZUKI logos on the sides. We plan to clean it tomorrow and get ready to install it.

We did carb sync's on Zak's bike and Matt's. Everyone learned how to use the carb sync tool.

Jake brought over Honda inverted forks and found we need a tool to take them apart. He got to ride SUZI to Aurora Suzuki and managed to get lost even with the GPS on SUZI. Fun!

We had Pizza but didn't have any  beers.  We were OK. No beer was fine. Had other juices and teas to drink.

Overall a fun, 11 hours day in the Bike Cave.

And since everyone likes pictures, here is HUHSKY in the sun room. Zak needs to post pictures of his bike.





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So my first big ride out after fixing the rear chain guard mount... it vibrated enough to crack the aluminium and break it again 

So, enter two pieces of galvanised steel cut and bent to shape to sandwich the plastic mount, three rivets, and we'll see how it holds up this time... seems a lot less vibey when wobbling it by hand.

Crappy pic but you can sort of make it out... forgot to take one on the bench.

Started rebuilding my carbs and installing some heated grips tonight.

How bad do these look? I decided to finally do them because I was out today and suddenly the bike wouldn't idle below 4k-7k. Made for a very difficult ride home.

Bike only has 1,300 miles on it but the previous owner let it sit for a long time. Those screws were impossible to get off of the float bowls. I ended up stripping one so I'm going to replace them all with allen head bolts.



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I had the rear tyre replaced this morning (first time). I have been happy with the grip of the BT45R although it did wear strangely and get noisy when heeled over due to the raised block edges and only lasted 16,500km. A few months ago I enquired about a 140/70 Michelin Pilot Activ as I have them on my Honda and they are 1/2 worn after 18,oookm. It was available at the time. I wanted to change the GS over to the Michelins but suddenly they have deleted that size and replaced it with the Pilot Street Radial. The PSR seems to have a lot going for it from what I have read on the Webs. I spoke to Mark at Pablo's and he said that the PSR is the go so that is what I had fitted to the loose wheel. It is back on the bike but I have not ridden it yet and will not do so until the end of January. I still have the original BT45F on the front wheel. It will be very interesting to see if the bike handles any differently with this brand/size/type pairing.

Merry Christmas to all here!
Cheers, Macka   

Quote from: zephyr_bike on December 19, 2013, 10:03:03 PM
How bad do these look? I decided to finally do them because I was out today and suddenly the bike wouldn't idle below 4k-7k. Made for a very difficult ride home.

Float bowls are only there to hold gas. So long as they don't leak they should be fine.

For the high idle -- make sure your idle screw is fine, check for vacuum leaks, and check your choke cable routing. Also check to make sure you didn't leave the choke on if that's the type of thing you'd forget.

Today i ordered 15t &14t front sprockets, brake pads ,rear sprocket and chain

Quote from: prmas on December 19, 2013, 10:40:14 PM
I had the rear tyre replaced this morning (first time). I have been happy with the grip of the BT45R although it did wear strangely and get noisy when heeled over due to the raised block edges and only lasted 16,500km. A few months ago I enquired about a 140/70 Michelin Pilot Activ as I have them on my Honda and they are 1/2 worn after 18,oookm. It was available at the time. I wanted to change the GS over to the Michelins but suddenly they have deleted that size and replaced it with the Pilot Street Radial. The PSR seems to have a lot going for it from what I have read on the Webs. I spoke to Mark at Pablo's and he said that the PSR is the go so that is what I had fitted to the loose wheel. It is back on the bike but I have not ridden it yet and will not do so until the end of January. I still have the original BT45F on the front wheel. It will be very interesting to see if the bike handles any differently with this brand/size/type pairing.

Merry Christmas to all here!
Cheers, Macka   

Is it safe to mix bias and radial?

As far as I knew beforehand and as confirmed by the Tyre supplier/fitter it is OK to have a radial on the rear with a bias on the front but not the other way around. That is certainly the case for rear drive cars and I believe also for FWD cars too. I did query that situation when told that the Pilot Active was no longer available in the size that I wanted. I hope that they are still available when the Honda needs new tyres because they are a fantastic Touring Tyre. Starting with new tyres I could easily tour around Australia (20,oookm) without having to think about changing tyres. I have done it in a car twice and don't have a plan to do it on a bike yet but I have two friends who are talking about doing it and leaning on me to go.

Any comments from GSJACK? 

I've run bias front and radial rear a number of times and have said here before that the 110/80 bias Lasertec front with a 150/70 radial RoadAttack rear combo were my favorite all around handling tires on my GSs.  More recently I ran a 150/60 radial Podium rear with a bias Roadrider front with no problems just because I wanted to try the controversial 150/60 size.  A 150/60 on a 3.5" wheel is the only fitment of the many I've run that is not approved here by the tire makers, most approve of fitment of 150/70 radials on a 3.5" rim.

A radial front with a bias rear is a no no but the bias front with a radial rear is generally OK and there are a number of bikes coming from the bike makers with that mix now.  I don't see any problem with the BT45 front and Pilot Street rear, hope that Pilot Street wears as long as the larger Pilot Roads have.  You'll know for sure after you try it, I would do it.   

Thanks for you opinion gsJack. 

Quote from: codajastal on December 22, 2013, 04:58:20 PM

Crashed it

Ouch! It doesn't look too bad, though.

So you were focusing on the rider in front of you, right? Funny how this is the downfall in so many different motorsports, not just motorcycles.

A quick question, though -- why didn't you put the bike on the stand and give it an inspection? I've seen so many crash videos where the rider seems to be very eager to just hop on and get the hell outta there.

FIRSTLY FOR THOSE THAT ASKED
I DID stop the bike further down the road and inspected it.
Where I fell was not a safe place nor was it flat enough to put bike on stand to inspect.
I did a very quick inspect when I lifted it up and figured it was ok to ride to a safer place.
I have 35 years of riding under my belt and was quite sure I could move the bike

Quote from: makman on December 03, 2013, 06:23:58 AM
Got taken off it on Friday by a car driver who just turned straight in front of me. I'll find out this week what happens to the bike,  I'm bruised by alive and nothing broken in my.

Wow. This past Thursday night, a black livery car pulled out in front of me. I watched his eyes as he looked down a one way street during the turn AWAY from on-coming traffic. I'm glad I just happened to be as far from him as I was.

Glad to see you and coda come out of your "interactions" relatively unscathed.

Big service time... swapping from the fully synthetic oil to Motul 5100 15w50 semi synthetic to try to address the weeps that started. New filter as well of course.

Valve clearances still in spec (haven't swapped a shim since about 5000km's).

New front wheel bearings and fork oil.

This is what about 24000km's does to fork oil:



Trolley jacks are handy:



Bearing removal kit:



Glad those cheap crappy Pyramid Parts bearings are now in the bin:



All that's left is to swap out the milk in the handlebars, replace the exhaust bearing, and adjust the bolt tying the handlebars to the exhaust... pretty sure I got that last one right hey Mister? 

What's the best wire to tap near the headlight on an 05/06? I have some heated grips I'm installing.

I tried the black and white wire going into the parking light but that didn't seem to do anything (unless I should have tapped the brown wire?) Any suggestions for a ground as well?