The "Today I did something to my bike" thread

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

Any suggestions on where to pick up an-line fuse with battery terminal connectors?

HALFORDS

I've more Chinese take away on this bike that my local Chinese Take Away :cool:

Fitted a phone holder with USB charger, and for safety put an inline fuse on the positive (fuse was from Halfords but probably made in China too lol).

Works a treat

listermint wrote: »

Any pics without he phone want to see how it's fitted may need similar for my own

Sure, just done them now for you.

First off, the mount for the phone holder will fit to your mirrors, but I wanted mine held in front of me with no additional weight on either end of my handlebars.

So I needed to buy a jubilee clip from Halfords (I got the inline 5 amp fuse from Halfords too).. I ran some tape over the cockpit frame to the mount and clip didn't slide, its held very secure.

Good thing about the GS is you don't have to worry about making things look pretty

After that run the wire down into the frame and its an easy enough job to pass the wire under the fairing and out to through the back of the tank to the battery.



13-19mm jubilee clip



Its really easy to pass the wiring down through the fairing and its not attached to the bars its not pulling and pushing.



The wire comes out here. Fit the inline fuse at this point, I insulted that and secured it to the wire, and its pushed safely back under the fairing.

You can buy holders with the fuse already, but I found this was without and ordered. Its a Chinese RAM copy but distributed from the UK so I didn't have to wait two months for the delivery



Phone holder eBay link.

I wired it directly to the battery for convenience.

1. I'm never going to leave my phone charging unattended on the holder so running my bike battery low isn't a worry.

2. Besides that, its got a voltage drop sensor which switches off the unit and it senses a voltage drop on the battery.

3. Its got a micro on/off switch under the water proof USB port cover.

The mount holds the phone very tight, a little too tight (it'll never fall out).

frozenfrozen wrote: »

It's simple to upload them to boards prisoner

Go Advanced > Manage Attachments > Browse to your picture > scroll right and click upload > Right click the link that will show up for the picture and copy link address > Click insert image back on the Advanced post > paste in image link inside the

Thanks for that Frozen.

Apologies for uploading and deleting.

I'm trying to do it by Imgur and while the link does appear the photos don't.

It's a photo of my bike I am trying to do in keeping with the thread.

frozenfrozen wrote: »

If you are doing it from imgur make sure you are not linking to the gallery, click on the picture and you will be brought to a page with just the image and the link will start like https://i.imgur.com/

then there will be some characters after the slash for the actual image, followed by .jpg

you can add one of these codes just before the .jpg to change the size of the image



Thumbnail Suffix Thumbnail Name Thumbnail Size Keeps Image Proportions
s Small Square 90x90 No
b Big Square 160x160 No
t Small Thumbnail 160x160 Yes
m Medium Thumbnail 320x320 Yes
l Large Thumbnail 640x640 Yes
h Huge Thumbnail 1024x1024 Yes

so it would be https://i.imgur.com/123456h.jpg for a 1024 size image, it'll do 1024 pixels along the longest side which is good for boards

Thank you for that, will give it a try

I'm not the most computer savvy person, so please accept my apologies.

listermint wrote: »

Refurbished my front shocks, had slight seepage on the left one.

and whilst had to take off the front end, rebuilt the brake calipers.

The snots inside the Piston cavity was not expected. nice bit of gunk in there, 2 broken dust seals and 1 seized caliper.

No one the bike felt like ****e up front.

Very smooth since. And the braking is far more progressive. I thought it was bust afterwards and rebled it, but no i was used to braking with a seized caliper and short travel on the lever.


Handy job to to when looking after a 6 month old between naps

Interesting comment on the braking and front end.

Dropped my moped into a local bike store earlier for a bit of work.

Needs a front tyre which is a clear part of the problem but it felt unstable under braking/going over ramps etc, does this sound similar to what you have experienced?

My forks don't look like they are leaking but I am in no way qualified to say they are perfect either.

Sonics2k wrote: »

Michelin would be considered amongst the best tyres, both for cars and bikes. I'm running (rolling?) Pilot Road 3's on my own bike and getting Road 4's or 5's on in September for the winter/autumn.

Thanks for that

I did have Michelin Primacy 3 tyres all round on a Mondeo one time and found they wore out very quick, granted the Mondeo is a heavy car but the tyres wore out in 15,000 kms, that aside they were great in wet weather etc.

You changing both tyres on yours? A few guys in front of me in the queue yesterday checked their bikes in for new tyres front and rear.

Michelin Power Pure is the only type I can get for a moped, as the Pilot sport on them don't come in that size anymore I was told.

Emmersonn wrote: »

Bought a pair of Pirelli Scorpion Trail 2 for The Tenere, 110/80-19 & 150/70-17 from Motorcycleshop.ie €235, with delivery and a free motorcycle cover. Great value.

Is that price for both tyres?

Just realised my own bike has the exact same sized tyres.