The "Today I did something to my bike" thread

blade1 · 25-03-2019 02:44PM

Got my Conti's fitted this morning

Lost my tax disc on the way to the fitters!!

D3V!L · 25-03-2019 03:32PM

I gave mine the cleaning of its life at the weekend. Then fitted new Pilot Road 5's and an Akrapovic full system.

Then........

Put it into storage for at least 2 months

blade1 · 15-05-2019 04:14PM

Had the valve clearance done on Monday.
So, today before putting all the panels back I sprayed the engine where it was after flaking.

Before

After

All going good but this bike likes to fùck with you so as I was putting on the last side panel,the last bolt wouldn't go in; it just kept spinning.
So fuel tank and panels all off again to get at the problem which was the centre of the well nut was after coming apart.

Luckily I had a spare one at hand.
Always handy when ordering parts to order a few spares.

Better to sort this properly as the well nut is inside the frame which is actually the airbox.
So if the broken piece came off it would fall down into the throttle bodies.
The bolt wouldn't come back out either without holding it with a pliers from inside the airbox so was a bit of a dose getting the panels off again

In here to get at the culprit

blade1 · 05-07-2019 07:56PM

This thread needs a revival!!

Fitted a race belly pan

And then cut it out for the side stand using a Dremel.

zubair · 05-07-2019 10:44PM

I use a power house all the time now, otherwise I'd never clean the f'ing thing. Just be sensible with it.

blade1 · 12-07-2019 12:29PM

Titanium Akrapovic fitted for now.
This bike would have originally came with two exhausts.
One for the road(too quiet) and one for the racetrack.
It was missing the race one when I bought it but I'm trying to hunt one down.
So in the meantime...

D3V!L · 12-07-2019 12:57PM

blade1 wrote: »

Titanium Akrapovic fitted for now.
This bike would have originally came with two exhausts.
One for the road(too quiet) and one for the racetrack.
It was missing the race one when I bought it but I'm trying to hunt one down.
So in the meantime...

Jaysus , at least use NSFW tags or something !!

Post reported. :pac:

H_Lime · 14-07-2019 11:25AM

blade1 wrote: »

Titanium Akrapovic fitted for now.
This bike would have originally came with two exhausts.
One for the road(too quiet) and one for the racetrack.
It was missing the race one when I bought it but I'm trying to hunt one down.
So in the meantime...

Last of the gooduns!

H_Lime · 14-07-2019 11:34AM

Lube, plus, cables, filters, sync, mosfet.

blade1 · 14-07-2019 03:15PM

H_Lime wrote: »

Lube, plus, cables, filters, sync, mosfet.

Either CBR 600 or 900 ?

H_Lime · 14-07-2019 05:10PM

blade1 wrote: »

Either CBR 600 or 900 ?

Bird:)

Hows the aprilia treating ya Blade? What reliability mods you done/to do?

blade1 · 14-07-2019 06:22PM

H_Lime wrote: »

Bird:)

Hows the aprilia treating ya Blade? What reliability mods you done/to do?

Ah,forgot about the blackbird.
Aprilia is treating me great.
I have s few of them so they must be doing something right.
No mods yet but I'll be doing them as I go along.
Only have it over a week.
Done 300miles on it yesterday and loved every second of it.
Didn't want to get off it when I got home.

H_Lime · 14-07-2019 07:26PM

blade1 wrote: »

Ah,forgot about the blackbird.
Aprilia is treating me great.
I have s few of them so they must be doing something right.
No mods yet but I'll be doing them as I go along.
Only have it over a week.
Done 300miles on it yesterday and loved every second of it.
Didn't want to get off it when I got home.

Cool, my old mille r responded well to airbox elim kit and mapping. Brown connectors, beefier/extra earths and fuel connectors were a must along with a mosfet. Savage machine that enjoy the hell out of her! Where'd ya buy?

blade1 · 14-07-2019 07:48PM

H_Lime wrote: »

Cool, my old mille r responded well to airbox elim kit and mapping. Brown connectors, beefier/extra earths and fuel connectors were a must along with a mosfet. Savage machine that enjoy the hell out of her! Where'd ya buy?

Came from Belgium via Ap uk

H_Lime · 14-07-2019 08:07PM

blade1 wrote: »

Came from Belgium via Ap uk

Nice and fair dues in getting her in. Not the kinda craic i subscribe to but a nice clean one of them will increase in value over time;)

blade1 · 14-07-2019 09:47PM

H_Lime wrote: »

Nice and fair dues in getting her in. Not the kinda craic i subscribe to but a nice clean one of them will increase in value over time;)

8000 miles and it's like brand new.
It's getting a lot of attention anytime I pull in somewhere.
As posted above I have the carbon race bellypan fitted and I also have the carbon race nose cone.
Would like the full race kit that originally came with it but pretty much impossible to pick up.
I've a few people trying to source me the race exhaust.
I located two so far but one guy won't sell and the other guy will only swap for something rare.

A few people have contacted me already telling me they need the carbon race bits I have and would I sell them so it's pretty much at a name your price stage with these parts now.
I have no interest in selling them.

The Nutty M · 18-08-2019 03:29PM

Put a set of tyres on the bike last week. Had only done 160kms on it since last November and my God did I feel rusty on it taking it out last week.

Went to Donegal and back. Rode like a complete knob and noob but enjoyed every minute of it.

H_Lime · 24-08-2019 10:26AM

What tyres ya fit Nutty?

Righting the accountants wrongs when they told the techs to save on wiring. Out with the sub par skinny wire.

In with high quality heavier guage

Additional earth added too.
Cranking amperages were dropping into the nines, substantially higher now in upper tens. Starter spins like its being jump started and ocassional warm start hesitancy gone, worth doin.

Light!

Switchback drl's/indicators and relay fitted, wired into the sidelight. Bastards see me now!

Fun at the dyno last week

There is nothing quite like the ride home from having the afr set correctly, even if its pissin☺

blade1 · 24-08-2019 11:12AM

H_Lime wrote: »

Righting the accountants wrongs when they told the techs to save on wiring. Out with the sub par skinny wire

In with high quality heavier guage
Additional earth added too.

Never a bad idea.
For the winter,i'll be adding bigger battery leads,bigger battery,bigger starter solenoid and cutting out connectors and heat shrinking the wires between reg/rectifier and the stator.

H_Lime · 24-08-2019 11:56AM

blade1 wrote: »

Never a bad idea.
For the winter,i'll be adding bigger battery leads,bigger battery,bigger starter solenoid and cutting out connectors and heat shrinking the wires between reg/rectifier and the stator.

Spoken like an aprilia veteran:)
I did the same and bypassed the rr wiring and went direct to battery (bigger ytx14) with an inline fuse for the mosfet.
Hitachi 150amp solenoid is a nice touch too.

Hows she running Blade you out on her much? Any plans for mapping?

blade1 · 24-08-2019 01:12PM

H_Lime wrote: »

Spoken like an aprilia veteran:)
I did the same and bypassed the rr wiring and went direct to battery (bigger ytx14) with an inline fuse for the mosfet.
Hitachi 150amp solenoid is a nice touch too.

Hows she running Blade you out on her much? Any plans for mapping?

She's running beautifully.
2000 miles done so far.
And I've picked up some rare racekit parts as well
A lad in France had these in his attic since new in 2003.
A race kit exhaust hanger and reverse gear shifter.

Also picked up a Ti Evo race exhaust which I should have on Monday.

H_Lime · 24-08-2019 06:33PM

blade1 wrote: »

She's running beautifully.
2000 miles done so far.
And I've picked up some rare racekit parts as well
A lad in France had these in his attic since new in 2003.
A race kit exhaust hanger and reverse gear shifter.

Also picked up a Ti Evo race exhaust which I should have on Monday.

Brill! Any snaps of the exhaust? Will you have it mapped to suit?
My old rsvr had a renegade air box elim kit/twin underseat system, chip for ign adv and pc3 mapped to 125 on a dynojet 250i dyno. Thing was lovely but I was crippled after a half hour on er haha.

The reverse shift is trick but wouldn't be my bag, rode a leery 7/11 outa specials in Galway with one once and spend more time trying to think backwards than shifting lol.

Be gas if you and my buddy on his same tuono r should cross paths, never seen two together in the flesh!

Whats the craic is she daytime only in that pic with no headlight or is it a cover or sommein?

blade1 · 24-08-2019 06:48PM

H_Lime wrote: »

Brill! Any snaps of the exhaust? Will you have it mapped to suit?
My old rsvr had a renegade air box elim kit/twin underseat system, chip for ign adv and pc3 mapped to 125 on a dynojet 250i dyno. Thing was lovely but I was crippled after a half hour on er haha.

The reverse shift is trick but wouldn't be my bag, rode a leery 7/11 outa specials in Galway with one once and spend more time trying to think backwards than shifting lol.

Be gas if you and my buddy on his same tuono r should cross paths, never seen two together in the flesh!

Whats the craic is she daytime only in that pic with no headlight or is it a cover or sommein?

I'll be opening up the airbox.
At the moment I have fr100 chip with a mivv exhaust as I couldn't bear the sound of the standard exhaust.
I'll be changing the chip again when I do the airbox and ti evo fitted.
The front is a race nose cone that can be swapped in about 3 minutes with the road nose cone that has the headlight attached to it.
Your friends Tuono,is it an R or a Racing?
I only know of one more Racing in Ireland that was for sale around 4-5 years ago.
I would have loved to have bought it at time but I was just after buying my Mille.

H_Lime · 24-08-2019 07:21PM

blade1 wrote: »

I'll be opening up the airbox.
At the moment I have fr100 chip with a mivv exhaust as I couldn't bear the sound of the standard exhaust.
I'll be changing the chip again when I do the airbox and ti evo fitted.
The front is a race nose cone that can be swapped in about 3 minutes with the road nose cone that has the headlight attached to it.
Your friends Tuono,is it an R or a Racing?
I only know of one more Racing in Ireland that was for sale around 4-5 years ago.
I would have loved to have bought it at time but I was just after buying my Mille.

Yeah it a racing (not sure what number), he's in Cork and I've seen another in Dublin a couple yrs back with a 2 into 2 akra.

blade1 · 24-08-2019 08:33PM

H_Lime wrote: »

Yeah it a racing (not sure what number), he's in Cork and I've seen another in Dublin a couple yrs back with a 2 into 2 akra.

I wouldn't mind crossing path sometime with your mate so for a nose at his bike.
Twin Akras?,nice.
That reminds me of another mod I must do.
Adding a single race can gives you a flat spot between 4k and 5k rpm so I have to modify the collector box to sort that.

blade1 · 25-08-2019 10:41AM

H_Lime wrote: »

Brill! Any snaps of the exhaust?

This is the exhaust that's on the way.
Definitely not a looker, especially with that small outlet :eek:

The Nutty M · 27-08-2019 08:15PM

Went back to PR4'S from PR5's.

D3V!L · 28-08-2019 08:05AM

I replaced the frumpy tall screen on my Ultra Limited and added some trim

It took all of 10 minutes to do. Really changed the front.

Hotblack Desiato · 28-08-2019 10:42AM

The Nutty M wrote: »

Went back to PR4'S from PR5's.

Any reason, apart from them being (presumably) cheaper?

The Nutty M · 28-08-2019 02:27PM

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Any reason, apart from them being (presumably) cheaper?

Don't know the price difference but it came down to the 4's lasted longer. The 5 did around 4k Kms less.

Also maybe it was in my head but many a cold morning I got the brown stuff scared out of me. It seemed like the 5 took longer to heat up and get grip. Coming out the dual carriageway out of Letterkenny one morning and I came awful awful close to going tarmac surfing. So my confidence in them plummeted.

The 4 I find is amazing for grip in the wet.

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