The "Today I did something to my bike" thread

D3V!L wrote: »

Gave the wifes GSXR600 SRAD the once over yesterday. She's decided after driving it literally a couple of times she doesn't like it. :rolleyes:

That actually took longer than I expected :pac:

blade1 wrote: »

That actually took longer than I expected :pac:

Its up on Facebewk now and it'll be on Donedeal later if anyone is interested.

GBX wrote: »

Good stuff. Quad Lock ?

Thats the one.. Good system if a little heavy price wise.. beauty about is im due an upgrade and its just a new case and im away again.

decent warranty with them too!

ronanc15 wrote: »

Saw the ad on DD. That bike is silly clean for its age, beautiful example of an SRAD. Hope it goes to a good home!

Thanks , I was shocked when I took off the fairings trying to find something wrong. Only to find all the fairings had the right date stamp and not a mark anywhere.

ronanc15 wrote: »

Cracker. Has she something else in mind?

If he lets us know in advance before selling them we'll all be sorted for bikes in no time.:D

zubair wrote: »

I wouldnt buy a bike devil owned before, its guaranteed to breakdown or burst into flames.

That's the haggling ammo!

Jimmy Bottlehead wrote: »

I'm curious, what was she coming from before? And what did she not like about the Gixxer?

She has an R9T and she's going to stick with that.

goblin59 wrote: »

The Pig lives.
Got the starter motor finally fixed on the DR650se, it was shorting out on the commutator, so cleaned it up, put new brushes in and got it going.
Also put a new Wilbur shock in there with remote Preload and then got a procycle jet kit.
So swapped out the stock 140 jet to a 155 jet to match the GSXR exhaust and airbox mod, the pipe also had the weld spot sanded down as well.
A fuel mixture screw was added and the needle swapped as well.

Runs like an entirely different bike now, and also starts on the button which is a plus.

Lovely. Really sorted machine fair play. Nice save with the starter.
The no tools fuel screw is dead handy, have one on both Dr's. Actually used it yday! On the blue 750 i needed to richen her a half turn more than oem to account for the busa can I have on it. Gsxr/busa cans are far better on these than the average noise maker, make much more stomp low down.

Gave the Blackbird a solid clean today. Did a clay bar, compound, polish and wax on the tank. Cleaned the rest of her, including Autosol where needed. Sprayed the top box with a black trim cleaner to see if she holds the colour or reverts to the faded colouring.

Also finally swapped the fecking low and high beam connections. I always wondered why I got flashed a lot, some investigation involving LollipopJimmy concluded that the low and high beam connectors were the wrong way around (the Blackbird has the dip beam on the upper part of the lamp, and the full beam on the lower part).
After much, MUCH cramped, awkward, blind fumbling which took me back to my teenage days, I managed to sort it. Solid three hours work today.

TheQ_Man wrote: »

It’s days like this I wish I still smoked after removing the old exhaust

Look on the bright side.
No one will walk out in front of you anyway! :pac:

TheQ_Man wrote: »

She was well rotten and loud before taking it off :pac:

Bring all the bits that fall off or you take off back to the seller and tell him you didn't need these and ask for half your money back :pac:

TheQ_Man wrote: »

He’s on here I heard or at least someone close to him is. He told me

Handy. You can pm him your sort code for the refund

Interesting to see Blade1 take on exhausts. I have a Z7 with a nice clean system but its 100% welded by one of the previous owners, no way at all of taking it off without bolting it out from the engine itself. No joints at all anywhere! Makes changing the oil filter [paper one] a big old hassle as the spin cap is partly covered by the exhaust.