The "Today I did something to my bike" thread

No meesing with electronic or vaacum on the bike..just twist the oiler and you get drops of oil for aprox 3mins

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Ali express knock off

That's the white paint finished.

Must mark out where the decals go on the tank and fairings next and then they will be painted red where needed.

Then decals put on for good.

Only the mudguard is lacquered and finished with painting.

Just decal to be applied to it.

Lacquer and Hardener for the job.

Tail section painted and lacquered.

Marking out for red paint.

Time sert all the way there imo

also very important that it is 100% square, else you won’t get a good sealing surface between copper washer, bolt and sump face

Considering it's not capped and open does it secure the gasket below and something else on top, or is it just a really long thread bar from the exhaust.

Might be cheaper to replace the lot with capped generic capped ones.

David Silver have them for around a fiver sterling ex VAT. Delivery to the UK is £2.95 - they haven’t charged much more to deliver here anytime I’ve used them. Might be worth a look if you need the real thing.

Just be careful with shipping to Ireland since Brexit.

You're not guaranteed a speedy hassle free experience.

Who's the Honda distributor/importer in Ireland these days?

That's perfect. Just bought 4. Might be a handy site for future things like that. Cheers

Not sure you'd find much you need off them again, they specialize in Tomos mopeds.

But in general I don't know if it's a result of the port of rotterdam or what but you can get stuff cheap from dutch sites.

so, bit of a mixed bag: had 2 x new tyres to fit to my '21 GoldWing and decided I'd have a go myself.

I went out & bought a ProWorks tyre changer from XLMoto online, which arrived promptly, and I had the other bits & pieces already.

First off, getting the front wheel off was a nightmare due to a frozen bolt. Conscious of not wanting to break anything I was 5 minutes away from having to drill it out when I finally got the offender to budge and got the wheel off quickly. The rear wheel was a cake walk - god be with single side swing arms, eh ?

However, the tyre machine I bought was a poor choice : the brake discs on the GW are 330mm and so the wheel wouldn't fit on the machine (well it would if I modified it a bit, which I didn't want to). The tyre breaker function on it was actually good and had no problem breaking the bead off and I got the front 1/2 off. 2nd half I couldn't, and was afraid of damaging either the discs or ABS ring so decided to invoke help: Meskells to be exact, where I bought the tyres.

You haven't a hope in hell of changing the 200 rear on a GW by hand, ever, btw.

Meskells mounted & balanced the loose wheels in a few minutes.

So, I now have a manual tyre machine that is surplus to requirements and going to flog it. I tried it on a smaller wheel/tyre and it was fine, so I'm tempted to get something better that can handle the larger stuff - I seem to be constantly changing tyres anyway, so want to get into the habit of doing it myself.

Easiest rear wheel removal I've ever had: even easier than (our) Vespas, which require both the exhaust (and new gasket after..) AND swingarm to come off, for a little 12" wheel.