The "Today I did something to my bike" thread

Bikerguy where did you order yours? I need a pair. I think someone mentioned getting them from the US.

Yesterday I changed my steering bearings and front brakes. Thanks to http://www.wemoto.com/ for saving me a bunch of euros and Daniel in City Spares for giving me some grease for the bearings.

I drove through a tunnel for the first time a few months ago. Uploaded a video of it here www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HlBqs2Wmu8

goodlad wrote: »

I was looking into getting some stompgrips recently aswell.
Demon Tweeks have them for 49 euro. Im not sure what the shipping cost is though.

49e + delivery

i paid 48 with delivery -->

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/300915152863?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

good news! they look well

Wossack wrote: »

good news! they look well

thanks and it was you kinda, who came up with the idea and pics for me.

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Guilty concience set in and I eased off the accelerator going by the car.. they might of had their window down

Took the carbs off the Super Four as it sprung a leak from one of the fuel lines underneath. Had a spare set of carbs (with lines) that I had forgotten about, so the donor carbs were stripped and put onto my own. Stuck everything back together again but it's too late to fire up the bike now to see if it worked or not, so will have to wait til tomorrow.

Here's the hole where the carbs used to be...



and the work in progress on the kitchen table...(where else?) LOL

Put the bike on the charger after storing it in the house while on holidays......hard to go away for 2 weeks the day or two after getting a new bike
So will have to blow the cobwebs of the bike tonight.

As the GF's bike has been lying up for a while, and I need to use it for the foreseeable future, had to do a few bits over the last few days. Had a fuel leak and taking off the carbs and replacing various bits from a donor set fixed that. New lines and other misc bits put on and problem solved.

The speedo would only work up to 100kph and wouldn't go passed that, even if I was doing way over that, it didn't read it. Took the clocks apart and removed a family of spiders and some webs - problem solved.

There was a couple of the warning lights not working (indicator light didn't flash, side-stand light didn't work etc) so got a couple of new bulbs and while the clocks were dismantled to fix speedo, I replaced the bulbs - problem solved.

The battery was dead, I charged it, took it for a spin, stopped to get petrol and when I went to start it, still dead. So I went to Capital Motorcycles in Tullamore and got a new battery - problem solved.

Over the course of the day whenever I stopped, the bike kept cutting out, wouldn't idle at all. So after I did the clocks/bulbs I had a poke around with the idle adjuster and got her to tick over just nice - problem solved.

So all in all, been a productive couple of days. The Super Four is running sweet now. While out for a spin this morning, had a couple of compliments on how well it looked for a 20 year old bike. Only thing left to do is to get a new rear tyre. The one on it has been on it for a while and is squared off a bit, so want to get something soft and sticky for summer spins.

Wonda-Boy wrote: »

Good stuff, good old Hondas......go for ever!

And so easy to work on...

Didn't do anything but was up trying out this last Friday. I'll stick up some better pics when I have the originals - these were taken off Facecrap

Fitted the extension bracket for the Brembo caliper to make it fit the 320mm EBC disc, bought it as a kit but the caliper that came with it was wrong for the NX650, fits nearly all Honda and Yamaha dirt bikes but not the NX650.
Rebuilt the caliper last night as well and made sure the seals were all good, found a small packet of red rubber grease to use when rebuilding it.

Still doing valve clearances. Got a set of feeler gauges, but not really in the right range (they only go up in .05mm increments). So got a much better set of sizes; 16 blades between 0.05 and 0.35, however, whereas the 0.2mm doesnt fit, the combination of 0.15 + 0.05mm does... so I've no confidence in these set, sigh.

Have a micrometer on the way anyway, so hopefully be able to see what the heck is going on with them

thecivvie wrote: »

Snapped my clutch cable 5 miles from work, managed to just about get in. Have to wait for tomorrow to hopefully get a replacement cable

Ive often read that a clutch cable has gone and the person involved managed to get to work or home. How do you change gear without clutch cable?