What Did You Do to Your Bike Today ?

[canthai55]

Mods, Repairs, Bling, Crashes ...

I installed Rox Risers and crash bars. Mine are black, and I do not have the Rally.

 

[Kwasaki]

I clean it again because I'm trying to sell it. 

I want to get a CRF250 to sling on the back of the truck.

[taninthai]

Just cleaned up front brake piston/calliper,,,,,went to do rear which is completely jammed,,but can’t be arsed to take rear wheel off,paid for upgrade clutch which ch will arrive in a week,,,,maybe I clean bike before then??

[taninthai]

2 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

I clean it again because I'm trying to sell it. 

I want to get a CRF250 to sling on the back of the truck.

Been looking at your bike,if it nearer to me could Ben interested....delivery available....fancy a ride to krabi.....

[BBJ]

Just stared at mine a little today.

[papa al]

I got my dirt bike filthy on 40 km of trail riding.

Also met young Thai rider

mechanic/guide

wants to do some riding w papa

on his day off.

[Kwasaki]

7 hours ago, taninthai said:

Been looking at your bike,if it nearer to me could Ben interested....delivery available....fancy a ride to krabi.....

Well a Spanish guy from near Surin came to look, the first of 3 in line saw it and bought I was beginning to think l should of got all 3 there and had an auction.  

[OmegaRacer]

Today rode 250km to a vintage bike meeting, but currently working on my NSR150SP after it seized a couple of months ago.

[Rhys]

looked at it

 

[thaiguzzi]

12 hours ago, OmegaRacer said:

Today rode 250km to a vintage bike meeting, but currently working on my NSR150SP after it seized a couple of months ago.

Very very nice alloy fab work. Seats and tanks aint easy, but a replica dustbin fairing? I take my hat off to that fabricator....

[thaiguzzi]

Had the tanks 'n seats off the ty mono's. Had to get at the stator leads (3 wire loom...) to check resistance.

Pulse coil readings were way off and the same on both bikes, source coil readings were within spec.

'Ol Blu just runs and runs, but 'Ol Yeller recently has gone through plugs. Plug is dead, replace and off I go again. Put it down to a bad coupla plugs. They are at least 15 y/o NOS from Blighty. Ordered a box of 10 NGK B6ES from my local favourite mom'n'pop corner m/c shop for 450 baht.

 

[OmegaRacer]

Beautiful bike !

[canthai55]

Shakedown cruise for the risers and crash bars.

Risers made quite a difference, 2 inches does not seem like much but gets your hands up and back straight. Will go source some 10mm SS studs tomorrow, with SS nylocks.

Crash bars work great. Can put feet on them like hiway pegs, or rest calf on them, legs straight out. Will be nice on the superslab. Change of position always breaths new life into the 'ol body.

Also brought back an Air Hawk seat cushion. Too early to tell yet, but nice. Took a while to get used to it as you move around some, but feel is great.

[papa al]

Sat.--Had shop replace L/F cowling, black plastic,

cracked from ceeber down at Umphang 

a while back, B600.

Sun.--Removed the week-old, but filthy chain from Climber.

Cleaned in diesel fuel and w/ toothbrush.

A pain.

Maybe just buy a new one every week.

Like $10-12 for these '480' chain.

Donate dirty to some poor Thai with old rusty chain.

Dunno.

Oh, rode the Cota around in circles and hopped some logs 

'n' such.

Sweaty.

Rode ceeber 25km home, so cool.

;-)

[BBJ]

Went to Bo Din and did a demo on how to do full lock U-turns on dirt.

 

 

[AllanB]

Built it it's own little house. Turquoise walls outside, white walls inside, with contrasting red steel-work.

 

Pin up pictures of other bikes to make it feel at home, some naked, others scantily clad. 

 

Plus we all need a vice. 

[papa al]

Tues.

Pre-flighting the Climber, 

for trail ride,

noticed that the kick-start lever gone.

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Bump-started and rode to nearby shop to have

it replaced and

Chain adjusted.

B300.

Took her a ride &

then rode the 

COTA

slowly

in circles

for a while.

 

[Rdrokit]

Installed a new fender ornament.

[Rdrokit]

Oh, almost forgot. Had the side covers carbon fiber vinyl wrapped and put some unit stickers on them from my regiment in Vietnam. Though they would look good since the bike is a Stallions.

[canthai55]

Nice !

[papa al]

'09 Yamaha,

Ol' Sparky135 began running poorly at higher power setting.

Embarrassing when pulling out across traffic.!!

Figured carb or air-filter.

Took to shop for new air-filter, oi, & oi-filter.

Service: chain, centre- and side-stands.

Mechanic test ride.

Good to go.

 

[Rhys]

Put the lock on the wheel, brought in helmet and gloves put the key in the proper place so I don't forget it.

[Kwasaki]

Only looked at the picture motorbike being delivered Friday. 

[canthai55]

Installed new skid plate. Neglected to glue some closed cell foam to the inside, so a resonance audible from the crank/balancer shaft.

Resolve this issue tomorrow.

[naboo]

1989 Honda JX110

 

Switched the old indicator lights for some new LED ones. Needed to change the flasher as well.

 

Much brighter than the old ones, which didn't work.

[BBJ]

Used speed cleaner on my bike.  A Thai version of muck off or S100.  Much cheaper of course.  Used 4 times now and thus far the pain hasn't melted.

 

Thought I'd give it a go on my Weber BBQ.  Bad idea, can't light the thing now!

[Rhys]

Serviced the chain... too much rain.

[papa al]

 

 

Noticed that the rear tire on ceeber 

was getting thin

after ~14.000km

so took her in

to I-Moto

north on Sukhumvit 

on the left before the 3240 turn-off.

They had the 100/80-17 Michelin Street Pilot in stock.

The front wheel & tire be new,

but had them open it to install dynabeads

and also apply red rim tape.

The mechanic, Bop is 19.

Very thorough.

He has been working here at least 4 years that Ive seen.

papa has bought many tires from these guys.

B1400, not bad.

10 satang per kilometer.

No rain.

[akirasan]

Messed up a decal I was trying to apply to a fairing I'm replacing.

Did the same thing trying to apply a sticker to my pick-up rear window.

Good with tools, terrible with stickers.  

[taninthai]

Finally got the new clutch/upgrade in .....the clutch didn’t actually look that worn ,but I found out what the grinding noise was and why it wouldn’t roll backwards when in first gear with clutch in.

the 5 bolts holding the springs and clutch basket in were completely loose could just unwind them by hand and had been grinding into the internal casing,as I was removing all the casing bolts they wasn’t super tight either and I was thinking someone has opened this up before..lol.,,,just another reason why I try not to let other people work on my bikes.

Anyway all went back together smoothly and clutch feels a lot better,thanks for all info posted on other threads regarding part numbers etc etc.

check out the grinder casing and shards of metal to inside.

last picture is the notorious judder springs chucked in the bin and not replaced.