The Bikeshite Thread

[Bren]

I started the overhaul of the busa's slave cylinder - 

 

A bit of a mess. Took sprocket cover off complete with cylinder. Haynes BOL says to pump lever to get piston out - you can't if it's leaking. Compressed air did the trick.

I took the old seal off and cleaned everything up.

I have put it all back together but run out of daylight. Will fit it and bleed it tomorrow.

[Bren]

Fitted the slave back on the busa. Cleaned all the shite that the chain had flung everywhere.

While the fairing was off I thought I would drop the coolant - I have never changed it. It was still green and clean.....

£30 for 3 litres of coolant - fookin hell!

Topping it up is a PITA - you need a funnel and a length of tube. The bike took 2.5 litres but I am letting it cool now before checking once more - panels can go back on then.

I have had the bike nearly seven years - it has been great - but I have found myself looking at ZRX 1200's and ducati monsters....

[hairnet]

have fun on zrx if youve got big feet

 

[Jerzy Woking]

The Monet got some love today, after being left in the corner of my garage for a few years. My brother took it for safe keeping whilst I am I  the process of moving home.

Popped over to his today to drop a power washer to him, and the Monet was on the bench, so whilst he was out,  I stripped the front end out.

Every screw and nut came off with no issue, and all bolts came out with ease. Having (tiny) grease nipples everywhere helps, as signs of old grease showed. Need to find a grease gun to fit the small grease nipples though-everything he has is just too big.

All bearings seem fine, but will be stripped, cleaned and repacked with new grease before reassembly. Then the forks will get a wipe over with oil and reinstalled.

Such a joy to work on something that isn't seized to buggery.

[strangeangel]

Did a compression test on the pizza scooter and got 60psi... bit of gear oil down the bore and it went up to 100psi. This, combined with the lack of oil in the sump gave me a baaaaaaaad feeling. Sure enough, yesterday's strip down revealed this:

 

 

Mercifully the valves and camshaft still look like new, and there's no play in the crank so a £38 top end set is headed our way from Poland ?

 

[Stinkwheel]

Piston Broke, as they used to say. Because we were always pissed and broke.

[stereotype]

About 2 weeks ago I enlisted the help of you guys for YouTube help. Now, @TheMokrite and I have come up with a channel trailer and some other ideas we are halfway working on. Here's the link if you wouldn't mind having a watch and giving us some feedback on editing and energy, stuff like that, and most importantly, does it make you want to watch more?

Thank youuuu

[andyberg]

I will subscribe, I think the clip does give a bit of a tease of what's to come. I would say don't get too worried about how it looks, you will learn and evolve. It takes a while to get into your stride. The main thing is to not lose sight of what you want, it's your channel, if people don't like it don't change, plenty of others will like it. 

[hairnet]

MOAR OF THE REDHEAD

youve seen kiltox videos? doesnt have to have balloons and music and keef lemon fronting it

hey if its to the point and not 4 hours long for a 20 min job then itll be fine

[stereotype]

1 hour ago, andyberg said:

I will subscribe, I think the clip does give a bit of a tease of what's to come. I would say don't get too worried about how it looks, you will learn and evolve. It takes a while to get into your stride. The main thing is to not lose sight of what you want, it's your channel, if people don't like it don't change, plenty of others will like it. 

Thank you, I will try and not overthink it ? thanks for the subscribe

7 minutes ago, hairnet said:

MOAR OF THE REDHEAD

youve seen kiltox videos? doesnt have to have balloons and music and keef lemon fronting it

hey if its to the point and not 4 hours long for a 20 min job then itll be fine

Yes I'm subscribed ? I will be there as much as I can without going crazy over it! Hopefully we manage to not bullshit that much ?

[hairnet]

2 hours ago, stereotype said:

 Hopefully we manage to not bullshit that much ?

youre not brewer - noone can bullshit that much

unless yer @eddyramrod

[eddyramrod]

Thanks M8, I love you too!

[thatsmacar]

Subbed.  I wanna see what you get up to.

[Stinkwheel]

Subbed as well, been messing with bikes for many years, will be good to see how other folks do things.

[blackboilersuit]

On 3/1/2020 at 6:01 PM, blackboilersuit said:

With the weather being so bad lately I've been doing some two wheeled tinkering in the garage to keep out of the wind and rain. Final job on the rebuild of my Suzuki TS250 was to knit spaghetti into a new wiring loom.

 

Now the build is essentially complete it's going back into storage until some better weather arrives for the initial start up. I've already sorted out a dating certificate so once running I'll get it MOT'd then do the paperwork to get it registered. Once registered of course it'll never need another MOT ever again being a 1976 model and well over 40 years old ?.

 

Holy late update Batman!

@nigel bickle you sir are a superstar for correctly suggesting that I wouldn't need an MOT to register the bike as it would be going into the MOT exempt "historic vehicle" class. Paperwork was filled out and I was supplied with a registration number two weeks into lockdown. I only submitted a V55/5 form with dating certificate, fee and a cover letter with a couple of photo's just for good measure. Was quite surprised that I could get a bike registered with it never being inspected and everybody taking my word for it that the information I was supplying was legit. I suspect that may not have been the case if it were a far more valuable and prone to theft/ringing vehicle like a Bonneville, Mini, MK1 Escort etc.

The bike has still never been started as I couldn't face firing it up and not taking it for a ride out. Given that Scotland is seemingly 400 steps behind England with lockdown easing it could be a few weeks or more yet before that could happen.

[cort1977]

Take it shopping?

[blackboilersuit]

Or after today's announcement on lockdown easing I could take it fishing ?

[twosmoke300]

Next trackday booked! Cadwell ? it’s miles away and I’m nervous as fuck about the track but oh well . 

[martc]

OK fans of the Honda NC series - turns out Honda was not the first with the hollow tank luggage compartment/tank under the seat. Here's the Parilla Slughi (desert hound) it looks a little  sluggish to me.

Of course it had a space age name in that there America, the Ramjet 99.

[Jerzy Woking]

2 hours ago, twosmoke300 said:

Next trackday booked! Cadwell ? it’s miles away and I’m nervous as fuck about the track but oh well . 

Absolutely love Cadwell. Great circuit, bit difficult to master but can be learnt quite quickly. Biggest issue will be show offs over the Mountain, as seen a number of crashes there on track days.

A few of us from work were there on a track day, and afterwards were all bragging about our on track heroics. Suzuki were there in the garage alongside the start/finish straight leading up to Charlie's, and at the end of the trackday, their BSB riders were out on track practicing.

We walked over to watch them going down into Manfield from the Gooseneck, and John Hopkins was sat there on his pit scooter. He was happy to talk to us. He said that they were there to help Guintoli as he was 5 seconds a lap down on his team mates. Not for long he wasn't!

What amazed us that in the same spot we were braking hard for the corner at Manfield, Guintoli and Mason (I think) were still accelerating and only the back wheels were on the track.

Felt very, very humble after watching that...

Enjoy, a great day is what you will have.

 

[andyberg]

I have never done a track day, have never really been that quick on a bike. Never liked hanging off, I'm more Mick Grant stylee!! 

Though I went to Cadwell many years ago, I had just bought a brand new GPZ500 and along with a few mates we went to watch our mate Colin Gable race. It was a glorious day, however I got nabbed for speeding through a village on the way there. And when it was time to go home I couldn't find my bike keys anywhere, we retraced my steps as much as possible with no luck. So we wandered back to our bikes wondering how I would get home, bare in mind this is 1987 before mobiles as we know now. When I got to my bike there were my keys still in the ignition!! I couldn't believe it. May not be the case nowadays I feel 

Anyway the mountain is an amazing part of the circuit, enjoy your day. 

[hairnet]

after more than 2 months - went out on the knackered honda

spank down the motorway

then went shopping

 

[83C]

SV collected from @Youngteam - thanks again. 

[andyberg]

First proper trip out on my bike tomorrow. I have an early appointment at the hospital, bike parking is free. Car parking, if you can find a space, is £££. So what better excuse do I have? Obviously the run back may* take longer than the run there. 

Here she is with her autoshite colleagues. Hope the neighbours don't mind half the road belonging to me for 1 night. 

[Youngteam]

2 hours ago, 83C said:

SV collected from @Youngteam - thanks again. 

No worries, good to meet you.

Hope you got home safe ?

[twosmoke300]

Awesome bikes SV’s . Put 40k on one from new . Brother has one I’m fettling ready for the road / track now. 

[Jerzy Woking]

My brother very kindly stripped the Monet this morning, engine out and cleaned the frame of 70 year old, set like concrete grease.

Said that under the grease he found obvious welded repairs, and a small hole in one of the silencers that he pop rivet a plate over the top of, so in keeping with all the other repairs. 

Few bits need replacing like the points and the front sprocket (its lost a tooth) but I should be able to track those down. Gearbox cleaned up like new.

 

We all need brothers like this!

[Jerzy Woking]

Whilst he was stripping the Monet, I was clearing my loft.

These of any use to anyone (you just need to pay the postage). All in ok condition, just a bit of fading on the covers.

Yamaha RD200 up to 1979 (lovely little bikes these were)

RD & DT125LC to 1983. I hated the ones I rode at the time, but would like to try one out now)

Kawasaki 750 Fours including the GT (1980 to 1982)

It was the latwr GPz 750 I had covered up on the driveway festering for 18 months that put the oil stain on my driveway that I can't get of 15 years later (oils fault, not the bikes).

Nostalgic reading for an afternoon or two if nothing else...

[pilninggas]

On 5/3/2020 at 7:50 PM, pilninggas said:

Yes, i always have a project on the go. Just turboing an old XJ600. Low boost, nothing too special - 0.5bar. Just doing it because i got the bike cheap. 

Should raise it from 70hp to 95 or so. Torque should be fun.

Been doing bits on the turbo project. Cant do much on the turbo system itself, as i am waiting for some hoses, unions and bulkhead fittings.

So did the twin shock conversion today.

Chopped the chassis, plus numerous lugs and other crap, then made up some brackets for the top shocks using 5mm flat bar. Down on the swinger i recycled some of the spacers from the monolink and welded them in to the centre line of the arm. A few tweaks to make, but quite happy with it.

Edit: the shocks i got cheap of off a bloke in the town, the trouble is he'd taken the metalistic bushes out for himself and i hadnt noticed when i bought them off of him, so the first 45 mins out in the workshop was making some, using steel rod and some hd elastomer hose - pressed in with the bench vice (a bit of agg really),.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Mrs hasn't been out on her CBR125 since last year, so we went on an essential spin to get her confidence back up before she starts commuting on it again.

I was on the firestorm, which has been behaving very well of late. I was having a bit of fun on a roundabout, accelerated hard on the exit and the speedo stopped working. Traced that to a dodgy speed sensor on the gearbox so have ordered a replacement.

We stopped for fuel, mrs brimmed her CBR. We made it maybe 5 miles up the road and it lost power then died completely.

It was a bugger to start, a couple of times struggled to turn over completely as if the battery was flat. When finally started opening up the throttle would make it bog down and die. It ran a wee bit happier on choke but still un-rideable.

So she jumped on the back of mine and we headed home. I returned with the trailer an hour later, loaded it up and got it strapped down. Got it home and it started and ran absolutely fine.

I noticed when I changed the oil last weekend that it was a wee bit creamy. Not quite full chocolate milk but definitely contaminated. I dont think its using any coolant but cant be sure. These only hold 1 litre of oil and have a 1000 mile interval so no hardship in dumping the new stuff for a look

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