The Bikeshite Thread

[tom13]

17 minutes ago, Dave_Q said:

First ride of the year, a fairly boring trip on the postie to Next to collect some school trousers.

Well jel. Would love one of those.

[tom13]

Did some green lanes the weekend with a mate from work who has a newer Africa Twin. He doesn't have too much experience but did well, a smaller bike would have helped.

His Twin is a DCT one and I had a go on it. A very capable bike but you have to have some experience. You could get it stuck very easily if you were careful. DCT was actually very enjoyable. I wouldn't choose it over a manual but again I wouldn't turn my nose up at riding one either. 

[hairnet]

Fuking lol at the polish guy riding an irish bike living in newry

He said he didnt speak much english

Lmao

The natives dont either  @Faker @Wibble @The Vicar

[twosmoke300]

Well it appears I now have two burgman 400s ! Yay me 

I bought the semi broken one from @vaughant a month or two ago now . Hadn’t had much time to do much to investigate the poor running after half an hours riding on it . I did check the valve clearances and clean the carb etc .

Then another one popped up locally for £250. Now , silly me thought it being a 51 plate and the original one being a W they would be the same yeh ? Are they fook. The one from vaughan is a 2000 model and the second one a 2002.

The 02 was a non runner and in a million pieces . So my plan of swapping parts to fix it was out as the Cdi and connector was different with some wiring changes too . 
So I used the 2000 to get some wave forms and data from ignition pick ups and coil outputs etc to confirm the blue one had a knackered CDi . Which is pretty much unobtainable used at sensible money . 

Then someone locally was breaking one so I messaged and popped down . Got a Cdi ( the wrong one ) section of loom and an HT cap ( more on that shortly )for £15.

So some bodging occurred but success ! It runs 

 I will solder and heatshrink at some point but the bullets were just a test rig really . Some of the wiring is different and the colours and descriptions in both years wiring diagrams weren’t 100% accurate so some careful metering reqd.

Yesterday was spent putting back together a maxi scoot someone else took apart and put all the fasteners in a bucket . Jeez what an ordeal but it’s back together and barring a slightly lacking in damping rear shock it seems ok . MOT next week.

Onto the original 2000 one . Well I was a bit naughty and popped the no plate from my ( now very broken ) missis Innova on it so I could actually road test it and find out what’s up with it .

Well long story short it was a fucked HT cap . It also had about 4 litres of petrol / oil mix in the sump ! So that was drained and refilled with 10/40 and will monitor the level . 
So two up n running maxi pads .One of them is doing our green laning shitbox challenge in June but I’ve not chosen my victim . The other will be used for a month or so til the weather is good enough to dig my cb500x out of it slumber .

So the innova ?

The missis has had this for 18 months or so and has been put to great use . The previous owner used it for long distance road trials and modified it a bit with trials tyres and a decent Bashplate .

We have been going out on midweek TRF rides ( I’m on my KE) and the other half has been keeping up with much better bikes on the lanes . But this came at a cost this week.

While riding it nipped up . Thought this was strange as it had a fresh top end a while back and was as sweet as.

Well it turns out they don’t like having their crankcases having lumps torn out of them and leaking all their oil out .

 

Luckily a friend of mine has a set of cases and I managed to find a new genuine crank for £80 plus post .

Total cost of a full rebuild will be about £300 so not bad really . But I’m making her pay for it this time .

But we are going to look at a Beta Alp 200 at 10.30 today 😂

 

No pressure but the Innova is booked in for an event in wales in about 4 weeks time so I need to get it running , run in and snagged before then . 

 

 

[hairnet]

Its fcuking freezing

[twosmoke300]

A purchase was made

[hairnet]

Bumpiest road in ireland

[hairnet]

 

 

Also this happened - right outside the gard station 

 

[hairnet]

No they didnt ram me off 

Went wrong way 

Did a uey but didnt notice when i stopped was in 3rd

Twat

Waterford to belfast tomorrow 

 

[hairnet]

Burp

 

[Stinkwheel]

How seized can rear shock linkages be you ask? 
 

very. 

Just a quick job I thought, then EVERYTHING was seized.

new bearings all round. wouldn’t have shifted the old ones without a press, luckily I have one. 
 

new bearings in

And then the slightly newer (and slightly longer, F650GS model) shock goes in, 

Now back together with it then, but I didn’t take a pic of that, so have one from a couple of days ago

[Iamgroot]

Mate, I couldn't even see the needles in the bearings on my FJ12 when I swapped the swinger for the earlier ally one, SOLID

Don't get me started on the availability and price of the replacements...

[Stinkwheel]

16 minutes ago, Iamgroot said:

Mate, I couldn't even see the needles in the bearings on my FJ12 when I swapped the swinger for the earlier ally one, SOLID

Don't get me started on the availability and price of the replacements...

Same, the needles were obscured By the seized in plain bushes, once those were pressed out then the remains of rust and rollers all fell out. 
the full kit for linkages, swinging arm etc was about a 100 quid, so not cheap, but not terrible in comparison to some either. 
 

[Iamgroot]

We share the same pain! The one unobtainium obscurum bearing was over £100 for mine, thankfully found the same part listed as an engine mount bearing for a different bike from an aftermarket supplier for £30, but still only the one bearing for that.

[Cavcraft]

Lots of kicks later and the Lambretta is officially back on the road. 

Went down to the river on it the other day, unusually the only scooter there at the time. There are normally a few, but I think k they'd gone on a run somewhere.

Anyhow, the usual array of (mostly) boring modern bikes were about, but also a Honda CB750F with an 1100 Bandit engine, and a very tidy GT380, a bike for which I'll always have a soft spot.

That 23 plate Multistrada was a bloody nice thing, though.

[Iamgroot]

4 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

 

 

I think I've done a sex wee

[castros_bro]

Don't all rush at once but James may be returning.

 

[Cavcraft]

They do look pretty good, to be fair.

[Stinkwheel]

31 minutes ago, Iamgroot said:

We share the same pain! The one unobtainium obscurum bearing was over £100 for mine, thankfully found the same part listed as an engine mount bearing for a different bike from an aftermarket supplier for £30, but still only the one bearing for that.

Bloody hell, 100 for one bearing. I hate it when sizes are obscure so cost lots 

 

[hairnet]

been drawn into the world of aliexpress

is that game over

broke the brake lever - 70€ in ireland so 56 here

from usa 36 quid - that usually works but 40 quid to ship (WTF)

the sneaky way round it is put the oem number into google or ebay and the places in eu or usa come up and muchos cheap

not this time

put honda nc brake lever into google and you get the adverts across and how much - there were the alloy adjustable ones (rizoma ripoffs and shit) but wanted standard

saw some 25 quid but some were 13-14 saw one for 10 and change

went looking and there was temu (just no) and ali

on the site and no shipping and some kinda discount (first time user??)

less than 8 quid shipped

seeing as its a need not a want - likely that the oem ones are made by the chinese anyway just in an expensive honda bag

[hairnet]

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/bike-details/202502179187700

there was another that was 400 miles and 3999 but sold i think theres two other but the other colours apart from this and not sure about the blue ones are terrible and they were 4250

this is new and its 400 off 

nc would not be worth much tho

[twosmoke300]

All done and sounding sweet . 

New genuine crank , barrel and piston and all new gearbox bearings . 
Got another Innova motor being dropped off in a minute for a rebuild as payment for the pair of cases 😂

[hairnet]

arai quantic

fiddliest visor release ever

arai debut and most the last 10 years  - visor up full levers poke out of side pods push levers pull visor up and off

quantic visor up and little levers - push in and side pods pop off

push lever further in and they push visor nobble into bigger hole you then pull visor from

putting it back together is not the 2 seconds the arai guy in the video makes it look

might have been half an hour

fuck sake

what was wrong with previous attachment ffs

[twosmoke300]

It’s all just a lil bit of history repeated 😂

[UltraWomble]

Scootering News:

Moto GB lost the franchise to import and sell Royal Alloy, Scomadi knock offs - as such they seem to be having a fire sale on parts (some are interchangable with the Scomadi bikes) but Ive also noticed that new pre reg bikes are now appearing on ebay and Autotrader from MotoGB dealers at substantially discounted prices sporting "shop soiling".
Given that the new range launches in a couple of weeks with a new line of dealers I wonder how much more the prices of the older RA bikes will tumble (if you are not right fussed about having the latest LC version of the bike)

2024 Royal Alloy GT 125 GT125 125cc for sale for £2,490 in Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire

Also Scomadi are making noises about a return to the UK market

Ironic UK comeback for Scomadi? | NEWS | SLUK

[Cavcraft]

If Scomadi said it was raining, you'd have to go outside to check.

They had all these great tales of a 300 (which did come true very briefly with a Vespa engine), plus a 250 manual and a 400 or 500, or something.

Those new old stock R.A 125s are surely going to fuck the second hand market up a bit, £2,495 is a great price for a new one.

[doug]

Got my tank back from Cupar Bike Paints yesterday. Very happy with it. Reeeeally shiny.

And my van passed it's mot today. Life is good

[Iamgroot]

That tank is ace!

[DeanH]

Took the CT125 (the original!) on its first outing today. Did an Australian green lane. Interesting experience.

Made a fool of myself putting it on its stand. Looked away for one second and it fell on my shin. Smashed the indicator in the process. Arms from now on.

[Jerzy Woking]

Two groups of friends have visited here in February, so took them to ride around Andalucia.

Some great roads, but those just north of Almeria are just superb, such as the Alto de Velefique. Perfectly surfaced, devoid of other traffic, and sunshine. Only a bit of snow at 1900 metres, and then just under the trees. 

Highly recommended.