What did you do to your bike today?

I fitted an Autocom to my KTM .........

What about you guys?

 

Took the wheels off and removed the tyres, discs, bearings, hub carrier & sprocket etc (I'll remove all of the spokes next week). Removed the crash bars, grab rails, rear rack, sump guard & battery box cover. Assembled all of these parts (including my already removed pannier frames) into a neat pile to take to the powder coaters.

Chemically cleaned all removed parts / fixings, ABS sensor rings and rear sprocket. Oh and I tidied the garage.

 

Have you decided what you're doing with the ABS ring yet?

 

Yes, I've cleaned them right back to bright (ish) silver. I'll give them a light coat of lacquer to prevent them oxidising. They look pretty good TBH.

 

You tidied your garage in a day!!! I'm still doing mine after 3 days. Moved the Yamaha a coupla times and moved the bike ramp 8" nearer to the wall to give me more room. Still gotta connect the lathe up and test it. Got some racebike wheel spacers to make for a guy that is getting impatient. Been offered a 1325 , 15 to 1, big bore kit and a gas flowed cylinder head with massive high lift cams and Titanium valves for the GSX project. Just need to sell the kids and the wife to an arab now!!!

 

You've obviously not seen Finchy's garage then ...... I've seen dirtier operating theatres!

 

Oh you know me - my garage wasn't that untidy to start with! Sounds like yours is coming on well.

On another note, I need a little bit of welding doing (I want some small plates welding onto my crash bars; the same as Tunner has for his lights). Is this something that you can do before they're powder coated?

Chris - I need a couple of cables extending. I'll PM you both.

 

Me three......but I did blow him a kiss too
I wonder what snow tyres would look like on a VN? hehehehehehehe

 

Looking at Chris's set up, welding brackets on shouldnt be a problem. If you make patterns of what you want, tape em securely to the bars in the correct position and then bring em down, I can maybe do em straight away if I have 2mm mild steel in stock? I usually use stainless.

 

Rode him to the pub by the seaside for some games of pool with mates and a good cold beer!

 

I looked at the Garage Door as its not got a window

 

I watched the warm, hypnotic, constant & green light of the Optimate for a while as it pumped energy & goodness into the little black box.

 

i thought about looking at it, does that count?

 

1200......
Total re pack to the rear suspension linkage bearings and dog bones back on......and all torqued up......looking good.

 

Thinking of the removal of the clutch slave cylinder cover and rear wheel of the Busa to put on new sprockets

Still thinking.......

Still thinking........

still thinking......

Sod it! to damn cold.....another day me thinks.....

 

They did have heaters in Lidl or Aldi that you connect to a gas bottle. A fan blows the heat around the garage.?

 

Brushed a bit of snow off the cover on mine and sighed