Pinned So what have you done to your bike today?

hey mother, can you clean my shed up?lol.

 

Looking good there Andy , it takes longer than what you think setting up a new workshop.
Some kitchen grade carpet in the shed is a good thing , especially when you drop tool's etc working late at night when you cant sleep.
But it will also keep the shed slightly warmer , and a lot more comfortable walking on , good when you have worn out knee's / body part's.

 

Well, the CBR didn't sell, and there was a question about the status of the engine, so I figured I'd test it: did 3 sessions on the CBR. First session is a matter of getting used to the bike and track, but I set the tyre pressures and felt a lot better in sessions 2 and 3 - got a little too confident in one corner and had to sit it up, stayed upright and on track, just was on the wrong side of the role strip. Only did 3 sessions on the CBR because I wanted to try the VFR 750 on the track. Ok, it is about twice the capacity, but it is a big, heavy Sports tourer, so we can't expect too much. WOW! Over 8,000rpm it is a different machine, not frantic or suicidal, but comes alive - like a Clydesdale that thinks it can win the Melbourne Cup. Crank the throttle on as you exit the corners and there is a slight drift in the rear end, but the drive and speed is great. You brake earlier on the main straight because you are going a lot faster; I might have left a black line (even a bit of a brown line) coming into corner 1. I was scraping the pegs and boot a lot, so had to move off the seat to corner faster. I'm well impressed by the VFR!

I am also exhausted. The drive home was tough and hot without a/c. Maybe next time I can just ride the VFR down and back. If I work out how to load the swag on the bike

 

Iv'e had enough of the crappy 15W fluro bayonet light in the shed , there's no room to fit anything bigger O.D globe wise where the fitting has been installed , i have no idea what they where thinking at the time .

So have fitted one of these big mother's , WOW , it's a tad brighter in the shed. Could have used the extra light when the bike was going back together on the night shift's.

Aurora Enlite 100W LED Floodlight EN-FL100A/40 | RS Electrical Supplies

 

just bought a bridgestone 100 but need a flywheel.more a heart decision than anything.

 

My missus bought a bridgestone engine (dismantled, in a box) over with her when she emigrated to OZ 15 yrs ago, what size, I can't remember,maybe a 175 ? but the box still sits on top of the shed filing cabinet (I think she said it had a transmission problem?)

 

Today's job was also yesterday's job, tonight's job, and possibly tomorrow's job, linkage shrinking to make some room for a skyteam ace tank

 

I might be on a winner with 'box plan B

 

Thought I'd wash my bike. Bad idea. You just see sorry it is, spend hours scrubbing it, only to make it obvious where you didn't clean and what is damaged... Sigh.

Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal!

 

I just serviced a rear hub on a VFR750 - crusty bearings, seized adjuster. No bearings available on short notice, so stripped cleaned out and regreased. The adjuster was jammed as it been treated roughly, also small rocks in the swingarm and hub seizing it too. All cleaned and back together.

Stripped the forks only to find the chrome pitted and damaged by being held in a vice.

 

Wow. The surprising one I saw recently was a GTR 1400 that had written through the chrome and into the steel tubing - he was going on a long ride so we put it together for him and it was still sealing. Definitely needs replacing, though.

 

On the twelfth day of Christmas.... I'll still be cleaning the shed. I was trying to reshuffle the bikes and parts around so I could vacate dad's shed and utilise the shipping container I've used mostly to store bikes. I tried to work out how to for the bikes and have room to work on bikes, but I have too many bikes. And yesterday I got another bike back from a mate's place! Need to unload a few of them

 

First world problems! "It's stressful having so many motorbikes and all this shed space and all these tools..."

You're right, it is the season for giving and I should give to those who have less bikes... Or who are willing to give money in exchange for said bikes, despite the number of bikes they have, to be honest.

 

Santa delivered a shiny new NGK spark plug for my little bike.

 

Lucky you.

 

CAD skool sucks, Iv'e forgotten most I learned over the last 6 years playing with Autosketch, this took 2 weeks to figure out (it's to enable using a stock MC19 'box with the inline 8 , and still have chain final drive, with a "realistic" wheelbase)

 

I did a bit of CAD for about 10 years using Solid Edge, then had no CAD for years before trying to get back into it. The programs I tried using (including AutoCAD) were painful, slow and infuriating! But now I have found Fusion 360 and that is much more intuitive and familiar.