Topic: What did you do to your non-SOHC4 motorcycle today?

[simon#42]

thats good steve i never doubted you for a second !

[RAFster122s]

Thanks for the explanation Simon!

[70CB750]

Replaced the rear tire and brake pads on the CB900C.

[Kelly E]

Today after taking the KZ 1000 out for a ride I fired up the 94' Kawasaki ZG 1000 Concours after the winter nap. Time to get it ready for the years long distance road trips. As usual it fired right up with no issues.

This is the best long distance bike I've ever ridden. I've been out for two weeks straight riding every day and I could have done another two weeks no problem. I've changed the fork springs, added a fork brace, installed a 320mm big brake kit with stainless brake lines, installed a ZZR 1200 rear shock and a set of torque cams. Now it thinks it's a Ninja and I can almost scrape the saddlebags in the corners. It pulls out of the hole so well I can beat my buddy's FJR 1300 and my brothers C-14 Concours up to about 85mph. Then they fly by so fast that it sucked the stickers off my bike.

[BallAquatics]

It’s long over due, but I finally broke down and put the new Michelin Road 5 tire on the NC700X



I think I got all the goodness out of the old tire. The old tire had 16,400 miles on it when changed out. This bike carves up a twisty road like nobody’s business with these tires. I wish they came in sizes to fit all my bikes!

[Kelly E]

Today I got the Concours out of it's spot and in front of the door. We're going on a 3 day run next Tuesday through Thursday to eastern Washington. We'll go over the North Cascades Hwy on the way out and coming back with a day to ride over there.
I just have to check the oil and grease the rear suspension linkage. First road trip of the year. on the 5th of June I start Cyberknife radiation treatments for my prostate cancer. This will be the first of two rounds and hopefully I don't get radiation sick like the last time. It lasted two months but this time I won't be radiated in the abdomen so it's not supposed to be as bad.

[grcamna2]

Today I got the Concours out of it's spot and in front of the door. We're going on a 3 day run next Tuesday through Thursday to eastern Washington. We'll go over the North Cascades Hwy on the way out and coming back with a day to ride over there.
I just have to check the oil and grease the rear suspension linkage. First road trip of the year. on the 5th of June I start Cyberknife radiation treatments for my prostate cancer. This will be the first of two rounds and hopefully I don't get radiation sick like the last time. It lasted two months but this time I won't be radiated in the abdomen so it's not supposed to be as bad.

I'm glad you're fighting that cancer 

[RAFster122s]

Kelly, Nice bike with delicious upgrades! Hang in there and prayers for full recovery to put the cancer in remission and complete destruction of the cancerous cells.  That the side effects be minimal or at least manageable.
You being light weight certainly cannot hurt the performance of the bike.

David

[Kelly E]

Thanks guys.

Raf, everybody's bike is faster when I ride it.

[Don R]

 Kind of like Jay Gleason, all of the bike companies wanted him to do the test rides for the magazines. He could coax more out of a bike than most people and was a lot lighter than most.

[Magpie]

Applied for the BC Collector licence plate for my late friend's GL1100 he left me.

[Don R]

 I took my grandson for a ride on the gs1100 and the XR70R. He's almost ready for a check ride on the 70 he tipped over in the driveway but didn't hurt himself. We dropped the engine into the minibike but didn't get it started. I think it needs a Mikuni.

[Terry in Australia]

Spotty and I have been scraping, wire brushing and degreasing the "new" BMW engine since last weekend when we picked it up. Finally yesterday afternoon after another 5 hours or so, we got it to the point where we could etch prime it. Spotty remarked that it looked like one of those plastic model kits:

Falcon and K1 26 May 2024 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

I couldn't come over this morning (working on my truck) so Spotty gave it a nice light first coat, and when I'd finished the truck this afternoon I came over and gave it another coat, and was happy with the results. We'll give it another week and it should be cured enough to start thinking about installing it.

Falcon and K1 26 May 2024 1 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

[simon#42]

looks good terry .
had a spare week so went on a round trip to berlin . didnt take many photos but this is the bikes in wolfsburg on the way

[Terry in Australia]

That’s a nice looking old BM mate, what’s the other one? Last time I was in Berlin they still had a wall!

[simon#42]

funny you should say that because the last time i went to berlin they had the wall as well . you wouldnt recognise much from back then but it was a great place to spend a couple of days . very friendly place and  obviously full of history none of which they try to hide from .
the other bike is the mrs kawasaki er6 she modified it a bit , or as we would say crashed it . she has had it 8 years now and while it does everything better than the bm i still wouldnt swap !

[grcamna2]

Spotty and I have been scraping, wire brushing and degreasing the "new" BMW engine since last weekend when we picked it up. Finally yesterday afternoon after another 5 hours or so, we got it to the point where we could etch prime it. Spotty remarked that it looked like one of those plastic model kits:

Falcon and K1 26 May 2024 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

I couldn't come over this morning (working on my truck) so Spotty gave it a nice light first coat, and when I'd finished the truck this afternoon I came over and gave it another coat, and was happy with the results. We'll give it another week and it should be cured enough to start thinking about installing it.

Falcon and K1 26 May 2024 1 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

You're both making that nice engine to look as good on the outside as it seems on the inside.
Terry,up on the left in the first pic shows a little blue sign on the bench 'Take Care Be Aware' ?

[Terry in Australia]

funny you should say that because the last time i went to berlin they had the wall as well . you wouldnt recognise much from back then but it was a great place to spend a couple of days . very friendly place and  obviously full of history none of which they try to hide from .
the other bike is the mrs kawasaki er6 she modified it a bit , or as we would say crashed it . she has had it 8 years now and while it does everything better than the bm i still wouldnt swap !

Yep, there’s something about those old airheads that makes them special. I’ve had a few, but the best one I rode (and crashed) was my brother’s R75. The engine was just a lovely thing, they’re all out of my budget now, but if a ratty restoration project came along……

Bill, no idea about the sign, I’ll have to check it out when I’m back at Spotty’s place.

[spotty]

its from a road safety awareness campaign, alerting drivers that they might want to use the mirror and actually check for motorcycles in the next lane before they move their stupid unaware arse into it, there might be a motorcycle there. As usual it made no difference. I still go with the "painfully loud pipes save lives" method, when the mothertruckers blindly try to squash me i give it the clutch in, full throttle and then dump the clutch, all while giving the patented withering stare from behind the mirror tinted visor

had one dickhead years ago that didn't see me, so i calmly went about removing the mirror under the (correct) assumption that if he wasn't using it he wouldn't be needing it, he became quite peeved at the modification i'd made to his pointless little sports car and gave chase, he kept it up for about 10 miles in medium density traffic, taking far more risks and coming closer to smashing another car than me, i had to pull over a couple of times to let him catch up and then i'd go past him again just to keep his blood boiling...i got bored eventually and left him for dead   

[grcamna2]

its from a road safety awareness campaign, alerting drivers that they might want to use the mirror and actually check for motorcycles in the next lane before they move their stupid unaware arse into it, there might be a motorcycle there. As usual it made no difference. I still go with the "painfully loud pipes save lives" method, when the mothertruckers blindly try to squash me i give it the clutch in, full throttle and then dump the clutch, all while giving the patented withering stare from behind the mirror tinted visor

had one dickhead years ago that didn't see me, so i calmly went about removing the mirror under the (correct) assumption that if he wasn't using it he wouldn't be needing it, he became quite peeved at the modification i'd made to his pointless little sports car and gave chase, he kept it up for about 10 miles in medium density traffic, taking far more risks and coming closer to smashing another car than me, i had to pull over a couple of times to let him catch up and then i'd go past him again just to keep his blood boiling...i got bored eventually and left him for dead

I see.
I like that sign and hope there are more folks on wheels waking-up that 'Motorcycles are Everywhere'.. and Save a Life ! 
I know that these errant automobile drivers are operating a 'killing machine' and I can only hope that they're getting caught by your local and state police..
I have considered getting a bull-horn and a rifle turret(not really    )mounted to my bike;sometimes my imagination gets cooking and self preservation 'kicks in'. 

[Kelly E]

i had to pull over a couple of times to let him catch up and then i'd go past him again just to keep his blood boiling...i got bored eventually and left him for dead

That's funny as hell! I've never thought of waiting for them to catch back up.

[BenelliSEI]

Seals, dust seals and new boots for the CRF230F

[Terry in Australia]

I've had Rob's MZ that he gave me to get going again and in exchange for my work he gave me his (much nicer, I reckon) KZ750. I was pretty sure the problem was the crappy soviet era Bing carb copy, so bought a cheap Ebay flat slide carb, similar to the ones Spotty and I installed on my old Yamaha DS6. Trouble was, the inlet manifold was too long, and had the wrong sized adaptor for the carb.

I found some nice 80mm round bar, and turned up a new manifold.

MZ Tuesday 28 May 2024 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

MZ Tuesday 28 May 2024 1 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

MZ Tuesday 28 May 2024 6 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

MZ Tuesday 28 May 2024 9 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

I saw this, and it reminded me of my garage.

MZ Tuesday 28 May 2024 4 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

[MauiK3]

Nice manifold!
I won't ask where the round stock came from :-))

[simon#42]

nice work , that should be much easier to tune.  after your comments about your brothers r75 i remembered that i haven't seen mine for a few years . dug it out at the weekend and got it going . will give it a clean up and take it out next week .