Author Topic: What did you do to your bike today ? (Read 3265077 times)

Greggo · « **Reply #6025 on:** April 25, 2011, 06:46:36 PM »

Rain gave way to sunshine, so I rode the 500 to work. Started sputtering as I headed into a dark, long, fast tunnel...was running out of gas -- hit the reserve and rode on -- Phew!

Stev-o · « **Reply #6026 on:** April 25, 2011, 06:58:28 PM »

Quote from: anthony on April 25, 2011, 02:59:53 PM

spent 4 hrs replacing oil filter

Sounds like a bad day!

tomsweb1 · « **Reply #6027 on:** April 25, 2011, 07:35:24 PM »

Yesterday I replaced the throttle cables on her, and set the timing. Then I took her out for a ride. Discovered the brake light wasn't working. Replace the bulb, still not working with the rear brake. Adjusted the switch and I was good to go. Picked up my wife from work with the bike today running better than ever. About a hundred miles in the first two days of the season. Not bad.

jcarthel · « **Reply #6028 on:** April 25, 2011, 08:02:01 PM »

Rode the heck out of it! Just got back home to Texas a couple of hours ago after hauling godzilla across new mexico. Me and my sohc four did 1,000 miles in four days! I am proud of my old gal! How many 40 year old bikes (non sohc bikes) could do this without so much as a hiccup! Going west with Godzilla, I averaged around 33mpg going uphill and into the wind. I had an all time low of 28 mpg going 70 mph into a 30 mph headwind right before the handoff in Lordsburg, NM! Over the 500 miles coming home, I had a tailwind. Going home my mpg was 45, 47, 54, 51, 38, and 50 with speeds ranging from 60 to 75 mph. Coming home, the 54 mpg was an all time best for me and my bike! So I got my best and worst mpg on the same trip! Thank god for the reliability and dependability of an sohc four because I was all alone for 1,000 miles! Justin Carthel, Littlefield, TX

rklystron · « **Reply #6029 on:** April 25, 2011, 09:34:40 PM »

Great Story jcarthel. Love these bikes. I installed my Innovate A/F LM-2 and shot a heat cycle in Infrared using a InfReC G120 camera. Not sure what it tells me but it looks cool.
CB750 Infrared

Anti-Johnny · « **Reply #6030 on:** April 25, 2011, 10:12:39 PM »

Quote from: rklystron on April 25, 2011, 09:34:40 PM

Great Story jcarthel. Love these bikes. I installed my Innovate A/F LM-2 and shot a heat cycle in Infrared using a InfReC G120 camera. Not sure what it tells me but it looks cool.
CB750 Infrared

Sweet toy. I think its pretty obvious what it tells us though. Arnold might have done alright with a CB as the Terminator but he would have been screwed against the Predator with one.

Freaky1 · « **Reply #6031 on:** April 26, 2011, 07:44:14 AM »

Welding, welding, welding...got almost everything welded up but ran out of time and had to head home. I hauled everything 550 miles to have my nephew weld it and it was worth every mile. All the pics I posted in the build thread are with fresh welds, no cleaning up so they do look a bit rough but I can take care of that and will.

Really? · « **Reply #6032 on:** April 26, 2011, 07:52:46 AM »

Quote from: rklystron on April 25, 2011, 09:34:40 PM

Great Story jcarthel. Love these bikes. I installed my Innovate A/F LM-2 and shot a heat cycle in Infrared using a InfReC G120 camera. Not sure what it tells me but it looks cool.
CB750 Infrared

That is way kewl! It looks like the pipes actually get hotter than the cylinders.

Plankton · « **Reply #6033 on:** April 26, 2011, 03:39:49 PM »

I rode it! for the first time ever this year and it was the first time I ever rode a motorcycle, ever! with no instruction me and my 550/4 cruised around all day!

Tons of fun, I stalled at stop signs a bunch for the first little bit but I'm getting it down.

The only thing is my blinkers don't blink they only light up and my chain is hitting the center stand not because it is too loose it is correctly tensioned. Got to work those two problems out before I take it out again.

Greggo · « **Reply #6034 on:** April 26, 2011, 04:30:08 PM »

Filled her up with primo, and rode her to work.

mjstone · « **Reply #6035 on:** April 26, 2011, 06:54:35 PM »

Rode to work morning and afternoon again in spite of the gloom and doom weather forecasts.
Had a couple of minutes extra time this afternoon, so I took a little ride and got to work twenty minutes later than I usually do.

MJ

mrbreeze · « **Reply #6036 on:** April 26, 2011, 09:59:12 PM »

Nuthin'!!!!.....walked by it and smiled when I got home from work. Rode it to the bar in Oakdale (16 miles away) every day after work last week..............shake down ya know!!!!..........Ready to rally!!!!!!................I got wood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gsnorcal · « **Reply #6037 on:** April 26, 2011, 10:02:33 PM »

I finished machining custom triple clamps for my 400. I'm pretty stoked at how my first CNC project came out!

From the top:

And hollowed out nicely on the undersides.

See my sig for the link to my project thread. All hail the mighty FunJimmy for inspiration.

Dave

rklystron · « **Reply #6038 on:** April 26, 2011, 10:39:55 PM »

Pulled the Carbs on my CB750 F2 and installed a different set. This set is 135 mains, 45 slow, clip position 2 from bottom. Synced carbs, but because of rain could not ride.
Nice work GSNORCAL!

mbspark · « **Reply #6039 on:** April 26, 2011, 11:27:01 PM »

Today I got a valve spring compressor at the local sears and removed all my valves getting ready for my new valve seals.

I'm hoping this fixes my smoking problem.

I bought the bike a year ago and have been fixing it up since. I might start a build thread or a blog, they're fun to do and follow others.

Greggo · « **Reply #6040 on:** April 27, 2011, 12:51:53 PM »

Today's my Saturday, so I took her out for coffee and a leisure cruise around the city.

WhyNot2 · « **Reply #6041 on:** April 27, 2011, 06:00:50 PM »

Today, all I could do was look at those freaking emulsion tubes and think, damn if I only didn't screw them up, I could have this baby running.

As it is, I have to wait till I can find some that people aren't trying to get rich off of, to afford. Then, I think, I will be able to move to the next chapter of this bike.

Still, I think I really need also to get the factory handlebar controls to get the electronis to work correctly. Fires when starter button is pressed and quits when released.

Tintop · « **Reply #6042 on:** April 27, 2011, 06:28:41 PM »

Quote from: budlite282 on April 27, 2011, 06:00:50 PM

Today, all I could do was look at those freaking emulsion tubes and think, damn if I only didn't screw them up, I could have this baby running.

As it is, I have to wait till I can find some that people aren't trying to get rich off of, to afford. Then, I think, I will be able to move to the next chapter of this bike.

Still, I think I really need also to get the factory handlebar controls to get the electronis to work correctly. Fires when starter button is pressed and quits when released.

What model carbs do you have? I have an extra partially dismantled set, with tubes. PM me.

Greggo · « **Reply #6043 on:** April 27, 2011, 07:36:01 PM »

Prepped for the rally tomorrow!

Cleaned some bullet connections, and got down with some dielectric. Checked the plugs, and cleaned 'em up. 1 and 2 were a little sooty after 300 or so miles, but 3 and four looked perfect. I just didn't have the time to adjust the valves and do the carb sync...it's just going to have to wait. I've got a little squealing coming from the front wheel (not the brake), hoping some fresh grease in the morning will make it well enough.

75 miles from SF to SC down 1, then back. Should be fun!

jay_m · « **Reply #6044 on:** April 28, 2011, 04:41:37 AM »

tossed the old stock shocks on my 750, and replaced them with a set of hagon type a twin slim line shocks ($250 shipped from dave quinn motorcycles). i also drained the front forks and replaced the acrid gray oil with new 15-weight fork oil. what others had been saying is no exaggeration--its like i own a new bike. i was surprised to find that, while steadiness going over bumps and cracks in the road has definitely improved to a degree, by far the biggest improvement has been in overall handling. i can corner so much better that i now realize my bike was basically a danger to ride beforehand. it is such a joy to ride now. as i mentioned, initial absorption of impacts from potholes, bumps, and road seams is better (it'll never be great on this bike), but its the renewed damping ability of my suspension system that also makes all the difference. the bike takes the impacts, then immediately steadies itself, whereas beforehand i'd get fork dive and the rear would bottom out, and the whole thing would bob and weave long enough to be a significant distraction.

Really? · « **Reply #6045 on:** April 28, 2011, 06:51:26 AM »

Rode to work today. Only decent day this week!

sopo400f · « **Reply #6046 on:** April 28, 2011, 02:22:18 PM »

Worked on hand stitching a seat cover. I'm off of work for the week recovering from Hernia surgery. So in between movies and being comatose, I'm getting my stitch on.

GoatBaSS · « **Reply #6047 on:** April 28, 2011, 02:50:59 PM »

Register it with my insurance folk....

fire113 · « **Reply #6048 on:** April 28, 2011, 04:33:32 PM »

...start to cry as I opened the package that came from the US with a K0 speedo, WTF!!! scratches and cracks in the lens and the housing

not useable for my K0 in that condition.

dhall57 · « **Reply #6049 on:** April 28, 2011, 05:28:47 PM »

Took my honey down the hwy and around the block on my 750K6. Only the 2nd time she's rode on it.

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