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Offline Stev-o

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #20250 on: July 23, 2015, 05:54:52 am »
Quote from: Terry in Australia on July 23, 2015, 04:46:04 am
Oooher, but I digress. Today after lots of things that pissed me off, I took the Triumph for a ride, and had a blast. The sun was shining, the birds were possibly singing, and the triumph didn't explode. All up, a great day! ;D




What is this complex, Terry? Race track for scooters?!
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #20251 on: July 23, 2015, 06:21:20 am »
Ha! No mate, it's Broadford. There are several tracks at the complex, road racing, (that's Aussie road racing, where we go around corners, not just 1/4 of a mile in a straight line) speedway, and motocross. The gates were locked today, but there was a deafening roar coming from the direction of the road racing track, so I'm guessing there was some "Private testing" going on........... ;D
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #20252 on: July 23, 2015, 06:56:04 am »
Quote from: Terry in Australia on July 23, 2015, 06:21:20 am
Ha! No mate, it's Broadford. There are several tracks at the complex, road racing, (that's Aussie road racing, where we go around corners, not just 1/4 of a mile in a straight line) speedway, and motocross. The gates were locked today, but there was a deafening roar coming from the direction of the road racing track, so I'm guessing there was some "Private testing" going on........... ;D

Cool!  I obviously dont know Oz race tracks except for Surfers Paradise, I miss the Indy cars going there.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #20253 on: July 23, 2015, 02:14:27 pm »
Short trip after work. To test larger main jets, but it turned out to be a wonderful tour on curvy roads on the countryside and enjoying how good handling my old bike has.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #20254 on: July 23, 2015, 02:31:43 pm »
Got sick of not riding and bought a new bike so I can work on my CB750 and ride too!  ;D ;D ;D



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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #20255 on: July 23, 2015, 06:17:58 pm »
Quote from: Terry in Australia on July 23, 2015, 04:46:04 am
Oooher, but I digress. Today after lots of things that pissed me off, I took the Triumph for a ride, and had a blast. The sun was shining, the birds were possibly singing, and the triumph didn't explode. All up, a great day! ;D



Wow, that's a big looking bike, looks pretty comfortable though...

Is it just me, or does that instrument cluster look like a little drum set, lol...
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #20256 on: July 23, 2015, 09:37:58 pm »
Yesterday I swapped the 272304 needles in my 550F (which is fitted with 627B carbs) for 272004 needles (from 069A carbs). Set the clips to #2 and left out the 1/2 step tuning washers that I added last time.
Discovered that I had at some point made a mistake - one of the 627B needles that I removed had the clip in the #4 slot! (other three #2)
Re-vacuum synced the carbs and took it out for a short ride (dark freezing cold raining!), didn't go far enough to be sure, but it seemed a lot better!
Took it for a longer ride today and it goes better mid throttle range, pops a lot less on decel and the popping when idling is gone! (I think fixing my mistake probably made the most difference!)
Still stumbles at 1/4 throttle so it seems I need to change the #38 pilots for #35's- I think I have actually known this for a long time but have been procrastinating - I hope I get it done soon!
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #20257 on: July 23, 2015, 09:59:54 pm »
Took my K2 out for a ride, 1/2 mile down the road it started bogging down, feeling like it was about to die off on me. I got a feeling it was going to be a bad day. Turned out it just went into reserve :-[ :-[ :-[ Oh well, first time for everything ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #20258 on: July 24, 2015, 03:32:41 am »
Quote from: socal1200r on July 23, 2015, 06:17:58 pm
Quote from: Terry in Australia on July 23, 2015, 04:46:04 am
Oooher, but I digress. Today after lots of things that pissed me off, I took the Triumph for a ride, and had a blast. The sun was shining, the birds were possibly singing, and the triumph didn't explode. All up, a great day! ;D



Wow, that's a big looking bike, looks pretty comfortable though...

Is it just me, or does that instrument cluster look like a little drum set, lol...

Thanks mate, it's 2300cc's of stump pulling fun, a big fat bike for a big fat man! 60 MPH @ 2200 RPM, and 100 MPH @ 4000 RPM, with redline @ 6500. Yep, I often wondered why those gauges looked kind of familiar, and I think you're right, they do look a bit like a drum set.

I'm thinking about a temp gauge now after an incident yesterday, but it might just add to my anxiety, so maybe no......... Cheers, Terry. ;D
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So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

"Crazy is a very misunderstood term, it's a fine line that some of us can lean over and still keep our balance" (thanks RB550Four)

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #20259 on: July 24, 2015, 12:27:59 pm »
Quote from: Terry in Australia on July 23, 2015, 04:43:19 am
Quote from: Jerry Rxman Griffin aka MuthaF'er on July 22, 2015, 06:51:24 pm

Terry, the 3 divorces prove mine have never been in a vice and never will  ;D   ;) 

Ha ha, if that's the case what's your reason for marrying them in the first place Jerry, you just love the taste of fcuking wedding cake do you? You know you can BUY wedding cake, yeah? And then you don't have to give some old ho your house afterwards? ;D

Just gotta know what yer doing on the exit interview with the judge  ;D but you better know ahead of time. The 6P principle. Proper planning prevents piss poor performance.  I'm at the same address as 16 years ago PLUS the judge offered ME child support and I turned it down  ;) Plus my fortune is intact and has grown. First one 32DD, second one 32AA but 5'10" and last one was 16 years younger but I screwed her one time too many. I'm taking that mistake off to college in 1 month then I'm free to come visit.     
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #20260 on: July 24, 2015, 01:08:23 pm »
Short trip after work. Back to smaller and earlier verified in Dyno main jets. Shining sun on a blue sky, wonderful tour on curvy roads on the countryside and enjoying how good handling my old bike has despite 190kmh on not absolutely flat road.
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Updates of the CB750 K6 -1976
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,180468.msg2092136.html#msg2092136
The billet block build thread
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,49438.msg1863571.html#msg1863571
CB750 K2 -1975  build thread
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,168243.msg1948381.html#msg1948381
K2 engine build thread. For a complete CB750 -75
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,180088.msg2088008.html#msg2088008
Carb jetting, a long story Mikuni TMR32
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #20261 on: July 25, 2015, 01:08:41 pm »
My poor 550 has been sidelined he last few weeks.  The charging system failed on me.  I have had family in town the last 3 weekends and have not been able to mess with it much.  I have put a new voltage regulator, threw on a spare rectifier from a GL1000 I had laying around and I cleaned all of the terminals.  Nothing. 
 I had checked the resistance on the stator and it was wrong, but I thought it might just be my cheap harbor freight multi-meter.
Alas, I am an idiot.  I pulled the stator and could see the outside coils were f%cked.   Luckily, I had a spare, but the pigtail was chopped off about halfway up.   Soldered on the half from the bad coil and slapped it all back together.  Presto!  I am cruising on the bike!   

Now I just need to find a cool tank for my GL500, get the carbs rebuilt and slap a battery in that one. 
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #20262 on: July 25, 2015, 01:17:37 pm »
Replaced the broken speedo drive and took her for a ride...... ;D

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #20263 on: July 25, 2015, 01:52:31 pm »
Quote from: jonda500 on July 23, 2015, 09:37:58 pm
Yesterday I swapped the 272304 needles in my 550F (which is fitted with 627B carbs) for 272004 needles (from 069A carbs). Set the clips to #2 and left out the 1/2 step tuning washers that I added last time.
Discovered that I had at some point made a mistake - one of the 627B needles that I removed had the clip in the #4 slot! (other three #2)
Re-vacuum synced the carbs and took it out for a short ride (dark freezing cold raining!), didn't go far enough to be sure, but it seemed a lot better!
Took it for a longer ride today and it goes better mid throttle range, pops a lot less on decel and the popping when idling is gone! (I think fixing my mistake probably made the most difference!)
Still stumbles at 1/4 throttle so it seems I need to change the #38 pilots for #35's- I think I have actually known this for a long time but have been procrastinating - I hope I get it done soon!
Where would one get #35s?  Admittedly I haven't looked for jets in a while but could never see to find different size pilots.

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #20264 on: July 25, 2015, 02:55:55 pm »
Took the 550 to the local Show & Shine in support of Veterans.  Lots of Harleys ::), also a couple of nice Hondas.  Most interesting was turbo diesel twin, kind of Steam Punk. 8)  Pictures later. 
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #20265 on: July 25, 2015, 03:07:43 pm »
Finally threw on the MotoGP Werks exhaust.... and of course it starts raining after I got everything tightened and wiped down. Ran it at idle for a couple minutes and then back inside. Now patiently waiting. Ugh! It sounds unbelievably good on just a bench sync. Reminds me of a modern day four 600 sportbike. Can't wait to get on the road!
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #20266 on: July 25, 2015, 04:09:47 pm »
Some pics from the Show & Shine -



member's bike??



Posting the diesel pics to the 'Inspiration' thread.
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« Reply #20267 on: July 26, 2015, 03:01:51 pm »
Not a lot of progress as my time has been more limited by that W O R K thing.......

Divying my time today so the garage came first  ;D

Decided on 102.5 lobe center for the DP315 cam. Card says 104 so I moved it up a little for 1000cc's of torque. Why 102 POINT 5 you ask? have you tried to move it POINT 5? LOL. Turbo D ran some numbers on his cam program and came up with 102. Since I attempted MANY times only to realize that there are some situations where you SHOULDN'T read right to left, like on a degree wheel to the left of TDC...  Anyway my numbers at 102.5 came out to 33 and 58 degrees. Let's just say that I 'attempted' the timing soooo many times that my rings MUST be seated without even starting.

Got the top end buttoned up and the RC lightweight rotor installed with new starter clutch parts I forgot I had  :) On to cleaning up the frame so I can install this bad ass engine  :D  Powdercoat later once it all works and I figure out what I want to do to the rear as far as tank/seat/hoop stuff. After all this is my F'n 1000cc Hot Rod 



 
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #20268 on: July 26, 2015, 03:39:20 pm »
Like the case colour Jerry. ;) ;D
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #20269 on: July 26, 2015, 04:40:36 pm »
Looks good Jerry. I like the chrome cam cover.
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« Reply #20270 on: July 26, 2015, 04:51:13 pm »
Looks fantastic Jerry, just such a pity it's going into a f-ing fugly F............ ;D
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So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #20271 on: July 26, 2015, 04:55:15 pm »
After 4 attempts, I am finally happy with my powder coat on my tank and emblems.

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #20272 on: July 26, 2015, 05:01:05 pm »
Put about 50 miles on the digger to spend some garage time with ZZPete...
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #20273 on: July 26, 2015, 05:08:06 pm »
Quote from: SOHC Digger on July 26, 2015, 05:01:05 pm
Put about 50 miles on the digger to spend some garage time with ZZPete...

Good to see the Digger's on the road still mate, and give Pete my regards, I haven't seen him on here in ages! ;D
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I was feeling sorry for myself because I couldn't afford new bike boots, until I met a man with no legs.

So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

"Crazy is a very misunderstood term, it's a fine line that some of us can lean over and still keep our balance" (thanks RB550Four)

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #20274 on: July 26, 2015, 05:35:42 pm »
Quote from: Terry in Australia on July 26, 2015, 05:08:06 pm
Quote from: SOHC Digger on July 26, 2015, 05:01:05 pm
Put about 50 miles on the digger to spend some garage time with ZZPete...

Good to see the Digger's on the road still mate, and give Pete my regards, I haven't seen him on here in ages! ;D

The clock on the digger just passed 1,000 miles. Runs beautifully!!!

Pete's doing great. He's been avoiding the computer because before he knows it, he's lost hours of garage time to it. He's in the middle of an engine overhaul right now. Even if he's not on the forum, he's still focused on the bikes.
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