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Offline Bankerdanny

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #22000 on: June 11, 2016, 04:40:22 pm »
Road it around Plymouth Michigan and three laps around Road America.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #22001 on: June 11, 2016, 06:54:54 pm »
Quote from: Bankerdanny on June 11, 2016, 04:40:22 pm
... and three laps around Road America.

That must have been great! 
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #22002 on: June 12, 2016, 10:33:30 am »
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #22003 on: June 12, 2016, 01:51:38 pm »
Washed it!   :P
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #22004 on: June 12, 2016, 02:03:29 pm »
Quote from: Desert-SOHC on June 12, 2016, 01:51:38 pm
Washed it!   :P

Same here, but cleaned up the Connie and Voyager while I was at it, too.

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #22005 on: June 12, 2016, 07:00:56 pm »
Put them outside and took some photos while I was cleaning up all the rain water that leaked into the garage  :-\
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #22006 on: June 12, 2016, 07:08:41 pm »
Today I went for a ride and got it very dirty in the wet fog on muddy roads .... Cold for California. But fun!  (My CB is in the back there...
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #22007 on: June 12, 2016, 08:59:36 pm »
Hi Dave,

Just noticed your post about nerve pain and thought I'd send a comment your way.  The grips you have there look pretty good actually, but I have had good success with the ones below.  I am not affiliated with Randakk's, but am a satisfied customer:

http://randakks.com/products/randakks-amazing-grips

Regards,

Kirk
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #22008 on: June 12, 2016, 10:55:47 pm »
Took the Transalp out on a group ride today.

Melbourne was all blue sky and sunny, but around 4 degrees C at 8am.

We left the city and went out to the airport, then rode the famous "Mad Max" roads out there (USA people got that movie from us as "The Road Warrior"). Then we went up to Lancefield, through Pyalong to Seymour for a pub lunch, then down to Strath Creek, across to Flowerdale, up to Kinglake and down to St.Andrews.

Probably means nothing to a lot of you (except Terry here) - but these roads are magnificent and right on Melbourne's doorstep.

So if you re ever here - maybe we can take you out on them.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #22009 on: June 13, 2016, 12:25:11 am »
Put a little diy twist on the pedestrian slicer.

Waiting for the paint to dry.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #22010 on: June 13, 2016, 09:57:16 am »
Prepped a spare cam and valve cover for install after new pucks and o-rings are received in today's mail.

Hope to be riding again tonight. It's been a couple weeks.


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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #22011 on: June 13, 2016, 12:50:21 pm »
Quote from: joeyvans on June 13, 2016, 09:57:16 am
Prepped a spare cam and valve cover for install after new pucks and o-rings are received in today's mail.

Hope to be riding again tonight. It's been a couple weeks.


Yeehaw!  Hard to believe two sohc4 members burned out rockerboxes within 2 weeks of each other.


Anyway, the paint dried on my slicer, so I mounted it and put the wheel back on!

That was a fun little project.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #22012 on: June 13, 2016, 12:53:24 pm »
Quote from: BomberMann650 on June 13, 2016, 12:50:21 pm
Yeehaw!  Hard to believe two sohc4 members burned out rockerboxes within 2 weeks of each other.

I'm guessing mine was bad for awhile, but I had been too concerned about carb tuning to really dig into it.



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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #22013 on: June 13, 2016, 01:22:28 pm »
Made a nice curbside score today on the way to a buddies house.
Somebody was giving away/throwing out a couple of paddock stands and some new Emgo anti-vibe bar plugs.
The black one is a Trackside with the paddles in the little box.
The white one has no name on it and the wheels need lubed.
So anyway that was nice!  :)
« Last Edit: June 13, 2016, 04:48:59 pm by CycleRanger »
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #22014 on: June 13, 2016, 01:26:28 pm »
Quote from: CycleRanger on June 13, 2016, 01:22:28 pm
Made a nice curbside score today on the way to a buddies house.
Somebody was giving away/throwing out a couple of paddock stands and some new Emgo fork anti-vibe plugs.
The black one is a Trackside with the paddles in the little box.
The white one has no name on it and the wheels need lubed.
So anyway that was nice!  :)

Score!!
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #22015 on: June 13, 2016, 02:49:30 pm »
Got my eBay headlight brackets and reshaped them to fit the 35mm fork tubes.



Also read through the Shop Manual a bit.  Great find.

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #22016 on: June 13, 2016, 03:25:18 pm »
Quote from: Schroeder on June 13, 2016, 02:49:30 pm
Got my eBay headlight brackets and reshaped them to fit the 35mm fork tubes.


Also read through the Shop Manual a bit.  Great find.



You got a hard copy?
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #22017 on: June 13, 2016, 03:36:00 pm »
Quote from: CycleRanger on June 13, 2016, 03:25:18 pm
Quote from: Schroeder on June 13, 2016, 02:49:30 pm
Got my eBay headlight brackets and reshaped them to fit the 35mm fork tubes.


Also read through the Shop Manual a bit.  Great find.



You got a hard copy?

Yes.  eBay again.  I search CB500 & CB550 daily and this happened to pop up.  This is the 1972 publication.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #22018 on: June 13, 2016, 03:45:04 pm »
Quote from: Schroeder on June 13, 2016, 02:49:30 pm
Got my eBay headlight brackets and reshaped them to fit the 35mm fork tubes.



Also read through the Shop Manual a bit.  Great find.



Nice bike
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #22019 on: June 13, 2016, 04:02:45 pm »
painted points cover
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #22020 on: June 13, 2016, 04:13:30 pm »
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #22021 on: June 13, 2016, 04:48:00 pm »
Quote from: Schroeder on June 13, 2016, 03:36:00 pm
Quote from: CycleRanger on June 13, 2016, 03:25:18 pm
Quote from: Schroeder on June 13, 2016, 02:49:30 pm
Got my eBay headlight brackets and reshaped them to fit the 35mm fork tubes.


Also read through the Shop Manual a bit.  Great find.


You got a hard copy?

Yes.  eBay again.  I search CB500 & CB550 daily and this happened to pop up.  This is the 1972 publication.

Nice! I like having the original paper!
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #22022 on: June 13, 2016, 04:50:41 pm »
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #22023 on: June 13, 2016, 05:20:44 pm »
Quote from: CycleRanger on June 13, 2016, 04:50:41 pm

As long as it's not the seat. ;)

Nice look with that fender..

Absolutely not the seat! haha. 
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #22024 on: June 14, 2016, 04:13:14 am »
Quote from: TomsK8resto on June 03, 2016, 08:34:53 am
Ordered a new set of handle bars for my '78 750K bike.  The set that came on it were too tall, the super bike bars on it now are too short, so I ordered a set of '69-'71 750 replica bars from 4into1.  Hopefully they will be just right!

Tom
The PO put some cafe' bars on my K4, but included the originals. I was planning to revert back to them.  Were the tall ones stock or aftermarket?  Are they replicas to OEM spec?
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