Topic: What did you do to your bike today ?

[grcamna2]

Sold a Suzuki T250 recently. Pulled this project out of storage yesterday.  Gave it a birdie bath and detailed it out a little. Fired up pretty easily off a slave tank. Will it be the next victim of my purge ?  hmmmm

Eric sold a bike?!   Could this be caused by Global Warming?!!   

Love those old Suzi's, need to get my TS250 back on the trail this winter.

We got another old Suzuki yesterday. It's a 1981 GS 1100E with 16k miles on it. We got it for the $400 owed on work already done. It had the petcock fail and dump gas in the oil which caused oil leakage at the head gasket. The bike still runs and rides good. We'll fix the head gasket and replace the rotting exhaust with a Delkevik exhaust system.

Kelly,now you've got a 'brother bike' 81' GS1100E to your 1980 silver GS1100E;Classic Superbikes.

[Gamma]

I wanted Ramair (MS006) foam socks for the velocity stacks on my CR29’s but couldn’t get any, so I’m using these.
Also fitted RG500 mirrors to the fairing

[MauiK3]

That GS is nice! Looks long and fast

[spotty]

Top triple clamp from a CB900 modified by Terry to take normal bars, lower set has already been sorted to work on my K7 ( again by Terry ) so now need to get one bent fork leg unbent and then see how the whole front end looks on the bike
Thanks again to Terry

[MisterKnife]

Oil change on my 550, noticed that the previous owner had cross-threaded the oil nut. Soo drilled it out and put in a nice helicoil.

[bryanj]

What oil nut?

[MisterKnife]

Ahhh I misspoke. Oil drain BOLT. my bad.

Then again if you can see the oil pan as a sort of nut then it's the oil drain nut. 

[Don R]

  You're all wrong, it's the oil drain plug. L0L! 

[Floshenbarnical]

I have done absolutely nothing to my bike recently other than put gas in it and ride the hell out of it. Loving every second riding the old girl

[Lucien Harpress]

Finally bit the bullet and sprung for a set of the carb top dust boots on my 70/71 CB750.  Photos and details in my project shop build thread!

[BenelliSEI]

Replaced th oil press. Switch on the Varadero with a new cb750 unit works fine.

[Terry in Australia]

Received 3 new ignition coils for my other Triumph Rocket 3 and popped for an Aussie built “Ozclaw” air scoop foe the Ramair filter system. Once SPotty’s over the plague we’ll install both. Am considering some drop in cam’s from the same supplier, which, with the Ramair system, Jardine pipe and ECU reflash will give it around 190 BHP and 160 foot pounds of torque at the wheel. Should be scary fun.

[Kelly E]

Received 3 new ignition coils for my other Triumph Rocket 3 and popped for an Aussie built “Ozclaw” air scoop foe the Ramair filter system. Once SPotty’s over the plague we’ll install both. Am considering some drop in cam’s from the same supplier, which, with the Ramair system, Jardine pipe and ECU reflash will give it around 190 BHP and 160 foot pounds of torque at the wheel. Should be scary fun.

Hey buddy, that sounds fun! I love riding big really fast bikes. At 125lbs I probably won't slow it down much.

[RAFster122s]

Get well quick Spotty, Terry isn’t that patient….
(Joking)
But do get well quick.
Must be near elections again as they are talking about people needing to mask again…

[spotty]

Top triple clamp from a CB900 modified by Terry to take normal bars, lower set has already been sorted to work on my K7 ( again by Terry ) so now need to get one bent fork leg unbent and then see how the whole front end looks on the bike
Thanks again to Terry

why the hell does this keep happening with the photos ? sometimes they'll come through no problem, sometimes this happens, most often trying to download a post or photos off my phone won't work at all. is this the sohc gods telling me they're not happy with the concept of a 750 trail bike ?

[spotty]

Get well quick Spotty, Terry isn’t that patient….
(Joking)
But do get well quick.
Must be near elections again as they are talking about people needing to mask again…

all better now ( except for no real sense of taste ) , back at work but fairly knackered

he'll have to be patient, the R3 is locked safely in my garage and there 90lb of not quite a wolfhound there to keep undesirables out of the back yard

[Kaze]

"What did you do to your bike today?"
Put on some new NGK plug caps on the CB750, fired her up... right winker idiot light didn't come on. Spent the next hour trying to hunt down the problem with a tester light, nope. Had the whole indicator light box opened up... couldn't find a short or the problem (found a spider nest in there though). In aggrevation, I cursed out the bike, put it back together, turned the key... *&!^@ indicator lights work again.

Plug caps weren't enough it seems. She always wants more.

[RAFster122s]

"What did you do to your bike today?"
Put on some new NGK plug caps on the CB750, fired her up... right winker idiot light didn't come on. Spent the next hour trying to hunt down the problem with a tester light, nope. Had the whole indicator light box opened up... couldn't find a short or the problem (found a spider nest in there though). In aggrevation, I cursed out the bike, put it back together, turned the key... *&!^@ indicator lights work again.

Plug caps weren't enough it seems. She always wants more.

She wanted to be touched, it's her love language...

[spotty]

CB900 triples closer to fitting

[Terry in Australia]

Received 3 new ignition coils for my other Triumph Rocket 3 and popped for an Aussie built “Ozclaw” air scoop foe the Ramair filter system. Once SPotty’s over the plague we’ll install both. Am considering some drop in cam’s from the same supplier, which, with the Ramair system, Jardine pipe and ECU reflash will give it around 190 BHP and 160 foot pounds of torque at the wheel. Should be scary fun.

Hey buddy, that sounds fun! I love riding big really fast bikes. At 125lbs I probably won't slow it down much.

The Rocket III seems to be the popular choice for little guys, mine don’t even notice my 230 pounds, so you would love one.

[Kelly E]

Today we installed fresh front brake pads on the 84' VF 1000F Interceptor. The outside pad on the left side wore down the nothing all of a sudden. Then we fixed the turn signal droop with some 1 1/2" dual wall heat shrink with adhesive. It will work until we get around to buying some new rubber mounts.

[Terry in Australia]

Today we installed fresh front brake pads on the 84' VF 1000F Interceptor. The outside pad on the left side wore down the nothing all of a sudden. Then we fixed the turn signal droop with some 1 1/2" dual wall heat shrink with adhesive. It will work until we get around to buying some new rubber mounts.

Good job Kelly, looks like new. Nothing worse than droopy indicators. Well there is, but you can apparently buy medication to fix that….

[spotty]

Freshly built ( and no longer bent ) forks means it's back on its own feet again

[grcamna2]

spotty,what did those long fork tubes come off of ?

[spotty]

spotty,what did those long fork tubes come off of ?

As far as I know they are aftermarket chopper tubes but the could be XR600, I used a set of XR350 tubes on another bike years ago which I sold to Terry when I got rid of all my sohc stuff.
. I used to own them years ago with 750 lowers on. I bought them back a couple weeks ago. The guy I got them off also has a chopperised stockish 750 and the digger frame I also sold him. A crafty plan is brewing in my head to get the lot off him along with a stupid long springer front end. I could end up with a dirt bike, stockish chopper and a digger, a bike for all seasons ( as well as the VMAX and the royal tour star cruiser )