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Offline mickey6

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #8925 on: January 15, 2012, 02:45:09 pm »
Oh with some creative rearranging I could probably get 3 more  ;D
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #8926 on: January 15, 2012, 03:07:15 pm »
just hangin' around
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #8927 on: January 15, 2012, 04:18:13 pm »
Chasing an oil drip.  Degreased the engine (probably first time ever cleaned in 35+ years), and now getting ready to spray with foot powder to find where my little drip originates from...what a messy job.  Finished a valve job last week and now my bike starts on first kick every time (had HondaMans ignition installed so I'm certain that has more to do with the starting than my valve adjustments but I like to think I had a hand in it).  After I find that oil drip its off to change the oil and filter...
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #8928 on: January 15, 2012, 05:02:25 pm »
Fabbed some nylon spacers for the XL250 headlight bucket since the metal ones were missing.
Installed the bucket and continued plugging away at the bike.
Installed most of the controls and cables. It's getting close! :)

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #8929 on: January 15, 2012, 11:20:00 pm »
Picked up all the black painted bits from the spray shop. Look great. Will post pix when I start the re-assembly.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #8930 on: January 16, 2012, 02:29:32 am »
just hangin' around

That's a nice looking R75 in the background mate, if you're hurting for space in your garage, you can send that one to me, I'll look after it for you! Cheers, Terry. ;D
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #8931 on: January 16, 2012, 04:34:32 am »
thx, mine since 1980. 
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #8932 on: January 16, 2012, 06:18:56 am »
Is it a /6? Maybe even a 1975?

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #8933 on: January 16, 2012, 09:52:41 am »
Fabbed up a front wheel seal/spacer to do away with the mechanical speedo on the CB450K4 project.






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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #8934 on: January 16, 2012, 10:12:00 am »
 ...visited my bikes and checked out what I have to do as next.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #8935 on: January 16, 2012, 01:34:37 pm »
Carbs are ready...



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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #8936 on: January 16, 2012, 04:21:43 pm »
r75/6, about 48k on her.  stock except for Magura "S" bars, EBC pads, "S" springs, dyna ignition.   
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #8937 on: January 17, 2012, 08:53:24 am »
Rode to work this morning.  Fog, mist and rain.  Suppose to be turning to rain/snow mix then over to snow this afternoon.  Was 40F this morning, now its 38F.  The wife doesn't want me to take the bike to work this afternoon. We'll see.

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #8938 on: January 17, 2012, 09:05:50 am »
You dare devil you!!!!!!



Be safe!!!!!!!
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #8939 on: January 17, 2012, 11:04:46 am »
...got some parts today.

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #8940 on: January 17, 2012, 01:19:23 pm »
Looked at her longingly in the garage as I parked the car next to her after work....then went into house to find my new helmet had arrived.  Bell Revolver....It's a modular that actually looks decent (and not goofy like most of them do) and has an inner flip down visor.  Been eyeing it for a while (mostly because of the rally stripe design) and they have come down to about $100 most places online, so I grabbed one.   ;D

Wish I could go out and test it on the road, but too cold here today for my taste.

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #8941 on: January 17, 2012, 01:34:59 pm »
Looked at her longingly in the garage as I parked the car next to her after work....then went into house to find my new helmet had arrived.  Bell Revolver....It's a modular that actually looks decent (and not goofy like most of them do) and has an inner flip down visor.  Been eyeing it for a while (mostly because of the rally stripe design) and they have come down to about $100 most places online, so I grabbed one.   ;D

Wish I could go out and test it on the road, but too cold here today for my taste.
SNIP

Not to mention WINDY!

Helmet looks great! I'll be going modular this year as well.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #8942 on: January 17, 2012, 01:43:17 pm »

Not to mention WINDY!


You're not kidding.....I think the wind chimes on the front porch are going to fall apart...they're making so much noise.  Crazy weather here in IN today.  Went from near 60F with thunder/lightening this morning to 35, windy, and chance of flurries.  Geesh. ::)
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #8943 on: January 17, 2012, 03:21:52 pm »
...got some parts today.



That the one from Thailand?  How's the quality?  I have the same VDO gauge for the pressure.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #8944 on: January 17, 2012, 03:24:12 pm »
Put finned covers on the 500.


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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #8945 on: January 17, 2012, 04:50:10 pm »
Well, I did take a second ride today, but only to the bank.  I just couldn't take the chance on the weather this afternoon, so instead of Honda I took Jeepie.  Good thing I did.  About halfway threw my afternoon runs the rain changed to snow.  Real heavy snow and the roads turned white real quick and visibility was very poor.  It was still snowing when I got home.

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #8946 on: January 17, 2012, 08:22:06 pm »
Snowed in Portland today too. Got my sweet new gold and black 836 side badges from greenjeans today. Thanks John!! I must be workin too hard, seems like I just ordered them yesterday.. 8)
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #8947 on: January 17, 2012, 08:29:46 pm »
Well it was 4degrees F today and I realized that it was unlikely that I would get my CB 400 on the road until spring. My 500 and 350 had already been put to bed.  I finally removed the battery and brought it to the basement to put on the trickle charger until spring. It is a #$%* to live in the northeast.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #8948 on: January 18, 2012, 04:42:35 am »
Since I am rebuilding the front brake system on the 550F I decided to replace the 35 year old brake lines with a nice set of stainless brake lines from a member I got my 650 lines from.

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #8949 on: January 18, 2012, 02:07:58 pm »
That the one from Thailand?  How's the quality?  I have the same VDO gauge for the pressure.

Hi Greggo,

...nope! it isn't from Thailand it is from Taiwan and the quality is good.
I checked the temp with a digital equipment and it is 100% correct, I could not find any mark for the oil level but that is no problem, I have a good laser @work :)
Would like to check the VDO gauge @the weekend and how the temp gauge/dip stick will fit too.

Have a good one...Georg 
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