Monday, April 21, 2008

A bit of bike time...

Well managed to get some time on the bike today, and just time on the bike, so thought I'd be try to figure out where the electrical problems I'd been getting had come from.
First something I made last week, my new rear brake leaver, nuts, bolts and some rubber tube, much better.



Argh who stole all my plastic and tank? The stuff you need to take off to get a look at the electrics.



Maybe this could be the source of some of my problems.



Thats the live feed too, so looks like I'm going to have to re-wire it now as it just fell apart when I tried to clean it up.


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Monday, April 14, 2008

Kicked the Bike...

Yep that's right, I kicked my bike... Oh the anger inside of me at the time was great, but lets explain why. I had a few jobs to do on the bike, what with all the travelling I do I seem to always have things to do on the bike. These where, clean the brakes and swap the pads, change the clutch cable and worm drive, fix the broken rear brake leaver, swap the exhausts over, get the headed grips working, adjust the throttle cables.
So thought I'd get started on the most important job of them all, the brakes, as my pads where getting low and they where in need of a good clean. Looking at the black 'glue' that was on the pistons it was something I'd put off to long. Now the right hand caliper was easy enough, with it cleaning up well and the pads coming out, though the pin to hold them in was a little stiff. Not that it could be said the same for the left caliper, I tried everything, but the pin would not move. Freezing, whacking on smaller sockets on the pin head, mole grips, blind anger. Which is now the bike got kicked, mainly at the frustration at the fact that no matter what I do something turns out to be a bastard. In the end I drilled the back of the caliper and then smacked the pin from behind, but even then it took some serious force to get it out, I was working on this bit a good hour. When I did get the pin out I had to swap it with a pin from another bike as it was so screwed up.
After all that stress I got on with replacing the worm drive and clutch cable, which now feels lovely and light again. Then sorted out and repaired the rear brake pedal, which was drilling a hole, threading it and then placing a bolt through it so that I had something to press. I also wrapped some rubber and plastic round the bolt to make a nice leaver.
The other jobs have to wait till next time, maybe I'll find some time this week now that its lighter in the evening to get it done.

Oh and just to piss me off this morning, I stalled the bike, no biggy really. Apart from the fact that it wounldn't start, I had to push it down the road wait five minutes and pray it would fire up. It did, just, so I hope there was enough charge on the rest of the journey for it to start later. Its all very odd as me and Sarj checked the charging circuits the last time the bike was playing up and it all was correct as per the manual.

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Sunday, April 06, 2008

SV in the snow.

Snow in Portsmouth in April, what ever next.






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