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[Favs]

Not 100% on this but it's now a MOT fail.
Given the choice I'd stick with it as the headlight is pants with H7.

Passed it's MOT today, tester said he's seen much worse when looking at the pitts in the fork leg, I'll get it sorted anyway.

Good job on the pass.
Yeah HID in the TDM is a fail now as are DRLs that don't extinguish when the headlight is lit - if I read the MOT manual correctly. https://www.mot-test...anuals/class12/

Edited by Favs, 07 June 2018 - 07:39 am.

[Favs]

300 faultless overnight miles. Was a bit chilly about 02:00 in N Yorkshire, I nearly had to have 2 T-shirts on.....

Edited by Favs, 07 June 2018 - 07:35 am.

[Favs]

Discarded Angel GTs, fitted & balanced a pair of Avon Storms while in the shed. Test ridden & all good.

 

Oil + filter to do tomorrow.

 

Cargo nets arrived today from the Far East (not Lowestoft), - so 4 x pannier modification also tomorrow.

 

Solenoid valve also arrived (replace Scottoiler - mentioned elsewhere) .I guess that's another job for tomorrow until beer o'clock arrives

[Gowza]

Finally got everything transferred from old to new bike, now all it needs is to be ridden! 40E3706F-DF46-4ABC-84C0-51FC2A0C69E2.jpeg
Sorry iphone photo = sideways!

 

Does the yellow banding on the wheels mean you've gone for the hard race compound?! 

[dablik]

600+ miles to give the old girl a run in, seems to be running nicely apart from a few gear change glitches, could possibly be gear pedal/clutch needs adjustment hopefully, we'll see, burning the max amount of oil ie 1litre per 1000 miles   missed the 9r for the motorway stretches short as they were but, give me a mk1 tractor around the twisties any day, even Studley kept up on a mk1    

Edited by dablik, 08 June 2018 - 11:20 am.

[Studley Ramrod]

Not easy following a mk1 on full chat at 40-45mph but I managed it.   A lot of them roads in North/mid Wales have less traffic than the Picos in Spain if you go mid-week, amazing.  700 miles and about 200ml of oil.

[WayneUK]

Fitted a scottoiler today

[Favs]

A bit of this......

 

 

And a bit of posing....

Edited by Favs, 14 June 2018 - 03:27 pm.

[Bjørge]

A bit of this......

 

 

Favs, your piccies are a tad bit too low-res for being perceptible....

[Bjørge]

Removed pistons & rings from 9'er front calipers, got all but 1 out the easy way. Compressed air then is your friend 

 

Glad yam didn't put 6-piston calipers on . . . . 2x4 is more than enough....

[Favs]

 

Favs, your piccies are a tad bit too low-res for being perceptible....

 

Yeah, I've got to get around to that sometime soon

 

Edit Done

Edited by Favs, 14 June 2018 - 03:30 pm.

[madmopedracer]

what i dident do today

failed to completely fit my bluespots

all was going well r1 bluespots hel braided lines fzr1000 mater cylinder 

had peices of wood holding pistons in bled the system good grip on the wood good leaver action

then bolted onto the disks and gently worked out the pistons keeping reservoir topped up

now brakes are spongy and leaver comes back to the bars spent the afternoon and 500ml of brake fluid trying to sort it

reverted to old tdm M/cylinder no problems WTF

anyone with a 14mm master cylinder will also post in wanted section 

 

what other bikes would fit ?

 

thanlks

Edited by madmopedracer, 14 June 2018 - 03:56 pm.

[dablik]

With a little patience you can reverse bleed to good effect, been and got the T shirt, a double banjo at the mc helps also i find.

[TDMick]

Replaced the battery, first touch it fired up!

Perhaps it still loves me? 

Now I've got to remember how to ride!

and clean the fecker.

[madmopedracer]

With a little patience you can reverse bleed to good effect, been and got the T shirt, a double banjo at the mc helps also i find.

vacuum sucked down reverse bled tried everything grip on 1/4 ply was good all went wrong when mounted on the discs ie pistons out further

very careful to keep master cylinder topped up when pushing them out tried bleeding suck bleeding reverse bleeding no good fitted std master cylinder and all is ok im stumped looking for another 14mm master cylinder

[James]

What!??

 

“One of the key items not listed above is that aftermarket HID (High Intensity Discharge) lamps will fail. Of course, machines like the BMW K1200GT had them as standard, which is fine, but any standard halogen lamp that’s been converted to take HIDs won’t get a pass. There can be numerous issues with incorrectly fitted lamps, from the fact that the reflectors won’t focus the beam correctly, to serious electrical problems.”

 

https://www.bennetts...-mean-to-bikers

[Catteeclan]

More to do with the scatter of light above the image. My tdm and vw sharan have a perfect image but I must admit to noticing the extra light that isn't there on the H4/H7.
Lights are crap now.

[fixitsan]

I know that retrofitting them to cars re3quires the use of a lens cleaning/spraying mechanism. The problem is that as the lens becomes cloudy with dirt then the high brightness of the HID causes a lot of stray glare from the backlit dirt

[drewpy]

had a horrible knocking noise from the front end last weekend, so had a sneaky peek suspecting it was the head races (I'd done the fork bushes last year) yep originals with no grease in.

 

At least I've spotted it in time for the NC500 in a few weeks

[James]

More to do with the scatter of light above the image. My tdm and vw sharan have a perfect image but I must admit to noticing the extra light that isn't there on the H4/H7.
Lights are crap now.

Yep, the TDM900 lamps are great at lighting up the front mudguard, but not much else. Best ones Ive experienced so far were on my AT and my R1100GS, but Ive never had a bike with HID or LED beams.

Edited by Jim, 17 June 2018 - 09:05 pm.