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#3481 Favs

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Posted 17 March 2019 - 04:57 pm

Finished the aux wiring/distribution board/fusebox build & began disassembly of TDM for fitment of same. I'll do the shims while it is stripped, as a couple of inlets were tight but serviceable last year. CSM, throttle bodies blah blah adjusting/service too.


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#3482 JMC

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Posted 20 March 2019 - 10:11 am

Having a bridgestone battlax T30 evo fitted on the front on saturday, changing from a sportmax 2 that decided to go out of shape and cause some wobbles 

Anyone use the evo's  ?



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#3483 dablik

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Posted 20 March 2019 - 12:33 pm

Yea one of our members uses Evo's, in Oz i think, seem to recall very good review of them though.


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Posted 20 March 2019 - 04:20 pm

used them on the VFR1200, good tyres, in fact just had a pair delivered today for me Blackbird :good:



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Posted 20 March 2019 - 07:20 pm

Cheers lads :)

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Posted 21 March 2019 - 07:17 am

I changed to a pair of Battlax Sport Touring T31 about six weeks ago.  Felt good for the first 250km, had the rear edge to edge on the Putty Road in a group ride with friends.  Unfortunately a combination of gravel road, a big ditch and target fixation stopped my testing of the tyres.   Bike should be back this week and the plate in my clavicle should be good in about two months. 



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Posted 21 March 2019 - 08:34 am

Ooch ouch ow, "a bad workman always blames his tools" ;) hope your on the mend and did'nt bust the bike up too much.


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Posted 21 March 2019 - 08:35 am

I changed to a pair of Battlax Sport Touring T31 about six weeks ago.  Felt good for the first 250km, had the rear edge to edge on the Putty Road in a group ride with friends.  Unfortunately a combination of gravel road, a big ditch and target fixation stopped my testing of the tyres.   Bike should be back this week and the plate in my clavicle should be good in about two months. 

Oops. Get well soon!


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Posted 21 March 2019 - 10:17 am

Be better sooner.


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Posted 21 March 2019 - 05:42 pm

I changed to a pair of Battlax Sport Touring T31 about six weeks ago.  Felt good for the first 250km, had the rear edge to edge on the Putty Road in a group ride with friends.  Unfortunately a combination of gravel road, a big ditch and target fixation stopped my testing of the tyres.   Bike should be back this week and the plate in my clavicle should be good in about two months. 

 

Ouch, but lucky you got a plate on the clavicle. Mine went pop in September and they left it to heal is it's crazy angle, so I've now got a huge lump of new bone growth sticking through my shirt where new bone has grown to fill the gap.. Doctor said if it causes any serious issues they can just break it again and plate it !   I wish they'd have plated it because the new joint kept breaking every few days, just by moving my arm or rolling over in my sleep...it stings a bit !


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Posted 21 March 2019 - 05:48 pm

Having a bridgestone battlax T30 evo fitted on the front on saturday, changing from a sportmax 2 that decided to go out of shape and cause some wobbles 

Anyone use the evo's  ?

Using my second pair of T30 evo`s now. When the are due for replacement, I will have Pirelli Angel GT`s fitted. The Pirelli`s perform better in the wet, and have less `discomfort/feeling of sliding` when passing a bitumen repair on an asphalt road in the wet.
But the T30 evo`s most certainly aren`t a bad choice in my opninion.



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Posted 23 March 2019 - 03:54 pm

Spent the morning at Steve Jordan motorcycles in Bookham. After trying to remap my pc3 Steve decided it wasn’t working at all and took it off, he then had a think and another go at fitting it and found that some idiot (!) had managed to fit it wrongly, after a couple of hours of remapping the result is a perfectly smooth TDM with no snatching whatsoever, I’m finally very happy with my newish bike! In my defence the plugs/sockets I fitted it to were the same fitting and colour (which had been changed by Yamaha since my 04 bike)

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Posted 23 March 2019 - 05:02 pm

Got the evo fitted on the front today, the rear has only 1700km on it and it feels like a new bike super handling again :)
I also had a good look at the tracer gt, the fairings do look a bit cheap and it's a bit expensive at only 2 grand less than a full spec africa twin

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Posted 26 March 2019 - 12:48 pm

Just fitted Barkbusters Storm S1 set on my 9er. Web page said they wouldn't fit the 2010 model, but lo and behold, they did.

I did have to partially dismount right mirror assembly to slide the clamp under the brake fluid reservoir. Easy enough.

 

Now to wait for a rainy day to really test them out. Today I'll have to settle for wind gusts of over 50km/h. I can already tell these are much better than the 4€ eBay hand guards I tried first. :D

 

Earlier last week I also managed to remove most of the snatchiness on low load sustained revs by simply adjusting the CO settings much leaner. Should have tried that earlier. Doh!


Edited by Karpo, 26 March 2019 - 12:49 pm.

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Posted 27 March 2019 - 11:21 am

changed oil and filter as not ridden since July as had a new hip.

 

In readiness as off to Wray Bike night next Thursday, weather permitting


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Posted 29 March 2019 - 07:47 pm

Re- done 3 puncture's on the Rear tyre using Stop & Go Pocket Tyre Plugged Kit - previously used Cargol Turn + Go but had a slow leak

Then took it for a spin around Loch Lomond
On the way Home it Spat out the R / Hand Spark Plug @ 70 mph on the outside lane of A9 heading up hill between Stirling + Perth
Limped home on One Cylinder
No obvious damage - Will have better look tomorrow

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Posted 29 March 2019 - 08:41 pm

Re- done 3 puncture's on the Rear tyre using Stop & Go Pocket Tyre Plugged Kit - previously used Cargol Turn + Go but had a slow leak

Then took it for a spin around Loch Lomond
On the way Home it Spat out the R / Hand Spark Plug @ 70 mph on the outside lane of A9 heading up hill between Stirling + Perth
Limped home on One Cylinder
No obvious damage - Will have better look tomorrow

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That's really unlucky. Did you go all the way back to Dundee like that ? Good going if you did !


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Posted 29 March 2019 - 08:57 pm

That's really unlucky. Did you go all the way back to Dundee like that ? Good going if you did !


Yeah
Rode all the way home like that
Mainly because I didn't have a clue about what was wrong
The Bike was making a hell of a noise , fuel light came on so stopped in Perth and stuck 6 quid in 20 miles later fuel light on again !

Went to Skinner's motorcycle's as soon as I got to Dundee he reckoned that the plug threads may be stripped but it would be a week or two before he could have a Proper look !

So just nursed it home and Will check it myself

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Posted 30 March 2019 - 01:31 pm

Yeah
Rode all the way home like that
Mainly because I didn't have a clue about what was wrong
The Bike was making a hell of a noise , fuel light came on so stopped in Perth and stuck 6 quid in 20 miles later fuel light on again !

Went to Skinner's motorcycle's as soon as I got to Dundee he reckoned that the plug threads may be stripped but it would be a week or two before he could have a Proper look !

So just nursed it home and Will check it myself

 

Hope it's not a stripped thread

 

 

 

 

 

Today I fitted the repaired bodywork from Muddy's old bike..

 

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I think the colour of the hydrodipped parts clashes with the nice dark galaxy blue of the other panels but it's good enough until I find another idea :)

 

 

 

 

This was the upper fairing before I used hot staples and 3D printed brackets to repair it

 

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Edited by fixitsan, 30 March 2019 - 01:44 pm.

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Posted 30 March 2019 - 03:35 pm

Nice work Fixitsan

Well today I put the spark plug back in - nowt only firing on one cylinder
So plug out new plug in changed plug cap back to original etc- cos I had been struggling to get cap on then off then I managed to pull the Lead out of the cap
End result It's Alive ! Running fine - quick trip for Fuel all Ok

Question
What's everyone else using to get that R / hand plug in / out on a mk 2. ?
What am I missing I'm using a 17 mm ratchet spanner on the top of the plug spanner but it's a very Slow process
So what's the quickest way ?
Andy


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