Next Fixit day - Mon 13th

[Squiggles]

Fixit @ Mine on Monday 13th. In the afternoon (~2pm onwards)

Im in Epsom, txt 0212685528 for the exact address, and if you need the gate opened when you arrive


Things to do:
FXR Brakes
DR Brakes
General clean, tighten, grease, & lube of all bikes

[shingo]

You guys can fix my CBR if u want. It could do with a carb balance.

Note: Doing so does not mean i will let you borrow it :bleh:

[Real_Wolf]

but, contrary to your previous statement, I do believe that you said that Stephen could borrow it, should he do something to improve it, such as balance the carbs

[motorbyclist]

yeah i'll borrow it :D

[shingo]

but, contrary to your previous statement, I do believe that you said that Stephen could borrow it, should he do something to improve it, such as balance the carbs

Noooo, i never said such a thing :shifty:

[HungusMaximist]

Noooo, i never said such a thing :shifty:

Thought you moved to OZ?

Got kicked back already this quick? :baby:

[Real_Wolf]

nah, Hungus, its just that everyone wants to borrow his CBR (understandable, nice machine), but at the chiller two weeks ago now, when Stephen was trying to get him to let him borrow it, he said that Stephen could borrow it IF he did something to improve it, and suggested balancing the carbs

[shingo]

Thought you moved to OZ?

Got kicked back already this quick? :baby:

I'm still in Aus. As Wolf said, people are offering to thrash or as they put it "look after" my CBR. And i foolishly said they could if they were to do some maintenance on it, but i quickly retracted my statement after everyone noted how shocking stephen is at putting stuff back together.

[motorbyclist]

thrash it? pffft as if :rolleyes:

srsly, we might even buy it off ya if you don't come back:msn-wink:

[shingo]

thrash it? pffft as if :rolleyes:

I've seen how you ride your own bikes, i can just imagine what you'd be like on someone elses :Pokey:


srsly, we might even buy it off ya if you don't come back:msn-wink:

I was meaning to talk to you about that before i left, cause even if i were to come back I would still be interested in selling it in the very near future anyway.

[macros87]

i have work monday, but if i get off earlyish, i might take it around see if you find anything wrong with it that im yet to notice? :niceone: but.... since it is a kawa im scared you might tell me to just sell it for scrap metal and not bother even tho it goes!:mad:

[The Pastor]

fix it day being easter monday?

[Metalor]

I think my tappets need adjusting (Andrew said there's too much top noise, and there is). Maybe carbs need bullshit done too.

[Phurrball]

Jeebus! Some serious jobs to do...

I'll bring the humble FXR along to bleed for the cause (I'll be at work though - so not till after 4)

[Danae]

I'd come around just to talk shit and try and learn how motorcycles actually work. LOL

[TOTO]

why not make it sunday ? so I can come. Pretty please with a cherry on top.



Edit edit edit edit edit :p

[Squiggles]

Might make it a afternoon/evening one then

[The Pastor]

so is it tomorrow or the monday after

[Danae]

Is anything happening, Squiggles? I'm keen for a fixit

[Squiggles]

Will be on tomorrow arvo

[Danae]

Sweet, I'll probably show up.

[Ooky]

could push the RS up need to clean out the power valves :scooter:

[macros87]

how did this go? hopefully more progress made than at andrews :p

[motorbyclist]

lolled at the state of Danae's scooter, i popped a mono on the scooter, and then stephen got as far as bleeding two sets of brakes

basically did all he had on his rather realistic unambitious list.

plus there was a good amount of shit talking

[Danae]

Quite an excellent fixit, and my scooter actually still runs after being taken apart (lol). Although this is somehow causing me to thrash it even more (as much as a 50cc is capable of anyway). HAHAHA

Oh and beer balls

[Magua]

Oh and beer balls

Conquer the taste.

[Phurrball]

Conquer the taste.

New SMC slogan? ROFL

FXR now has most excellent stopping abilities now (Well, for an FXR anyway...)

Thanks again Stevo! You can conquer the taste of WD40 I reckon...

[Danae]

I doubt anyone can conquer the taste of my exquisitely built scootard.

[motorbyclist]

I doubt anyone can conquer the taste of my exquisitely built scootard.

a scootard?

GENIUS!

[Danae]

Unintentional brilliant idea! I reckon if I tried real hard I could motard it around corners. Hahahaha! Oh and check out the state of it's old spark plug.

[Tubbsy]

Damn damn damn!!!!! I missed this, only saw this now.....are these a regular thing lads? My own fault....only just realised how to subscribe to these threads.....pays to scroll sometimes. :Oops:

[Squiggles]

Yer, these are regular events, so keep an eye out for the next one ;)

[Danae]

Omigod found my Dad's tools. :blip:

[The Pastor]

magua fails at conquering the taste.

[Hanne]

a scootard?

GENIUS!

OMG I saw an "offroad" 50ccs scooter parked in Elliot street.
Painted with 'authentic' mud splats in strategic places too.
With fake carbon fibre spoiler.
WTF???

[Danae]

@Hanne: LOL!!! I wanna see how my scooter handles in dirt etc. XD It's in such a poor state I don't mind throwing it around a bit. Lololololool

[Ooky]

aww if you wanted to off road it you should of let us leave it in rat spec trim!:2thumbsup

[Danae]

XD Also I should totally add ape hangers and get rid of the under seat storage to lower the seat. :eek: Chopperscootard??? :lol:

Oh and I need some more black tape...my creepy villain spaniard moustache kind of failed so I need to add little eyes

[Ooky]

could of worked out maybe even a flame paint on what trim was left:beer:

[Danae]

Probably just the front fairing wind blocker thing. XDDD :banana:

[xwhatsit]

The Honda XRM is a tremendously popular `underbone' (step-through, like a Honda Cub) motorbike in SE Asia. Often described as dual-purpose. Apparently they get heavily modified and even used in illegal street races which is quite a concern for the police. I'm sure the Phillipines and Thai Highway Patrol is delighted the locals haven't got their hands on gixxer thous yet.

<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Honda_XRM.jpg" />
<img src="http://www.kservico.com.ph/images/product_catalog/pictures/HONDA%20XRM%20110.jpg" width="500" />

[macros87]

to those last 2 photos.... wtf... sure its only a matter of time before people see 2 things and put them together! but i mean like cheese and burgers! horses and horse riders! you know shit that makes sense! not scooters and dirt bikes!! then again i say that bur id be the first to wanna give it a go :P

[Slyer]

There are more of those kinds of bikes than any other, we just never see them in NZ

[Danae]

For some reason I'm imagining evil laughter resounding around this thread...

[macros87]

There are more of those kinds of bikes than any other, we just never see them in NZ

well yeah but they are usually made as road bikes... never laid eyes on a dirt version before..

[Slyer]

CT110? <tenchar>

[macros87]

CT110? <tenchar>

the rubish collector guy bikes right? what about them?

[Danae]

...I want one. :blip:

[xwhatsit]

CT110? <tenchar>
People always see them as rubbish collectors' bikes and (spending many years in Australia) as postie bikes. Which is a bit sad really but it's good they still serve a purpose.

They were brought out as a serious offroad machine. Not `serious' like Dakar, but serious as in a nice little trail bike for average people. They started out with the CT90 in 1967, it was marketed as the `Trail 90' and advertised to fishermen, hunters, all those sorts of people in the States to get out to their spots with all their gear. Crossing rivers and creeks, climbing serious proper hills that modern dirt bikes would shit themselves at (you can switch in a reduction drive in the final drive that will just about halve the gear ratios, like putting on a double-size rear sprocket). The CT110 was just a bored-out version.

I wouldn't call them a scooter at all, sure they've got a semi step-through frame and the fuel tank is under the seat, but the cross member is pretty high and they've got telescopic forks unlike the Cub. They're quite a bit closer to a proper motorbike than an `underbone'.

There's a couple of videos somewhere on Youtube of a couple of Japanese guys driving one upstream (not cross-stream, upstream, up the river). They do proper real offroading, not to be messed with!
</tenchar>

[motorbyclist]

they're postie bikes here too! our postie loves to do a 180 on the grass outside our letterbox every other day....

[xwhatsit]

they're postie bikes here too! our postie loves to do a 180 on the grass outside our letterbox every other day....
Serious? We just get fit buggers on bicycles around here. Suppose the letterbox density demands that where you are.

Australia Post is so influential that not only have they managed to keep Honda producing and selling the things, but they've even got their own tyre manufactured, it's sort of an old-fashioned semi-knobbly trials tyre. I think Dunlop makes it?

Why change something good?

[Slyer]

Yep I've seen plenty of them, but how are they rubbish collector bikes?

[motorbyclist]

the rubbish collecting guys get to munt around on them, that's how.



and yeah apparently there's some legal/policy requirement that nzpost has to use postie bikes outside of 50kph zones or something like that. there was an interesting case on fair go where a local council changed the speed limits in an area which resulted in a lot of post not being delivered

[Hanne]

meeean. I would ride one of those :P
*Stephen, that does not give you permission to fill the shed with them though!

(only half the shed)

:2thumbsup

[macros87]

People always see them as rubbish collectors' bikes and (spending many years in Australia) as postie bikes. Which is a bit sad really but it's good they still serve a purpose.

They were brought out as a serious offroad machine. Not `serious' like Dakar, but serious as in a nice little trail bike for average people. They started out with the CT90 in 1967, it was marketed as the `Trail 90' and advertised to fishermen, hunters, all those sorts of people in the States to get out to their spots with all their gear. Crossing rivers and creeks, climbing serious proper hills that modern dirt bikes would shit themselves at (you can switch in a reduction drive in the final drive that will just about halve the gear ratios, like putting on a double-size rear sprocket). The CT110 was just a bored-out version.

I wouldn't call them a scooter at all, sure they've got a semi step-through frame and the fuel tank is under the seat, but the cross member is pretty high and they've got telescopic forks unlike the Cub. They're quite a bit closer to a proper motorbike than an `underbone'.

There's a couple of videos somewhere on Youtube of a couple of Japanese guys driving one upstream (not cross-stream, upstream, up the river). They do proper real offroading, not to be messed with!
</tenchar>

i actually did not know this... i have greatly underestimated this bike :p wont do it again tho

[Real_Wolf]

meeean. I would ride one of those :P
*Stephen, that does not give you permission to fill the shed with them though!

(only half the shed)

:2thumbsup

Um, if he fills half the shed with them, judging from how full the shed is anyway, its gonna be overflowing.

[motorbyclist]

and we'll have about 40 of the damn things

[macros87]

and we'll have about 40 of the damn things

40 partly assembled bikes you mean? and no one that can be arsed getting maybe 15 full bikes out of it :)

[Real_Wolf]

doesn't he actually have like 4 gn's?

[motorbyclist]

and 3 or more KLRs

[Hanne]

and 3 or more KLRs

*lalalalaa*
(more like 4?)

BTW I have something for the man shed.....

[macros87]

just to free his shed space he should let us keep any bikes we can build out of there!