Mysterious compartments of joy

[Antallica]

Hey all,

I was giving the Bandit the onceover the other day. I saw some screws attatching the rear seat to the frame, as I was in a destructive mood I undid them. Took the seat off and what should I find? I looks like an ancient artifact, but no... it's the original toolkit!! Found the Digital Igniter under there too.

I was rather chuffed and rather puzzled at one tool which I have no idea what it does.... any chance it could be a cam chain tensioner?


Anyway, what other goodies have you discovered on your bike(s)??

[Jeremy]

Is it the strange tool that looks like a bit of pipe that someone has sat on?

[Antallica]

More of a claw with a handle.

[WINJA]

More of a claw with a handle.
ITS TO TURN UP THE PRELOAD WHEN YOUR FAT HO GETS ON THE BACK

[Jeremy]

I have no idea what this is for, one day I'll get around to asking the mechanics at colemans.

[FEINT]

On ATYB's Bandit, we replaced the rear seats screws with wingnuts. Kind of a stupid design that requires you to have tools to get to your toolbox DUH! :weird: :weird:

This is the bootspace of a Honda CB400!! huge!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/feintnz/cb400boot.jpg

[Jeremy]

That is an extension bar for the ring spanner for your rear wheel nut.

The tool kit is too short to put a full length one in so it is in two halves.
the other things in the picture in case I am looking at the wrong thing are your fingers.. used amongst other things for gripping. I see a steel rule on your desk which is for measuring things accuratly.. normally used by carpenters and draftsman and the like.. Your desk.. for putting things on.
Your keyboard.. is for typing questions.
The red book looks like notes of some description.. probably for studying.
The CD's are probably not genuine but are actually CD/Rs or maybe DVD/Rs.... mainly used for playing of games and listening to music, normally pirated from websites on the internet....which your keyboard is also handy for... some use them to watch movies..even porn.
Anything else just ask.

Er thanks. The cd on the my math 150 notes is the linux technical resource kit that novell sent me. On the left they aren't cds, they're cassettes (though theres the DX SDK 8.1 on mini cd above it)! I don't have many illegal cds anymore, I've got 2, out of hundreds (and only because I can't get legit copies of those final two cds).

[Hitcher]

Anyway, what other goodies have you discovered on your bike(s)??
Mrs H, occasionally. Despite once dumping her on the road. I am a very lucky boy...

[250learna]

i found a disc break lock & key :niceone:
pretty useful since i park the bike for up to 9 hours outside of work

[Sniper]

That is an extension bar for the ring spanner for your rear wheel nut.

The tool kit is too short to put a full length one in so it is in two halves.
the other things in the picture in case I am looking at the wrong thing are your fingers.. used amongst other things for gripping. I see a steel rule on your desk which is for measuring things accuratly.. normally used by carpenters and draftsman and the like.. Your desk.. for putting things on.
Your keyboard.. is for typing questions.
The red book looks like notes of some description.. probably for studying.
The CD's are probably not genuine but are actually CD/Rs or maybe DVD/Rs.... mainly used for playing of games and listening to music, normally pirated from websites on the internet....which your keyboard is also handy for... some use them to watch movies..even porn.
Anything else just ask.

You forgot the dodgy photos and tissue paper(??) in the far right :whistle:

[Flyingpony]

My bike's ignition keys after they got locked in there! :doh:

Come on admit, how many of you have done that too?

Fortunately I was at home, so the spares were handy.

Edit:
I read people have to unscrew stuff to get at their tool box. What?
With every Suzuki I've owned, it's just a matter of removing the seat either by unlocking it or a flick handle, and there they are held down by big black rubber band.

[R6_kid]

thats the stupidest thing, both my suzukis had tool boxes with a hefty screw to lock it shut, also it was exposed to the elements and prone to rust fusing the threads together. GOOD STUFF SUZUKI :weird:

cant complain with the zxr but it didnt come with tools... but it has plenty of space for them. Popped into Supercheap and saw they had a $10 mini tool kit with basically everything i'd need for minor roadside problems, and it would fit perfectly in the space provided - but i didnt feel like buying tools that day

[vifferman]

The VifFerraRi has a tool kit (plus a couple of extra tools), a disk lock, a cigarette lighter plug on an extension cord, and a coiled up cord with plug for the battery charger, should I ever need it.
There's also room for a U-lock to park (plastic moulded to fit one), but apparently there are not many (if any) that fit - probably only a genuine Honda one that costs $2563.48, and is only available on back-order from Honda, delivery 9 weeks via a slow cargo boat.

I could probably fit stuff under the rear seat cowl, but I've never tried, as it requires an allen key to remove (which must be done before youcan get the seat off, if the cowl's fitted :weird: ).

[Ixion]

thats the stupidest thing, both my suzukis had tool boxes with a hefty screw to lock it shut, also it was exposed to the elements and prone to rust fusing the threads together. GOOD STUFF SUZUKI :weird:
..

Toolboxs with screw fasteners, the screw is usually designed so as to be able to be undone with a coin.

[Riff Raff]

Anyway, what other goodies have you discovered on your bike(s)??
I found a spider that had made himself a home on my bike. He was quite happy to travel with me all over the place and there were plenty of free meals for him. I called him Horace. Sadly Horace chose the wrong time to poke his head out of his hideyhole one day and got blasted with a jet of water from the hose. All I found of him was one leg. :bye:

[eliot-ness]

Re Triumph.
Tools under seat. Remove seat with allen key.
Allen key under side cover. Remove screw with coin.
Coin slot made for U.K. coins. too narrow for N.Z.s
Finally remove...........No tool kit. Pommie ingenuity strikes again

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Change is inevitable-except from vending machines

[phantom]

the ignition key for the GB fits those big-slotted screws too ( the top of the key, not the bit that goes into the ignition you idiot )

[Hitcher]

I found a spider that had made himself a home on my bike. He was quite happy to travel with me all over the place and there were plenty of free meals for him. I called him Horace. Sadly Horace chose the wrong time to poke his head out of his hideyhole one day and got blasted with a jet of water from the hose. All I found of him was one leg.
Horror of Horace!

[John]

I never get a tool kit in all my bikes - pisses me off to haveto carry around sockets and shit but hey, at least I can dissemble the engine on the side of the road If I felt like it ??

[eliot-ness]

the ignition key for the GB fits those big-slotted screws too ( the top of the key, not the bit that goes into the ignition you idiot )
Now you tell me. (how did you know I was using the wrong end of the key.?? Spycam??") Got the tool kit. Won't fit under seat.Keep it in my pack bag. Zipper's broken!!!

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How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges??

[Oscar]

On ATYB's Bandit, we replaced the rear seats screws with wingnuts. Kind of a stupid design that requires you to have tools to get to your toolbox DUH! :weird: :weird:

This is the bootspace of a Honda CB400!! huge!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/feintnz/cb400boot.jpg

Is that lock in yer air intake?

[250learna]

My bike's ignition keys after they got locked in there! :doh:

Come on admit, how many of you have done that too?

Fortunately I was at home, so the spares were handy.

Edit:
I read people have to unscrew stuff to get at their tool box. What?
With every Suzuki I've owned, it's just a matter of removing the seat either by unlocking it or a flick handle, and there they are held down by big black rubber band.

my m8 did that on his fxr, no spares... tricky maneuver with him bending the seat and me squashing my hand under, some wire and bout 30 min and we got the keys out...ohh and lots of cursing.... good times...

[FEINT]

Is that lock in yer air intake?

Air intake is on the sides of the Carbs.

That is one of the boot spaces. The tool kit normally goes behind that space. as in the space after the masking tape.

[Oscar]

Air intake is on the sides of the Carbs.

That is one of the boot spaces. The tool kit normally goes behind that space. as in the space after the masking tape.

Lotsa room.
Get a cut lunch in there...

[Enn]

I found when investigating my bmw,tucked up the frametube a wire wheel lock just as well you need a key to lock it as i found the key that i thought would, did not, : could have been embarrassing... :wait: and of couse no tool kit, people must really like them may be it doubles the price of yr bike :yes: cos ive never seen one!.

[crashe]

Hmmm On the cruiser its hard to get to my toolkit...
I have a side cover to get off. But its damn difficult to get it off.
No tools needed thou to remove it.
But once you get it the side cover off, with lots of swearing at it..lol the toolkit is slid under the seat.
And they are getting a tad rusty.... somehow water is getting in there.

So I have only taken it off like 3 times in the 5 years I have owned the bike, I always forget which side cover to take off.... lol. I always have to go to the manuel to check which one side cover) to take off.

If I need tools when at home for the bike then I use all the ones I have in the back of the car or garage.

Cruisers are NOT designed well for tool kits, unless you put them in a backpack to carry.

[FROSTY]

I used to buy damaged bikes from auction.One bike -I forget now what it was had a plastic bag full of grass clippings in the rear storage compartment.
I tossed it onto my front lawn and then this funny spikey leaved grass started growing.

[Biff]

Many a moon ago I took a Gixxer 750 for a test ride, a private sale. I stopped to give the bike a once over and took the seat off to have a nose, opened up the tool bag and found a half smoked joint amongst the standard Suzuki supplied paraphernalia. I didn't buy the bike - but I did keep a souvenir....

That was only the second thing I've ever stolen in my life. The first thing being some pen refills when I was a kid. I got as far as the bus stop with my mother, burst into tears, told her everything, and she promptly took me back and made me pay for it.

Sorry, off topic I know - but some things said here jog my memory of times gone by. Thanks Frosty :niceone:

Carry on.

[Enn]

I used to buy damaged bikes from auction.One bike -I forget now what it was had a plastic bag full of grass clippings in the rear storage compartment.
I tossed it onto my front lawn and then this funny spikey leaved grass started growing.
mmmm what sorta grass?? himalaya poppies perhaps! :whistle: