Looking for a new girlfriend; must have only one leg

[xwhatsit]

Got bike home tonight after work; kept hearing this `tink' sound from time to time. Thought it was just heat expansion, but amplified because it was raining. Finally got confused enough to go and take a look.

Looked over the bike and suddenly realised something; the left exhaust is hanging down more than usual. Hmm. Further inspection showed that (can't believe it took me this long to notice!!! :gob:) that I in fact am missing my left pillion footpeg. Presumably it dropped off somewhere today. How odd. And how did I not notice? I'm not too worried about the footpeg going walkabout -- I very rarely pillion my girlfriend anywhere, being on a class 6L licence, but the main problem is the bolt that holds the footpeg in also holds my exhaust up.

Have sort of bodged by sticking a spare engine mount bolt to keep the exhaust supported, but that won't last very long. Of course, I happened to have sold my spare pillion pegs with the rolling chassis I sold to a racer -- will be calling him tomorrow, asking if he still has the pillion pegs (you don't need pillion pegs for a race bike).

What the. I didn't use a torque wrench on the bolts but they were pretty tight. I suppose this is a case of thumper vibes causing bits to drop off? It's not a Suzuki so I never expected that to happen. Either that, or some other CB250RS rider was missing a peg and flogged mine while it was at uni :D.

[Drum]

You'll need that footpeg for your next WOF too.

[ZeroIndex]

That happened on my Kawasaki GPX250... still got one of the footpegs. I took the other one off so it didn't look 'odd', and to pass my WOF before the engine broke

[xwhatsit]

Yep I know I need it for the WOF. I put them back on for the WOF -- for a while I only had the bolts, not the footpegs.

Singles, you gotta love 'em :D When I first got the bike the seat and number plate bolts came undone. It's got balancer shafts but there still is a bit of vibes, especially when I give it shit. Probably Saturday's blat didn't help. Might go over the rest of the bike with a spanner and check fasteners.

[Deviant Esq]

ROFL xerxes, you sure have a barrel of laughs with that CB don't ya? :rofl:
Gotta love singles, that's for sure. What's yours rev to? Mine revs to around 11,000 and gets a little vibey when I'm up that high in the rev range (quite often ehehe), but by the sounds of things not quite as vibey as yours! I haven't had anything come undone or fall off it yet... and it's a bloody Suzuki as well! :dodge:

[xwhatsit]

Oh yeah. Funny... I've got two girlfriends, one of them's Japanese and 24 years old, the other one's Chinese and only 20. The Japanese one craves attention; if I haven't pulled her apart recently she will break something or drop something or cause a tantrum so I have to play with her bits. The Chinese one is much less emotional lol.

My redline's at *edit* 9500 or so, however you can take her to 11,000 and higher easily enough, but I don't enjoy doing that (too much mechanical sympathy after rebuilding the engine and knowing what's in it haha). Hence making the gearing far taller so I don't have to in normal use.

She goes through patches of vibey-ness on the way up -- it's like resonant frequencies or something, where the engine seems louder and vibes more at certain points. There's one at about 6000 rpm, so I stay below that in normal city putting about, as there's plenty of torque below there anyway. You go through that into a magically smooth part where she comes on cam at about 7,000, and revs right up past the redline without getting more vibey. Lots of vibes at 2000rpm and under too, so idling at the traffic lights can be enjoyable for the pillion.

It's got balancer shafts, but they're (stupidly) chain driven. The chain lasts for aeons, because it's submerged in oil of course, but it does stretch and you need to pull off the clutch cover and some sprockets to retension it, which is a bitch. This is possibly the issue, or perhaps they're always like this. I rode a newish GN250 once which wasn't much better, but the vibes were more consistent.

[ceebie13]

I'm waiting for some bright spark to say "It's a Honda, what do you expect?"

[ceebie13]

You'll need that footpeg for your next WOF too.

WOF .... Without Original Footpeg!:clap:

[ZeroIndex]

WOF .... Without Original Footpeg!:clap:

You come up with that all by yourself? If I had, I would be expecting some green bling to :)

...Green rep sent

[ceebie13]

You come up with that all by yourself? If I had, I would be expecting some green bling to :)

...Green rep sent

Cheers Zero. Yep, all me own work...and so early in the morning too. Sad git that I am!

[ZeroIndex]

Cheers Zero. Yep, all me own work...and so early in the morning too. Sad git that I am!

I'm really impressed with that... Don't let your boss know that you're this creative in the morning... they'll get you in working earlier...

[Big Dave]

Singles, you gotta love 'em :D

No you don't.:gob:

[Deviant Esq]

Sure you do! They've got character... if that's how you describe bikes that have bits fall off them at a whim... :shutup: :whistle:

My redline's at *edit* 9500 or so, however you can take her to 11,000 and higher easily enough, but I don't enjoy doing that (too much mechanical sympathy after rebuilding the engine and knowing what's in it haha). Hence making the gearing far taller so I don't have to in normal use.
The redline on mine is 10,500rpm roughly... so that would probably be as high as I've had the revs as it doesn't make sense over revving it. The powerband is lower down, and there's high mechanical wear at those sorts of engine speeds... especially when the motor's done over 90,000 km as is! I didn't use the top end much in the past and still don't around town... but I've found as I've got better I use all of the rev range more often, especially around Banks Peninsula. Don't think it's any more vibey at one point than any others. A GS500 I rode was more vibey than mine!

[ceebie13]

I'm really impressed with that... Don't let your boss know that you're this creative in the morning... they'll get you in working earlier...

I am the boss! I work for myself...from home most of the time. Ooh, bugger...look at the time. Must go for a fang while the weather is soooo lovely. :yes: Hmmm....I feel a coffee in Martinborough coming on.

[xwhatsit]

Yay I now have all four pegs on my bike:D

Got hold of the guy wot I sold the frame too, he said `yep, got 'em' so I went up to his place after dinner. The guy lives in flaming Dairy Flat! Reminding you all that I live in Soviet Mangere Bridge.

Once you got off the motorway, though, brilliant roads, for a semi-residential area. Gills Rd or whatever it is into Albany Heights Rd, Wright Rd... very cool -- except kind of scary at night in the rain. In the dips and valleys in the road there was fog or mist -- beautiful, but I was careful not to give it too much shit.

Ride home on the motorway was pretty damned boring. I wish there was a way to take these curvy bumpy narrow roads the whole way home :(

[jafar]

Paul McCartney had one, think her name was 'golddigger' :dodge:
Give him a call I'm sure he's finished with her now:eek5:

[gijoe1313]

And somewhere, a cafe racer waits for Xerxes...

On ya boyo, your ride is becoming a magnus opus for the splendiferous salutations that you sidle alongside with your career as a bona fide biker!

The trials and tribulations wherein you have trounced and terminated with pizazz and elan fair takes my breath away!

It has been a honour and a privilege to have made your acquaintance, from the moment of your perilous position on the precipice which precipitated my passion to perform an expected Samaritan act of the Biker code to the dalliances I have had wherein you have had to make copious repairs to your dear asiatic mechanical conveyance!

Not small your sacrifices, long suffering your flesh and blood female boon companion, vast was the outlay of your miserable store of funds earnt honestly through the sweat of your mortal hands,vicarious was the pleasure we earnt as we watched your vindication...

Your steed arising anew like a phoenix excoriating the pious dowdy exterior to reveal that passionate fire beating within!

Huzzah I say! Champion of that lateral conviction endowed within all of this land's long white cloud - to be flexible and changeable with the moment, adapting to adversity, brushing aside brusqueness, canny in compliance, doughty in demands, enriched for experience, formidable in formulations, generally pursuing greatness, holding all hints, informing with intuition, juggling his job, knowing his knots, loosening our limitations, manhandling his machine, needing other's nous, opening his operations, prefacing his performances, querying KBer's quotes, regarding the routinues, signifying his sources, tallying the totals, understanding the unguents, vexed with victory, winsome with words, xenophobic about xiphius, yawing with youth and zinging with zen!

Now let us quit this labour and plan for new vistas upon our occular marvels to spectate, to take firm hold of destiny's yoke, give full reign to the apogee of our talents to take our physical selves to other places in our space-time continuum!

Huzzah!

[xwhatsit]

And somewhere, a cafe racer waits for Xerxes...

On ya boyo, your ride is becoming a magnus opus for the splendiferous salutations that you sidle alongside with your career as a bona fide biker!

The trials and tribulations wherein you have trounced and terminated with pizazz and elan fair takes my breath away!

It has been a honour and a privilege to have made your acquaintance, from the moment of your perilous position on the precipice which precipitated my passion to perform an expected Samaritan act of the Biker code to the dalliances I have had wherein you have had to make copious repairs to your dear asiatic mechanical conveyance!

Not small your sacrifices, long suffering your flesh and blood female boon companion, vast was the outlay of your miserable store of funds earnt honestly through the sweat of your mortal hands,vicarious was the pleasure we earnt as we watched your vindication...

Your steed arising anew like a phoenix excoriating the pious dowdy exterior to reveal that passionate fire beating within!

Huzzah I say! Champion of that lateral conviction endowed within all of this land's long white cloud - to be flexible and changeable with the moment, adapting to adversity, brushing aside brusqueness, canny in compliance, doughty in demands, enriched for experience, formidable in formulations, generally pursuing greatness, holding all hints, informing with intuition, juggling his job, knowing his knots, loosening our limitations, manhandling his machine, needing other's nous, opening his operations, prefacing his performances, querying KBer's quotes, regarding the routinues, signifying his sources, tallying the totals, understanding the unguents, vexed with victory, winsome with words, xenophobic about xiphius, yawing with youth and zinging with zen!

Now let us quit this labour and plan for new vistas upon our occular marvels to spectate, to take firm hold of destiny's yoke, give full reign to the apogee of our talents to take our physical selves to other places in our space-time continuum!

Huzzah!

Goddamnit, no more bling left for you apparently :innocent:

I now have a new alphabet to teach my kids! Thank-you, Sir!

:scooter::scooter::scooter:

[El Dopa]

You'll need that footpeg for your next WOF too.

What's the WOF situation if you only have a single seat bike?

I'm in the process of modding my bike, and one of the changes will be to change to a single seat unit (remove the pillion seat and replace with a 'hump'). I'm also planning on removing the pillion pegs and using the hanger to mount an exhaust.

It's going to be a pain in the arse if I have to swap it all back to the original setup every six months.

[Steam]

... one of the changes will be to change to a single seat unit (remove the pillion seat and replace with a 'hump'). I'm also planning on removing the pillion pegs and using the hanger to mount an exhaust.
It's going to be a pain in the arse if I have to swap it all back to the original setup every six months.

You gotta have pillion pegs if they were originally fitted. Changing the seat is fine as long as "it is fitted to the original mounting points" I think.

[deanohit]

yea mate something like that happened to me.heard a rattle while riding,stopped and found the muffler bolt had come out.stopped at the next farm and got some tie wire off the cockie and wired it back on until I got home.then went over the bike with a spanner and found that the rear engine mount bolt had no nut on it.so started pulling nuts off an bolts out and put shitloads off loctite over them all.

[El Dopa]

You gotta have pillion pegs if they were originally fitted. Changing the seat is fine as long as "it is fitted to the original mounting points" I think.

So even if there is nowhere for a pillion to rest their arse, the pegs must be in place? Are they meant to stand for the whole journey?

[Steam]

So even if there is nowhere for a pillion to rest their arse, the pegs must be in place? Are they meant to stand for the whole journey?

OK now I looked it up, you'll be fine.

You gotta have "foot rests for the pillion passenger if provision is made for pillion riding." That's in this official LTNZ PDF file, which covers external motorcycle things, page three, point one.

[El Dopa]

OK now I looked it up, you'll be fine.

You gotta have "foot rests for the pillion passenger if provision is made for pillion riding." That's in this official LTNZ PDF file, which covers external motorcycle things, page three, point one.

You sir, are a gentleman. Much obliged.