Jesus, it really is in remarkably good condition (now) considering its 35 years old!Originally Posted by sidecar bob
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Jesus, it really is in remarkably good condition (now) considering its 35 years old!
I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave
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Maybe things were built to last in those days. My lockdown project has been/still is reactivating my 82 Suzuki GS1100GK. When I got it in 1990 it had been pretty neglected. I got it going ok and used it until 2007 when I got the new bike. Has been sitting in the garage since then.
Removing, cleaning, lubricating and reassembling has kept me busy these past weeks. Apart from seals and gaskets it hasn't cost me much and everything appears pretty much unworn. The tank, fairing, panniers and top box could do with repainting and the original exhaust is long gone but apart from that, not too bad,
it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
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Yeah, I've been quite lucky, all I've really had to spend on it is time, and some of my favourite cleaning products.
The only chassis parts that need painting, are the battery box, the fairing frame & the rear guard/tail lamp support frame.
I'll keep that factory original look, by neglecting any kind of undercoat & blowing a thin coat of poor quality satin black paint on them.
Quite a different experience going through a bike with an unpainted alloy frame, as opposed to a painted tubular frame.
You can do an alloy framed bike one area at a time, rather than starting with a sandblasted, painted frame building it up.
It's got 23,000 miles on the clock, which I assumed was not correct until I stripped it & found very little wear on components.
Looks like it was an everyday commuter used in all weathers, probably someone's sole transport. It had crap driven in absolutely everywhere, hence pulling the engine.
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I did a work job from home today.
Turned up these race footpegs to use the standard controls & mounts on the RC30.
The mounting thread goes 30mm into the knurled part of the peg so it's not just hanging on by the shank.
Low personal B.M.E.P.
When I do pegs like that, I counterbore the big end. Leave it about 8mm wall and take it in to about 10mm from the reduced end.
Then hand scrape/polish a radius on the outside end inside and out. Looks better.
And make a spare - some bastard will drop it for sure.
Did a pair iof Ducati 900 heads today. I'd forgotten just how bad they are. Already too big so you can't work any decent shape into them.
Told the owner I'm not a miracle worker. Came out better than I'd hoped so we'll see if he's happy tomorrow.
At a safe distance of course....
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You should see the other end of them, we're virtually twins.
And yep, it will have to be a pair. Honda made the shank that the pedal mounts on 16mm on one side & 17 on the other.
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The ON switch could be a microswitch hidden behind a housing, operated with the chuck key .... but then you'd still have to persuade the meatheads not to use spare chuck keys, random tools or hotwiring 'em I guess.
"Mummy's Too Tight to Mention" by Simply Red
C'mon lets ride....
Doing a bit of unintentional neighourhood watch on the weekend.
Episode 1
Saturday between about 8:30 and 9am whilst getting a coffee I notice a silver sedan park across the the neighbors drive way across the road. Two blokes blokes got out of the car and put red tee shirts and red base ball caps on and dark grey puffer vests. One was a white guy about 6' tall and of quite solid build. The other was Maori (person of colour for the politically correct) was around 5'6". Both were cteanshaven and tidy. The Maori guy took a while to get into the same "uniform" as his partner. Opened the boot took off his white tee shirt, tried on a black tee shirt and black base ball cap. He then saw what his mate was wearing, red tee shirt. He grabbed the black handled red baseball bat to hold the boot lid up. It was obvious they were dressing in Mongrel Mob colours.
My first thought was that they were going to the gang associate/druggy house next door and do a deal of some sort. A MM member lives out the back of the shed and they generally don't cause ant bother in the street. The POC put the baseball bat in the boot and closed the lid and stayed by the silver sedan. I couldn't see the number plate because the sedan was parked directly across the road. The white guy proceeded down the drive, under the car port and directly into the back yard of the neighbors house and not the drug house? Now things started to wind up i my little brain. Why is the car parked across the driveway like that and not up the drive? Why is the POC standing by the car? Why didn't the white guy knock on the front door he just walked past. And why the fuck was there a base ball bat in the boot? At the time non of them had anything obvious on either hands or their pockets.
A bit late to call the police so out the front door I go making the POC know immediately some one had obviously spotted him. He gave a bit of a retort which I ignored. Then down the drive to the carport and got to the back porch just before Cong got to open the portch rear sliding door. I made more noise to the affect " What colour are you today?" Obviously referring to the red, white or black gang colours. He turned around around and sheepishly said "What do you mean?" turned around, stepped down off the porch and out the gate back out the drive. On his way out I proceeded to tell him in a rather loud slow voice so his mate and the gang house heard "You're at the wrong place, next door is were you get the drugs" The white guy kept his mouth shut. The POC on the other hand went right off lol.
As I approached the foot path with the white guy themale POC got right up in my face and tried to intimidate me. I just told him to "Fuck off out of our neighborhood" and put my face closer to his and proceeded do do some stinky breeth on him. That just pushed him over the edge and he pushed me down on to the push path. This suited me fine as he had just physically assaulted me. Whilst on the ground I said "Oh you just assaulted me"and laughed.The told them I was going to ring the
. Got got the phone from home went back out to show them that I was doing exactly that but by that time they had fucked off. I talked to and had a coffee with Cen and Cong afterwards. They didn't know either of the two "gentlemen". It was pretty obvious what they were up to....
An hour later I proceeded to go on a rather nice 140km motorcycle ride.
Advice to the two fuckwits especially the male POC. If you are going to play dress up do it before you get to the place you are going to rob instead of spending 1/4 of an hour in front of that house decidng what outfit you are going to wear. Someone could be watching you.
Episode two.
Sunday Cen bought over a lovely choco cake for the help on Saturday. I'd rung 105 by then and reported what happen the day before. The cake was lovely.
That evening about 7:30pm a black sedan parked across the road, dropped two obvious gang members off who walk down about 16 yards on the foot path the up the druggy house drive. The two female POC inthe front seats of the car then parked out side the druggy house. Obviously giving the impression they not tied up with the two gang banggers.
Cen told me yesterday that there had been a stabbing a few weeks ago at another gang associates house two doors up the road which I was not aware of. Being dark I went out knowing that the flash on the camera would draw some attention. Took a photo of the number plate and went back home and closed the front gate. One of the female POCs proceeded to yell "Why the f*** did you take a photo of me?" by this time the other female POC got out but wasn't as boisterous and stood about halfway across the road. The other bitch tried to unlatch the gate and grab the camera but failed in both cases. I politely told her in a quiet voice "I took a photo of your number plate so I can hand it over to the police" and walked inside. 5 minutes later the gangbangers, both wearing hoodies so you couldn't see their features and the two female POC fucked off.
There's always something exciting going on in our neighborhood.
Today was very quiet.. Not a sign of any idiots visiting the druggy house either during the day or this evening.
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Well clearly the first guys were off to play baseball with their chums, hence the uniforms, caps & bat.
They must have been bitterly disappointed to find he wasn't home & had to field a team with one player down.
C'mon lets ride....
LOL! Goes to so that just because they are wearing gang colours it does not necessarily mean try are in fact affiliated to that gang...Wouldn't be surprised if those twats were from out of the area though the mouthy male POC did look familiar though.The fact an NZ born elderly Asian couple living alone were targeted gives me a few ideas........
It was a planned caper. But didn't expect a rowdy 60 yo hairy uncouth looking ginga to foil their plans
Would be interesting to see what the soy boys on kb would do when confronted with a similar situation...
Low personal B.M.E.P.
Clearly designed by the guy at Honda who specifies unobtainable bearing sizes so as to sell more genuine parts....You should see the other end of them, we're virtually twins.
And yep, it will have to be a pair. Honda made the shank that the pedal mounts on 16mm on one side & 17 on the other.
C'mon lets ride....
Were does one buy a can of mace or pepper spray? I have a genuine use for it
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One of my projects during lockdown is to continue scanning the boxes of photos we have from decades ago. A lot of our earlier colour photos have suffered colour degradation and aren't worth scanning. However, we have zillions of 35mm negatives and also 35mm slides which we should make a start on. When I last looked a few years ago, good quality scanners for negatives and slides were prohibitively expensive. However, prices seem to be falling and quality increasing like so many types of electronic gear. I'm just starting to investigate what's available for domestic usage. Does anyone have recent personal experience of this type of gear?
The scanner on our Canon Pixma MG7760 is really good for photos. A couple of examples: The Black and white photo is of my grandfather in 1913. The colour photo is of our eldest son in the mid 90's on his Suzuki X7.
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Surely you can rig something up using a container of cayenne pepper & an old air horn compressor with a bike battery.Were does one buy a can of mace or pepper spray? I have a genuine use for it
Mount it on an old backpack frame.
Wear your helmet in case of back draught.
You could come at them like someone out of Ghost Busters
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i brought a kogan recently, photos slides and neg options
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