Tales from the Emporium

[NordieBoy]

Rim locks will happen soon.

[NordieBoy]

Started cutting up a kindly donated old sheepskin car-seat cover and Jenni won't let me use her needles or thread
Some crap about "not strong enough" and "through sheepskin?" and "don't you dare" thrown in for good measure.

So at the moment it's gaffa taped together
Hmmm, where's my staple gun...

I'm going to velcro it to the underside of the seat.
Strips of sticky back rough velcro on the seat pan and sew some fluffy velcro strips onto the sheepy.
Shouldn't be able to move then.

[NordieBoy]

The route book holder is almost complete.
The local shop didn't have any 400ml click-clacks so a 250ml thingy will have to suffice.

Precision engineered (wish the bolts were parallel though ) with adjustable drag and everything.

Wether it will work or not is another thing entirely.

But it does look cute

[NordieBoy]

And now it's on the bike.
Should be pretty waterproof.

Bit worried about vibration and spool creep though.
Just need to put on some bigger knobs, maybe a short length of hydraulic hose.

[NordieBoy]

Don't think vibration is going to be an issue.
Will be testing the waterproofness this afternoon by the look of things

[Wolf]

Will be testing the waterproofness this afternoon by the look of things

In Nelson?!?!?! Mate, my illusions are shattered.

[NordieBoy]

In Nelson?!?!?! Mate, my illusions are shattered.

Well it was only 20mins but it was heavy for the last 5mins.
Now a normal cloudy day

[cooneyr]

In Nelson?!?!?! Mate, my illusions are shattered.

Xmas holiday of 05/06 was 9 days of rain out of 10 we spent in NN. Don't worry there are plenty of illusions about NN WX - only thing is you have to be an impartial outsider to realize it LOL

Cheers R

[Wolf]

Xmas holiday of 05/06 was 9 days of rain out of 10 we spent in NN.

Ah, so it's like the "Winterless North" then - two holidays at Xmas in Whangarei, it pissed down for most of both of them... kinda reminded me of my Xmas in Tahiti - hot, oppressively muggy and full-on tropical storms.

[NordieBoy]

Sheepy is finished.
Added some Dick Smith knobs onto the routesheet holder as well.

[NordieBoy]

The seat is sweet and the sheepy works well too.
My lower back, neck, shoulders got very sore but my bum, legs and hands were fine.

So that was the Dusty Buttcheek 500.

[NordieBoy]

Looks like the others went through the Porika and Braeburn to Murch and then pulled out, Alfonz getting his second puncture - must be something inside the tyre rubbing.

[NordieBoy]

Got my DynoJet kit today.
$112

Put the needle in on the 4th groove from the top and the 160 main jet and opened up the top of the airbox and...

Not a hell of a lot different to the way it was...
I would hazard that there's less throttle response on the bottom and it dosn't start waking up until 5000rpm or so whereas before it pulled right from 3000rpm.

Far less popping on closed throttle though.

Need to fine tune it to my pipe and my airbox on the dyno now.
Be interestink to see the numbers...

The top one is the new needle...

[nallac]

i'm supprised that it didn't make much of a difference.
It seemed to really wake mine up.It did put a dent in economy tho.

[NordieBoy]

Mine already had an open can and was set up on a dyno so the jetting was as good as it could get with the stock needle.

Will try to get to the dyno tomorrow for some more testing.