Tweak and Tune my Cafe Racer!

[Yokai]

lol i'd go with clutch cover

Cheers... Nipped over to Atomic yesterday - got the brake disc, and looked at the clutch cover. Bastard thing is different... ARSE!

[ducatilover]

well i was emailing a previous owner of my smashed beaty and he told me of the mods it has.... i was supprised.... i new about a few, eg, braided brake lines after market pads, aftermarket rims [lighter than stock and white of course] so it has an 18inch/fatter rear and normal size 17inch front....scottoiler.....some brand rear shock.....full dyno tuned with custom exhaust...[56hp aparently and 70 something nm] and redone carbs......porting.....fancy spark plugs.....and the fucker still didnt fix the one problem with it, the bloody forks grrrrrrrrrrrrr

[Yokai]

Well mines in the shop soon (this week) for a service, new (read 2nd hand but still working) front disk - new pads though...

I did a bit of a photoshop look at the bike over the weekend. I've decided to keep the engine black and not go for the shiny one...
Then, I'll get shiny rear shocks,
Shiny fork ends (what are they called - anyone know?)
and stainless exhausts (with a nice exhaust cover)
and reverse megaphones... like the ones off the Thruxton (http://www.triumph.co.uk/images/gllr...XTON900_02.jpg) but horizontal (although mine are currently lifted at the back)

Hopefully Eurodave and I are gonna come up with a nice blade/flyscreen too...

Gonna have to have the Engine nicely tuned too... - what should I look out for in fork issues, DL?

[ducatilover]

well fork issues........ i can email you something someone sent me with how to tune my forks if you could pm me your email....... i didnt notice anything wrong with the srv i was looking at except it was too slow it didnt go that much better than my gn

[Yokai]

I've got wire wheels on my bike
They're rusty

Anyone know of a decent wheel restorer, or is it a case of "get the dremel out - dude!"

Cheers...

[Eurodave]

I've got wire wheels on my bike
They're rusty

Anyone know of a decent wheel restorer, or is it a case of "get the dremel out - dude!"

Cheers...

Are the spokes or the rims rusty? The cheap fix is as follows;If it is just light surface rust on the rims, polish them with some solvol autosol or similar. If the spokes are rusty, use some rust kill on them & then mask off the rims & hubs,remove the disc & lightly spray them with silver 'ZincIt' available in a spray can from Mitre10

[Yokai]

Are the spokes or the rims rusty? The cheap fix is as follows;If it is just light surface rust on the rims, polish them with some solvol autosol or similar. If the spokes are rusty, use some rust kill on them & then mask off the rims & hubs,remove the disc & lightly spray them with silver 'ZincIt' available in a spray can from Mitre10

Rusty spokes... - rustkill? Hmmm - what's that then?

[Eurodave]

Rusty spokes... - rustkill? Hmmm - what's that then?

Its a solution that contains phosphoric acid as one of its main ingredients, it converts rust to iron phosphate, thus effectively neutralising it. any commercially available rust killer will do the job, nip over to Mitre 10 & have a look

[vifferman]

any commercially available rust killer will do the job, nip over to Mitre 10 & have a look

.... or spray Coke all over it (loaded with orthophosphoric acid).

[Yokai]

And a quick last question:

How shiny can I get the zinc-it spokes looking? Or should I go over to some auto-restorerererer or the hpcoating krew?

[Eurodave]

Were the spokes originally chromed or are they zinc plated? The cheap option,spray can 'ZincIt', comes out a dull silver colour. If you want shiny chromed spokes then theyll need to be replaced with either new chrome ones or stainless steel ones.Rechroming you old spokes will probably work out dearer although these days there have been enormous developments in the powder coating industry.
I know they can do a powder coating that looks very close to real chrome.
These options will require a complete strip/rebuild of both wheels, more$$$$ & there is a guy here in CHCH that could probably help