yeah, just make sure you keep an eye on what is going on in front of your 'shield-car' because it will stop a whole lot quicker than you when it needs to.Originally Posted by deeknow
Fair weather rider
yeah, just make sure you keep an eye on what is going on in front of your 'shield-car' because it will stop a whole lot quicker than you when it needs to.
Highway Biker
Cars don't stop that much quicker than bikes. They have way more traction, but bikes have way better brakes. In theory, provided you are following two seconds behind the car, as you should be, you will be able to stop in time even if you're only eyeballing its rear bumber. But, of course, in theory you should be looking to your horizon as well, so you won't need to worry.
Forum whore
Cut it out with that damn Bnonn-styled smiley's... only he's allowed to do that S:
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Hardcore Biker
Glad to hear your ok dude.
No carpack hijinks for you tonight then?
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Forum whore
Probably not... still have to sort out my lights and chain/sprockets...
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Forum whore
Ok, Sunday morning 2am, finished fixing up my bike(well, gotta move the headlight bracket down a smidge so the bars can turn all the way left, due to bad wiring loom/frame placement. So fixing it up came down to this:
Gearbox cover: This got all ground up and had a couple of not-too-pretty holes in it. Took it down to Steve @ F1Engineering, and he did an awesome job of welding it up, which after I bogged it up a bit with some metal Kneed-It, sanded it down, then resprayed it with some hi-temp aluminium spray, so that was all done
Cost = $80
Brake master cylinder: At first glance, it was just the brake lever that had snapped off, but it turned out that the bike actually had a bit of a slide on the top right-hand side of the master cylinder, and was now leaking precious brake fluid. Decided to stop in at TopFun (they sell random dirt/trials bikes like Sherco), and they hooked me up with a shiny new (well, gloss black) entire brake master cylinder, which after a while worked out how to replace the old one, and after chatting to one of the guys at Boyd Honda for 5 minutes, managed to evacuate the few air bubbles that managed to infiltrate my brake lines.
Cost = $60
Gauges: Trusty oversized pliers and a bit of improvisation saw these straightened up, and the light gauges (indicator/oil/highbeam/neutral) was fixed with a few skillfully placed pieces of black insulation tape.
Cost = $0
Headlight:
Needed 2 new Halogen 55W bulbs, which I got from Supercheap Auto in the Xenon Blue range for $30, they seem brighter than the old Halogen bulbs
Other thing with the headlight is the highbeam light cover (the bigger of the two), got smashed in the bin (found out it was actually made of glass... go figure).
My genius idea worked: Add 1 Old CS-10 helmet's clear visor to 1 part of angle grinder with a dash of permanent marker = a lot of plastic dust and 1 replacement lense for my highbeam
Another idea struck me while putting the headlight back together... since I had gravel rashed up some of the top headlight plastic and removed some of the white sticker, I removed the rest of it, salvaged a bit of the red sticker, then I got a huge inspirational idea after just above the highbeam, there is so gravel rash that kinda looks like an eyebrow, so I got out the drill, one of my old eyebrow rings, and *voila* first I've heard/seen: Human-style Body modification on a motorcycle that involves little round bits of jewelry that just look pretty...and I've have now found the color scheme I'm gonna do my bike as soon as I can be bothered with it: Gloss Black with an off-centre red stripe (as opposed to White with dead-centre red stripe.
Cost = $30
I get my new chain, plus my front and rear sprockets (15-54) on Monday, which Steve @ F1Engineering is helping me out with, so after that I'm gonna be looking at bolting on/fabricating a crash cage and 12 o'clock bar
Oooh, and of course since my helmet was ruined, I managed to get a very sexy Shark RSF2i Laconi Replica helmet from Boyd Honda for the crazy price of $320)
HAPPY-TIMES!!!
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MFSC rises again
can i get a deal on that helmet if you want to sell it? i need a spare one for taken girls out. id spend up to about $700 for your HJC
Cheers
Forum whore
$700 isn't really enough... however, if they still made $0.05cent coins, I guess I could let it go for about $683.35, but it would have to all be in $0.05cent coins...
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Little ol'Hornet Rides again!
Heh, sounds like you did a good job fixing your ride up! I'm in the process of doing the same-same for my little ol'Hornet. We gotta start cutting out this fun stuff of remodelling our bikes!
"I like to ride anyplace, anywhere, any time, any way!"
Forum whore
Here's my new sprocket (with chain)... excuse the ugly looking factory grease... it's probably pretty good stuff, coming from F1 Engineering... good enough for a Ducati at least? why it's jumped on my sidewall I don't know...
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Flat Out Biker
Finally something surfaced in Mondays Waikato Times 25th June
.......... A man seriously injured when he rode a motorbike into the back of a truck during Fieldays traffic in Hamilton 10 days ago died in Waikato Hospital yesterday.
The victims' names have not been released
Forum whore
Damn... poor guy...Rest in peace
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Highway Biker
Jeeze.. the poor bugger. The bike did look pretty messed up. And the people on the scene did looked pretty worried
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Mormon Few Stunt Crew©
yeah, pathos was next to the guy when it happened.
he was in critical for a while....
RIP brother
Flat Out Biker
So what did happen ?? - Like I saw the bike parked under the back of the vehicle. It was pointing directly towards the left/hand side of the road on its right side with the wheels pointing the direction he must have come from.
Did he fall and himself and bike get driven over or what ????????
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