BFTP - Blast From The Past Rides

[Dodgyiti]

Maha,
I think the next Rattly Tappet Rally is being held there, will give a report after Labour Weekend if my memory dosent fail me.. We normally get 100-120 to those.

[Dodgyiti]

[QUOTE=yungatart;1129707863]

That's because everything else can make its own way home

I admire your confidence.

[flyingcrocodile46]

Old Baz underwent a bit of surgery to give him a bit of corner clearance and provide access to do oil filter changes.

Got rid of this



to make way for GMK's old 4 -1 (thank you JMKs)



Pretty much just fell into place so snuggly that it just hangs there all by itself.

[RDjase]

Old Baz underwent a bit of surgery to give him a bit of corner clearance and provide access to do oil filter changes.

Got rid of this



to make way for GMK's old 4 -1 (thank you GMKs)



Pretty much just fell into place so snuggly that it just hangs there all by itself.

Looking good Croc, All ready for HB mate?

You will need the ground clearance with all the fun twisty HB roads

[jmk]

[QUOTE=flyingcrocodile46;1129713129]
to make way for GMK's old 4 -1 (thank you GMKs)

GMK's who are they

Baz is looking great, looks more like he should be part of the group

[caseye]

LOL, aw is that ALL yer going to to do him Craig???
This new outfit the GMK's i've heard tell they're a wild seven fingered bunch from the Tron.

[caseye]

Have a fun filled safe riding trip to the Hawkes Bay all you Blast From The Past guys and girls.

[flyingcrocodile46]

Have a fun filled safe riding trip to the Hawkes Bay all you Blast From The Past guys and girls.

You not going Caseye??

Baz has lost a lot of weight and a fair bit of functionality while he is undergoing a comprehensive and much needed (but slow) catch up on maintenance. starting with striping forks and installing a bigger spacer to the fork springs & new seals, Steering head bearings, wheel bearings, front brake lines, overhaul front calipers & MC, replace wrong instruments with right instruments, replace broken left control, fit Motoguzzi LeMans Mk4 fairing & light, install steering damper, install JMK's old 4to1, replace rear shock (if can find) or recon????, replace front discs and swap out clutch plates.... and stage 2... Strip down motor, rebore, new valve seals, re seat valves (and what ever else necessary)..

While under way I confirmed my worst fears... that the wiring that was hiding in a birds nest of flexible conduit was butchered to bits. Dozen wires cut off and abandoned (mostly instruments I think) and dozen more spliced in and elcrapo quality crimps everywhere I think a replacement loom is the only way to go for a colour blind electrickery hick like me.

On another note (that is to say another bike.. "Gad") I used my 4" cut off grinder to machine up a 14mm diameter 3mm thick aluminum spacer for my front master cylinder to eliminate current 33% waste of lever travel. (Plastic dissolves in brake fluid) Lever travel is about 10% now.
I also made a base plate and tapped a thread into it then double stick taped it to my radar detector so I can attach it to my previously made up camera mount and I hard wired a telephone cable (which happened to have the right connection for the radar detector) for the power supply. I might even get to use it if my gasket ever gets here so I can replace the magneto and get enough power to run it, the light and the indicators at the same time.

[Dadpole]

Hi Croc.
Good to see Baz getting the love he deserves. I think you may be going to far though. You don't need a steering damper. They just take away the excitement on bumpy corners.
Your 'wiring job' may have been to bypass the monitoring system for the lights - a common mod. If you want to spend the time, you could make a 'minimal' harness just to run the essentials. That should save about 5kg.
The old boy will look good soon. If you as stuck for any bits, give me a yell.

[Murray]

You not going Caseye??

Sadly he is not - Had Hampton Downs booked for months!!

[Max Headroom]

Looking good Croc. You've been busy!

[flyingcrocodile46]

Hi Croc.
Good to see Baz getting the love he deserves. I think you may be going to far though. You don't need a steering damper. They just take away the excitement on bumpy corners.
Your 'wiring job' may have been to bypass the monitoring system for the lights - a common mod. If you want to spend the time, you could make a 'minimal' harness just to run the essentials. That should save about 5kg.
The old boy will look good soon. If you as stuck for any bits, give me a yell.

Cheers Dadpole,
I will let you know. Me make a loom??? Shit! I'm colour blind and have no idea how to use a multimeter properly... No no no no no. I want to get Baz finished, not beaten into scrap out of frustration

Sadly he is not - Had Hampton Downs booked for months!!

Ah! The bug is contagious. I bet he comes away very pleased with it.

Looking good Croc. You've been busy!

Lol. Not as busy as I'm gonna have to be to put all the bits back together.


My triple tree bearings are knackered and my forks on max preload are way too soft (about 50mm static sag). Have partly (so far) stripped forks and found that the springs are 12mm better than service limits. A 25mm spacer was installed and 250ml of dirty oil (18ml under spec but maybe trapped in damper). Will try a 50 to 60mm spacer and see how that goes. I measured spring x coils and worked out that the springs will still compress 50mm more than the 135mm travel of the forks so should be ok ... hopefully.

Will try and spend another couple of hours in teh man cave tonight to see what other stuff I can break.

[Dadpole]

50mm spacers seem way too much Croc. If it needs more than a 25mm spacer then there must be another option. A nice new set of progressives perchance? Another El Cheapo option (my favourites) is a tiny set of springs. I an trying to remember what bike I had that had a heavy set about 75mm long.
BTW. A shock of a H@#*a CBR900 is reputed to fit.

[flyingcrocodile46]

50mm spacers seem way too much Croc. If it needs more than a 25mm spacer then there must be another option. A nice new set of progressives perchance? Another El Cheapo option (my favourites) is a tiny set of springs. I an trying to remember what bike I had that had a heavy set about 75mm long.
BTW. A shock of a H@#*a CBR900 is reputed to fit.

Yes it will be difficult squeezing it all back into the tubes. I might go with 40mm and thicker fork oil. Dunno if the anti dive dampers are worth leaving on or taking off. Whatchu think?

I have read that linkage mods are required for Fartblade shocks and that you ended up with less travel?? A Ducati Monster 900 is the same size and shape. only have to file a seam off the case and she's all go but still less travel.

Btw. I think the numbers 90 95 85 90 written on the frame top tube by the PO are probably very very sad compression readings. The good news from that is, that I can look forward to a much gruntier Baz when I get around to fixing the engine. Did I tell you that my clutch has started slipping in top gear when he hits 165km under acceleration?

[jamessmith]

what are you doin at 165??? and acclerating??? :-o