Author Topic: wet bank holiday weekend... (Read 6529 times)

red98 · « **on:** 03 May 2015, 09:18:34 am »

As usual with bank holidays in this country it looks like its going to be a wet one $:\$ ....constant drizzle here in south bucks

so.......what you doing instead ?

me, iam going to start stripping the mighty thou in readyness to re-paint the engine

youngsterbiker · « **Reply #1 on:** 03 May 2015, 09:36:47 am »

Playing "RIDE" on the xbox to get my biking fix and planing a trip for tomorrows hopefully better weather

Fazerider · « **Reply #2 on:** 03 May 2015, 09:46:11 am »

The radar suggests there will be a dry spell arriving by lunchtime.

darrsi · « **Reply #3 on:** 03 May 2015, 12:20:46 pm »

I know it rained earlythis morning but they did say it would be dry today.

sinto · « **Reply #4 on:** 03 May 2015, 01:16:19 pm »

Quote from: darrsi on 03 May 2015, 12:20:46 pm

I know it rained earlythis morning but they did say it would be dry today.

Think they don't know what's happening with the weather, meant to be dry and sunny tomorrow, hope so as I've arranged a good run ;-)

Dead Eye · « **Reply #5 on:** 03 May 2015, 01:33:59 pm »

Had a bit of a heavy shower this morning, but the skies have cleared and we've got bright sunshine here in Hertfordshire now

stevie-g1968 · « **Reply #6 on:** 03 May 2015, 04:11:21 pm »

What started off as changing 2 clock bulbs, turned in stripping all the fairing , lights and brackets and ended with me touching up the brackets and various other painty type bits.... all back together now and I may go for a spin in a bit.... but as I write this, its started spitting again.

Grayo · « **Reply #7 on:** 03 May 2015, 05:20:41 pm »

Just finished washing mine after a thoroughly enjoyable, but sometimes wet, four days in Ireland.

esetest · « **Reply #8 on:** 03 May 2015, 05:35:15 pm »

Working nights , but next weekend is off when I pick up the new bike .

celticdog · « **Reply #9 on:** 03 May 2015, 08:47:24 pm »

No work for me tomorrow. Therefore It's now WINE O'CLOCK !!!

chris.biker · « **Reply #10 on:** 03 May 2015, 10:06:29 pm »

I have been catching up on the Gardening, and with that hat on, the rain is good news. I ll get my coat and head off to the Gardeners World blog $:\$ .

flakey · « **Reply #11 on:** 03 May 2015, 10:11:12 pm »

I made a crude but working fazer turntable so I can ride my Razer in the garage and spin my bike round on the spot so its ready to ride out for the trip

red98 · « **Reply #12 on:** 03 May 2015, 10:19:55 pm »

Quote from: flakey on 03 May 2015, 10:11:12 pm

I made a crude but working fazer turntable so I can ride my Razer in the garage and spin my bike round on the spot so its ready to ride out for the trip

fazersharp · « **Reply #13 on:** 03 May 2015, 10:26:23 pm »

I made one of those once but I found that the bike just found it easier to spin on its center stand than the turntable I made ( admittedly it was just a couple of sheets of 3mm plastic bloted together with some grease in between)

flakey · « **Reply #14 on:** 03 May 2015, 10:31:36 pm »

I used a piece of ply as long as the bike, 1 x lazy Susan 300mm bearing which can take 450kg weight, 2 x small block of wood to chock the front wheel, 1 x offcut of ply, could upload pics or maybe a small vid if you really want to see, the challenge I had was the bike is only 4" smaller in lenght than the width of the garage, crude but works lovely

chris.biker · « **Reply #15 on:** 03 May 2015, 10:46:53 pm »

I haven't the room to spin a cat in my garage let alone a motorbike. Which is a shame as a turn table sound good, looking forward to the pictures.

darrsi · « **Reply #16 on:** 04 May 2015, 08:08:29 am »

Quote from: fazersharp on 03 May 2015, 10:26:23 pm

I made one of those once but I found that the bike just found it easier to spin on its center stand than the turntable I made ( admittedly it was just a couple of sheets of 3mm plastic bloted together with some grease in between)

The perfect way to twist & buckle a stand, tut tut.

davey boy · « **Reply #17 on:** 04 May 2015, 08:18:26 am »

I got a motorbike dolly skate thing off ebay that you put the centre stand on and you can move it anyware in my garage saves loads of space and great when space is at a premium

flakey · « **Reply #18 on:** 04 May 2015, 01:36:14 pm »

Here's some pictures, I said it was crude but it won't harm the stand and saves me struggling

flakey · « **Reply #19 on:** 04 May 2015, 01:37:32 pm »

More pics

flakey · « **Reply #20 on:** 04 May 2015, 01:39:32 pm »

More pics

slimwilly · « **Reply #21 on:** 04 May 2015, 09:25:25 pm »

Looks ok and works,,thats good,

If you have any of that silver sticky Fazer repair system tape left my mate Nick needs some