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Re: Chain adjustment while touring? - Exupnut - 08-08-13
STOP STOP STOP STOP!!!!!!!!!!
Re: Chain adjustment while touring? - Slaninar - 09-08-13
(07-08-13, 01:25 PM)adeejaysdelight link Wrote: Cheers fellas'. Deffo not going to fit a scotoiler, that's for sure.
Not a single sensible reason not to - on a Fazer at least. One standard bottle is good for 2000 kilometers, you can bring a small top up bottle. No bother with chain - priceless.
As for chain adjustment, 2 points:
1) On a tour, you need to be able to take the wheels off - BOTH of them. In case of flats - not all the shops want to do it. At least in my country.
2) I put all the tools for these tasks unde the seat:
- tyre patching kit (the big one from Louis.de)
- 2 12mm wrenches for releasing locking bolts of the rear wheel to adjust the chain and lock them back
- Allen wrenches needed to remove tank, levers, etc (4, 5 and 6 mm, not 100% sure about the smallest one)
- 2 ratchet handles (old, cheap Russian ones, not too long) with 10, 12, 27 and perhaps few other sockets), as well as spark plugs socket, one small extension bar for the spark plug jobs
- 17 (oil bolt on mine) and 19 (or is it 21) mm wrench with O end, for removing wheels.
- small screwdriver
- zip ties
- spare spark plugs
- 1st aid kit - a small one - bleeding stopping bandages and alu-"blanket" for retaining body heat, along with a pair of rubber gloves.
- scottoiler container
I also carry some spare light bulbs, a quick tyre fix spray and a hi-vis vest... + a small teddy bear for luck - a superstitious thing. :rolleyes
All this fits UNDER the seat, so no luggage room "wasted".
It pacs very small and works. Just look at all the bolts on your bike and see what you need - pack small.
Re: Chain adjustment while touring? - simonm - 09-08-13
(09-08-13, 05:54 AM)Slaninar link Wrote: [quote author=adeejaysdelight link=topic=9275.msg92937#msg92937 date=1375878320]
Cheers fellas'. Deffo not going to fit a scotoiler, that's for sure.
Not a single sensible reason not to - on a Fazer at least. One standard bottle is good for 2000 kilometers, you can bring a small top up bottle. No bother with chain - priceless.
As for chain adjustment, 2 points:
1) On a tour, you need to be able to take the wheels off - BOTH of them. In case of flats - not all the shops want to do it. At least in my country.
2) I put all the tools for these tasks unde the seat:
- tyre patching kit (the big one from Louis.de)
- 2 12mm wrenches for releasing locking bolts of the rear wheel to adjust the chain and lock them back
- Allen wrenches needed to remove tank, levers, etc (4, 5 and 6 mm, not 100% sure about the smallest one)
- 2 ratchet handles (old, cheap Russian ones, not too long) with 10, 12, 27 and perhaps few other sockets), as well as spark plugs socket, one small extension bar for the spark plug jobs
- 17 (oil bolt on mine) and 19 (or is it 21) mm wrench with O end, for removing wheels.
- small screwdriver
- zip ties
- spare spark plugs
- 1st aid kit - a small one - bleeding stopping bandages and alu-"blanket" for retaining body heat, along with a pair of rubber gloves.
- scottoiler container
I also carry some spare light bulbs, a quick tyre fix spray and a hi-vis vest... + a small teddy bear for luck - a superstitious thing. :rolleyes
All this fits UNDER the seat, so no luggage room "wasted".
It pacs very small and works. Just look at all the bolts on your bike and see what you need - pack small.
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Good tips. I also sellotape a Stanley knife blade under the seat and keep some gaffer tape too.
Re: Chain adjustment while touring? - adeejaysdelight - 09-08-13
Thanks for the tip/s. As I said before, I think I am OCD, so I have a comprehensive list of things I need already made up and checked off. In addition, I have already fully packed the bike up to ensure everything fits ok and there are no loose ends.
Re: Chain adjustment while touring? - adeejaysdelight - 09-08-13
And there are many more documents like this... :rolleyes
Re: Chain adjustment while touring? - slimwilly - 09-08-13
Dont forget the spare credit card hidden under the seat incase you get fingered,,ummm :eek ,,, no , not fingered i mean robbed,lose your wallet.
And you definatley will not have to adjust your chain on a little trip like that, just keep it lubed.
Re: Chain adjustment while touring? - slimwilly - 09-08-13
Actually you should stop worrying about your chain and watch this Fitness Babe WorkOuts: Six Pack Abs Workout
Much more fun :lol
Re: Chain adjustment while touring? - stevierst - 09-08-13
I bet she's rubbish at cooking :
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Re: Chain adjustment while touring? - adeejaysdelight - 10-08-13
Why did she put her trousers on doing the ball work? Shame. Nice view up the gusset tho :lol
Re: Chain adjustment while touring? - nick crisp - 10-08-13
Brings to mind an amusing bit in a book by the mountaineer, Joe Simpson. Speaking of attending a gym:
"There is a peculiar contradiction of signals in some of these establishments which I have never been able to resolve. On the one hand, everyone is there to train, to work up a sweat, tone those muscles and get fit; on the other hand, sometimes it seems more akin to a fashion parade than a no-pain no-gain routine. I know it's rude to stare. Naturally it's politically incorrect to display the slightest attraction for your fellow devotees of agony, but it is also well nigh impossible. If everyone wore baggy, loose fitting tops and tracksuit trousers, there wouldn't be much of a problem, but life isn't so easy. The trend of ladies gym wear makes it hard, so to speak. There seems to be an obsession with leotards, body suits, buttock-splitting Lycra thingies, swim suits worn over swim suits, countless variations of attire that leave absolutely nothing to the imagination.
From a practical point of view, I can't think of anything sweatier and more uncomfortable to wear during training sessions. Performing squats while wearing a cord-thin G-string that threatens to split your cheeks up level with your shoulders looks unspeakably painful. And if you are wearing, say, a black leotard, why then put a skin-tight swim suit on top of it with the legs cut so high that they seem to go up to your armpits? Or pull on what looks like a scarlet pair of bikini bottoms so lacking in material that they merely create a vivid red triangle which for the average man has the effect of a hypnotist swinging a fob-watch?
"Some of the leg machines found in gyms today place the athlete in the most undignified and vulnerable positions imaginable. To wear such luridly revealing clothes and then climb onto a machine that threatens to spread your legs so wide that you're in real danger of having your ankles meet behind your back seems to me absurdly illogical. The more so when some unfortunate male, already plagued by mirrors, happens to look up at the wrong moment and finds himself helplessly transfixed by an overtly sexual vision in red and black who glares back in ferocious condemnation of his lechery.
"I'm not sure it is lechery in fact. When the very style of clothing is screaming out 'look at this body', and the design makes the legs look twice their length, the buttocks split and lifted, the breasts outlined perfectly in fluorescent colour, what are you supposed to look at? Nine times out of ten, looking away simply brings another colour-isolated part of a woman's body squeezing and thrusting and spreading in front of you. Short of staring fixedly at the ground and finding the exercise machines by feel, it is impossible not to look.
"I was once accosted in the gym by an irate lady who angrily demanded to know what I was staring at. Since I was struggling to release myself at the time from an over-weighted pecs machine that was threatening to dislocate both my shoulders, I found it hard to gather my thoughts.
" 'You', I said bluntly. 'Your scantily dressed body that leaves absolutely nothing to the imagination, that keeps leaping into view wherever I go. What did you think I was staring at?'
"Well, that's what I would have liked to have said instead of spluttering a mortified apology, feeling my face blush with shame.
"It seems that the prim and proper message is that such garments are worn not to be sexy but because they make the wearer feel good. They simply display the wearer's confidence in herself. Well, that's as may be, but it strikes me they display a damn sight more than that, and to deny it is plain self-delusion. I'm not easily offended or prudish in any way, far from it, but I do resent being the victim of a dishonest conspiracy. If these clothes are the uniform of the post-feminist woman, as I've heard said, and are about women's empowerment and not men's desire, then I'm a wildebeest.
"To wear outrageously enticing apparel and at the same time profess the sensibilities of a sentimentalised Victorian spinster is shamelessly deceitful. Sure, I'm not allowed to touch. I know that. But faced with spread-eagled semi-nakedness, can't I just leer a little?"
From "Storms of Silence". (hope I don't get done for infringement of copyright, so I'll say here that Joe Simpson's works are well worth buying, highly recommended!
Re: Chain adjustment while touring? - slimwilly - 10-08-13
Well said.(wrote) :o ,
mind you i have never been to the gym,,,a bit scared of getting some wood on!! :lol
Re: Chain adjustment while touring? - nick crisp - 10-08-13
And, erm, sorry it's not quite on topic! But if said Lycra-clad visions would like to come and adjust my chain... :lol
Re: Chain adjustment while touring? - adeejaysdelight - 10-08-13
I do attend the gym, and I know what he means. The gym I'm at has the treadmills facing one another,with about a 10 foot gap with mats on the floor. I usually warm up with a 8-10k run. That equates to 35-45 minutes of looking at the back of your hands holding onto the grips. It is actually a relief if there is a spare machine facing another guy, or if a guy takes the machine facing you. You can see it in his face too. It like, yeah brother, I know. I mean I don't go to the gym [size=78%] with my James Bond speedos on, do I? No, I wear shorts and a t-shirt. I could gladly go to a family gathering dressed the same, and no one would think anything of it, which is more than I can say for "most" of the women at the gym. Although, sometimes it does spur you on to train a little harder. Especially when you have direct competition facing you trying to out run you...[/size]