Your walking around a bike show, some manic monkey type man is swinging off his pipe mini scaffold with it to show how grippy it is. You buy a set in all sizes, and promptly put them into your tool tray, never to touch them again. Then today your getting your shitty old 43000 mile old shocks of your Bonnie, and the shocks come of but leave the inner race welded with rust to the shock mount.
So you get mole grips onnit, but it laughs in your face.
Then you think"I need that pipe wrench I've got un me plumbers bag", but as you throw the useless molies into the tool tray, you see it.
Your super wrench!
So you give it a go and fuck me it works...within seconds their off!
Couple of hours later your got your new thruxton shocks on the back, new progressive springs in the front, new oil replacing the grey sludge that was in the forks, and your a very happy man.
Viva la super wrench!!! [color=rgb(0, 0, 189)][/color]
Check out the crazy biro spring it had in it nogster. It was so knackered there was no pressure at all on the fork caps when I undone em. Getting the new ones in was a different story, one of those " oh Christ I've only just got into the threads and it's do tight I need a socket onnit but is it tight because of the pressure or because it cross threaded oh god I've just gotta do it up and hope.." Moments..
The upgraded units are "tek", which I think is some reverse engineered Chinese manufactured copies. But there solid, get great reviews, and get this..two shocks and two springs are £110 new!
These were one month old, of the bay, seventy quid! Plenty good enough for that old twin of mine, feel loads better.
Could it have been a jack in the box spring in your face moment ogri.
The triumph looks nice...id like to see one with a proper chavy can though, like blue flames to add a bit of new & old......but i am just a noggy though....simple of mind & easily amused.
Easiest way to go fast........don't buy a blue bike
13-06-14, 08:56 AM (This post was last modified: 13-06-14, 09:00 AM by ogri48.)
Nice! Apart from that fugly exhaust... :lol
Thruxton shocks give 25mm more ride height and a slightly better attack angle for cornering, though in truth I think the altered geometry makes little difference to handling..actually it's probably still the same I would imagine the better fork springs have taken an inch off the fork sag...it's a Bonnie, there good, but it will only ever be a Bonnie.
Fors...bike feels bigger and less like your dragging your arse because of that extra inch.
Bike much better two up, preload is better.
Bike handles better.
I have suspension..it's not the magic carpet ride of ohlins, but I have suspension..
Against...gotta weld an inch on the side stand as bike leans riiiiight over onnit, and I have no centre stand.
Crappy tyres need replacing..they were fine when I couldn't throw it about on bumpy road, not so good now I can...
Best get that side stand sorted pronto, then I can stop having to park it with the stand on a kerb..
I have that very same wrench, my brother bought me one many years ago, and i've only used it a few times, but in all honesty it is a marvellous bit of useful kit, and i'd use it more if i knew where it was? :o
More people are born because of alcohol than will ever die from it.
Still not used mine in anger on a bike but I was changing the shocks on the cage and they're held in with a weird nut with a cross shaped head.
You can buy dedicated sockets but for a once every 5 years job it isn't worth it, so out came my Ideal World shopping channel Super Wrench. Job done.
For unusual bolts or rounded off heads, they're superb.
The fact that you can, doesn't always mean you should.
I NEVER watch Emergency Bikers for the emergencies...
They look pretty good... but I can't justify the expense at the moment... never the less, they are on my "Wish List" of tools, I just have several other things to purchase first
I bought a set at the BMF rally about 10 years ago and they get used on odd occasions on rounded off nuts as long as there is enough space to get them in. The big one is good on plumbing fittings too. I was with a mate who is a domestic appliance technician (washing machine repair man) when I bought mine and he got a set too. Reckons he uses them more than the rest of his toolbox put together.
(15-06-14, 10:48 AM)rustyrider link Wrote: I bought a set at the BMF rally about 10 years ago and they get used on odd occasions on rounded off nuts as long as there is enough space to get them in. The big one is good on plumbing fittings too. I was with a mate who is a domestic appliance technician (washing machine repair man) when I bought mine and he got a set too. Reckons he uses them more than the rest of his toolbox put together.
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