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what did you do with your fazer today ?
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24-05-20, 12:49 PM
An early morning whizz up to Saffron Walden, taking in Surrey,Kent,Essex and a bit of Suffolk, clocking up 170 miles. Plenty of bikes out. Stopped off at Finchingfield on the way home. Never been there before, but will certainly go back to sample the tea shop, when things are hopefully back to something like normal.
Whizz kid sitting pretty on his two wheeled stallion.
24-05-20, 05:50 PM
They do lovely scones there to robbo, went past there last su day on route to clacton , loads of bikes
the night i was born, lord the moon stood a fire red., my poor mother her crying,
she said the gypsy was right, and she fell right dead 
24-05-20, 08:18 PM
fitted new front wheel bearings to the 600...the ones i took out were the originals with just slight play in one of them,replaced both and the seal with a slinky glide kit from wemoto £13 delivered...10 mile test ride tomorrow to see mum and drop in to see the brother-in-law to fix his car on the way back...
One, is never going to be enough.....
24-05-20, 09:58 PM
If you're going to take a whole load of photos and record videos of the bits you're taking off the bike, it probably makes sense to actually LOOK at the foccing things when you're trying to put it back together.
That way you don't spend two hours faffing around trying to get a banjo bolt into a barely accessible hole in the depths of the frame under the loom and constantly feeling like it's cross threading or just not going in properly until you FINALLY look at the stuff you recorded and realise that you're trying to put the thing on with the metal bend the wrong foccing way round!!! :'( 
25-05-20, 03:09 PM
Stripped and serviced the front brakes. New seals, bleed nipples and slider pins, cleaned and polished the pistons, repainted the calipers and installed new red braided lines ?
Took a good few hours but has been a lovely morning out in the sun, although the installation was aided by a few cold ciders so no test riding u til tomorrow haha Added some before and after pics for anyone who's interested
25-05-20, 04:43 PM
25-05-20, 06:08 PM
Feels good doesn't it when you have taken the time and care and do e a good job. Ciders deserved
I don't do rain or threat there of. dry rider only with no shame.
25-05-20, 06:39 PM
25-05-20, 09:08 PM
Titanium Muffler Fitted
 It is 4Kg lighter than the original :eek Undecided whether to put on the sticker or not :rolleyes To misty to take it for a spin now, will have to wait until morning to see the difference 
25-05-20, 10:05 PM
(25-05-20, 09:08 PM)unfazed link Wrote: Titanium Muffler Fitted If that a genuine akra? I thought the logo was riveted?
Yes, it was a sticker on it. There was another sticker in the box. I took off the original. I think I will leave it off for now. Not that easy to get it off either
25-05-20, 10:59 PM
What the FOC is it with Yamaha's designers that they like to bury parts of the bike in ridiculously inaccessible places on their bikes, such as putting a clip that holds the clutch cable deep inside the frame meaning you need to lift the tank and take out the airbox to get to it?!
Today, after previously having a nightmare of a job getting the "ABS Modulator Cover Plate" out to take off the old brake pipes (which involved removing the rear wheel, rear shock and exhaust pipe mid-section), I was trying to put bits back together again. I was trying to reconnect the front brake system with the new braided pipes, but the connectors to the hard pipes from the ABS modulator are, again, stuck behind part of the frame, so there's no way to tighten them up properly when they're in place (and, of course you don't want them leaking!) The only way I could secure them was to connect the braided pipes loosely to the hard pipes, feed the whole lot through a gap in the frame manoeuvre them around to figure out exactly what position they needed to be in, then take the whole lot *out* again, so I could tighten up the bolts and put it all back once more! :wall :wall :wall 
27-05-20, 11:03 PM
Took the 1000 out for its first run since February, 100 miles around the north Oxfordshire & Warwickshire countryside. Great, quiet roads, great weather and a brilliant bike.
28-05-20, 03:34 PM
Another foray north of the river. A 208 mile whizz through Essex, taking in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. Called in at Finchingfield for a chillax. Not as busy as Sunday obviously, but still plenty of bikes/people about. The teashop was selling bottled beer, maybe that was the attraction
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Whizz kid sitting pretty on his two wheeled stallion.
29-05-20, 04:18 PM
Quick blast around the wolds, back home for an oil and filter change then another 60 mile trip through the back roads.
Chain and sprocket booked for thursday and that's all major maintenance finished for the year ?
29-05-20, 09:22 PM
Spent the afternoon cleaning the rust and loose paint off the rear footpeg hangers, then prepping them and spraying them with etch primer for painting and lacquering.
30-05-20, 11:54 PM
I finished painting the rear foot peg hangers, just got to lacquer them tomorrow.
Then I had fun stripping and refurbishing the rear brake caliper. I figured that it would be better to do the rear first, since there's only one pot and, if I screwed it up, it would be less critical than buggering up a front one :eek First problem was that I needed to remove the piston, but needed "low pressure compressed air" to do it, according to Hayes. I tried with an airbed foot pump, but couldn't get a good seal, so I looked at it a bit more and realised that the bleed valve is almost the same size as a Presta valve on a bicycle tyre. I found a 10mm bolt to block the hole that the banjo bolt goes into and tried to push the piston out. I got a good seal, but it wasn't moving, so I got a G Clamp and put some padding on each side, then used that to squeeze the piston back into the caliper a little way. Then, when I tried the bike pump, I got the piston to slide out nicely :thumbup I found the best way to get the seals out of the caliper was with the pointed "clip" section on the end of a biro cap and then it was just a matter of cleaning everything up and reassembling it. So tomorrow I do the front calipers and then just wait for the vacuum brake bleeding kit I ordered from eBay to turn up so I can refill the system and check that it all works... (fingers crossed!) |
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