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cbr, bloody valves

So the other day after i changed the front tyre, the rear went flat while i was speeding to work, que two days of driving the chromtastic cb550 before i got the spare time for cbr6 shenanigans.

ted got the supermoto wheels off the dominator,

Apart the obvious chain chewing, it not a street tyre, not much point in putting it on when it’ll be ripped up too quickly.

Luckily, it was only the valve, stupid thing is too long and the metal neck flops about the place.

So what else is buggered up? the carrier bearing AGAIN and my underused rear brake rusted up in pretty much every fucking place.

Probably need a new one of these…

Ah feckit, often do i use the rear brake anywho?

Cleaned, greased and ready to roll for just until i get the yzf on the road which right after i will chop the shit outa the poor cbr. i mean it this time!

mechanics work out

changing tyres, whole lotta grunting going on. you can’t see it but the tyre is cracked as well as worn.

Newish michelin pilot power, and some front wheel bearings.

Painted the tank badly, but that’s ok, you can’t see it under the truck 🙂

cbr6 gets some love

Yep really leaky now.

Single Sided Funny Front End?

Arty shot win, camera fail. ought to do a photo shoot with a real camera soon, before it get mangulated again.

Next week should be YZF love time.

Getting ready for winter.

Honda 50cc trails bike, so tinchy. only let down on this jewel is the steel rims.

TDR pipes have arrived! got em for €112, bargain!

Dug out the xtdr.

They miss the tank and the petrol tap, the hardest to mod, the frame how ever is getting the chop, no biggie, it’s all ready mauled.

New tyres all round again for me, pirelli dragon evo 150/60, whipped off a sumo bike that seemed never to have been leant over? lots of chewing up in the centre section from engine braking.€60 bargain.

I though i had a dragon evo front to match, but no it’s actually a dragon supercorsa, yay more track tyres in winter.

Also fitted the black exhaust pipe, quite on idle, raspy on accel and the fueling is right again. Gotta fit a new fork seal next week no excuses!

stencils

went a bit mad in work, stencilled up a 22″ harry, karols shirt and my bike, had to draw the line at the work van and juniors car..

10 hour day? pfft!

Got my spare rear fitted after work hours today, it’s weird seeing a clean wheel. Nice that this dunlop 160 fits the rim unlike the michelin 160, massive difference in width.

yuckie effluent.

mods to come

Winter at a lawnmower shop means fuck all work, which is perfect for crazy projects. f2 sumo sumo is go! (translation: cbr gets turned into a fat bastard supermotard)

right now it needs tyres, bald front and a nail in the rear means i need something to get me to the winter in one piece, since i need the cbr to commute!

a bridgstone road race slick front and a dunlop comuta special rear. which one will spit me off first?

cbr 600 r/r

well first i sold my busa, lumps of lovely cash

but i still hadn’t actually convinced any of my bikes to actually run. So i had to borrow teds 50 to goto work, that got lots of attention.

So i needed an R/R to get the cbr running again, the gsxf had one built into the alternator and the DR was a bit stuck there…

can’t see it here but the wires were toast.

in the end we found an R/R which we believe came off an rs125, it was also a 6 wire so i had to solder in the sixth wire to a switched 12v line and voila!

gave the very old battery a top up charge as well so finger crossed it’ll start in the morning

new second spare bike needs to be bought, since the runner is totally unreliable and i have spare cash…

cbr6, R1, and scorpion can.

So i was at work the other day an some chickens invaded and shat all over the floor.

the trained ninja death gerbils didn’t do squat. something about pay, and food. kubota mechanics are such bitches.

This got the the chicken to retreat. you’d run too if you ever heard a 120cc chainsaw starting up..

What the Fuck has all this got to do with making an r1 link pipe fit a cbr 6 exhaust and a scorpion slipon straight through end can? nothing.

and george don’t give a shite about it either.

Make bikes, not lawnmowers!

looks like when the season is over, i get to make second hand lawnmowers! ‘m thinking mirror polished decks and performance exhausts lol

back to proper bikes, went on a sunday spin the other day despite being wrecked tired, spotted this nice katana

everything is perfect except the upside down bars. fecking idiotic.

During the week it was time to service the poor cbr, got it a new sprocket carrier bearing.

old one was rusty toast. Then i had a go off turning the cbr into a hypermotard.

thats a tdr125 seat, ‘mazing how narrow the cbr is. Went to measure seans cr250 to figure out what the seat/bar/pegs triangle is. cr is in bits. bugger.

think i can raise the seat at  3″, i think seat to pegs should be about 21″ if i want to change from seated to stood up easily. I plan to drop the pegs anyway, should need less seat height then and the bars wont have to be sky high then, less space for underseat tank on the other hand…