run run the runner
New expensive jolly moto pipe! (correct one this time!)
Piston looks good, nothing untoward on the back wall of the cylinder either.
Old pipe leaving much rust behind. i’ll patch it up for a backup pipe.
Ye hardly notice the mold, cob-webs and rust, when you have a JM pipe that’s worth more then the bike.
Storage spot, hopefully pipe will last longer if i keeps it shiny.
Whipped off the belt cover and polished off the rust on the rear variator, check the oil and water pump, there good but the toothed cog that powers both is quite wobbly on the shaft, better get a new one.
After spending ages trying to get the air to stay in the front tyre, I made it to the petrol station and back, brakes are worthless,suspension just totally not there. ticking over at 80k/mh. nothing blew up, excellent.
So i’d better fix them brakes,sorta might need em. Much lube and fettling later it was time for some brute force. I fixed them so hard the caliper is now utterly shot, off to ebay! and that godsdamn slider is still stuck in there to boot.
Pretty bikes day out
Very tidy RGV in the car park, wasn’t on the run unfortunately.
This Norton spent the day in the lead, Ted was all over the back of it, gb400 being spanked within an inch of it’s life to keep up. Fingers crossed every time we stopped at a junctions as the starter cart was in the back of an el camino, and first gear was very very tall.
yes the guy wore the 58 pisspot helmet too!
Strangest thing happened that day, my CBR was the newest thing there, and generated some interest, mostly jokes about how scabby it is (and it is, no defence there) and talking crap about bikes it turns out i had mine longer then most of the greybeards have had there toys, hmm am i getting soft about the CBR after 9 years of ownership?
stop leaking ya bastard
Spent a little time playing hunt the petrol leak, pulled apart the vacuum tap and found a little bit of corrosion built up on the tapered seat, cleaned that up, poured a litre in and left it sit for a while.
Looked fine when i came back, no leaks! but when i picked it up to toss back on the bike the lip of the fuel pump had a little lake built up in the there. pump to tank seal is not right, probably shouldn’t have disturbed it in the first place and i wouldn’t have this problem.
Cleaned the face’s (lots of pitting and corrosion) sighed at the ruined paint and applied a thing smear of gasket goo.
Came back after helping with a R6 engine, no leaks, cautious optimism, shake the tank a bit, suck on the vacuum pipe, tiny weep from correct fuel outlet (after i stopped sucking) Success! ( in my book anyway)
Threw it together and went an spent 4 hours at the local kart track racing ourselves, there’s a little more to be gotten out of the engine, more compression and the cam needs dialling in, but it held out against the other two bike and their 125’s. I definitely won the not crashing contest. Colin however ran away with all the other prizes. worst brakes, best engine, most damage to the track by hitting it with his head…
After all the fun, no leaks under the yzf! score!
decided not to try to replace the cbr yet, i’ve no dry place to put the YZF as is and i think i’ll try to keep this one clean. well clean for me anyway.
start ya bastard
Yzf runs! manually fed the carbs with a funnel and attached a battery directly to the starter motor, will attempt to put it together next day i have off.
bike insurance is up, so i’m tempted to retire the cbr and make the yzf my main road bike. many break downs will occur.
Always wanted to take a shot of a stock corsa next to mine. amazing how you see the same colour car as your own all the time, despite thinking to your mind no one in their right mind would buy a car this colour. Finally tracked this bugger down, and i had my camera on me this time.
Tall isn’t it? if i could only find a three door in this shade dropped to the floor..
no zoom today anyway, their all broke.
So, with all the top end on and offing, it look like some thing ended up in the case of the ypvs racer. barrel and crank survived, new piston on the way.
Jolly Moto pipe for runner 180 turned up, it’s pretty. Might get some time next week to dimension the pipe.
Attempting to goto watergrasshill go-kart track today weather permitting. race bikes are ready, I’ll have to buy new head bearings for the 90, completely shot.
Mondello, trackday 24th june 2015
Didn’t die! despite the brakes boiling over twice and being lumped in with the advanced class, totally unfazed. i only did 13 miles/10 laps but the cbr didn’t embarrass it’s self (brakes on fire don’t count) as i did in fact pass a gsxr750. ( yes it was driven by a ejit, but a win is a win) after that, the cousin’s share his GSXR1000 with me for the rest of that day had three 20minute sessions, got better each time, but the wheelie’s were too much, it was a fine line between getting the power down or smacking your face with the clocks.
going again next week to watergrasshill, but first we needed to fix teds ypvs/banshee, the athena/banshee barrels have massive water jacket ports just under the exhaust, the ypvs case doesn’t cover ’em.
No Pics of me on track yet, didn’t think i’d have time for photos so only phone camera shots.
Didn’t manage to blow them cobwebs off anyway. some slicks, calliper seals and fresh brake fluid for next day 🙂
3ma with 3xv forks, makes a beautiful sound.
new pipe for the Runner 180
Runner 180, snarkie email from PM tuning saying they couldn’t sell me an expansion pipe with out the silencer as that’s where the profits are, prompted me to buy a Jolly Moto instead, ha! no profits for you!
yes my wallet is very sore now but it was worth it. Decent reviews of it too.
Got some ants in my pants last week and instead of throwing out all the cardboard from the new house, i built an arcade machine out if it!
cad to cam, it’s all about the cardboard.
Also couldn’t find my measuring tape at the time, so i came up with a new standard of one jvc remote width, which roughly equates to 1.5 hogs feet.
Trackday tomorrow, will the cbr survive? will they let me on the track? will i be a funny crash picture in next months work letter?
bikes in ditchs
Most of my bikes are safety stored in the ditch, no idea how they’ll survive once i have my own shed. buggers will probably never start.
take my runner 180
fork chrome shot, rubber on the filter of the kart airbox cracked, seats a bit buggered, front wheel (not the tyre) won’t keep the air in.
kick it over a few time to fill the carb with three year old petrol, clean the rust off the plug, started third kick. no sweat.
This? not really a problem, pm55 on the way! moar power!
pm55 won’t come with a silencer, but i got loads, dug this short one first, its a chamber type.
The carbon one is from a aprilla rs125, straight tru. worst looking too, so it’ll look just right.
Found the tzr250 anti-rocking bar, gotta repair the engine cases where this bolts to first before i mount the rear part.
XTDR250 – an update? impossibru!
So the other day the quad was welded up badly.
Currently we struggling to get the shagged tyres off it.
An update on the XTDR250? i was gonna weld something today and this didn’t need a flat surface.
this plate was there just to hold the sub frame in roughly the right place
hope it was all straight coz’ it’s going fecking nowhere now.
of course all the nice welds are where you won’t see em, and i blew a hole right in your eyeline.
all the usual small stuff todo now, carbs, spark, silencers, brakes. do wheelies.
only been 5 and half years to get to this point.
YZF fettling
I debated with my self about taking off the old original 21 year old dealer stickers, then i realized it never came from any dealer with a purple windscreen. ejit!
Put on the top fairing and the side panel with the reserve switch, much faffing about with bolts and rubber grommets, tucked the loom into the fairing out side the forkleg, not sure that’s right. Unstuck the rear brake caliper, put the seat on it and made some brum brum noises, i like it alot, haven’t actually sat on it since i fixed the ride height.
spent some time fiddling with a trx90 we’re turning into the shop tractor, pics next time
