My first motovational poster!
and there was more bags to go in! go here for original if you feel like have a go.
Nikki’s intruder is finished,
had to change battery, rectifier, choke cable, seat lock and fix the light switch and spent ages trying to fish the choke plunger out of the carb. The above pic features the seat lock as it is attached to a suzuki rg80. There are three rg80’s in that pictures and the one i wanted was at the bottom. When we were done off we went no proper test drive or nothing, of course it wouldn’t start after we stopped for petrol. sigh.
more bike work, no job now!
No more pizza delivering! got fired last thursday morning, blasted internal politics, so looks like it will be foxers for a while just like my dad back in the 80’s. Also i have no excuse to not finish off some of my projects 🙂
I also got 6 new rags to clean my bike with, I’m sure I had seven of them just can’t find the last one..
Niki’s bike got some work done on it yesterday, procured another rectifier with the wrong connectors bit of poking and splicing made it fit nicely. So nicely it started to charge! but the battery was so dead it still wouldn’t run right, so off to ross’s to locate a second hand about to be thrown out battery and rescued it, had enough in it to make the bike behave. Starting and charging now sorted have to fix the headlights the choke and the intermittent indicators along with a few other things I’ve forgotten.
Note the wires are now much more tidy.
One of the many positive things about not delivering pizza is that i can now go a bit mad with my bike 🙂 only lowered the handlebars right now, but such a big change in the cornering attitude! i love it, can wait until summer and dry roads. Pity it looks ugly with 3″ of spare fork leg poking out the top 🙁 still function over form. I should make a list of things i like about being unemployed but it would be too long. i can’t think of a really solid negative, no free pizza’s might be one but then again pizzas are bad for you. Moneys not really a problem, money is time and I’ve got loads of time.
Playing around with a hopelessly slow laptop last night, found debris linux, based on ubuntu but with out the bloat it should be great, will be trying it out later.
Not much done again
Went out and confirmed that niki’s intruder125 does not charge, that took most of the morning, then i fixed the chain and put oil in the gn125 he was borrowing off me in between heavy rail and hail showers.
lovely home made electrical connections! no wonder I’m charging €100 for this job. Seriously they are solder together so we shall check the rectifier/regulator first.
The Brothers girlfriends car failed the NCT on rear bush’s. Just ask Sean they are a bastard to get out.
quickie
the engine and frame would not fit so i had to make a second trip.
cbf400 stainless system, might make a nice turbo manifold for the cbr6.
red wheel is from a kawasaki, purple wheel from suzuki, grey one from the burnt out cbf400. suzuki front wheel fits onto cbr6 front spindle but one of the disks is bent should have enough rgv125 spares to fix that. may be used in combonation with the cbr250 calipers, which has much bigger pads, to make a proper stopping f2 cbr6.
new disks new pads and a new right fork leg. clean it? feck off.
Monday
Didn’t do my usual stuff and won’t be either, still a bit sick from xmas.
got myself a new cbr600 as a birthday present for myself.
Yeah its in a million bits. cheap tho’. (this is not the cbr i bought, i can’t get the pics off my phone, think i dropped my bluetooth dongle to many times :-(Â )
then went karting afterwards, all my muscles are completely shot now, wii + pukes + go karts = ow
Tuesday, some time back.
I been so busy i have forgotten what the hell i have done and what i meant to put up on the blog, loads of thing I’m sure.
Found these pic then remembered, some dick forgot to put two-stroke oil in the 4-star tgb delvery bike. boom 600miles only, no way to treat a bike.
stripped it down, hopeful the knock was some other thing that fell off.
pizza box’s other use.
at this point i had exhausted all other possibilities.
debris mashed into head. no decent pic but the big end bearing was very mashed, very surprised it ran at all.
7 pointed hex (which means six btw) exhaust bolt and a std 8mill, down at the other end, 5 sided allen key bolt. fuck me up the arse with a jack hammer what were these shitheads thinking?
A nice pic of my gravel drive..
Also bought another cbr600, 35000 miles and quite clean for €700, only problem is it’s scattered in a million little box’s. the 700 did not include the box’s, trike it turbo it trackday it, depends on how much is there when i get my hands on it.
Tuesday
didn’t do much,
tiny bit tired don’t you think? also fixed a brake light bulb and gave it a clean my mom is using it this weekend. it’s 0 degrees outside.
-11? ow, it’s -9 for me on the bike, i got ice on top of the box last night, 🙂 was tempted to make a snowball and throw it around the shop
Tuesday
Well left work on Saturday, got a card and some chocolates from Atilla, everyone sad to see me go, especially the manager as he had to hire 3 people to do my job. The last night was comical Hannan (the boss) kept fucking up the address’s and I was too busy clowning around to do much proper delivering. I give em a month, the phone bill will be astronomical from drivers calling customers to find out where there live and nobody will have a clue where that is anyway. New shop tonite I heard the manageress there is hard on incompetence, bit like I was back in GNIC (STRESS!) What do i care anyway Hannan got me this as a going away prezzie.
WTH, indeed.
Had to fix my cbr’s brakes, rhs caliper sticking this time. whipped out dust seals thew em in the bin, carefully took out the piston seals and cleaned behind them before putting them back.
Lots of air bubbles!
Had to take off caliper like this so that the bubbles have a direct path straight up to the master cylinder, after a while pumping the lever one crack of the bleed valve had me some working brakes!
Winter..
really sucks.
Found this in my back garden, kawasaki 750, needs some head work but is all tidy otherwise. would make a comfy seated tourer for the gf and I.
installed the throttle and oil cables on the trike, too cold wet and sick to do much else. and this project is a shit idea.
nsr80 forks are about the right length, doubt i’ll install em.
Four stars new bikes. TGB’s taiwan golden bee’s. no really.
They needed new batterys after sitting in the warehouse for three months, had good GS batterys too.
work, good bad and ugly
So now it seems im going to douglas now instead of wilton, sarge will be getting fatter and nad will just have to do without. Latest manger seems to be mad just like i was when i ran GNIC. Wonder what its like working for me?
