They could play scrabble too! No one would believe them...
Ignore brands, Toyota's have daihatsu engines, fords have peugeot, Mercedes have Renaults.
Just get some thing with full service history, if you know a mechanic ask their opinon, the dv6 in my ford is pretty faultless and if the turbo goes it's right up front for and easy swap. I intends to run it until 500k (km)
I found my Husqvarna hat under a tractor in a shop I started working in, got like 15 years out of it, washed it once and broke the peak, godsdammit.
Sounds like it would suck the life out me, nice, I'll pick it up soon.
Ordinary kid, call me back.
Thank you so much!
Can I donate my old account to some bots?
I didn't know this was officially supported, does it take a lot of effort/time?
I wear size 48 pants even tho I'm a 34, absolutely can't pass up a bargain when they are the same price.
But seriously I hope you can change the z1000 to suit you.
The leaning over issue is probably tyres, either low pressure or worn out or the wrong (lower profile) size, could also have been lowered, that'll really make it a bugger to turn.
The width... Buy a 250. But keep the 1000 obvs.
In that case just ride it, maybe go on ride outs and keep an eye out for other rebel riders and grab their levers.
Honda rebel right? Looks like sliding calipers to me. If pumping doesn't produce a firmer feel, it doesn't need any further bleeding. Does the lever come all the way to the bar when you try stopping hard? What bike are you comparing the feel to?
Tore down quite a lot of the scooter just to access the top bolts on the shocks, what's worse is that I'll have to do this and more next week to fix the boot accuator, Any one else working on bikes this week?
This here thing is a peugeot satelis 500, It took me a day or two to figure that out as the only place it said satelis was a small patch on the clocks, very unremarkable just like the rest of the bike. 40ish bhp, 200ish kilos, comfy, quiet, horrible hard brakes like every scooter, tons of storage blah blah blah...
It does have one good point in it's favour, it's quite alike half of one these mad lads:
Half the cylinders, weight and power, All of the same wobbling about fun in the corners, no doubt helped along by the shagged rear shocks, squared off rear tyre and rethreaded (ala anglegrinder) front tyre. Seriously, it has to be forced to corner, you stay bolt upright and push the bike down, it is totally unresponsive if you sit normally or try geting down the inside. I love it. New favorite.
Which side of these (absolutly terrible) calipers is the leading edge? I'm being stubborn about thowing this bike together with zero money.
Recenty grew tired of my old bike, so I bought a quite nice second hand bike, that I got to ride about 500 meters before number 1 son wanted a go and promptly claimed my bike as his.
So back to the bike adverts and my wife is looking over my shoulder and sees a bike she likes, I put my phone down walked out of house, crossed the road and dunno took maybe 20 steps? hard left into the trees and picked up the exact bike wife saw in the advert...
I mean it's blue instead of purple, but otherwise the exact model. Bored teens had been cutting it up and jumping on the wheels, but the bones seemed ok, so I slapped on some 29 inch wheels that I also found in the same spot, a worn 700c tyre (from the bike that started all this) was shoved on the front (I don't think it was supposed to fit) and the rear 2.25 inch keep air in so that was used, it didn't fit, but I didn't have another option, so 20 minutes of shaving with a pliers and at the cost of a massive blister it turns freely! Seat from a kids 16incher, hit the deraliuer (sp) with a spanner until it was mostly straight an off we rolled :)
I'll buy a set of new 2.1" tyres (wife likes the chunky look) later on.
So everyone has a new bike except me :(
Free R1!
Bad news, car no worky...
But what did I do instead? That's right, went for a spin.
During a scheduled super nothing to do with me meeting today I decided on some art's n craft's,
What we have here is a single piece, high fibre, ceral box, neatly folded and glued in place, fan secured with 4 M3 nuts and bolts. Fan is a 24v recycled from a cheap and broken inverter/arc welder.
I'll be running the fan on 12v, and lining the bottom edges with tin foil to protect the cardboard from the heat of the portable oil heater, the idea being that moving some air over said oil heater should keep my shed/office more evenly warm.
YetAnotherProject, shoved the engine in today, but I think no more while the family are home, gotta do dad things and the 5 year olds can't weld yet.
What about everyone else? how are your winter projects going?
In my efforts to kill this engine I've started to design a few bits to slap a small charger on, this was the easy bit, but also I got it right on the first print, which is rare for me.
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