what did you wrench on today??

[Sandy]

Today got back to doing some work on the 750. Started stripping, filling and sanding the fairing lowers so when the weather warms up again I can get them painted. Then it'll be pretty much finished. Not that they're ever really finished, there's always something else to do.

 

[Jedz123]

Today I got the bike ramp my friends and I built from my buddy up in Fletcher VT, it was about 4.5 hours round trip and I had to wrench the tow straps to get it to stay, crazy wind coming down from Canada today. Now I have the ramp!!! Now it's time to use it again to load up[ the Bandit 1200 this Saturday!!!

I love this little cage, it frickin' is a great little hauler and gets better gas then most of my bikes... It also has less HP then most of my bikes too...


SO EXCITED TO GET MY GSF1200 BACK!!! Picking it up from Lurch in 33 hours!!

 

[GSCafe]

Filled the tank with evapo-rust. Sanded to 320 grit on the outside. Debating between paint and powdercoat.

 

[Grimly]

Bike-related: rescued three shelving units that were doing ad-hoc duties as non-shelving bits and scrubbed the rust off, ready for prep and paint over the weekend. The bike-related part is, these will be used for storing bike spares.

 

[Guest]

Today I decided to wash the dust off and change the oil to my ole GS's.

I think they came out okay, a little spit an polish and they'll look adequate for riders. I hope these photos come out.
I do believe they will belong to someone else soon.

 

[steve murdoch]

Sedelen, are you getting out the GS game?
"okay" and "adequate" are not the words i was thinking. haha.
A couple of beauties.

 

[dorkburger]

Steve, surely you jest....I would be proud to own either one. In fact they are probably too​ nice for me.

 

[Guest]

Sedelen, are you getting out the GS game?
"okay" and "adequate" are not the words i was thinking. haha.
A couple of beauties.

Until I get rid of the bikes, I'm still in the game. But I do plan on getting out of the game,

I have plans that won't allow me to keep them, so.............. and after two recent close calls, it hastened my decision.

Perhaps in Colombia, South America I'll get me a one lunger crotch rocket, there's a zillion bikes down there, they are everywhere,
in every nook and cranny, stairwells, houses, wherever they can be parked, even is some restaurants I've seen.

Perhaps something like this,


or this,


Maybe even something that has 4 legs!


Then there's always the two legged variety, should you want.

 

[Guest]

Steve, surely you jest....I would be proud to own either one. In fact they are probably too​ nice for me.

Thanks for the compliment! I am a jester! but I'm not jesting!
I will sorely miss them, but there's always photographs!

 

[dorkburger]

Thanks for the compliment! I am a jester! but I'm not jesting!
I will sorely miss them, but there's always photographs!

I was referring to the "looks adequate" part of the comment....I figured that you were planning your escape from Florida when you hinted at selling them. I hope the bikes, and more importantly you, find a good home. Keep us posted.

 

[gustovh]

Finished the duct work in my son's basement for a new heating system. Venting it next.

V

 

[GSCafe]

Was trying to figure out how to fab up a battery/electronics tray to move my components up against the bottom of my cafe seat. I hit upon what might be a great, lightweight solution. I found an old, obsolete computer power supply. I pulled all the guts out of it. It seems smallish, but I can install my rectifier on the outside for better cooling. Hopefully, it will fit my lithium battery and the rest of my junk from under the side-cover. Then I can do away with the stock battery box, air-box, and side-covers.

 

[GSCafe]

Battery/electronics tray mock up.

 

[astradaryl]

new damper went on today

 

[GSCafe]

It fits! Need a longer neg cable tho. Except for the Dyna III ignition module, the electronics and battery are all in the little box right below the seat.

 

[Brendan W]

Eek. I suppose it's easy to get kind of blas? about risk on a microlight, as somehow they seem a bit more diy and divorced from the mainstream, but gravity is an unforgiving sucker and will kill ya just as surely no matter what you're in. When it comes to aviation electrics and mechanics I'm a bit more fastidious, which comes from seeing early on what the consequences can be, and the realisation that if that engine quits, you're in the metaphorical cesspit.

Eek indeed. I used to get a bit p***ed with regulatory fussiness but when you see what is going on it's clear some are not aware that as the saying goes, ' the air more so than the sea is a cruel and unforgiving mistress'. Newly aquired machine so PO is getting the blame atm. Fortunately the new owners group have a healthy attitude. Their refuelling protocol would put Sheldon's room-mate agreement in the ha'penny place ............ and it needs to be. Premix two stroke opens a whole new category of potential screw ups.

 

[Brendan W]

It fits! Need a longer neg cable tho. Except for the Dyna III ignition module, the electronics and battery are all in the little box right below the seat.
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That looks neat. I have an old motherboard, you could mount the Dyna and a graphics card for the instruments

 

[GSCafe]

That looks neat. I have an old motherboard, you could mount the Dyna and a graphics card for the instruments

((Scratching chin)) You're gonna mess up my cafe vibe, lol. That sounds fun. Actually the Dyna III is designed to mount to a frame bar. Plus, rerouting the wiring for it was more than I wanted to take on just now. I've got a RAM mount system that holds my GPS right in front of the gauges and gives me all that info graphically. One of my coworkers is playing with a Raspberry Pi computer for a carputer and I have a usb GPS antenna. The pulse on the wire from the Dyna would give rpm and the GPS would give speed...Hmm...

 

[JTGS850GL]

Received some upgrades to pretty things up:

And a little bling on the center pad to cover the original pull choke hole:

Still waiting on a NEW OEM gauge cluster housing. Plan on opening up the tachometer gauge housing and replacing the fuel gauge with one that's in better condition.

 

[JerryBB]

Did some minor things as a first step on my new Zed, mostly just a clean before taking it for a run to see what is wrong with it. The fuel cap leaks as I found out when I filled it to the top, got a new one coming, it smokes when started cold but does clear, hopefully a bit of use might sort this, time will tell, I cut the number plate down as it had about an inch of unused yellow sticking out on all sides, looks much better now, exhaust silencer has a hole in it, first step will be to mod it by cutting it down past the hole and maiing my own baffles, second step if that does not work is top cut it back to the collector junction and add a new silencer to it, third step is buy a new can which will probably happen quite soon anyway so perhaps steps 1&2 are pointless. It has pod filters so a return to standard air box is on the cards, I just need to wait a bit before chucking more money at it too quickly as I only just bought it. Rev counter does not work so a new cable is coming, assuming that is the problem as the seller said it was broke.



I am still waiting for parts to arrive from the US for my GS650L refurb.