Tried to get the Across started for someone to view it to buy. It didn't start, but they're going to buy it.
The only 'pet' I want to leave home is the friggin' dog that 'someone-not-me' bought back in 2011 - "coz the kids'll love her"! Could have bought a couple more 2fiddy's to play with for what she costs per day - and I'd rather clean up oil spills than dog turds and vomit! Agree with Murdo - Mymia, enjoy your new 'baby'. Latest additions to my Teazy: She has mirrors (so I can see the blur behind me - my eyes are shot, so I see blur in front too), and Headlight Protector. I had a mate cut these for me from a template I drew up in Adobe Illustrator, then I moulded them using al-foil, an oven, and some swearing! I'm fussy - it took me a couple of goes to get the fit the way I wanted it. EXACT. I'm also making a Headlight Cover with Red Vinyl over it - so it makes the cowl look like a 'race-fairing' - why? Why not! Just fer fun and coz I'm all creative and ****. Fired her up and revved her little guts out on the weekend - 'smokin'!' Sounds and smells so sweet. She needs a good run. Proper road test not far off as I managed to clean the leaking fork seals with the old '35mm Negative Film' tool and fitted a new oil cap due to the old one being a touch cross-threaded. Also managed to get the FZR going - to the point I could ride her around the block (much to the joy, amazement and awe of all my neighbours in the court). Mind you, no seat, so the oversized and protruding battery I was sitting on really hurt my 'mangina' (that one's for you Ruckusman ). Have a top day fellow 250 nutters!
I took the front disc off the XT250 today to clean it up, had baked on dirt etc, gave it a bead blast, etch primed then painted with caliper paint, also did the caliper and caliper mount at the same time and replaced a couple of bolt's for the cable bracket and disc protector.
Today i went out for my first offroad ride on the XT. I met up with another 3 rider's (Husky 510 motard, DRZ400 motard, and a WR250F) and we went down to some track's down south, including a few hill climb's, a few soft sand track's, some down hill run's with massive channel's where 4wd's rip up the dirt road's etc. I came off through the sand after having to stop for another rider that went down, took a bit to get my bike started again but it did, then i got the back wheel stuck on a root and dug it into the sand up to the axle. It was pretty hard to get it out again, and i was so worn out i had to cut my ride short. To give you an idea on how hard it was, all up i did 35km's off road which took us 1.75 hour's to get through. The other 3 rider's kept going for another hour or so after i left. I'm really feeling it tonight, my right leg is the worst from all the kick starting
Yeah around 25kg lighter than the XT, but the Husky and DRZ both got through easy enough, the DRZ inc rider was around 240kg
and I just came across this https://auto.ndtv.com/news/ktm-reveals-worlds-first-fuel-injected-two-stroke-motorcycles-1694338 OOH an EXC 300 - read the article for the full details
Today I picked up a ZZR250, well most of one. Another crazy idea project. I also did a count of bikes, I have 12 and 3 quads that that belong to others. Of the 12, I've marked 7-8 as keeping, 1 as sold and only 2 that are going to be fixed up. This all sounds expensive and time consuming. And I've ran out of space for them. (PS. This was yesterday, I fell asleep typing it).
Charged up the battery. Glued up the back fairing & airbox mounts. put a bolt (again) in the rear exhaust mount. tightened some loose frame bolts and checked some others checked engine mounts where tight. removed choke then in started raining I think it's stopped now... I better go get this airbox back on.
Old Gold Motorcycles in Northern Sydney is having a bit of a EOFY "project bike" clean out (Info on Facebook from Thursday 29th of July 2017). Might be a few good opportunities in there. @risky - this has your name all over it!
nah mate, the friends 350 k4 is now running sweet.dah risky had to re do the work a professional was paid to do. nuts i tighten up do not vibrate loose.
I bought a Suzuki tlr1000s , I paid what I thought was a good price to wreck it, but to be honest if you can get past the bad paint job, you will see she is a peach, she runs and rides quite well. One of my Mates said it looks like a giant veiny........ , hopefully a paint job won't be too expensive to right this wrong and return her to its former glory
So, I have had a DR350 that's been getting rebuilt for months (maybe a year or two). I finally got serious about working on it, finishing it. I got about this way... I spent most of the cleaning parts, making the stand (yes, getting it down will be a problem) and pulling more parts off. I cleaned up the rear brakes, and then discovered it wasn't working.. I think I will rob parts off the other bike (I have 3 and half of them) to finish this for sale. Then to finish the day, I finish assembling the motor but then there was a click/snapping noise when I turned the motor... So much to do, but getting there. I am worried that I might get too attached and want to keep it.