03-10-20, 04:44 PM | #1891 |
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
Re: What have you tinkered with today?
Just fitted the Suzuki Visor Screen, a lot better than the Givi one, for the looks and use less pressure round my head on the motorway.
|
03-10-20, 05:51 PM | #1892 | |
Member
Mega Poster
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: NE Lincs
Posts: 1,104
|
Re: What have you tinkered with today?
Quote:
I had bought the white one but it didn't even match the white on the tank. I suppose with a name like "meter visor" it's telling you what it does. When I bought it the price was £125 which I thought was pricey for such a small screen, I see now it is even more expensive at £180.
__________________
2016 SV650AL7 2023 GSX-8S |
|
04-10-20, 12:14 PM | #1893 |
Member
Join Date: Sep 2020
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 373
|
Re: What have you tinkered with today?
'When I bought it the price was £125 which I thought was pricey for such a small screen, I see now it is even more expensive at £180.'
Ridiculous price |
05-10-20, 09:39 AM | #1894 | ||
Member
Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: North Yorks.
Posts: 82
|
Re: What have you tinkered with today?
Quote:
Quote:
Here's my bike with: and without:
__________________
2018 SV650AL8 2001 KTM 640 Duke2 2015 KTM 390 Duke |
||
05-10-20, 07:30 PM | #1895 |
Member
Mega Poster
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Sheffield
Posts: 10,274
|
Re: What have you tinkered with today?
Notable improvement , that.
__________________
|
06-10-20, 07:25 PM | #1896 |
Member
Join Date: Aug 2019
Posts: 397
|
Re: What have you tinkered with today?
Just drowned my sv in acf50 in prep for storm 'bike wrecker' and it's mates! Can't believe I nearly sold it ... I've just come back from a few days away, uncovered the sv and ... went all soppy again, really like this bike, I really don't know what I was thinking looking at an gs1000, the 650s is pretty much perfect for me.
So decided to prep it for some occasional winter use and enjoy it more. |
07-10-20, 02:42 PM | #1897 |
Member
Join Date: Aug 2019
Posts: 397
|
Re: What have you tinkered with today?
Today was a decent day (weather wise) to mess with the curvy 'S', I fitted an in-line fuel filter, started to fabricate some nice shiney 6mm thick alloy heel plates (just bling really), and fitted my digital voltmeter I purchased from Ebay. I had to fab a bracket to mount to the bar that holds the clocks n fairing on, literally just in front of the ignition switch.
The guage is digital, shows readings in either volts or a percentage of battery charge and can be totally switched off when you like, which is handy as it's directly connected to the battery and so prevents battery drain. All in all ... a good and productive day. |
07-10-20, 02:50 PM | #1898 |
Member
Mega Poster
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Shropshire UK
Posts: 1,363
|
Re: What have you tinkered with today?
@ gadget I found out from experience that connecting voltmeter direct to battery is the only way of getting an accurate reading - I tried connecting across side light so it came on and off with ignition but found it read anything up to 0.5 volts low due to volt drops in wiring, but across battery reads the same as my fairly expensive digital multimeter. I did put a 1 amp fuse in line to protect thin cables to meter.
__________________
2016 SV650 AL7 Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear - Mark Twain |
07-10-20, 04:54 PM | #1899 |
John T
Mega Poster
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Shrewsbury, Shrops, UK
Posts: 2,489
|
Re: What have you tinkered with today?
The VFR has a weakness for frying its charging system. I suffered a burnt out connector in the spring which I removed and fitted a voltmeter to the dash to monitor things. This showed a regular 14.6v but this went over 15v when I was out with Garynortheast a couple of weeks ago. The cause of the high voltage was the fan kicking in due to the high ambient temperature and slow speeds.
So a new reg/rec now fitted I'm now getting a steady 13.6v. As an experiment I left the bike running to invoke the fan, voltage dropped to 13.3. Not cheap to replace but safer than frying my ECU. Sent from my SM-T510 using Tapatalk
__________________
Admin for this forum and the main site. John@sv650.org |
07-10-20, 06:20 PM | #1900 |
Member
Mega Poster
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Shropshire UK
Posts: 1,363
|
Re: What have you tinkered with today?
13.6 volts is around the float voltage for a 12v battery, not enough to charge it....
__________________
2016 SV650 AL7 Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear - Mark Twain |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Been got already today.. | 454697819 | Idle Banter | 16 | 01-04-10 02:08 PM |
Today | DaveP | The Border Patrol | 4 | 02-03-10 10:52 AM |
Going out today? | tj2 | The Border Patrol | 1 | 01-06-09 09:22 PM |
Today | Tara | Guildford Massive | 14 | 02-06-08 11:56 AM |
Today...... | Caddy2000 | Idle Banter | 15 | 19-04-06 05:39 PM |