What have you tinkered with today?

[Adam Ef]

Originally Posted by shiftin_gear98

^Nailed it in one.

There's no money in people upgrading things at home. So they make everything as awkward as possible.
Tossers.

Yep. If you look at the price of Mac laptops (I have recently and then went for a lie down) they jump hugely in cost if you want the larger hard drives. If people knew it was easy to change their own then they'd never opt for the more expensive models. So Apple make it as difficult as possible to swap bits out. I have managed it though when my wifi card failed in mine.

[DJ123]

Originally Posted by Adam Ef

Yep. If you look at the price of Mac laptops (I have recently and then went for a lie down) they jump hugely in cost if you want the larger hard drives. If people knew it was easy to change their own then they'd never opt for the more expensive models. So Apple make it as difficult as possible to swap bits out. I have managed it though when my wifi card failed in mine.

It's how they make so much money, same with their phones. Very overpriced and usually very under specced compared to what the Android equivalents have.

Tbh i think for a laptop you don't need a huge amount of storage like in a desktop. I bought a Macbook about 18 months ago, standard one with 120GB HDD and 8GB memory, 13.3" monitor. Took me a while to get used to it, and i'm still learning things today. And i absolutely prefer the machine & OS to a Windows OS, for multiple reasons.

[admin]

Originally Posted by admin

I agree. It was a right faff. I guess it boils down to cost or maybe to put off people from upgrading so they buy a replacement.

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I also think it's this current trend to make laptops as thin as possible.

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[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by admin

I also think it's this current trend to make laptops as thin as possible.

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Which is even worse because they solder the SSD to the motherboard in some cases which is great for upgrading/repair

[DJ123]

Fitted my new rear shock which arrived today. Just need the right weather to use the bike for 'essential travel'.

[gadget]

Just received my front full length braided brake lines today, looking forward to a dry day to fit 'n' blead the system. There was nothing wrong with the oem lines or stopping power tbh but an upgrade is a good idea I thought. Btw ... what's your thoughts on bleeding a full two line system... conventional or back bleeding?
Which has the best results and/less aggravation?

[DJ123]

Is this the standard SV set up, with one line from master cylinder to calliper, then a feeder line to the other side?

I would do a conventional bleed and it should be fine. You could do the main line calliper first and clamp off the feeder line. Once this is done unclamp it and bleed the next one.

[gadget]

Originally Posted by DJ123

Is this the standard SV set up, with one line from master cylinder to calliper, then a feeder line to the other side?

I would do a conventional bleed and it should be fine. You could do the main line calliper first and clamp off the feeder line. Once this is done unclamp it and bleed the next one.

Mine is a 99 curvy 'S' so has one line from master to a splitter under the bottom yoke which then goes into 2 lines ...one line per caliper. So I'm now changing to the full 2 line set up straight from master cylinder, one line either side. It's apparently called a 'race setup!
Was now wondering which of the two bleeding methods was the most successful... conventional top fill or the syringe type backfilling?

[Adam Ef]

I did mine on the ZX6r (same "race" set up) from the calipers up and then a bit the other way too. Then bled the master cyclinder at the top last.

[Adam Ef]

Did I mention I'd got another stuck bolt on the DRZ? Another steel bolt fused into an aluminium sleeve inside the swingarm linkage. Very minimal room around it to try and get it out. No way to hammer it. Another couple of days heat and soaking and then a bit of brute force and swearing and it is now out.





I did make a home made tool to fit in the space to try and press it out. A cut down clamp with flats for a spanner ground onto the remaining thread. It might have contributed a bit to the eventual removal but didn't noticeably budge it how I thought it might.





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