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Originally Posted by Grinch

Well there is carb balancing.. brake fluid changes/topup. Water top up.. bits of cleanup and tightening here and there, spark plugs to check, cables to oil. But I tend to notice them myself and replace when needed.

Urggggg. Carb balancing... Hope it's easier than trying to balance the SU's on my Spit... Is there someone on the main site that can guide me through servicing the bike. If I can relace most bits of the Spit I should be able to service a bike surely...

Balancing twin SUs on a Spitfire...........bugger of a job! used to have two pretty tidy 1500s. Great looking cars (prehistoric to drive, but still fun!)
Im sure it will be easier on the SV.

Originally Posted by Steve H

Balancing twin SUs on a Spitfire...........bugger of a job! used to have two pretty tidy 1500s. Great looking cars (prehistoric to drive, but still fun!)
Im sure it will be easier on the SV.

Still got one 1500 that's been modded more than a little bit. Very modern to drive, but still essencially a go-kart with a big engine

Shame it has the metal worm at present... Was going to get it back on the road last year but bought the SV instead (Still can't decide if that's a good thing or not - it's not for the poor soul who is storing the car for me)

Stu

Of course the SV is a good thing. It beats a car anyday! Even the pointy one!
Good luck with the Spitfire, hope you get it sorted soon.

Just to add Grinch,

A mucka of mine, just told me to keep changing the oil, and it'll run forever. We'll see. With my expected mileage this year being around 30k (on the bike) we'll se how long she lasts.

25 thousand miles on a k3 and lots more soon dooing 3k a month too

Gricey

let me see... 52 weeks in a year.. with 650 miles a week.. thats...33800 miles a year... minus 9 public holidays and 25 days leave should leave me with 29380 miles a year.
@130miles per 11 litres or £9.12 of petrol (.829 ppl) works out at 2486 litres or £2060.894 a year.
So 546.84 ukGallons is 53.7 miles a gallon over the year.

woo hoo.. math...

ok in summer and back at work I reckon Ill be doing 15-1600 miles a week... well the week commuting is 610 alone...

given the sort of weekends I do [ie go see my mates in liverpool, leeds, sheffield] and the rallies Im going to aswell it does rack up... 1500 was my average last august/september

winter it drops, surprisingly enough to about a 1000 miles a week...

add on the euro trips too...

50,000 miles a year at least I reckon... which is why Im getting another bike at least to split the mileage... a service every fortnights getting silly

Other than oil and chains and sprocks, the only things needed on the sv have been due to accident damage...

Originally Posted by Balky001

That is a lot of miles. How can you only be on your second set of front pads but third set of rears?

rears wear out quicker on SVs for some reason even if you don't use them much.

I am at 108,000 miles
gas --- 800± tanks
tires ---- 20 sets ?
forks --- rebuilt once
front brakes 3rd set of pads, and have replaced calipers & rotors
rear brakes 4th set of pads, 2 caliper replacements, original rotor
chain & sprockets 6th set
rear shock, seat.... original
rear wheel bearings --- getting replaced as I post
clutch -- replaced fibres & springs @ 102,000
original clutch & throttle cables, clutch perch replaced @ 92,000
shift linkage, just got replaced for 3rd time
radiator hoses ---just replaced
RR & original battery replaced @ 50k
2nd battery replacement as I post
one valve adjustment @ 75kl

I'm leaving on a 4000+ motorcycle holiday this friday
nothing has been replaced due to crashes, all wear out

[Red ones]

I filled up with fuel on the way to work this morning, does that count?

Seriously though I reckon a lot of these replacements are more age related than mileage. I have 15,000 on the clock of an SY but my parts list is still quite long - all servicing and worn out parts. It will be interesting (if only to me) to see what happpens as I hit a 15,000 mile a year commute. I guess the parts list wont grow much