What have you tinkered with today?

[CheGuevara]

Christmas has come early:



Though of course few things ever just plain works out. Installing the rearsets today and I've discovered my Hel rear brake line is too short!

I had Hel lines and GB Moto rearsets on my old K5:



...and I don't remember requesting a longer line there, so perhaps something has changed.

Anyhow new line to be ordered (Hel are pretty quick, but these lines are fairly new, so a bit of a shame to waste the £££) , and the shock to be installed shortly, once I can determine whether either of the provided springs are suitable.

[dirtydog]

Originally Posted by gadget

That looks pretty awesome, exactly what I have planned for my curvy S, the clipons are ok around town but journeys are killing my old bones! What top yoke did you use? And ...£??. Did you have to trim the screen at all for bar clearance? What bars did you use? Width/rise/ etc. I was planning to mod/weld the standard yoke and drill for risers but if the yoke is decent money I may rethink it. Ooo... and what's the little red light on yer dash for?

The top yoke was from eBay, company called Moto-cnc and was £130. It’s nice but the way the ignition barrel attaches is a bit rubbish.
Not sure if they do a specific one for the Sv as mine has Gsxr srad front end
Bars are Renthal road low bars. They’re too wide but easily trimmed once you know where your grips stop.

I had to cut a couple of cable ties to free up the wires for the switch gear and I fitted throttle and clutch cables from a naked Sv.

Yeah had to trim the screen to clear the bars.

I did the swap as for the last couple of years I’ve been suffering with Reynauds syndrome in my hands. Then had a ride on a cb650 with bars and had no problems with my hands on that 200 mile ride


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[dirtydog]

Oh and the red light is actually a switch for the rocket launchers


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[shiftin_gear98]

I wish my bike had a rocket launcher.

[dirtydog]

Originally Posted by shiftin_gear98

I wish my bike had a rocket launcher.

It would make commuting a bit easier/more fun

It is a switch but no longer connected to anything, can’t even remember what it actually switched on or off


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[gadget]

Nice looking rear sets, was toying with the idea of buying some nice sparkly gold/silver ones, will probably wait till I get my top curvy 'S' yoke sorted/modified for drag bars then that will give me a good idea of where my feet are best placed for max comfort.

[yokohama]

Naked pointies are such good looking bikes .... ah, nostalgia.

[Craig380]

Oil change, spark plug check and hoover the air filter.

Also put the db killer back in the Yoshi can, the bike has a slightly sharper response at part throttle between 3,000 and 4,000rpm with it out but it's WAY too loud without it, gives me a headache even with earplugs in.

[CheGuevara]

I did this last night....

Linkage from a 4K mile bike (new to me in Jan) that hasn't seen much wet weather:



It looked worse once the spacers were out (especially the middle set of bearings). Spent about an hour scrubbing the rust out, ran the spacers (and bolts and nuts and dogbones) over the wire wheel (some small patches of minor pitting on the spacers) and then reassembled with plenty of good quality water resistant grease.

I think I caught it just in time, but I think I'll plan to replace parts next year. It doesn't appear there was ever any more than the thinnest film (at best) of grease in there from new.

Anyhow all back together now, with a few scraped knuckles (not a great job for large hands) and just left to work out how/where to mount the Nitron shock reservoir.

[Adam Ef]

Did the Nitron shock come with the clamp / holder for the reservoir?