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Re: Daytona 955i

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Originally Posted by dizzyblonde (Post 2567695)

No different to getting the bus or any of mine through three gates, a 90 degree turn and into a shed at the bottom of a garden. To be reversed out of shed and turned round in garden to get it out before going back through three gates and a 90 degree turn round a gable end of last house on block. Thats down the path of last house on block, round gable end, down path, through gate, into next garden, through gate, into ours.......I don't care, less likely to get pinched ;)

do you shift the bus round?

You it at mine with the bus. do it woithout scraping anything and ill give ya a tank of petrol!

Re: Daytona 955i

No but Pete does, I wouldn't dare! I'm forever knocking bits of brick off the gable end with Suzys end can....he doesn't touch anything, and has never scraped anything. remeber if he loses his balance its game over for him and the bike, leg won't hold him. Raptors cow horn bars are wider than the bus, and its top heavy.

I do know my mate had a Triumph trophy that he used to get up 13 steps to his house. I kid you not. To get in, he'd ride up the drive of last house, get a scaffold board and wheel it down their steps. To get it out, he'd wheel it down a scaffold board down another set of steps...............anything is possible! He lived in an under dwelling and the only way in was steps. Then he'd park it in the living room.

Re: Daytona 955i

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Originally Posted by AndyBrad (Post 2567686)

you can lower bikes with varying results afaik but im concerned about the overall size really. guess i need to get one tested.

nice hol btw missyc?

As far as I was aware, the weight of the bike when shifting about isn't the issue so much as how you shift it around using your body. But then getting an ER6 through a few gates would be substantially easier than a Goldwing so can go with you on that one :-P

Re: Daytona 955i

Will you buy me a tank of fuel if I can do it whilst standing on the pegs on my XT? Worth bringing it up to the Leeds office for that is! ;-)

Only needs a bit of a slope to leave me on toe down with rrrsss cheek off the saddle, and half way up a curb, I've got no change of touching anything with my feet but fresh air.

Re: Daytona 955i

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Originally Posted by -Ralph- (Post 2567307)

I spoke a bit too soon. Had to adjust the chain for the first time yesterday and found the mechanism was jammed solid. I'm going to need to whip the wheel and wheel carrier off and strip down the rear hub.

I've also got a jammed rebound adjuster on one of my forks.

Neither of these are really the bikes fault. The previous owner had it for 4 years and did 3600 miles, almost all of those in the first two years, and it sat in a garage unused for two years. This is probably the first time the chain has ever needed adjusted. Things are seizing up through lack of use. A very low mileage bike is not always a good thing, though I'd rather have low mileage bike that's seized up, than a high mileage bike that's worn out. Same work required, but with less parts to buy.

Ralph a word of warning, if the eccentric adjuster is dry i would strip your rear linkages as if anything like mine the bearings will be getting dry as well.
my bike has an 07 plate with 6k miles on and i have just done it last month.
leave it too long and it will cost about £120 to replace the bearings.

Re: Daytona 955i

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Originally Posted by -Ralph- (Post 2567307)

Just in case you haven't stripped one of these before.

Make sure you grind the 'stake' off the 46mm nut on the nearside properly, before undoing it. I've seen a fair few single siders where this hasn't been done. It don't half make a mess of the threads on the axle.
You might find that the problem is caused by the caliper hanger being seized to the hub. Don't bash it too hard, & heat it a little first.

Also, replace the nut with a new one.

Cheers.

Re: Daytona 955i

spannerman i do not think you need to grind the stake off. just get a small driver under thestake and drive out of the slot.
the nut comes off no problem and can be re-used with no probs just re-stake it
i have dome this on 3 single siders with no ill effects

Re: Daytona 955i

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Originally Posted by AndyBrad (Post 2567655)

cheers for the help guys.

yea you dont see why people complain about the size of bike? come and park it at mine! have to push it up the curb, up the pavement, 90 deg round the back of next doors, though their yard (sloped and past the washing) then through a gate (just fit) and into mine. I have to then turn it round in the morning and do it all again. Its a right pain! so having a bike i cant handle easily isnt a good idea imo.

Anyhoo. looking good but it is sounding like its a bit too big for me :(

I think you will be fine height wise, i have used my friends one for long trips and commuting and i am shorter and weaker than you for sure. If thats the only reason for not getting one - i seriously think you would be fine with it.

THey are great bikes to ride, IMO

Re: Daytona 955i

Thanks guys. Bit of a design fault IMO. It wasn't the caliper hanger, that was well covered in anti seize compound, it was the rotating hub itself that was seized. The swingarm has a drain hole in the underside, this is above the level of the hub, so spray off the road has been spraying upwards through the drainhole then running down the inside of the swingarm and causing fur and general corrosion around the hub, hence it was seized solid and the eccentric adjuster can't turn it. I had difficulty removing the hub from the swingarm, then when I did I had to take an abrasive paper and WD40 to the inside of the recess and the outside of the hub to clean it up. It's all back together now, with lots of grease, and working nicely.

Thanks for the tip on the stake nut, it was obvious from looking at it what needed to happen with it to avoid thread damage. I just used a screwdriver to relieve the stake and then used the same nut and re-staked it afterwards, but the nut was very stiff to turn coming off, to the extent that I checked twice that the stake was clear of the threads, and putting it back on I took it off again twice and inspected the threads as I thought they were cross threading, such was the resistance, but on close inspection I could see the threads had just been flattened off a touch and the nut was indeed straight, so I just used a bit of force to tighten it up again. It would seem somebody has had it off in the past and not realised it was a staked nut and done exactly what Spannerman was trying to warn me not to do!! So too late, the damage was already done, another idiot got there before me! ggrrrrr

Re: Daytona 955i

Ralph
they take a hell of an effort to get them to move, they are toqued to 146N/M at the factory so to vercome that takes some doing.
i use a length of tube over the breaker bar and have someone stand on the back brake an dhold the front one.

as i said earlier check your linkage bearings befor its too late