Q for K100 owners

Whereas, we had a pretty successful day's fettling. I made adjustments
to the Forgotten Era Morini required after the Hartland shakedown. One
rearset peg in need of tightening and the rear brake hub lever moving
round a notch on the spline to get a better angle of dangle on the
rearest lever. Pleased to read in the results received today that it
wasn't the slowest Forgotten Era bike by some way and was nearly in the
championship points despite not being able to use much more than about
half throttle. New needles and a set of bigger main jets have been
ordered.

Washed the Nordwest. Hill climbing where there is a grass paddock can
leave your bike like looking it has done a bit of mild motocrossing.
Even more pleased to find that I appear to have been second fastest road
legal bike (fastest was an SV1000), beating last years champion and
second place man. Must have liked the conditions. Perhaps I should take
up ice racing. Not eligible for the points though as no current task
disc. Not bothered really as I know I won't be doing enough rounds or be
quick enough in the dry on faster hills to get placed over the year.

Andy should really get himself down there in October on the KTM.

Washed the lad's KX65 and got all the plastics off for a deep clean.
Reassembled, replacing two or three fasteners lost in the mud of France
somewhere. The lad did most of the work on the Kwacker under
supervision. MX bikes are such a simple pleasure to work on so nothing
cracked or snapped. It will be on Ebay later this evening.

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| Pete Fisher at Home: |
| Voxan Roadster Gilera Nordwest * 2 Yamaha WR250Z |
| Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 Morini 350 "Forgotten Error" |
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That's a bad feeling though.

Me and the boy exprienced similar when we refitted the Beav'ed-up arse
end to the VFR and it didn't want to play.

All came good in the end though
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Dan L

Too much time to think, too little to do.


http://thebikeshed.spaces.live.com/
1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr

BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6/7)
X-FOT#000
DIAABTCOD #26
BOMB#18 (slow)
OMF#11

 

Andy still fancies doing a hill climb but it needs to be somewhere
closer to Bedford than Hartland Quay. The taxman will kick my arse if
he finds out I use my van for personal use and all it needs is for a
tax inspector to be there watching and wonder why a van belonging to a
Kendal based company is there for me to be in a bit of bother.

 

Trailing your coat a bit, agreed. The problem is that most of the hills
are concentrated in the South West or Midlands. I would guess that your
closest hill is not actually a hill, but Curborough Twist sprint near
Lichfield. I suppose any of the midlands hills could be argued to be
approximately on your way home from Kendal though. All the midlands
meetings are limited entry unfortunately. Champ was lucky to get in at
Prescott at short notice last year because it was re-scheduled to a
Saturday only date.

Then there is Barbon at the Kendal end, but it used to be quite hard to
get a ride there.

Have a look at the NHCA calendar and if you fancy a crack at one get an
entry in good and early.

http://www.nhca.co.uk/Calendar/dates.htm
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| Voxan Roadster Gilera Nordwest * 2 Yamaha WR250Z |
| Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 Morini 350 "Forgotten Error" |
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We get a choice of no personal use and no tax liability or we tell the
tax man we're using it for personal as well as work use and have to
cough up the cash. If I pay the tax I then pay my employer a flat rate
for mileage and claim back the tax on the amount I pay my employer.

 

You can't claim the rest from the IR, you can list it as a business
expense so it's worth (depending on income) 40% of whatever the unpaid
amount was.

 

It wasn't all disaster, the K was given a full service (1), the 9R had
a new rear tyre and chain fitted (2), the KTM was given a good clean
and the chain lubed and Adie dug the garden.

The less said about the turbo the better.

(1) Apart from the oil filter which isn't the same diameter as is
normally used so the sump needed removing to get at it and that came
under the heading of too much like hard work.

(2) It was the first time I'd used the chain riveting tool I purchased
at Ally Pally last year and it rocked. I was never 100% happy using a
couple of ball pein hammers to rivet the new link but this has done a
really neat job. It's going to break now I've said that but shit
happens...

 

You're a bad man.

 

But fair.

 

Made sure Packer got nowhere near the chain then? Very wise.

 

at the same time BMW started considering the final drive as a maintenance
free consumable

 

I don't bother counting links, it's easier to buy the correct chain in
the first place.

 

Well, having refitted the swinging-arm yesterday, today was exhaust
time. Much fun, but ultimate success. I was a bit perplexed when
attempting to remove the old exhaust gaskets, as there were none. So,
I put the new ones in, fitted the lhs exhaust to the collector,
attached the rhs exhaust to the motor, then set about the joining of
the two bits. Right first time! Collector bolted to frame with new
bolts in the Rivnuts[1] and all was well.[2]

So, onto the crown wheel thing. Offered up the drive shaft to the
swing arm, and in it went. Crown wheel assembly bolted on easy, with
just the right amount of resistance from the spring.

Wheel in, all going swimmingly. Attempt to turn wheel to check
clearance with swing-arm - ker-dunk-ker-dunk-ker-dunk-ker-dunk - hmm,
that's not right. Tyre is clear of swing arm, brake disc is clear of
caliper bracket. Brainwave. Go to rhs and check UJ movement - it
moves, but that's definitely where the noise is coming from.

Wheel out, crown wheel off, check UJ. Use grips to secure UJ on output
shaft (it went on at least another half inch.)

I then had a lot of difficulty getting the end of the drive shaft to
connect with the UJ, so much so that I said "Fukkit" and came indoors.

I suspect that the swingarm need fitting with the final drive
attached, which means that all the bits I spent yesterday and the
early part of today refitting will have to come off first.

Bum.

[1] Which were also used to replaced corroded captive nuts in six
other locations. Getting better value by the minute.

[2] Due to anglegrinder mayhem involved in their removal, I now need
two 40mm clamps to secure the exhaust to the collector. Will those
U-shaped things from car spares shops do?

 

Having consulted the "Big Honda Book of Fibs and Fables", I suspect
that the UJ has been fitted back-to-front by some half-witted
fucknugget.

It has a long end, and a short one. Long end forwards.

That's every evening this week spoken for then. Then it's headraces
and brakes. And electrical accessories.

Gawd knows when the MOT is due.

I shall not be beaten.

 

<shouts encouragement from the sidelines>
--
Champ

ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer
My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle
To email me, neal at my domain should work.

 

I fear I might be wrong. Just spent the thick end of two hours taking
it all apart again, and the bloody UJ is in the right way round.

I did test it again before dismantling, and it still clonked.

I shall reassemble with the bevel box attached this time.

Further jobs that have surfaced - the Wing needs to be strapped to the
wall when it's on the bench, the swaying can get quite unnerving at
times.

How did Avon decide on the width of the tyre for the back of a Wing?
It's patently obvious they never tried to fit a wheel to a bike in
testing. The tyre is *very* nearly an interference fit between the
bevel box and the other side of the swinging arm. Fine when it's in
there, mind.

Still, it's VATfree day at Machine Mart tomorrow, so I can stock up
latex glubs. I appear to have decimated my supply over the last week
or so.

Finally, how come all the stuff I did in around ten hours at the
weekend could be undone in less than two?

 

You are not alone.

Am part way thru fitting new chain and sprockets to the ZX10R. Used
my trad method of hacksawing the old chain off, and accessed the front
sprocket relatively easily. But the nut has some bizarre
protruberance on it as part of the speedo trigger. It also has two
hex heads - a 27, then a 32. My three different 27mm sockets all
round off the nut. My 32 isn't deep enough. Visit to Halfords
required.

Then I went to fit the rear sprocket, to find that I'd been sold a 40
tooth one (as per 2006/07 model) not a 39 tooth (as per my 2004/05
model)

Ooh, is it? Wonder if the branches stay open later?

Entropy

hth.

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Champ

ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer
My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle
To email me, neal at my domain should work.

 

Those nuts cost the thick end of 15 quid each, they're the same as 9R
ones. My 9R nut had to be cut off because it was so fucking tight it
was impossible to remove without causing damage to it. My deep 27mm
socket has removed and replaced Danny's sprocket nut countless times
without damaging it.


--
Lozzo
Suzuki SV650S K5
Honda CBR600 FW trackbike
Yamaha SR250 Spazz-Trakka
Suzuki GSXR750 L
Suzuki TS50X
Suzuki TS50X

 

I think I need a really good 6-sided socket. But a deep 32 would be
better.
--
Champ

ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer
My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle
To email me, neal at my domain should work.