What did you do to your bike today???

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  1. pete954

    pete954 Active Member

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    Removed the swingarm and cleaned and greased suspension linkage. Wheels off for powder coating uploadfromtaptalk1451519805177.jpg
     
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  2. Mr OCD

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    New forks ...
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  3. Muffking

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    What sort of bike lift is that?
     
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    ABBA Superbike stand
     
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    What sort of bike lift is that?

    Ahh, you're using the jack to keep the front up. And there was me thinking it's new style of hydraulic lift.
     
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  6. Mr OCD

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    Errrr no...

    It's a hydraulic ABBA superbike stand which has everything you need to lift the whole bike in the air.
     
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  7. Mr OCD

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    It's this:

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  8. Muffking

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    oo I like that. What stops the nose from tipping?
     
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    There is an adjustable pad / mount built into front of it that goes under downpipes... You wind it up so that it stays level when you lift the bike...
     
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    jeez ocd,the size of that garage.....different bloody world
     
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  11. pete954

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    Picked up these shiny beauties from the powder coaters today. Managed to fit the valves without any scratches but that's the easy bit. Now for the tyres and bearings uploadfromtaptalk1452096957111.jpg uploadfromtaptalk1452096972136.jpg
     
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    Got these for Christmas from my son & wife.
    Apologies for the delay in posting, but the wife tidied the camera away.

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    The little 06 plate R6 went on the Dyno at GP Performance in Oxford today. When I bought it the Dyno readout was 113 Bhp, today after a top end refresh and port and flow its putting out 121 at the rear wheel and 132 at the crank. I have to thank Liam for the good work for not a lot of money (a good friend of many of the North West guys).

    An extra 8 horses to drag my chunky arse around the track. Apparently 1 kg of weight is approximate to 1 Bhp loss so I need to lose about another 8 kg :(
     
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  14. sps170373

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    Grant at Gp performance knows his stuff when it comes to mapping a bike, did you get forces discount there? They give some discount usually
     
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    Tyres back on rims, not a scratch in sight. Or a compressor for that matter. uploadfromtaptalk1452120805002.jpg uploadfromtaptalk1452120810061.jpg
     
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    Looks like a few tyre fitters could do with an education from you dude.. My back wheel got mullered trying to remove a nasty old dunlop qualifier..

    kudos
     
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    I was there for about 3 hours and only got charged for an hour but he had issues with the Dyno and one with my bike; both which we fixed and then had a good natter. He's a guy who has a genuine passion for bikes and it shows in his work.
     
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    He used to work years ago for motorcycle city in Reading and was awarded top mechanic in uk or Europe by Honda a few times!

    Yep top guy and like you say very passionate about his work, much like Arthur! Shame there aren't more guys around like them
     
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    Tried to book my bike in with Arthur for some work but he's always booked up, not a surprise.
     
    #6019 IcarusGreen, Jan 8, 2016
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    Swapped the hugger for a Powerbronze, fitted some 50mm frame plugs and fit a carbon exhaust sleeve
     

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