What have you done on your bike today?
- Thread starter The GOAT
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Out of interest, how did your mate's bike run on the way back from Liverpool?
You didn't launch it into the Mersey?
I would have thought that was an obvious move on your part.
Today after waking to a shit grey rainy day i waited till 4 O'clock as the sun had come out and the roads are dry. I decided to get some grub the very long way, meant to be shit again tomorrow.
Bit of a silly time to go out realy, the traffic was not as bad as i thought it would be but still a pain in the arse. I had to do some filtering and hit the side of a car with my number plate that shattered. Hope it damaged the Guinnesss car as the fucker wouldn't move over, selfish Guinness!!
Bit of a silly time to go out realy, the traffic was not as bad as i thought it would be but still a pain in the arse. I had to do some filtering and hit the side of a car with my number plate that shattered. Hope it damaged the Guinnesss car as the fucker wouldn't move over, selfish Guinness!!
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Today after waking to a shit grey rainy day i waited till 4 O'clock as the sun had come out and the roads are dry. I decided to get some grub the very long way, meant to be shit again tomorrow.
Bit of a silly time to go out realy, the traffic was not as bad as i thought it would be but still a pain in the arse. I had to do some filtering and hit the side of a car with my number plate that shattered. Hope it damaged the Guinnesss car as the fucker wouldn't move over, selfish Guinness!!
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You’ll soon fix that, a man of your means
I've had to put on the standard size billboard number plate till my new one turns up on Monday. The weather is looking crap tomorrow but ok Sunday so should be ok for Sammy Millers Jap day.
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Finally managed to get the filler cap off the ZXR after a few attempts.
Fecking thing was stuck solid on the catch…
I tried spraying with release agent and taping with a rubber mallet (take note Wayne) and after a few attempts over a week I gave up.
A YouTube video showed a method where you take all the screws out, jack open the flap with plastic shim and with a watchmakers screw driver you tap the one security screw digging into the side of it to loosen it - then spin it out - didn’t work
So having purchased a new OEM filler cap for a reasonable price from CMSNL when I bought the other bits I needed, I drilled through the old cap and removed the security screw.
Low and behold it still wouldn’t come out
So 4 more strategic drillings above 4 more screws and finally it came off
This is what I found - in fact I’d already removed some of the crud before taking this picture…
Here’s my drillings…
Tonight I fathomed out how to strip the lock barrel out of the old cap.
I had a bit of head scratching as the assembly design had changed but the old barrel still fitted…
Just got it all back together in time to watch today’s TT highlights on ITV4 at 10pm
and it’s not on
Fecking thing was stuck solid on the catch…
I tried spraying with release agent and taping with a rubber mallet (take note Wayne) and after a few attempts over a week I gave up.
A YouTube video showed a method where you take all the screws out, jack open the flap with plastic shim and with a watchmakers screw driver you tap the one security screw digging into the side of it to loosen it - then spin it out - didn’t work
So having purchased a new OEM filler cap for a reasonable price from CMSNL when I bought the other bits I needed, I drilled through the old cap and removed the security screw.
Low and behold it still wouldn’t come out
So 4 more strategic drillings above 4 more screws and finally it came off
This is what I found - in fact I’d already removed some of the crud before taking this picture…
Here’s my drillings…
Tonight I fathomed out how to strip the lock barrel out of the old cap.
I had a bit of head scratching as the assembly design had changed
but the old barrel still fitted…Just got it all back together in time to watch today’s TT highlights on ITV4 at 10pm
and it’s not on