What Have You Being Doing With Your Non-triumph Today?

Can't believe how much extra cr@p there is for the ABS system on the ZX10R...
I'm guessing it's similar with the ABS on My Street RS
With the clean air stuff and carbon canister etc, I've already taken a box full of bits off the ZX.
And I still haven't got to the exhaust yet!

 

That's pretty cool, @JtC! And a cool finished product. What's the deal? Is it sort of like a puzzle with metal pieces?

 

Nice 100 mile ride out in Rutland and Leicestershire today on the GS.

Dry, and back before it got too nippy.

Countryside is so beautiful even at this time of year.

In fact, often because you can see through the trees and hedges have been cut, the views are often better.

DS

 

Yeah and you can get absolutely anything from guitars, cars, star Wars ships/deathstar, airplanes, etc. you name it. You put them together with tweezers, patience, and a steady hand. It's a miracle I got it done, now that I think of it. Haha

 

What panniers are those please.

 

If you enlarge the photos you can see that they are SW- Motech. Not sure of the model though.

 

On this last day of 2020, Mr. Sandi and I rode our bicycles for about an hour on our local bike path. When we got home I turned right around and went back out for a solo ride on my H-D Low Rider S to bid goodbye to this strange and challenging year. My plan is to take my Speed Triple out tomorrow on New Year's Day to welcome in the new year and pray that things around the globe improve in 2021.

 

Well, it was rather chilly on the motorcycle, DCS. The sky kept getting cloudier and darker (the pic was from early in the ride) and the temperatures kept dropping. Or at least they felt like they did. I really needed another layer under my leather jacket but was only out for about 30 miles. Plus I was riding in town so not much wind chill factor at work. But I know full well how crummy the weather is in many other parts of the world so I'm certainly not complaining! Just "describing".

 

Was gonna say he’s been at the traffic lights too long but there ain’t any

 

I'm sorry to read how crummy your weather is, @littleade. Truly. Having grown up in Minnesota I remember well how salted roads wreak havoc with vehicles. I also recall sliding right through intersections on several occasions when hitting ice patches hidden by a layer of snow. We certainly weren't anywhere near a large body of water there in southern Minnesota so at least we didn't have that moist air that you do.

Sometimes Mr. Sandi lobbies for us to move back to Minnesota to live on the farm with my brother and his family and I gently (not!) remind him that we'd only be able to ride about half as much as we currently can for the rest of our lives. Fortunately those reminders help him come back to his senses. He brings up making a move back there every year come about September, right on cue, when he's sick to death of multiple days of temperatures well over 100ºF. I'll take the hot weather. Even at the height of summer, we can at least we can get up early and get in a short ride or a walk or a bit of yard work before the day really heats up.

 

That 100 degrees F does sound just about torture to me, I suppose its what your used to.

 

Believe it or not, you do get used to it, Sprinter. During the height of summer, 100º is fairly common and normal and doesn't feel that bad. But when it starts to hit about 110º it does start to feel a bit toasty. And, as we here in Arizona say, "But it's a dry heat!"

 

Definitely beats humidity, but 110f/43c is getting to unbearable. I remember that being a top temperature in OZ 30 years ago, but they have increased by more than 10c

 

Trying to do some work on the Suzuki GS750, again.The weather is freezing, so not in any hurry. I wanted to service the forks and fix a strange customization by one of the POs.
Got the forks off, but had to remove the top bolts to get em through the triple tree,



cos the PO had installed his own hand made, Air Assist, to the forks,



Here is what has been removed. This was pumped up with a bicycle pump, I believe later models had these for a year or two.



and here's the old,verses the OEM fork top bolt.



waiting for Automatic Transmission Fluid, ATF. to mix 50/50 with 10/30 engine oil, as stated in manual.and having looked at two o rings and being asked for 12 quid. I am going to try and use the old ones.
I also have new trims for the top of the forks, and this is a good chance to tidy up wiring also a new gear change indicator from China, that should fit in to the speedo bezel and replace the OEM one that gave up after working for the first week I had it on the road this summer.





Edit. Managed to buy this for 7 quid so, should be good for a while.