"Revive" (1985 K100 Street Scrambler Build, not a Cafe Racer)

[DJEwen]

I recommend that option. It can be set to retract with varying degrees of lever pressure but I use it as a reminder to kick up the stand—if I haven't done that already—when the lever meets first resistance. It's a useful safety feature considering I've read comments from competent riders describing how they have been hospitalized after driving off with the side stand down.

The complaint with that feature is that if an alcohol-impaired Reiver climbs onto your bike to play make-believe, pulls in the clutch and goes vroom-vroom (or the Scottish equivalent) then dismounts, the bike will go down because the side stand is up.

So suicide stand or clutch retraction, neither combat drunken “see you Jimmy’s”. Think I’ll do the non suicide mod to the side stand first, see how that goes.

Thanks to some off thread assistance from RBM, the Speedo is now synchronised with the bike and readings are balanced with GPS after final drive pulse counts were set to six per rear wheel rotation and a circumference value of 2075mm entered. The rev counter, however, still needs work.

I just rode her on a 40 mile country road trip and had zero complaints. Coolant levels are now also completely stable.

What a machine  :riding:

[Skunky]

Congrats Dave - Looking good.

[DJEwen]

Congrats Dave - Looking good.

 :beer:

[DJEwen]

I need to change my indicators, although they were bright enough to pass the MOT in the workshop, they're Sheite Militia out on the road. I'm thinking Motogadget or something equally as blinding as the sun. Potentially not Motogadget if I can get something as good but cheaper, I'd welcome some suggestions, something small and discreet, ideally a similar size to my current ones??

I was out for a ride with a neighbour last night, he has the Motogadget M Blaze Pin indicators which came on his Bonny when he bough it, my retinas are still burning from the beam of blinding light that comes off those tiny, tiny little things.

[Skunky]

Hi Dave

I like the Ryde unit discrete rubber mounted flasher very bright and with real glass lens instead of plastic.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RYDE-2-PAIRS-FRONT-REAR-LED-MINI-EYE-BLACK-CLEAR-LENS-MOTORBIKE-INDICATORS/350669750659?epid=1149377333&hash=item51a58bc183:g:CTQAAOSwCQNWhBwv


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[Laitch]

I was out for a ride with a neighbour last night . . .

The MOT accepts having a registration number painted on the moto's seat? What will happen to the well-being of registration plate manufacturing if that's the case? These numbers don't need lighting?

[Skunky]

The MOT accepts having a registration number painted on the moto's seat? What will happen to the well-being of registration plate manufacturing if that's the case? These numbers don't need lighting?

 :hehehe  No it doesn't Laitch . What we have here is a modified bike. Modified after the MOT. It's perfectly possible (if not legal) to make changes once you have passed your test. Or it may be that the Bonneville is a 2016 and has not had its first test yet (which comes when 3 years old).

In fact DJ Ewen is keeping his nice yellow legal number plate with reflector in his garage ready for next years MOT. The worst that will happen is a wrist slap from the Police should they wish to.

[Laitch]

What we have here is a modified bike. Modified after the MOT. It's perfectly possible (if not legal) to make changes once you have passed your test. Or it may be that the Bonneville is a 2016 and has not had its first test yet (which comes when 3 years old).

Is the first test when they check it with the machine that goes BING?

[Skunky]

Dave

Saw this and thought of you

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Set-of-Motogadget-LED-M-Blaze-Pin-Indicator-Turn-Signal-Pair-Black-Mini/332705362065?hash=item4d76c8f091:g:akgAAOSw7e5bOP7q

[DJEwen]

In fact DJ Ewen is keeping his nice yellow legal number plate with reflector in his garage ready for next years MOT.

Is the first test when they check it with the machine that goes BING?

Bing, Bong actually.

Dave

Saw this and thought of you

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Set-of-Motogadget-LED-M-Blaze-Pin-Indicator-Turn-Signal-Pair-Black-Mini/332705362065?hash=item4d76c8f091:g:akgAAOSw7e5bOP7q

You’re some man! I won them at £124, that’s just over £20 saving so not too shabby. Thanks, Skunky!

[DJEwen]

My brand new fork seals are leaking, both of :dunno2: They’re not OEM they’re Pyramid Parts- was this a mistake? What’s the chances of them “bedding in”, unlikely?

[DJEwen]

greetings...

those are known leakers... gonna have to go oem on the fork seals...

its also recommended to replace the upper and lower fork bushings when you replace the seals...

j o

Damn it... may leave it until the winter.

as little as that thing is gonna be ridden proally last time you will have to getts in there... with the addition of fork protectors and exempting annual suspension fluid changes of course...

It’s a daily actually, Jo. She’s done 400+ Miles this week.

[Laitch]

My brand new fork seals are leaking . . . They’re not OEM they’re Pyramid Parts

those are known leakers... gonna have to go oem on the fork seals...

Yours is an outcome oft told around the campfire during S'more/haggis roasts since time immemorial, DJ.

[Laitch]

Damn it... may leave it until the winter.

What might happen—and has in my experience—is the seals release a load of fork oil that contaminates the brake calipers by attracting abrasive road grit and then wash the grease out of one or both of the wheel bearings. The eventual, distant rumble of the bearings can be stimulating though.

[DJEwen]

What might happen—and has in my experience—is the seals release a load of fork oil that contaminates the brake calipers by attracting abrasive road grit and then wash the grease out of one or both of the wheel bearings. The eventual, distant rumble of the bearings can be stimulating though.

Alright, alright... [goes and orders new OEM fork seals after leaving an adequate review of that cheap Japanese shit I’ve currently got in my fork legs]

[Martin]

Once you've installed the correct seals there are three ways to extend their life. 1/ Fit fork gaiters (boots) 2/ Fill under the dust seals with silicone grease and change the grease every 1-2 years depending on how dusty yours roads are. 3/ Use Jo's method and wipe the seals with ATF fluid occasionally.
Regards Martin.

[DJEwen]

Once you've installed the correct seals there are three ways to extend their life. 1/ Fit fork gaiters (boots) 2/ Fill under the dust seals with silicone grease and change the grease every 1-2 years depending on how dusty yours roads are. 3/ Use Jo's method and wipe the seals with ATF fluid occasionally.
Regards Martin.

Thanks, Martin.

I do still have the gaitors, visiually I didn’t think they worked with the style of the build so went for the dust covers instead... may trial fit them during the seal change.
Thanks for all the tips.

[DJEwen]

[Martin]

If you don't want to fit gaiters, try method 2 or 3. After doing a set of seals about 18 years ago I've been running  thick silicone grease under my dust covers and changing it every one to two years. I've been using Dow Corning grease ($50.00Au) left over from doing my fluid block. Recently I found another nearly as thick silicone grease made by Hershells a South African company. In Oz Super Cheap Automotive store sell it for around  $8.00 Au a tube. Another thing to do to maintain seals is either make or buy a Seal Mate. As per Jo's post I made one out of a plastic soft drink (soda) bottle. You occasionally run the seal mate around your seals and it removes all the crud and crap. The silicone grease has also proved effective at stopping the crap from getting to my seals, but the seal mate did stop a mates bikes seals from leaking. Another use for the silicone grease is to fill under your brake master cylinder boots. It will stop the ingress of water and crud extending the life of the cylinders.
Regards Martin.

[Laitch]

Vader heads out for a night on the town.  :2thumbup: First stop—the dry cleaner's to pick up the capes.

[DJEwen]

greetings...

are those the queens (248) miles or merican (400) miles...

j o

Same, same. 400 Mercian Miles  :riding:

[Filmcamera]

Great bike, really nice build and glad do see it getting ridden - 400 Scottish miles are hard miles!

[DJEwen]

If you don't want to fit gaiters, try method 2 or 3. After doing a set of seals about 18 years ago I've been running  thick silicone grease under my dust covers and changing it every one to two years. I've been using Dow Corning grease ($50.00Au) left over from doing my fluid block. Recently I found another nearly as thick silicone grease made by Hershells a South African company. In Oz Super Cheap Automotive store sell it for around  $8.00 Au a tube. Another thing to do to maintain seals is either make or buy a Seal Mate. As per Jo's post I made one out of a plastic soft drink (soda) bottle. You occasionally run the seal mate around your seals and it removes all the crud and crap. The silicone grease has also proved effective at stopping the crap from getting to my seals, but the seal mate did stop a mates bikes seals from leaking. Another use for the silicone grease is to fill under your brake master cylinder boots. It will stop the ingress of water and crud extending the life of the cylinders.
Regards Martin.

Some top tips there, Martin. Thanks very much.

The Vaders head out for a night on the town.  :2thumbup: First stop—the dry cleaner's to pick up the capes.

Haha! I'm going to switch back to the clear visor, the tinted one is alright but no use if you're caught in the dark, the flip down glasses on the passengers modular helmet are much better.

Great bike, really nice build and glad do see it getting ridden - 400 Scottish miles are hard miles!

Thanks, Filmcamera. Thanks to global warming they've been 400 warm miles which is unusual for a Scottish summer :blackcloud:

[Laitch]

Thanks to global warming they've been 400 warm miles . . .

Is that a greenhouse gas complaint I hear coming from the North Sea oil region, or jubilation? :giggles  Anyway, I hope you ride thousands of comfortable miles—be they steeped in appropriate soddeness or bathed in foreboding balminess—on that non-pareil example of semi-queered–out mobility.
  :2thumbup:

[DJEwen]

Is that a greenhouse gas complaint I hear coming from the North Sea oil region, or jubilation? :giggles  Anyway, I hope you ride thousands of comfortable miles—be they steeped in appropriate soddeness or bathed in foreboding balminess—on that non-pareil example of semi-queered–out mobility.
  :2thumbup:

A word smith as always, Laich. Jubilation of course, I doubt my current vehicle collection allows me greenhouse gas complaint :giggles

There's an event this weekend, I'm going to enter the brick in the show, the prizes are silver Quaich's, hopefully filled, these are some of the category's:

-Best Bike in Show
-Best Classic
-Best Non-British
-Best Alternative
-Best Paint
-Best Engineering
-Best Bike voted by Public