What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?

[Opus]

@ Scott
Yes they work. It is an ongoing issue with the Panel that I started not long ago in another post.
Was just having fun at my own expense LOL.

[tsbt]

Officially finished everything I set out to fix and replace on the bike. Played hooky from work yesterday afternoon and took her to get some new Pilot Road 2s over at Rosey Toes Cycle. The guy Ted who runs the place comes highly recommended for great service, unfortunately I have to go back on tuesday as he didn't have a 160/60 18 for the rear. Nevertheless it was a good day to test the bike out and see what needs tuning for longer trips  :2thumbup:

He also had a Honda parked out front the owner went from England to the southern tip of Africa and back then parked it in a shed and never had it out since, want's Ted to get it running again. Great story. Wish I was a fly on that bike. Incredible journey I'm sure.

[TimTyler]

Installed a new rear main seal and o-ring. Lube all splines.

Now I just need to put it all back together :(

[mystic red]

I did this after a OCD wash and wax.
It's like an effen mirror.

[Reopropf]

Newbie update: (4 days)

Got insurance & registered bike with state/got tags.

Changed oil/filter, changed brake fluid front/rear, lubed spline and drive shaft (really needed it), adjusted tight clutch, replaced vent hose, mounted rear rack, detailed and touched up paint, checked electricals.

State inspection.

Going to run in a tank with additive tomorrow.

Peter

[leecow]

Discovered a rather severe oil leak (oil pump) and had several sizable tasks queued up so tore the bike down in preparation for ... changing the tires (did the rear today while the oils was draining), rebuilding the oil pump, rebuilding the rear master cylinder (done, just have to reassemble), general inspection and cleaning of all things electrical, spline lube, anything else that strikes my fancy while the patient's chest is open. Rather depressing to be without the Brick for the coming week's commute and will hopefully have things back together next weekend.

[Opus]

Newbie update: (4 days)

Peter

Greeting Peter!
Welcome to the club.

[Chaos]

Rode it to work for the first time in 2 weeks.  Been putting kilometers on the Ural.  Turned left from a stoplight and couldn't remember how to cancel the blinker, but I did manage to test the horn. While pondering that dilemma tried to upshift using the heel shifter, which, of course wasn't there.  Not a graceful moment   :dunno

[Opus]

Got my new(er) Speedo installed. :2thumbup:
Everything working! (Well almost :dunno2:)

@Chaos: I hate that when it happens! :giggles

[argent brick]

Opus, What is not working?

[Opus]

Opus, What is not working?

Long story short?
GPI on Speedo would not show correct gears. Then Odometer/Trip Meter stopped working.
See http://www.motobrick.com/index.php/topic,2796.0.html for details
Got Speedo off Fleabay and replaced the old one. Now back at GPI problem. Looks like a wire or switch problem now.
I'm putting the problem on hold until I put the bike up for winter.

Thanks for asking & have a great day..

[Chaos]

GPI on Speedo would not show correct gears. Then Odometer/Trip Meter stopped working.

Okay, I give.  What the hell is the GPI in the speedo?  Don't think it's any of these :giggles

GPI   Global Peace Index
GPI   Genuine Progress Indicator
GPI   Glycosyl Phosphatidylinositol
GPI   Glucose-6-Phosphate Isomerase
GPI   Glass Packaging Institute
GPI   General Purpose Interface
GPI   General Purpose Input
GPI   Greenpeace International
GPI   Glycophosphatidylinositol
GPI   Globus Pallidus Internus
GPI   Girls' Power Initiative (Nigeria)
GPI   Grains Per Inch (arrow construction)
GPI   Green Press Initiative
GPI   General Paralysis of the Insane
GPI   GOES Precipitation Index
GPI   Generic Product Identifier
GPI   General Pay Increase
GPI   Great Plains Industries, Inc (Wichita, Kansas)
GPI   Gas Puff Imaging
GPI   General Printing Ink
GPI   Ground Position Indicator
GPI   Glide Path Indicator (helipad lighting system)
GPI   Generalized Policy Iteration
GPI   Ground Point of Intercept
GPI   Global Precipitation Index
GPI   Gruppo Partecipazioni Industriali (Italian joint stock company)
GPI   Groupement de Promotion Intégrale (French)
GPI   Graphical Programming Interface
GPI   Global Partners Inc (Philippines)
GPI   Government Preliminary Inspection
GPI   Ground Point Intercept
GPI   Gallons Per Inch
GPI   Generic Protocol Interface
GPI   General Programming Interface (computer programming)
GPI   Guidance Performance Indicator (web metrics)
GPI   Global Patent Information
GPI   Gerakan Pramuka Indonesia (Indonesian Scout Movement)
GPI   Global Positioning Instrument (aka GPS)
GPI   Global Procurement Information
GPI   Group Priority Inversion
GPI   Guide des Procédures de d’Immigration (Canada)
GPI   Group Presence Indicator
GPI   Gasket & Packings, Inc. (Borger, Texas)
GPI   Kalispell, Montana, USA - Glacier Park International Airport
GPI   Government Provided Information
GPI   Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. (Canada)
GPI   Global Policy Institute (London, UK)

[sh00ter]

Gear Position Indicator?

[Opus]

@ Chaos Shot all around it, but no Cigar!

Right sh00ter?

[sh00ter]

 :yes :yes

[Chaos]

It could have been Ground Position Indicator if you had one of those flying K bricks  :neener:

[Rick G]

Gees all those gusses and he still flunked :hehehe

[argent brick]

True, but look how many three letter acronyms he made up:)

I had to pay the DMV for my tags today. My bike is a '95 and it cost me 97 bucks for a little sticker the state feels that I need to have on my rear plate. What a rip off. If I may ask, about how much do you guys pay in other areas than California?

[Rick G]

I have to pay $450 a year but I get a sticker that is bigger than yours. :neener:

[Chaos]

My sticker is about $40/yr.  Had the same plate since 1986.

[vesku]

is this like an inspection sticker or just tax? Here in Finland we do not pay yearly taxes for motorcycles, nor have we yearly inspection. (Yet). Maybe the government thinks a six month's winter is punishment enough  :lol: Cars, however, are a different story...

I only pay about 300 euros (abt 350 bucks) of insurance every year. We have a nice system which favors older, less powerful bikes. The insurance covers damage caused to others, own injuries, damage caused to the bike because of fire, theft or reindeer (true, and a serious threat here in these parts;)) Mine is an '85 K100RS.

[argent brick]

Rick, you have sticker bigger that me? Really? Check out the attachment. Tell you what, I'll show you mine, if you show me yours... 

Is that $450 a year just for the one bike? If so, I don't feel as bad about my 97 bucks. The 40 a year that Chaos pays is more to my taste.

In answer to the question posted by Vesku, it is not an inspection sticker and it not just tax. According to the state of California,
only about 16 dollars is a tax. The rest of it are things like fees to the local government, money for the police agencies, and fees that cover programs that the tree huggers have pushed to have passed into state law.  My favorite is the "administration fees" part.
The state goes out of their way to tell us that they only get a very small part of the money. 

To me, it is all taxes.

[TimTyler]

... things like fees to the local government, money for the police agencies, and fees that cover programs that the tree huggers have pushed to have passed into state law.

According to http://www.dmv.ca.gov/faq/faq_vlf.htm

"The DMV returns almost all vehicle license fee revenue to the cities and counties.
For more details on how your VLF money is used,
contact your local city or county government officials."

I don't see anything about "tree hugger state laws", and I don't have a problem kicking a few bucks a year to the government services that benefit my neighborhood.

[argent brick]

"I don't have a problem kicking a few bucks a year to the government services that benefit my neighborhood."

I do not have a problem with giving them a few bucks, but I do have a problem when they are spent on programs that are not needed or the funds are not used wisely.  For example, the county I live in has smog laws designed for areas with a much greater population and higher pollution levels. It was optional for our area but was still put on the books. The state gives the county zero dollars in funding and yet we have to comply with the law. Local residents have to foot the bill.

Environmental laws and programs that are passed at state level is what I classify as "tree hugger laws". Our automobile smog laws are one example. Another is the corn/gasoline blended fuel that has been stuffed down our throat.

Maybe that is unfair of me to group all environmental laws together. I know many of them do what they are designed to do, but many do not. Some are very poorly written and should be rewritten or removed. Others should never been placed on the books. 
My experience is that few laws end up working as planned.

"The DMV returns almost all vehicle license fee revenue to the cities and counties.
For more details on how your VLF money is used,
contact your local city or county government officials."

Let's call them what they really are: TAXES. You can call them fees and surcharges all you want, but they are taxes. Let the county collect it's own taxes and save one level of bureaucracy. Considering that my state is broke, I do not want them handling local funds anymore than needed. They can't even come up with a real balanced budget. The DMV knows how they distribute the funds. They should tell us and not pass the buck by putting it on our shoulders to find out.

[TimTyler]

Today...

Replacing Metzeler Lasertecs with Bridgestone Spitfire S11's.