What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?

[kryder]

I installed a pair of hand protectors for the chilly fall riding and a pair of knee pads so as I can hustle 'round them bends a bit easier.

[The Mighty Gryphon]

Past week I've been prepping the herd for winter. 

Oil/filter, transmission and final drive fluid, coolant, brake bleeds, new rear tires, spline lubes, installing clutch arm zerks, fixed bad grip heater, rewired LED running lights, valve clearance, TB's, etc., etc.  So far I'm about 1/2 way through my list. 

It's tough to get it all done with so much nice riding weather for this time in November.  Took Moby Brick out today for about 270 miles burning off the moonshine gas in the tank.  If this weather holds up, I'll have to do all the maintenance again in May.  However...

...two years ago next week we got 7 feet of snow in 5 days.

[TrueAce]

That's a mighty impressive "To Do" list for each bike, M. Gryphon , can't say my prep was as detailed as yours. The herd is in the barn for winter, but I'm keeping the K1100rs, R1200gs, and K100 scrambler ready for warm days, and maybe a Daytona/Keys run in March. If the warm weather stays with us, there could be more days this year to ride compared to last winter. :euro

[The Mighty Gryphon]

Ace, you're in Florida, what are you talking about warm days for riding?   Winter?  WTF!?

[Martin]

I sort of imagined Florida winter to be like Queensland winter i.e. non existent. In think our coldest day got to around 18C, have you been smoking that Polk salad Ace?  :dunno
Regards a puzzled Martin.

[TrueAce]

I am in NORTH Florida, MG, not sunny SOUTH Florida..........it can get down to 18F, and we have all these signs "Bridge Freezes Before Road".....ever tried to ride somewhere without crossing a bridge?
And, Martin, we eat "poke" salad, which is a leafy green plant similar to cabbage. We smoke "Square Grouper", a Florida delicacy that's been caught in these waters for years. :euro

[Laitch]

I sort of imagined Florida winter to be like Queensland winter i.e. non existent.

To back up Ace, it can get cold in Florida. One winter in Miami, it was 22ºF for 11 hours—enough cold to kill back or kill off outright hundreds of thousands of dollars in tropical nursery stock and winter vegetables. Periodically it can have freezing temperatures in the low mucklands of the lower Everglades. Central and North Florida citrus groves occasionally fight off frost using smudge pots or helicopters. None of this happens yearly but it happens.

South Florida is subtropic but only the Florida Keys approach Queensland style tropics. The Bahamas and Cuba are where the tropics start. Where Ace lives gets cold in the winter. When you spend your time in 70ºF temperatures, 30ºF isn't pleasant. When you spend your time in Central Vermont, 40ºF is great!

[The Mighty Gryphon]

Up here when the temperature gets to 32F people break out the shorts and their flip flops. 

[Martin]

Ace I stand corrected on the weather and the salad thing, but move further South why freeze, best thing I ever did was move North.
Regards Martin.

[Filmcamera]

Here in Costa Rica the average is about 73 F all year long.  We don't have four seasons just two, wet and dry.  It is just coming to the end of the rainy season so I have about a month to get my bike running properly then four months with no rain to enjoy riding it.

[The Mighty Gryphon]

Did a test fit of my "new" cut down windshield on my K75S.  Am tired of the turbulance that hits right in the helmet.  Tried a taller windshield, but unless it's almost as high as the barn door on my RT it does no good, so trying shorter.

Picked up an old one and cut about 5-6 inches off of it, just enough to keep my GPS behind it. Will start polishing this week.

I think I like it.

[Martin]

Looking good Gryph and even though I love the colour of my bike,  I do love the colour of yours. I have never ever seen a K75 or a K100 in that colour. If I ever bought another one I would love to find one in pale yellow.
Regards Martin.

[Laitch]

I think I like it.

Are you going to use that fancy Lexan polishing system to clear up that screen, Gryph, even though you won't be looking through it except when you wake up from a nap?

[TrueAce]

Very nice MG, sort of an R90S look. Will you do one for me?
And, Martin, there is no such "pale yellow", that's Dakar Yellow! Only 100 were imported to North America. MG & me have twins! :euro

[Laitch]

that's Dakar Yellow!

I believe it was settled some time ago that the name of that color is Biological Sample Yellow #1.

[Martin]

Dakar yellow,pale yellow a rose by any other name would still smell as sweet.  :dunno
Regards Martin.

[Laitch]

Dakar yellow,pale yellow a rose by any other name would still smell as sweet.  :dunno

BS Yellow #1 is usually described as pungent. :giggles

[Elipten]

Baby poop mustard yellow?

I like the yellow.


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[TrueAce]

D-A-K-A-R..........like desert sand! Paris-Dakar Rally,hello? Bunch of junior high school nerds! :nono

[The Mighty Gryphon]

Actually, the shade of yellow was copied from a diabetic camel's urine sample found in a nomadic veterinarian's tent somewhere just south of Morocco.

Ace, if you send me your windshield I'll cut it down for you.  First let me get the bike out some time to confirm that it doesn't throw the turbulence up at my helmet.

[TrueAce]

You are a gentleman and a scholar and a true example of good character, Mighty Gryphon! Thank you! :2thumbup:

[jakgieger]

Ace, if you send me your windshield I'll cut it down for you.  First let me get the bike out some time to confirm that it doesn't throw the turbulence up at my helmet.

Why not do this to deal with turbulence?  I find that listening to Rammstein and exceeding 90 tends to increase turbulence :hehehe at all helmet levels. 

[The Mighty Gryphon]

Jack, a few years ago that may have been an option, but today I have arthritis in my neck, and the stock riding position with low bars is pretty much at the limit of what I can lift my head to look forward.   As it is, I have a hard time looking left and right for cross traffic at intersections.  At the rate I'm going in a few years my RT will be the only brick I will be able to ride.

I think the shorter shield will not only put my head in clean air, but I think it really looks a bit more modern than the taller shield with the turbulence inducing lip.  Had it not been for wanting to shield my GPS, I could have cut it down an additional 2 inches.  All the scratches you see are the result of sanding out a severely yellowed shield that had a lot of what looked like petrified duct tape residue stuck to it.  Am going to sand with 2000 and 2400 this week and buff with Novus fine scratch remover.  It won't be perfectly optically clear, but will be ok cosmetically.  I'll still have the factory shield for those concours 'd elegance situations I may want to engage in.

[ugatha]

Replaced a turn signal bulb and cured a "cruise cintrol" sticky throttle  with info from this site.

[Vespa no more]

Seized front brake master cylinder fixed


K1100LT 1993 FBMC was seized. No manner of coercion would free it. Piston retaining screw was removed. Brake line bolt out
None had appeared online for months. Then I saw one in Germany $450.
Had to return to the shed (despite far higher priorities) and have another go.


Tried heat, WD40, INOX, vinegar, compressed air, levering piston forward through brake line hole...
Was going back and forth hitting the end of the piston with a piece of dowel and then compressed air. Was getting about 1-2 mm of movement


Epiphany: put the brake lever back on MC. hold the whole thing in a vice (soft jaws) and rapidly alternate lever (to compress the piston back into the bore and compressed air into brake line hole. Magically after 5 attempts the lever "boned up" as the compressed air forced the piston past whatever was holding it back and against the lever.


Lever back off, more air and out came the piston (against a wooden stopper). Cleaned the rubbers up with air and 1200 grit wet and dry to hone the bore.


Cheering


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Will be attempting to start this $500 ex police bike in about a week or 2.