What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?

[The Mighty Gryphon]

If you take just the wheels...be sure you have the orientation correct in your mind .  Took mine to a BMW "professional", and the front tire got mounted wrong(directional arrow on tire going backwards).  Irony is that there were other k-bikes in the shop at the time so tech should have been able to look for correct orientation... :dunno

Good point.  I have installed a tire backwards because I had the 4 spoke front wheel upside down.  Now, I make a small arrowhead on the rim near the valve stem pointing in the rotation direction with a sharpie pen BEFORE I take the wheel off the bike.  When I'm done, a quick wipe with some acetone on a paper towel takes the mark right off.

I don't trust my brain to be able to keep things straight anymore.

[Bill]

I don't trust my brain to be able to keep things straight anymore.

Sig[size=78%]n of a life well lived is a twisted mind .......[/size]

[TrueAce]

Hmmmmm........made me check the tires on the scrambler ( recently mounted). The front tire arrow is pointed the wrong way, on a semi-knobby tire. tell, what difference does it make......the tread is so uni-directional it doesn't appear different. :dunno2:

[The Mighty Gryphon]

Hmmmmm........made me check the tires on the scrambler ( recently mounted). The front tire arrow is pointed the wrong way, on a semi-knobby tire. tell, what difference does it make......the tread is so uni-directional it doesn't appear different. :dunno2:

It makes your odometer run backwards which messes up all your fuel economy and maintenance interval calculations.  If you reach high enough speeds you could actually be going back in time without even exceeding the speed of light.

[K1300S]

If you take just the wheels...be sure you have the orientation correct in your mind .  Took mine to a BMW "professional", and the front tire got mounted wrong(directional arrow on tire going backwards).  Irony is that there were other k-bikes in the shop at the time so tech should have been able to look for correct orientation... :dunno

yes, whether someone else does it or you do it...triple check the orientation!

i had mine done at Morton's BMW.  even though the service manager had a K75S and there were a couple K's in the shop, i still checked orientation on the tires before i carried the wheels out....

[The Mighty Gryphon]

I didn't notice my F-up until the ABS light informed me that the ABS ring was on the wrong side.  DOH!! :mbird

[K1300S]

I didn't notice my F-up until the ABS light informed me that the ABS ring was on the wrong side.  DOH!! :mbird

LOL!!!   classic.

[TrueAce]

Since the scrambler has no speedometer, it may have taken a while before I realized the mounting error. Just so the mismatch in direction doesnt cause the front and rear to seize up.

[jakgieger]

Maybe a little a-retentive here :hehehe , but if the manufacturer put an arrow, maybe we should follow it??  Lots of web info on the rubber splice, tread pattern, water dispersion characteristics, etc.  Long story short, better to follow the arrow!

[Chaos]

a front tire mounted backwards on a non-abs bike can simply be turned around without dismounting the tire.  btdt.

[Laitch]

Since the scrambler has no speedometer, it may have taken a while before I realized the mounting error. Just so the mismatch in direction doesnt cause the front and rear to seize up.

They may swap ends though, so mark one of the tires using a paintball gun then take a picture so you can show the outcome to your fellow parishioners at the spring picnic, Brother Ace.

[milq]

Since I have the shock off already, decided to check the splines and flush rear brakes.
Happy to say the 16 spline shaft still looks in very good shape and wasn't dry, although it was close.
Seems like my rear brake pedal has a lot of travel (as it did prior to flushing and bleeding). The caliper is clamping down, just seems like a lot of movement before it does. Is that pretty common? My KTM has very touchy brakes, so maybe it's just different.

[mobydick]

Welded in a new  drive shaft spline section on my 87 K75C.  Now I can pull the transmission out and grease all the splines ready for my May/June  X Canada 150 cruise.

The PMW controllers for my heated jacket and pants arrived today,but still waiting on the silicon wire(china) and carbon heater strips(russia).  The (chinese) microphone board and amplifier  for my garmin nuvi GPS should be here in a month.   Also the USB and 12 V power ports are coming shortly.   

Phew that's a mouthful.  Good start in a shi#@y winter.
MD

[White Dog]

Got my K75 running!  Fix was to bend the female sockets on the 4 pin fuel pump plug so that the male pins from the tank would fit snugly.  Engine fired right up.  This is a known problem with the older cycles but I didn't know it until it bit me.

[Filmcamera]

Way to go Whitedog, always nice to hear a success story


I installed a super bright LED headlight today to match my super bright LED driving/fog lights.  No one will ever be able to use the 'sorry I didn't see you mate' excuse now!

[Laitch]

I installed a super bright LED headlight today to match my super bright LED driving/fog lights.  No one will ever be able to use the 'sorry I didn't see you mate' excuse now!

No one will ever be able you say, "you're not too bright" either, hopefully. :giggles

[Filmcamera]

I have never been accused of that yet but there is always a first time  :2thumbup:

[The Mighty Gryphon]

Is that an H-4 bulb replacement?   Any information you can share?

When you get a chance to run it at night you have to let us know how it works.  I use some of the stuff from Super Bright LED's and have found it to be pretty good.

[Filmcamera]

I git it from Amazon for $16.00. Installation was easy though it comes with no instructions.  The toughest choice was which way round to install it.  There are three LED's - two are lit when it is on low beam and the third one lights up as well when you switch to high beam.  There is enough room at the back to my RS headlight so installation isn't any issue. though I did have to cut the rubber boot since the bulb comes with a fan and enclosing that behind the rubber boot didn't seem like a good idea.


Here is a link to the bulb


https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B011NGEN3E/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[The Mighty Gryphon]

I have been using halogen bulbs in my bikes, and so far have had to replace 2 of them.   Don't know if the problem is that I am not buying the $20 bulbs or some of the crap roads I commute on.

Been looking at LED replacements, but I do a lot of riding at night in deer country and I have heard that the LED lights while super bright don't have good patterns with the OEM headlight.  I want to be able to see down the road, but don't want other drivers flashing at me all the time either.  My LED driving lights are TOO BRIGHT at night.  The light up road signs so much that they blind me to anything beyond them.  Very scary in some of the places where I know the damn deer hang around the side of the road.

Very interested in how Filmcamera's new headlight works in the dark.

[Filmcamera]

I know what you mean about the driving lights.  Mine came with one fog and one spot, I am actually thinking of splitting them onto separate switches so I can turn them on and off independently at night.


I will let you know how the main headlight is at night - at least as soon as I can solve my front brake issues and actually ride again!

[Laitch]

I will let you know how the main headlight is at night -

Please post a few photos of the high and low beam pattern down your driveway or a road, just to give us an idea of its effect.

[Filmcamera]

No problem, I will take some this evening, I was actually planning on experimenting on the positioning of the three LED's anyway.  Right now I have the two low beam ones at the bottom and the high beam at the top, I thinking I might try switching that around to see what gives me the best throw with the high beam active, as mentioned the bulb didn't come with any instructions so trial and error is the way to go.

[Filmcamera]

Agreed. 


However I mainly ride during the day so the bright lights are as much about being seen as seeing at night. I looked at Catz but at close to $300 as compared to less than $50 for the LED's driving lights and headlight I thought it was worth going the LED route to start with. 


I am in Costa Rica - a small fairly densely populated country (at least where I live), I do not have endless unlit roads with deers to worry about, thankfully.


Cheesconsin is over three times the size of CR with a  population of 5.75 million as compared to 4.8 million in CR.

[Filmcamera]

Some photos of the lights


Pic 1 just headlight


Pic 2 headlight on high beam


Pic 3 headlight plus driving lights.


I think I have the orientation of the LED wrong, switching on main beam seems to fill in underneath the light that was already there...


All photos taken at about 25 feet from the Suzuki.  Also think I need to point the driving lights a little higher...