Recent content by steve68steve

@Jlq1969 I noted your location is Argentina and was impressed by how well you speak English (mi Espanol es muy, mal, a pesar de tres anos de Espanol en escuela cuando era el chico) Then I saw your quote of my post was in Spanish. If this means that you and I are reading the forum in...

This is exactly the image that I referred to above. The .9- 1.1mm contact patch of "a" seems odd to me. Lapping will obviously increase the size of "a", but it's not immediately obvious why that would be a problem - so much so that it's only allowed a .2mm tolerance window. I was telling a...

Understood. And it's not hard to imagine that the price of rebuilding a head with competent labor would quickly exceed the price of buying a whole new assembly. In a for-profit shop environment, that's a no-brainer. But this thinking contributes to the disposability of ...everything. This...

Forgot to add: we work in a machine shop manufacturing environment, so we briefly talked about the rework path to meet all specs being to bore out the ID of the seat. This would remove material from the cone, bringing the part in spec. ...but, it would do so by reducing the wall thickness of...

Thanks for all the replies! The backstory on this is that I pulled the engine out for valve job #2 (around 50k miles), bought another bike, and let this one sit for 2 years. A buddy I trust has volunteered to rebuild the head. He texted one of the exhaust valves is leaking (fluid test) and...

Have an exhaust valve seat that won't clean up and has a small dimple in it. I can't see a seam around the seat and partsfish.com doesn't list a valve seat in the diagram for the head, suggesting it's just machined into the head itself. Can anyone confirm this? I'm concerned about how much...

Thanks for the feedback. I googled it and all the hits for used shocks for sale came up a lot higher than that. Not sure what I was seeing.

bump No interest at all? Make an offer - it's packed up in a box and ready to go.

bump Couple of Sargent seats for sale in the forum right now. Make me an offer.

Stock shock/ spring - $150 + shipping to CONUS, or delivery if you're within about 100 miles of 03835 This came off around 10k miles to be replaced by an aftermarket set-up back in 2015 or 2016. It's been in a box in my garage since. I kept this around to have a back up when/ if I sent my...

Sargent Seat $275 + shipping to CONUS, or pickup/ delivery if you're within 100 miles or so of 03835. I bought this brand new at the Sargent factory in FL. It has about 2k miles on it. It has a few light boot scuffs and tiny creases but otherwise perfect. Selling the bike, don't need the seat...

Mine, too. I have both.

It's fine that you don't trust it, but that's a different thing than thinking there's no difference to justify the higher price of the BMW. If you don't want to pay more for something, why don't you trade your ST in for a KLR? Because an ST has shaft drive, ABS, ride modes, cruise control...

I didn't mean to imply that there were the same, only that the actual apples to apples difference is often overlooked in favor of less expensive base model bikes. My ST's skid plate was $400+, crash bars $400+, suspension $1000+, luggage and racks $1000... $3,000 aftermarket on a $15,000 bike...

Well, I drank the Koolaid about a month ago. IMO: Super Tenere: Clutch engagement point more centered in range, friction zone larger, brakes better, first gear feels more linear, shifting seems smoother. Less stuff to go wrong. 1250 GSA: engine noticeably smoother with more hp and torque...