When I tell my girlfriend I'm going for a ride and she asks "on which bike" I usually call back "on the big one" when I am refering to the S-10.
My FZ-1 is "the blue one" and my DR-650 is "the small one".
Just an FYI,
One of my OEM plastic winglet screws cross threaded forcing me to cut it loose and putting me in the market for replacement screws and nuts.
I bought these Factory Effex screws and well nuts...
I have a thread posted in Technical under "anyone run tubes" if you want to read more about what follows.
My front e07 suffered from a slow leak after only 3 months and less than 500 mi.
Turned out that when I set the bead some of the whiskers on the tire bent and got caught under the lip of...
At this point plucking the whiskers from under the rim did not get rid of the leak(s). The whiskers provided channels for visible amounts of dust and dirt to make its way under the rim. I had to clean the tires and underside of the lip of the rim pretty good to get a good seal. So far no...
I'll be a son of a bitch!!!
You know those little whiskers you see on a new tire? The Mitas-E07 has whiskers pretty damn close to the edge of the rim. Guess what happens when a string of adjacent whiskers get tucked under the edge of the rim during mounting? Bubbles.
I'll try to make time to...
I did use soap and water. How fast is fast corrosion. I mounted them on maybe 2 months ago. Also, does this mean the method for finding leaks (i.e., using soapy water) can actually cause leaks?
The leak is about 5 psi/day. I will give these a try, but with such a slow leak it may be futile.
How would I get trapped air? I have a slow leak. Lol.
I've never thrown a tube in a tubeless wheel. What do I need to do? I guess I don't need rim tape as there are no spokes to deal with. I'm not too worried about slippage because I won't be airing down the Tenere to below 20psi. Do I just pull out the valve?
I have not given up on locating the...
Finished installing new clutch basket, CCT, Barnett pressure plate, V Stream windshield, synced throttle bodies then took her out for a short test ride where a deer almost took me out. Boy would I have been upset. Lol
Update:
New CCT installed a while ago. While the tank was off and the clutch cover was off I updated to the 2014 basket. Delays in getting a bent clutch cover gasket made wrapping up the install take a lot longer than planned. Then I decided to up date the pressure plate with Barnett. I ordered...
Crap. I guess screw it and ride. I ordered the new CCT and installed it just as these posts about the new CCT making noise started coming out.
Yes, I ordered a manual CCT, but I'm just going to leave it as is until it starts making funny noises and then change it to the manual. If it never...