Yeah, my cheap box doesn't allow for "subtle"...

I like yours!

 

Thanks! I like it better with the side bags
on, but needed to remove them to get the
Jeep to fit in to the garage. Once the front
touches the mirror I have just enough room
to close the door.

 

I fitted my new Fuel Diablo slip-on tonight, along with the set of already-cut pipes I bought from EBay.

What a ****-storm that turned into!

Rung both header bolts on the front cylinder trying to get the pipe off. Made several attempts to remove the seized bits by welding nuts onto the protruding treads with no joy whatsoever.

Finally had to drill the studs and remove the remaining bits of bolts by running a tap into the holes. A horrible job, especially if the tap breaks!

Once the holes were cleaned out I fitted two studs to the head with some stud-lock and used brass nuts to secure the front pipe once the rest of the cut system was in place. Then it was just a quick job to finally fit the Diablo along with the new hanger. That alteration now condemns both pillion pegs to the spares box.

And it was totally worth all the aggro!

The bikes sounds great with the baffle fitted.

It sounds like cannon-fire with the baffle removed!

I'll get a clip of it as soon as I find my camera.

 

Sounds like one hell of a time for that exhaust! Good on you!

 

First sunny day in a while and free time collide! So went out to go for a ride!


Bike will not start!

Hoping it is a dead battery from sitting to long and user error in leaving the USB charger connected!


Edit:

Dead battery. Whew! Charged it up and started on the first try!

 

Garage day. New brakes/fluid, chain/sprockets and bridgestone s21's.

 

Since I'm too lazy to go get my phone off the charger, I'll try and update this with a pic later.

As of now the bike is stripped of headlight/plastics/tank/front fender/radiator/carbs. I'm not doing anything today as I need to way for $ to order some parts.

Since some things are outside of my skillset, other people are doing things to my SV this weekend. Mostly fixing the dented tank and front fender along with a fresh coat of paint on them (tail pieces will follow shortly). New color is a purpleish blue. I'm excited to see how it turns out.

 

Since I don't have a high enough post count, I guess you will have to imagine a stripped blue 2001 SV650. Dangling wires EVERYWHERE!

 

Painted it. Tank sprung a leak from a bad repair previous owner did and after seeing inside with a camera I bought a super clean tank with no damage. Color was wrong so instead of painting it factory color I decided to paint the tank and the plastics a different color. It is still up at the shop curing, I will probably bring the parts home Monday or Tuesday and reassemble the bike, but here is a little teaser of the color I chose.

 

Shiny... what's the name of the color ?

 

It is Stealth Grey (paint code B9) that is exclusive to Ford Focus RS models. I think it will contrast nicely with the silver frame. Originally I had wanted to repaint the frame black and do pearl white body work, but the tank leaking forced me into painting sooner than I had wanted and decided to not do frame to save time with the riding season starting.

 

Nice can't wait to see pics of it back together.

 

385 miles.

 

Ready for the track with the weight savings by taking all of this off. Well, aside form needing to do the whole rebuild thing.



I also cut the chain off to replace it even though it looks like it is almost brand new.

 

Some tracks require chain guards

 

Friday took it for an oil change. The day before it starting behaving funny - jerking from starts - and Friday it became much worse. Chain was failing, so while it was there I also had a new chain installed. Nice shiny gold DID or RK (don't remember which) chain.

I admit, I have been a little lax with maintenance - it's been a busy few months, and I put a lot of miles on with a daily round trip commute of 80ish miles - so part of the failure is mine...

 

It hit 60ish today, so I took it out for the first (real) ride of the season. About 80 miles on our best local twisty farm roads, and along the shoreline (M-22) for a bit. Froze my a** off, though. The sun went away and the light breeze coming off the water/ice was frigid.

 

I swapped the complete wiring harness on my SV1000 on Sunday... not the most fun, around 4.5h total. Hopefully that fixes the gremlins I've been fighting for the past couple years.

 

Did a little open heart surgery today... About time for valve clearance. All still in spec at (almost) 30K miles. Actually even still on the tight side of the range ccasion14:

Thought about carb sync, but I don't really "feel" a need to do it. Darn laziness.

 

Did a little open heart surgery today... About time for valve clearance. All still in spec at (almost) 30K miles. Actually even still on the tight side of the range ccasion14:

You do realize that the valve clearances tend to tighten up with use...yes? The valve face and seat erode so they'll get tighter and tighter while the actual cam lobe and tappet face are so hard, and the oils so good, that they pretty much won't wear. For longest service interval setting the clearances to mid-wide is often a better idea.

 

I didn't know that. Learn something new
everyday!

 

Smh i have don't values,TPS, throttle body sync on my bike...45k miles ?

Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk

 

New info for me, too! And here I was thinking I was lucky... Might have to keep a closer eye on the numbers in the future!

Cheers Rob

 

Did my first fork rebuild today. While I was at it the lowers got bead blasted and repainted.

 

Gave it a proper cleaning:

 

I need to deep scrub/detail mine. Should have done that while I had it apart for the paint job. Got it all reassembled though.

The reason for the repaint. This started leaking.

 

Sand, prime, repeat. That was my day. Getting ready to paint my race bike. Wait until you see my color scheme.

 

Shopped for handlebars. I'm having a hard time finding a superbike bend with a 5 inch center section to go with the 2014 street triple clamps I'm using.

 

What forks are you running in those clamps?