What did you guys do on your bikes today?

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  • Benno
    Benno
    3 years ago
    Mocked up a repo rear guard for the shovel today.
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    3 years ago
    I know I said I was gonna do this a couple of months ago, but a lot of stuff got in the way.
    Pulled out the gearbox today, to fix what I thought was a dislodged shift shaft ball. Haven't been in here for about 7 years, but only had to check the old shop manual once. It remlinded me what a nice easy package the old 4 speed Sportsters are to work on.


  • WideglidingNZ
    WideglidingNZ
    3 years ago
    stuck the Sadleman seat on off the previous bike
  • Scouser
    Scouser
    3 years ago
    New air cleaner and put the Big Shots back on.
    Its pissing down in Adelaide and had no power all afternoon
    Yes it had a KnN before but round.
    Its going for a tune next week
  • WideglidingNZ
    WideglidingNZ
    3 years ago
    today I removed the reflectors from the front forks and rear guard. I also painted the rear guards bracket screws black
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    3 years ago
    Fuck all, on a island off mission beach getting smashed!
  • Grease Monkey
    Grease Monkey
    3 years ago
    Lovely spot for an ocean dip......
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    3 years ago
    Quoting Grease Monkey on 13 Nov 2022 05:39 AM

    Lovely spot for an ocean dip......

    Just back from the all inclusive bar…..shower and dinner next.
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    3 years ago
    Practice run for when you can afford The Island?
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    3 years ago
    Quoting obisteve on 13 Nov 2022 10:38 AM

    Practice run for when you can afford The Island?

    I think I partly own this one …….I wish
  • Baloffski
    Baloffski
    3 years ago
    Mission Beach. Oh what a lovely spot.. Moonlight nights were absolutely amazing. Beach walk to the right long walk to town but what a lovely spot.
  • Soapbox2627
    Soapbox2627
    3 years ago
    I walked past my bike today after spending 14 days on the Gold Coast, will give it a start tomorrow
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    3 years ago
    Quoting obisteve on 13 Nov 2022 10:38 AM

    Practice run for when you can afford The Island?

    Quoting paulybronco on 14 Nov 2022 12:41 AM

    I think I partly own this one …….I wish

    I know I'm a bit of a newcomer here, so this may have been asked before. PB, are you gonna be pissed off if we start calling you Lincoln 6?
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    3 years ago
    Quoting obisteve on 13 Nov 2022 10:38 AM

    Practice run for when you can afford The Island?

    Quoting paulybronco on 14 Nov 2022 12:41 AM

    I think I partly own this one …….I wish

    Quoting obisteve on 15 Nov 2022 09:05 AM

    I know I'm a bit of a newcomer here, so this may have been asked before. PB, are you gonna be pissed off if we start calling you Lincoln 6?

    Ha ha Steve very good 👍. 
  • Daffy
    Daffy
    3 years ago
    Ordered a Saddlemen Explorer seat for my 21 Heritage Classic. Had one on a previous bike and found it great. Having back issues.  Anybody got one?  I have a sundowner on there now. Might be looking to sell if this works out ok. Interested to hear opinions. Can’t find a negative opinion on YouTube. Cheers 
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    3 years ago
    Spent 5 hours of parts washing before reassembly on the Sportster. With it sitting for 4 years, over on the stand, the engine oil had largely drained into the sump, and quite a bit leaked through the crankcase seal into the primary case. Scrubbed out the gearbox and chain case with degreaser and thinners, the old sandcast cases came clean from the dirty engine oil. I didn't find any ugly remnants of creek sand or gravel in there from its 3 days underwater back in 2013 so my quick and dirty repeated flush outs, getting it running 3 days after we found it and pulled it out of the creek worked well.
    Flushed out the clutch, cleaning out the slippery remnants of the Penrite 50 that had drained there.
    Put it all back together. Had to spend 2 hours finding the battery hold down strap. Sloppy work I know, but I did move from Obi out to the old school 18 months ago. Pulled the battery out of the Husky, pulled the sparkplugs out and squirted some oil down the bores, spun it over for a few seconds. Oil returned from the sump, so added more to the tank, and cranked it over a few more times. OK, put fuel in the tank, gave the spark plugs a quick hit with a brass wire brush, checked the gap, put them back in, turned on the Golan fuel tap with its satisfying click, watched clean fuel fill up the in line filter, turned the key, pulled out the choke, hit the button. It spun over without firing for 5 seconds. Tried again, fired right up.
  • Daffy
    Daffy
    3 years ago
    Quoting Daffy on 15 Nov 2022 10:10 PM

    Ordered a Saddlemen Explorer seat for my 21 Heritage Classic. Had one on a previous bike and found it great. Having back issues.  Anybody got one?  I have a sundowner on there now. Might be looking to sell if this works out ok. Interested to hear opinions. Can’t find a negative opinion on YouTube. Cheers 

    No back rest. Price is way too high if this doesn’t work. Got the standard version from easyr for $795 delivered. I had a backrest on but I find it upsets my back. This seat gives lumbar support. I had one on my Vstar 1300 a few years ago and did a 1000k day. Course I was younger then it I’ll see how it goes. Cheers 
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    3 years ago
    The old Sporty fired up, the tappets rattled then pumped up, got as quiet as this tired old motor ever gets 160,000 kms since last major rebuild. Would rev up, but wouldn't idle, wouldn't run at all under 1/4 throttle. Now would have been a good time to have stripped the carb, solvent cleaned the body, run fine nylon line through the jets and blown clean, then pulled out the points, checked that the Vulcan Engineering centrifugal advance was moving smoothly, set the points gap and timed, but I got distracted by finding no pressure in the rear brakes. Master cylinder was empty, well no fluid but heaps of crud. Cleaned that out, pulled out the vacuum bleeder, filled cylinder with Penrite DOT 5, and got to work bleeding. 400ml of fluid later I admitted defeat, drove 100 kms and bought a replacement cartridge and got back into it. The old cartridge needed work with a copper hammer to drive it out, the bore in the master cylinder body was full of ugly gloop and white corrosion. It wasn't coming clean with a solvent soaked rag, so I grabbed my copper wire bore brush for a 12 gauge and that did the job nicely.
    Got the new cartridge in, it bled up in a few minutes.
    It still would have been a good idea to have cleaned the carb and the ignition system, but I was getting impatient so out the gate we went, burping, farting and cutting out at under 1/4 throttle.
    This is a little village in the sticks, so 500 m later I'm on open and interesting country roads. 1 km later I'm dead on the roadside, no fuel in the carb. As I watched, some slowly dribbled through the Golan tap and into the sintered brass ball fuel filter. I tapped the tap with a spanner, waited a few minutes and set off again. Repeated the process 2 km later. And again 2 km after that. I knew I'd soon be out of mobile coverage so turned for home. Stopped again, turned the tap to reserve, set off again. Next time it stopped, I took off the fuel cap to check how much fuel I actually had, and noticed that the fuel filter rapidly filled up with fuel. OK, blocked fuel cap vent. I set off again, loosening the fuel cap every km and it kept running, kept giving it full throttle, then snapping it shut, after doing this a dozen times it backfired heavily and started running OK at low throttle as whatever crud was blocking the low speed jets got sucked through by the increased manifold vacuum. I went back past home and put it on the highway, up to 120 kph running beautifully. Took a few kms to get used to the feel of it, been mostly riding the Victory bagger for the last 7 years. Ah yes, old Sportster vibration, the feel of chain drive with worn chain and sprockets.  It all came flooding back.... the riding position so familiar. Stopped for fuel, pulled into to a local park.
    Once there was a village here, with shops, community hall, condensed milk factory with its own railway stop. Now, just  paddocks, fuel stop and a war memorial. And a much loved old bike saying  I'm not dead yet!
    Call me a big wuss, but I almost got a tear in my eye.


  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    3 years ago
    At least you kept some of your old steeds....sadly i let some of mine go and certainly regret some choices i made back then. Been trying to find a decent CBX 1000 for many a year now ......anyone have a twin shock CBX they want to move on to a loving home?
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