What did you guys do on your bikes today?

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crowster69
1 year ago

Hi John.mine are brembo m4 and are 34mm pistons so the 11/16 Harley master wasn't quite up to it.To someone who hasn't had good brakes before they'd probably think my old brake setup was great.theres also something to be said about a brembo radial master too.even if your master size is matched to your calipers you'll find it's a big improvement allround.even the guys with new 1000 gsxrs are changing out to these as an upgrade .mine is an rcs 19 where as a 32mm caliper a rcs 17 is the recommended size.My calipers are off an older gsxrs 750/1000 where as the new brembos m50 are down to 30mm pistons.My mate with a new fxlrs has the new m50 calipers with the stock master.good braking but nothing like what I got now.hard to explain but the feel is on a different level

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John.R
1 year ago

Yeah that makes sense. I had an excel formula somewhere that did all the ratios and gave an indication of level feel once you plugged in the variables (pistons, MC size, etc).

I actually stuffed up a little on my blue FXR because I ran the standard 11/16th MC but while my calipers were 4 pot (x 2), they were differential bore size. Having a slightly smaller caliper piston size on 2 of the 4 pistons greatly changed the feel of my lever so its a touch stiff. Id like to try a 15mm or even 9/16th I reckon, but the whole setup is chrome so I havent gotten around to replacement haha.

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Neale
1 year ago

What did I do today? Ran over a beautiful 4’ long goanna on the putty road.
Bloody thing was sat in the middle of the road on the top of crested bend, saw me and ran back under my bike. All happened in a second. I’m gutted. Poor bastard.

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WideglidingNZ
1 year ago

least you stayed upright plenty of lizards around one won't be missed

obisteve
1 year ago

Quoting Neale on 27 Nov 2023 02:12 AM
What did I do today? Ran over a beautiful 4’ long goanna on the putty road.
Bloody thing was sat in the middle of the road on the top of crested bend, saw me and ran back under my bike. All happened in a second. I’m gutted. Poor bastard.

A pity, but you killed it so you eat it. Good tucker.

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John.R
1 year ago

Kept chipping away at this exhaust I'm making, lower than normal so it clears the cop bags that'll go on.

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Retroman
1 year ago

Just had a few hot days in WA, several near 39C. So the Springer CVO was almost up for it's annual 3 hole oil change in January and the hot weather brought the time forward.

I had scored 5 quarts of this Redline 20W60 "on clearance" for a good price from ebay quite some time back.
5 quarts for $99 delivered to Perth WA. I used to use Redline 20W50 in my 88" and 96" twincams but it got too dear.

Even tho' I have been using Penrite 10W60 for quite a few years now in mine and all my mates bikes.
Penrite is easier to locate in Perth WA as most every Supercheap outlet has it on the shelf.
Quick roadtest run around the suburb this evening to circulate the new oil, but of course today had a "cool change" to a max of 25C!
Longer run planned for Saturday so I will see if there's any difference in engine noise ( AKA racket FFsake !) then.

Primary got Penrite 75w85 gear/manual transmission oil and the gearbox got Redline Heavy Shockproof. (both as usual)

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Grease Monkey
1 year ago

All good oil 👍

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beaglebasher
1 year ago

Quoting Neale on 27 Nov 2023 02:12 AM
What did I do today? Ran over a beautiful 4’ long goanna on the putty road.
Bloody thing was sat in the middle of the road on the top of crested bend, saw me and ran back under my bike. All happened in a second. I’m gutted. Poor bastard.

Done the same thing mate. I was going a bit quick one day and spotted a water monitor too late to slow down.
I went to the right and so did he. I knew I had hit him and went back to check but he was fucked.
Sort of spoils your day.
PS : Whats the best way to cook em obi ?

tussuck
1 year ago

Quoting John.R on 27 Nov 2023 09:29 AM
Kept chipping away at this exhaust I'm making, lower than normal so it clears the cop bags that'll go on.

Expecting a new TIG tourch this week and a set of Furick cups to finally finish the Sporty custom exhaust.

obisteve
1 year ago

Quoting Neale on 27 Nov 2023 02:12 AM
What did I do today? Ran over a beautiful 4’ long goanna on the putty road.
Bloody thing was sat in the middle of the road on the top of crested bend, saw me and ran back under my bike. All happened in a second. I’m gutted. Poor bastard.

Quoting beaglebasher on 28 Nov 2023 08:30 AMedited: 28 Nov 2023 10:48 AM
Done the same thing mate. I was going a bit quick one day and spotted a water monitor too late to slow down.
I went to the right and so did he. I knew I had hit him and went back to check but he was fucked.
Sort of spoils your day.
PS : Whats the best way to cook em obi ?

That depends if you want to collect the rendered oil. Hang on, is this the oil thread?
My favourite way is to skin and gut the carcass, I take the head of too, then treat it like a coil of boerwurst on a grill mesh over a fire burned down to coals.
If you want to collect the oil, skin and gut the carcass, then fillet it and treat the fillets like baked fish, either on a rack in the baking pan to keep the fillets out of the oil, or regularly pour off the oil.
Either way, a grind of black pepper and a few sprigs of rosemary on the meat as it cooks works well.

beaglebasher
1 year ago

Sounds tasty ! I've never tasted one. We caught a big bastard in the desert in WA one time and we were planning on eating it but my mate didnt want to kill it and neither did I so we let it go.
I have always been curious to taste a snake but havent tried that either. We were out one day and ended up killing a brown snake so I stuck it in the compartment under the seat on the bike , planning to cook it later on that afternoon but we got on the piss and I forgot it was there until three days later .
The bike smelled of dead snake for fuckin ages.

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obisteve
1 year ago

With the continuing storms the grass is growing madly, gonna have to mow it, but not gonna take the battery out of the Sportster without it getting more use than my daughter riding it round the back yard for half an hour, it needs to stretch out its legs. So tomorrow.....
Remembered that after getting it back on the road last Christmas, I'd retarded the timing by a flyshit by the roadside after misidentifying a rattling speedo mount as preignition knock and piston slap and never put it back. Spent some time this afternoon with the old rituals.
Spark plugs out and resting attached to the leads on the head fins, timing plug out, check points gap on both lobes of the ignition cam, wheel it backwards and forwards in 2nd gear until the dot of the front cylinder full advance timing mark is centred in the inspection hole, open up the points cover, unscrew the condenser and rest on the case, fit the special tool that holds the centrifugal advance fully advanced, slightly loosen the 2 studs that hold the points backing plate, turn the shed radio on and tune between stations with the volume up, turn ignition key on, insert small screwdriver in the adjuster hole in the points backing plate and twist until the backing plate moves around and the points open with a pop from the radio. Nip down the 2 studs, check the timing mark is still centred in the inspection hole. Done, bolt it all back together.
A relaxing 45 minutes.
Also rediscovered how easy it is to move around such a light bike in the shed, and use the manual lift that my mate Bob made for me, no need to pull out the hydraulic one.
I'll head out tomorrow after sunrise with no plans past getting home by dark.

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Pedro123
1 year ago

If you get a rideon mower your daughter won't have to use the sporty.🤣🤣🤣

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Grease Monkey
1 year ago

Quoting obisteve on 30 Nov 2023 11:27 AMedited: 30 Nov 2023 11:30 AM
With the continuing storms the grass is growing madly, gonna have to mow it, but not gonna take the battery out of the Sportster without it getting more use than my daughter riding it round the back yard for half an hour, it needs to stretch out its legs. So tomorrow.....
Remembered that after getting it back on the road last Christmas, I'd retarded the timing by a flyshit by the roadside after misidentifying a rattling speedo mount as preignition knock and piston slap and never put it back. Spent some time this afternoon with the old rituals.
Spark plugs out and resting attached to the leads on the head fins, timing plug out, check points gap on both lobes of the ignition cam, wheel it backwards and forwards in 2nd gear until the dot of the front cylinder full advance timing mark is centred in the inspection hole, open up the points cover, unscrew the condenser and rest on the case, fit the special tool that holds the centrifugal advance fully advanced, slightly loosen the 2 studs that hold the points backing plate, turn the shed radio on and tune between stations with the volume up, turn ignition key on, insert small screwdriver in the adjuster hole in the points backing plate and twist until the backing plate moves around and the points open with a pop from the radio. Nip down the 2 studs, check the timing mark is still centred in the inspection hole. Done, bolt it all back together.
A relaxing 45 minutes.
Also rediscovered how easy it is to move around such a light bike in the shed, and use the manual lift that my mate Bob made for me, no need to pull out the hydraulic one.
I'll head out tomorrow after sunrise with no plans past getting home by dark.

You don't like timing lights?

T4
1 year ago

Hey Steve, do you happen to know up to what year can you retrofit points to a Sportster?
My oldest (going) one is a '95 1200.

Cheers, Will

obisteve
1 year ago

I know that they can be installed in a 98 model.
No way you gonna be able to fit them to a fuel injected model, so no later than 2006.
They probably took advantage of the major crankcase changes when Sporties when to rubbermounted engines to make provision for case mounted crank angle sensors, so I suspect but don't know for sure only up to 2003.
Have you had a look to see if this is mentioned in the Sportsterpedia?

obisteve
1 year ago

Quoting obisteve on 30 Nov 2023 11:27 AMedited: 30 Nov 2023 11:30 AM
With the continuing storms the grass is growing madly, gonna have to mow it, but not gonna take the battery out of the Sportster without it getting more use than my daughter riding it round the back yard for half an hour, it needs to stretch out its legs. So tomorrow.....
Remembered that after getting it back on the road last Christmas, I'd retarded the timing by a flyshit by the roadside after misidentifying a rattling speedo mount as preignition knock and piston slap and never put it back. Spent some time this afternoon with the old rituals.
Spark plugs out and resting attached to the leads on the head fins, timing plug out, check points gap on both lobes of the ignition cam, wheel it backwards and forwards in 2nd gear until the dot of the front cylinder full advance timing mark is centred in the inspection hole, open up the points cover, unscrew the condenser and rest on the case, fit the special tool that holds the centrifugal advance fully advanced, slightly loosen the 2 studs that hold the points backing plate, turn the shed radio on and tune between stations with the volume up, turn ignition key on, insert small screwdriver in the adjuster hole in the points backing plate and twist until the backing plate moves around and the points open with a pop from the radio. Nip down the 2 studs, check the timing mark is still centred in the inspection hole. Done, bolt it all back together.
A relaxing 45 minutes.
Also rediscovered how easy it is to move around such a light bike in the shed, and use the manual lift that my mate Bob made for me, no need to pull out the hydraulic one.
I'll head out tomorrow after sunrise with no plans past getting home by dark.

Quoting Grease Monkey on 01 Dec 2023 04:33 AM
You don't like timing lights?

Love them for timing Commandos where the timing mark is on the alternator rotor and there is quite a large inspection cap into the primary case to see it, , but I find it harder to do it through the oil sprayed perspex plug screwed into the crankcase on the Sportster.
I'm confident that statically timing it at full advance is accurate enough for this tired old motor, and it's a pretty easy job, once you get the feel for it.
I'm not running dirt drags any more and have to go 50 kms to the closest traffic light.
Mates who ran a roaring sporties racer reckoned they got another 1.5 hp out of another 5° of advance, but I found yesterday that it won't cope with stock timing when running on 91 regular. With only a 10 litre tank I often have to fill up where the choice is 91 or diesel.
Yesterday I discovered that the intake tube for the reserve position on the Golan fuel tap must be blocked, ran out at 130 kms as usual, but swapped to reserve for the last potential 50 kms, nope.
Got the last 5 km into Yarraman by laying it over on its side and slopping fuel over the tunnel. I'd get a kilometre or so each time. Managed to coast down the hill into Yarraman and roll it up to the pump.
Another benefit of having such a light bike.
So I filled up a lot yesterday, it ran OK on 98, E10, and a rare fill of 95 at Kumbia, but the last of the day was 91 and it was pinging. OK, it was a hot day and you could ride around the pinging but I will retard the timing a little bit.
Great day out yesterday, went up past Bjelke Petersen dam, to Boat mountain, got chased out of the vine scrub up there by ferocious fresh hatched mosquitos, out to the Coopers Gap wind farm, up and over the Bunya Mountains, watched a storm roll in from up there, then got pissed on by it on the run home. Only about 5 km of dirt left on the run from the Bunyas down to Maidenwell.
Did just on 400 kms.

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Grease Monkey
1 year ago

Haha, fair enough, good ride by the sound of it, I went for a short blat this morning, the weather here is not pleasant, windy as buggery, hot and humid like a sauna, cyclone weather feels like.

evo94
1 year ago

windy.com showing possible cyclone forming east of PNG & making its way to QLD coastline by late this week into early next...tracking down to SEQLD at this stage...

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What did you guys do on your bikes today?

What did you guys do on your bikes today?

crowster69

John.R

Neale

WideglidingNZ

obisteve

John.R

Retroman

Grease Monkey

beaglebasher

tussuck

obisteve

beaglebasher

obisteve

Pedro123

Grease Monkey

T4

obisteve

obisteve

Grease Monkey

evo94