Author Topic: What have you done with your V-Strom today? (Read 1398117 times)

Joe Rocket · « **Reply #8800 on:** February 15, 2019, 21:58:27 »

The swingarm is upside down in the photo Graham62? If so it's the brake side with the paint/coating damage...... Logically the chain side would be better protected, n'est-ce pas?

Good work. I know all about swing arms now with missing grease seals, sheared accessory bolts and torque settings (the Kawasaki GPX).

TLPower · « **Reply #8801 on:** February 16, 2019, 06:14:25 »

Top work Graham, are you adding some reliability as well.

I used to think I did, The Nail always found something else.

Brockett · « **Reply #8802 on:** February 16, 2019, 09:34:14 »

Ooooh! Graham it's your Scottish McAnick skills

you are nearing hero status.

Nickb65 · « **Reply #8803 on:** February 16, 2019, 13:44:23 »

Replaced the front light bulb.

infidel · « **Reply #8804 on:** February 16, 2019, 14:19:46 »

Rode down to Haying Island to take a look at a GSXR750 SRAD.

mrp192 · « **Reply #8805 on:** February 16, 2019, 16:15:24 »

Washing my Glee for the second time this week. Went out to enjoy the Norfolk sunshine and dry roads yesterday and found the salt/molasses mix the council use meant the roads were still wet until after lunchtime. The whole bike was grey with salt.
It hasn’t rained for several days so it must grab the moisture out of the air overnight.
A cold water rinse, dry and a spray with FS365 later and hopefully the effects of the salt will be minimalised.

infidel · « **Reply #8806 on:** February 17, 2019, 10:04:59 »

Best of luck - my first salt exposure did both abs rings, the exup tubes, and a whole load of fasteners.

MartinW · « **Reply #8807 on:** February 17, 2019, 12:12:19 »

You are most of the way to having a Silver Frame there Graham - Good Work.

MartinW · « **Reply #8808 on:** February 17, 2019, 12:15:10 »

I went for a 70 mile trip up into Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire. Bibury is still heaving even at 10am on a damp Sunday in February, up to Burford, Witney, Kingston Bagpuize and home.

Embarrassingly I think 72.6 miles is my longest ride in 18 months

I found it hard to find Neutral when I got home, so I'm off to check the chain and clean the bike.

infidel · « **Reply #8809 on:** February 17, 2019, 12:32:23 »

I had a ride through hampshire back to london. Bike bloody filthy - just washed and acf'd. Noticed more corrosion on front suspension bolts. Wondered if these are warranty items?

Barbel Mick · « **Reply #8810 on:** February 17, 2019, 12:42:30 »

Quote from: MartinW on February 17, 2019, 12:15:10

I found it hard to find Neutral when I got home, so I'm off to check the chain and clean the bike.

When I was having trouble finding neutral a while back it required clutch cable adjustment.

MartinW · « **Reply #8811 on:** February 17, 2019, 12:55:42 »

Bugger

Fat Rat · « **Reply #8812 on:** February 17, 2019, 13:48:48 »

Go on Martin, you must have a 10mm spanner

MartinW · « **Reply #8813 on:** February 17, 2019, 14:21:00 »

I do.

I also have the mechanical aptitude of a Wooden Rhinoceros with Dutch Elm Disease.

Fat Rat · « **Reply #8814 on:** February 17, 2019, 14:34:51 »

graingerblaze · « **Reply #8815 on:** February 18, 2019, 00:42:42 »

Levitation

paulja · « **Reply #8816 on:** February 19, 2019, 09:12:14 »

Put on a pair of A41; Replaced end Can with Scorpion.

gg02355 · « **Reply #8817 on:** February 19, 2019, 14:54:15 »

Over the weekend I got a pair of Anakee 3’s and fitted a GIVI rear hugger. Then yesterday I thought I would break them in with a trip to Dunwich on the Suffolk Coast.

There is nothing like a grey, drizzly Monday jaunt to the seaside, with the SATNAV sending you down every muddy single-track Road in East Anglia.... all on new tyres

wurzel · « **Reply #8818 on:** February 19, 2019, 22:36:56 »

My truck busted in the middle of a large woodland we are working in, so the Strom had to haul in my climbing kit and two saws + fuel.
I set off on a sixty mile round trip a bit rattled at the change in transport, and the off road section was interesting on road tyres, but the bike got it done with aplomb,(that's not my fat uncle in case TLP asks...).
Lessons from me for the brave or naive:
If in doubt off road pin it.
If in doubt after responding to being in doubt you're f#cked.
But you did get further than if you had not taken my advice...

TLPower · « **Reply #8819 on:** February 20, 2019, 05:22:30 »

Did the tree fastened to the top box alter the handling at all?

Simon Le Bon seems to have let himself go...