A picture a day....biker banter (Vol 3)

[theshrew]

terry tibbs said:

today i have been mainly testing this, pity about the weather:





is it a 20 000 mile per year bike????

Nice I like them in black.

Where did you take that photo ?

[moanthebairns]

Good news, he's sent me the brake lever pin and split pin so that's one side sorted.

however, he sent me a 290 mm shifter rod, which is way too long.

I called up but he doesn't know what size should go with the 675.

does anyone have these, if so can they measure the shifter rod length on a 675.

I measured the rose joint to rose joint distance on standard as 240.

but I didn't account for these being adjustable so I don't know how much I will loose when I move these backwards, forwards or up and down. I assumed the manufacture of these would know. But they don't. fking lucky im a designer for a living. mind you it wouldn't have been the first time something hasn't fitted due to my measurements.

also without the shifter rod in place you are kinda guessing as to the position of the gear lever. you cant sit on it and go oh that's fine because its not held in place. fking pain in the arse this is.

resolved - im getting him to send up various length shifters so I can try them on then send back what I don't use or doesn't fit. Jesus wept it wasn't like this with the Chinese ones

Edited by moanthebairns on Tuesday 24th March 10:21

[terry tibbs]

theshrew said:

Nice I like them in black.

Where did you take that photo ?

a49 the layby just after marbury road about 3 miles or so north of whitchurch.

i had ridden it from bmw mcr

[bass gt3]

Daisy is getting a refresh seeing as the motor is out to fix 3rd gear.
Frame is off to be gusseted, trimmed of needles tags, media blasted and powder coated.
2 hours to get from a running bike to this.....

[Hooli]

Is that two hours from a built bike, or two hours from a ducati that's shaken 90% of the bolts out already for you?

[bass gt3]

Hooli said:

Is that two hours from a built bike, or two hours from a ducati that's shaken 90% of the bolts out already for you?

Ta boom tish!!!

[Mr OCD]

gwm said:

So no guarantee they'll fit properly then...?

Meanwhile, my Diamond (Chinese) ones arrived after a chasing phone call last week.

[bass gt3]

graphene said:

It's not the two hours that would worry me so much as how tidily and carefully I arranged the bits and the notes and photos I would need to be able to put it all back again. That would probably take me at least a week.

Piece of piss. It's a Ducati so it's always in some state of dismantlement!!
Spend long enough fixing her and you know every nut and bolt....
Might actually change the colour scheme as the frame is going black from the current red.

[sprinter1050]

For those of you not on Faceache..the bike got a polish after 1st couple of rides this year (& the Db killers put in-just to make sure it wasn't too quiet with 'em in )

[bass gt3]

graphene said:

bass gt3 said:

Piece of piss. It's a Ducati so it's always in some state of dismantlement!!
Spend long enough fixing her and you know every nut and bolt....
Might actually change the colour scheme as the frame is going black from the current red.

I fancy a matte black, powder-coated finish on a tubular frame. It would have to have some sparkly flecks in it, though. The enamelled oven tray look

Pic before deconstruction?

Probably going to be a gloss black frame. Thinking of new gloss CF bodywork and repaint the wheels Ducati gold. White number boards with red pinstripes. Time for a change!!
As she was...

[theshrew]

terry tibbs said:

theshrew said:

Nice I like them in black.

Where did you take that photo ?

a49 the layby just after marbury road about 3 miles or so north of whitchurch.

i had ridden it from bmw mcr

Thought I recognised that corner. Not a bad test ride to come from Manchester on it.

When do you place the order

[LiamB]

sprinter1050 said:

For those of you not on Faceache..the bike got a polish after 1st couple of rides this year (& the Db killers put in-just to make sure it wasn't too quiet with 'em in )

Really really like that, wasn't too keen when you first got it but the looks have really grown on me, bet it sounds amazing through those pipes too!

[evo8]

bass gt3 said:

Probably going to be a gloss black frame. Thinking of new gloss CF bodywork and repaint the wheels Ducati gold. White number boards with red pinstripes. Time for a change!!
As she was...

You have mail

[sprinter1050]

Cheers young Liam. I always liked the looks of it on this bike & the sound when starting up (without Db killers) was a bit epic. It sounds like thunder, maybe not quite like a high revving racebike with e.g. an Akra or Arrow but bloody glorious still

[bass gt3]

evo8 said:

You have mail

Back at ya!!

[evo8]

bass gt3 said:

Back at ya!!

And at you!!

[Baryonyx]

sprinter1050 said:

For those of you not on Faceache..the bike got a polish after 1st couple of rides this year (& the Db killers put in-just to make sure it wasn't too quiet with 'em in )

Newcastle Motorcycles (Honda dealer) have one of these in at the moment. I'm not sure if it's pre-owned or ex demo, but the back tyre is fairly scorched so it looks like someone has enjoyed it. I love the looks of these, funnily enough the only detail that really jars to my eye is the exhaust pipe.

[sprinter1050]

Standard one or mine ??

[Baryonyx]

The standard one, I prefer the side exit look of the CB650F's exhaust. Although they're both amazing looking bikes and I'd love either!

[Andy XRV]

sprinter1050 said:

For those of you not on Faceache..the bike got a polish after 1st couple of rides this year (& the Db killers put in-just to make sure it wasn't too quiet with 'em in )

It must something to do with maturing in life because I love those too.