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TECHNICAL MOTOBRICK WRENCHING In Remembrance of Inge K. => Project Classic Motobricks => Topic started by: daveson on March 28, 2019, 06:22:10 AM

Title: How to monster a brick, instead of cafe it.
Post by: daveson on March 28, 2019, 06:22:10 AM: IMG_9192.JPG (100.43 kB . 768x576 - viewed 783 times)

Remove the seat, remove the mudflap.
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Post by: Chaos on March 28, 2019, 11:02:27 AM: Awesome!
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Post by: The Mighty Gryphon on March 28, 2019, 11:25:01 AM: Your monster seat looks more comfortable than most of the clown shoe seats I've seen on the coffee bikes.
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Post by: daveson on March 29, 2019, 02:39:12 AM: One of the funny things about this bike is that it has a generic, clear plastic fuel filter. I've got a stack of bricks now, and I changed the filter on all of them except this one, to see for myself that the filter wouldn't break, despite the extra pressure of a fuel injection system. It was also installed externally, you can see it above the valve cover in the upper photo.
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Post by: Soggz on April 03, 2019, 12:34:37 PM: Seat looks ‘comfy’! Lol
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Post by: The Mighty Gryphon on April 03, 2019, 12:46:50 PM: Sooner or later that plastic filter will convert that bike into a rolling crematorium.
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Post by: daveson on April 03, 2019, 07:19:56 PM: Yep, I'll have to get to that. Sadly it might just end up as a parts bike, but for some reason it just feels way more fun than my blue one. It feels lower, even with a seat, than my blue one but it's not. The handle bar feels more forward but it's not, it is about two inches wider though, which makes a big difference to the feel.
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Post by: Soggz on April 04, 2019, 02:53:47 AM: Do it up as a street scrambler.
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Post by: daveson on April 04, 2019, 04:44:39 AM: I think black suits these bricks. Sometimes I think about mudguards with deep sides and a teardrop tank, I like the 40's type look. It's had a hard life with 175,000 km on a non working odo. The previous owner used it on his farm. It had a home made crash bar and cleanable air filter. The front indicators are identical to those on my previous v star 650, also the same as on virago.

I can't justify spending much time on this one as my main bike and cars need some work.
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Post by: Soggz on April 04, 2019, 05:58:30 AM: Shame not to just make it safe and ride it in the bad weather.
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Post by: Laitch on April 04, 2019, 09:06:28 AM: Quote from: daveson on April 04, 2019, 04:44:39 AM
It had a home made crash bar and cleanable air filter.
All K OEM airfilters are "cleanable" too.
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Post by: Soggz on April 04, 2019, 04:56:28 PM: http://corbin.com/bmw/8696gun.shtml One of these in black would look good on it...imho.
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Post by: daveson on April 04, 2019, 05:46:55 PM: Hi Soggz, I don't ride in bad weather.

I won't spend much on this bike. One of the lucky things about down under is that you can be fussy about the weather conditions and still ride every week. I don't ride in bad weather, predicted bad weather, if the road is wet, rarely in city traffic and rarely during peak kangaroo hours. I ride when the temperature is between 15 and 30 Celsius, first out of respect for the bike, but now to look after my body a bit better. There are plenty of deer up the bush but very rare on bitumen roads.

I spose down under from us (New Zealand) is better again, no kangas to worry about. I wonder if they have any wildlife that's a danger on the roads, I've often thought it would be a good place to tour by bike.
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Post by: Chaos on April 04, 2019, 06:35:22 PM: K roo bars! That's a market just waiting to happen!
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Post by: Soggz on April 04, 2019, 07:09:40 PM: Quote from: daveson on April 04, 2019, 05:46:55 PM
Hi Laitch, come on, you know what I mean.

Hi Soggz, I don't ride in bad weather.

I won't spend much on this bike. One of the lucky things about down under is that you can be fussy about the weather conditions and still ride every week. I don't ride in bad weather, predicted bad weather, if the road is wet, rarely in city traffic and rarely during peak kangaroo hours. I ride when the temperature is between 15 and 30 Celsius, first out of respect for the bike, but now to look after my body a bit better. There are plenty of deer up the bush but very rare on bitumen roads.

I spose down under from us (New Zealand) is better again, no kangas to worry about. I wonder if they have any wildlife that's a danger on the roads, I've often thought it would be a good place to tour by bike.
HA HA. I don’t ride in bad weather, either. I.e, most of the time... this is England, after all...
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Post by: daveson on April 05, 2019, 05:06:42 AM: Unlike my other bricks which have lines on the speedo at 5km/h increments, this one has it at 2km/h increments. Does anyone know why? Ex police?
(after a net search, it's original colour was police white)

Also, like my other bricks, it has extra lines at 50, 150, and 220km/h. Does anyone know why?
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Post by: Soggz on April 16, 2019, 03:41:14 AM: Quote from: daveson on April 05, 2019, 05:06:42 AM
Unlike my other bricks which have lines on the speedo at 5km/h increments, this one has it at 2km/h increments. Does anyone know why? Ex police?
(after a net search, it's original colour was police white)

Also, like my other bricks, it has extra lines at 50, 150, and 220km/h. Does anyone know why?
Does it go well? Ex police bikes had high lift cams fitted to them in the uk.
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Post by: daveson on April 16, 2019, 06:53:52 AM: Dunno, just seems normal, but I've never given it stick either. I've only taken it easy on minor roads.
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Post by: Soggz on April 16, 2019, 05:17:30 PM: Quote from: daveson on April 16, 2019, 06:53:52 AM
Dunno, just seems normal, but I've never given it stick either. I've only taken it easy on minor roads.
give it a handful and find out!
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Post by: Soggz on April 17, 2019, 01:54:49 AM: Just a thought... are the extra speedo lines, national speed limits, for it country of origin?
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Post by: daveson on April 18, 2019, 11:00:16 PM: Maybe, but it's hard to imagine which roads would have a speed limit of 220km/h. Also the lines are in slightly different positions to my other RT's
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Post by: Soggz on April 19, 2019, 01:39:35 AM: Quote from: daveson on April 18, 2019, 11:00:16 PM
Maybe, but it's hard to imagine which roads would have a speed limit of 220km/h. Also the lines are in slightly different positions to my other RT's
possibly the autobahn in Germany...
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Post by: daveson on April 19, 2019, 05:15:05 AM: possibly the autobahn in Germany...

Nah unlimited when bricks were made, prob now too.
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Post by: Soggz on April 20, 2019, 04:19:52 AM: Quote from: daveson on April 19, 2019, 05:15:05 AM
possibly the autobahn in Germany...

Nah unlimited when bricks were made, prob now too.
ok, just a thought.
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Post by: The Mighty Gryphon on April 20, 2019, 09:21:57 AM: I'm probably wrong, but I think those marks are the range of maximum speeds at red line in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th gear.
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Post by: daveson on April 20, 2019, 08:51:32 PM: You could be onto something there. When I look in the riders handbook, early models (don't have the later book, though my bike is) 220 is close to redline in fifth, 150 is close to redline in third, but 50 isn't close to anything on the graph.

I spose I'll put it back into the file of "Things I know I shouldn't wonder about but do"

I spose I'd have more replies if I made a separate thread on it, but then I'd have to take it back out of the file that I shouldn't even be looking at.
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Post by: daveson on April 21, 2019, 05:09:05 PM: Quote from: The Mighty Gryphon on April 20, 2019, 09:21:57 AM
I'm probably wrong, but I think those marks are the range of maximum speeds at red line in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th gear.

Continuing on from this idea, and the riders handbook, maybe third is the ideal gear between 50-150, fifth ideal between 150-220, and fourth used momentarily in between, for racing?

I've never raced and don't know if this is plausible.

Edit, OK I've just read a thread that they could be calibration marks. The speedo may be checked for accuracy at different frequencies to fall within the extra lines