Is motorcycling allowed?

[Headshot]

Moto restoration update- I managed to find brake caliper seals and have replaced the rubber and fitted new pads.  Still some pesky engineering required on a broken off master cylinder mounting bolt. I started stripping the matt black off the tank to discover the bike had even been painted a kind of desert camo at some point. After an hour or two this is what the l/h side looked like - that original paint is almost completely resistant to paint stripper and looks pretty good. This got my hopes up but sadly the other side of the tank is a mess. It was obviously resprayed in original colours at some point but this was done with crappy paint which is coming off along with the black and camo stuff. Will have to do a full tank respray after all...

[Hairy]

So I pre-booked with DowntownSA (Should have gone to them from the start) to look at the brakes.

What they found in the brake master cylinder

 

What should have been in the master cylinder

 

Some #$^&#$^#$ did a Mc Guyver at some point, and I think it was the wrenches at the Dealer I bought the bike from when the $W%$ front brakes locked up. I asked him back then what he did, and he said "It is a trade secret" which I did not like back then, and I #%^#^ hate right now.

[sawystertrance]

Geez. Literally playing with your life. I would go and give them a proper ear-bashing.

[Hairy]

5 minutes ago, sawystertrance said:

Geez. Literally playing with your life. I would go and give them a proper ear-bashing.

The problem is that I can not prove they did this, or the previous owner....but we are still certainly be going to have words as they should have picked this up when the front brakes locked up before and they "fixed it"

[Hairy]

I went to see a new client and site in Noordhoek this morning, left with a slight drizzle that cleared up shortly afterwards with a nice ride via Ou Kaapse Weg and then back home via Chappies.

On the return loop I popped in at HD CT as they were having a Christmas in July event. What an awesome turnout, and a good bit of fun.

Decent live band, lots of food vendors, bike show and for the clubs they had "win a bike" competition. This revolved around the clubs having to do a ride in and then get as many of their members to take shots at the basketball hoop. They had a novel way of calculating the average accuracy for each club (So the smaller clubs stood a chance of winning) with the best shooting club winning a bike that they can raffle off at their next fund raiser. 

Final loop back home again, with about two hours of awesomeness on the bike.

Oh, and my front brakes are feeling lekker soos 'n kracker!

[Hairy]

[Steven Knoetze (sk27)]

18 hours ago, BaGearA said:

BMer 

 

Gs1200 /1250 

 

Worth it ? 

 

Might be buying a bike towards the start of next year but really want one of 'those' , the driveshaft over chain system is just really pleaseing to me 

 

99% to commute 

Have a friend who had a 1250 30th edition. Full house with every conceivable extra possible. Loved it.
Past tense as they stole it out of his garage 2 weeks ago.........

[Hairy]

On 7/31/2022 at 7:28 PM, BaGearA said:

BMer 

 

Gs1200 /1250 

 

Worth it ? 

 

Might be buying a bike towards the start of next year but really want one of 'those' , the driveshaft over chain system is just really pleaseing to me 

 

99% to commute 

I like how he sums it up at the 19min mark .... similar to what a friend had to say after riding his dads 1250 for a month or two.....but then again his bike is a Super Retard (No, I spelt that right )
 

 

[Spokey]

Righty Oh, been away from SA for ages with the bikes locked up hopefully not getting up to mischief while I am away. The tanks are full and the battery chargers plugged in. Anyways, a few pics of some of them as they are prepped for the winter of little to no riding. Much rain in my area and I have yet to pave my drive way. 

[Hairy]

Look, if you need help finding suitable storage for the Kawasaki .............. I "know a place", also known as my garage, AND I will even go above and beyond to take her out for rides so that she ready for when you return.

You just cover the tyres (Plural, as I am sure there will be some mileage done) and petrol money and we can call it even

[Spokey]

4 minutes ago, Hairy said:

Look, if you need help finding suitable storage for the Kawasaki .............. I "know a place", also known as my garage, AND I will even go above and beyond to take her out for rides so that she ready for when you return.

You just cover the tyres (Plural, as I am sure there will be some mileage done) and petrol money and we can call it even

Yahhhh, not much power as far as modern bikes go (128HP) but a lovely rich wave of torque and a silky smooth engine! Plenty fast enough for me. 

[Hairy]

Awesome pic of the BMW FB page

[Steven Knoetze (sk27)]

18 hours ago, Spokey said:

Righty Oh, been away from SA for ages with the bikes locked up hopefully not getting up to mischief while I am away. The tanks are full and the battery chargers plugged in. Anyways, a few pics of some of them as they are prepped for the winter of little to no riding. Much rain in my area and I have yet to pave my drive way. 

Had a guy recently ask about storage facilities for bikes on one of our 2T groups.
There is a place called "The Archive Automotive". Temp and humidity controlled storage. They even do maintenance and regular starting/riding of the bikes.
Something to look into for those fortunate enough to have these sorts of problems......

thearchive.co.za

I cannot vouch for them, simply passing on useful information, possibly.

 

[Hairy]

56 minutes ago, Steven Knoetze (sk27) said:

Had a guy recently ask about storage facilities for bikes on one of our 2T groups.
There is a place called "The Archive Automotive". Temp and humidity controlled storage. They even do maintenance and regular starting/riding of the bikes.
Something to look into for those fortunate enough to have these sorts of problems......

thearchive.co.za

I cannot vouch for them, simply passing on useful information, possibly.

 

I read this as "We will take your car out over the weekends, drive the wheels of her to make her purrr, and return it on a Monday for the monthly wash"

[BigDL]

loving this thread. Been reading from afar for a while. Turned 50 in June and passed my motorbike licence test this week. Been riding bikes on and off my whole life but never got around to getting a licence as in SA you could ride for a year or two on learners licences back in the day. Haven't owned a road legal bike in many years, but am looking to fix that currently, so busy comparing adventure style bikes. Really like the T700 World Raid, but also looking at the BMW GS and the Honda Africa Twin. Don't know enough about the benefits of each yet to make a really informed choice so would appreciate any advice from those in the know. 

[Steven Knoetze (sk27)]

8 minutes ago, BigDL said:

loving this thread. Been reading from afar for a while. Turned 50 in June and passed my motorbike licence test this week. Been riding bikes on and off my whole life but never got around to getting a licence as in SA you could ride for a year or two on learners licences back in the day. Haven't owned a road legal bike in many years, but am looking to fix that currently, so busy comparing adventure style bikes. Really like the T700 World Raid, but also looking at the BMW GS and the Honda Africa Twin. Don't know enough about the benefits of each yet to make a really informed choice so would appreciate any advice from those in the know. 

Depends on your needs but if you are looking at the T700 then also take a look at the Aprilia 660 Toureg.

My dream bike is an African Twin currently so that's where I would go without question, but I would be a 90/10 split between road/off-road.