What have you done on your bike today?

Laava said:
Rebuilt the hub on my S4R this morning. I stripped it out last night, all came apart easily, and cleaned everything that was going back together, slid the new RHS bearing on the spindle, one times oil seal and then the LHS bearing(s). Then placed it in the bottom of the freezer. This morning, while I was having my morning coffees and doing my puzzles, I had the eccentric hub heating up to 110deg. When that was ready I took it out to the workshop, sat it on the open jaws of my woodworkers vice and grabbed the spindle from the freezer. Slid the LHS bearings using the spindle in, (they fell in) fitted the circlip, turned the hub over and inserted the spindle again to fit the RHS seal and bearing, used the old bearing to quickly push it home, inserted the circlip and final seal.
I had planned this to go smoothly by having everything clean and ready to go and from the time I grabbed the spindle out of the freezer, it took only about 30sec! Not like last time when it all went horribly wrong and I had to remove RHS bearing again…
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Yeah, that’s how I would’ve done it 👀 😁
 
Took the BM out for a shake down run, didn’t bother with all the panels, went to see if the local reservoirs were full.

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They are.
Note the funnel, just in case.
 
Did a TPS reset and then TB sync this morning on my S4R. Have been procrastinating about it for ages. It takes a wee bit of time as everything has to be exactly right for it to be accurate. It had been running horribly around town, stumbling and burping along. Have to head out and test ride this afternoon at some point…
 
And it is still stumbling and burping but has a better idle and starts better. I have closed the air bleed screws and will test ride again on sunday but not expecting a huge improvement. Starting to think it could be partially electrical…could be shit injectors I guess?
 
Laava said:
And it is still stumbling and burping but has a better idle and starts better. I have closed the air bleed screws and will test ride again on sunday but not expecting a huge improvement. Starting to think it could be partially electrical…could be shit injectors I guess?
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Shit fuel = shit injectors 🤔 but nit sure hiw much ethanol you have there
 
After endless dull, grey, days with several inches of rain; Today is the only dry sunny day on the forecast. Sod the farm work that can wait.

I decided to let my son pick a root and I'd tag along. He stopped for fuel and whilst I waited I turned my sat nav on it said road closed ahead 0.5 miles we went on until we saw the blue flashing lights, turned and took a detour. We eventually got bak on track and turned down a lovely little lane through Langton Long as we neared the bridge at the far end the road was flooded. We rode the first 100 yards of flood then turned and retreated as it was too deep and fast flowing. Then made our way back to the chip shop and home via Turnworth Hill. Another great adventure.

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Hugo Magnus said:
After endless dull, grey, days with several inches of rain; Today is the only dry sunny day on the forecast. Sod the farm work that can wait.

I decided to let my son pick a root and I'd tag along. He stopped for fuel and whilst I waited I turned my sat nav on it said road closed ahead 0.5 miles we went on until we saw the blue flashing lights, turned and took a detour. We eventually got bak on track and turned down a lovely little lane through Langton Long as we neared the bridge at the far end the road was flooded. We rode the first 100 yards of flood then turned and retreated as it was too deep and fast flowing. Then made our way back to the chip shop and home via Turnworth Hill. Another great adventure.

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Ya pics are sideways. Sort yaself out man!
 
More green laning today.
Marred somewhat by lack of preparation and skill. The bike needed attention as it wouldn't stay ticking over. The mapping which I was trialing failed due to both my lack of patience with Gamin Basecamp and their crap software. Then to top it off the first lane was more like a river so you couldn't see the underlying terrain. That's my excuse for having fallen off. I then got so hot and out of breath lifting the bike that my glasses steamed up and the bloody thing fell over onto its other side. No harm done but it reminded me that I'm not as young as I was.
 
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Hugo Magnus said:
Yes! but, you've obviously never attempted to use Garmin Base Camp
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Base camp can be a bit of an ass, if I'm working out a route to be shared among the group, where we'll have zumo's tomtoms and navigators el al, I'll use google maps for the route waypoints then convert to gpx then add to navigatorV and then share with the group.
 
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