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I put a couple of layers of polish on today.
Expected it to be shinier.

Maybe I'll put some more on tomorrow.

Got it!


But it was buried in there well, just behind the boot on the wiring to the left of the intake hole.


All back together and polished again

Nothing again !!!!

Stripped the lining out of my helmet and put it in the washing machine. It stank.

duke63 wrote:Stripped the lining out of my helmet and put it in the washing machine. It stank.

You should shower more

duke63 wrote:Stripped the lining out of my helmet and put it in the washing machine. It stank.

Sounds painful

Not today but I have to go into work tomorrow to pick up a file for a project we have won, so I will be going on the Dorsoduro

kingfixer wrote:Not today but I have to go into work tomorrow to pick up a file for a project we have won, so I will be going on the Dorsoduro

No reason why not mate. Stay safe and enjoy the ride

Had a F*** Sake moment.
As I walked past it in the garage, spotted something in the tread of the rear tyre and tried to move it on towards the bin, it's stuck in pretty tight and kinda mushy. Psssssssss Oh FFS it's a sticky string puncture repair, it's sealed again for now but I bloody hate those things, fine for a farmer's trailer, but not for a 170 mph bike.

Might have to get it to Doncaster Motorcycles to see if they can fit a mushroom plug.

Blade wrote:

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they are very nice but my OCD says they are upside down

Took the back wheel out and dropped it off at Doncaster Motorcycles, they are busy so I left it with them to see if it's possible to replace the sticky string puncture repair with a proper one, if not then it will have to be a new tyre.

I'm going to remove the eccentrics and make sure that they are clean and greased, might even grease the rear shock linkage while it's all apart, depends how bored I get.

Edit

I did some painting on the footer around the house rather than mess with the suspension, the tyre is repaired and all cleaned under there then put back together



Even cleaned behind the sprocket

Perkles wrote:

Blade wrote:

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they are very nice but my OCD says they are upside down

Don't follow Why?

Blade wrote:

Perkles wrote:

Blade wrote:

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they are very nice but my OCD says they are upside down

Don't follow Why?

look at your photo the writing is upside down

Blade wrote:

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Your indicators appear to be near my nipple height.. how are they so far away from your rear wheel?

Perkles wrote:

Blade wrote:

Perkles wrote: they are very nice but my OCD says they are upside down

Don't follow Why?

look at your photo the writing is upside down

That look smick Blade

But my OCD agrees with Perks, the Ducati symbol is upside down.

It's only upside from the front of the bike... it's the right way up from the back of the bike. It's quick enough that people will only be viewing it from behind anyway!

Cav wrote:It's only upside from the front of the bike... it's the right way up from the back of the bike. It's quick enough that people will only be viewing it from behind anyway!

the indicators need swapping to either side then its correct ,use your engineering skills young man

Nothing left to do the bikes now, other than fit the Optimate lead to the ST3 that arrived today.

On to cleaning the boots and leathers next.

Perkles wrote:

Blade wrote:

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they are very nice but my OCD says they are upside down

Mine does too, but I kinda like the "asymmetry" of stuff like that.
And you don't have a choice, which pretty much solves the problem.