Tank Slap - Motorcycle Forum

Kwacky wrote:Rode it in torrential rain only to get home to find contractors have dug up the pavement and severely limited the access to my house.

So I've had to make some noises but fortunately there's a crew of workers outside now sorting it out.

No notification at all. Muppets.

New street lights?

When they did ours they dug up our pavement and stopped me getting off the drive with a full car and trailer that was parked ready to go to france, morons.

I rode home in the rain too car drivers are so inconsiderate to bikers in the fecking rain.

No. It's something to do with the electric cabling. They need to do some work before Severn Trent carry on with upgrading the flood defences here. Not that we ever flood.

Got the front wheel balanced.

Balancing bike wheels is a piece of piss. They use the Abba wheel balancer and do it manually.

duke63 wrote:Got the front wheel balanced.

Balancing bike wheels is a piece of piss. They use the Abba wheel balancer and do it manually.

Yep I have a wheel balancer and can balance its just trial and error lol.

Godzilla wrote:Not exactly my bike, but fitted a tow bar and collected a motorcycle trailer.

Who's bike did you fit the tow bar too?

Godzilla wrote:

duke63 wrote:Got the front wheel balanced.

Balancing bike wheels is a piece of piss. They use the Abba wheel balancer and do it manually.

Yep I have a wheel balancer and can balance its just trial and error lol.

Do you have a bead breaker Jon ? If so how easy are they to use ?

I'm at work at the moment and its stopped raining now so when I get in at 11 I want to take her out for a little ride before going to gym!

dizzyw wrote:

Godzilla wrote:Not exactly my bike, but fitted a tow bar and collected a motorcycle trailer.

Who's bike did you fit the tow bar too?

Just a random one I saw in the street

Blade wrote:

Godzilla wrote:

duke63 wrote:Got the front wheel balanced.

Balancing bike wheels is a piece of piss. They use the Abba wheel balancer and do it manually.

Yep I have a wheel balancer and can balance its just trial and error lol.

Do you have a bead breaker Jon ? If so how easy are they to use ?

Breaking the bead is the easy part, Blade. Its getting the bead over the rim that's very difficult.

duke63 wrote:

Blade wrote:

Godzilla wrote: Yep I have a wheel balancer and can balance its just trial and error lol.

Do you have a bead breaker Jon ? If so how easy are they to use ?

Breaking the bead is the easy part, Blade. Its getting the bead over the rim that's very difficult.

Exactly Duke. No, Blade I dont. I made one, but it broke. Duke it helps if the tyre is warm

I bought a couple of tyre levers on ebay as they were so cheap, to try and remove the tyres from those new wheels.

But i got concerned about the pressure i was putting on the rim edge and gave up as i was not even close to getting the bead over the rim. I guess a but of heat and lube would help but i decided it wasn't worth the hassle. No doubt there is a knack to it but having the right equipment always make jobs so much easier.

Abba do a nice kit for much of the work and its not silly expensive if you are changing tyres a couple of times a year but it still doesn't solve the problem of getting the bead over the rim.

How about these hard nylon rim guards to clip over the rim so when you lever the bead over the rim, the alloy rim isn't damaged?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3-ALLOY-WHEEL ... 20e2bfa12f" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I got those too but its the pressure that was going through a small part of the rim that concerned me most.

Ah, high loading in a small area deforming the rim, the only way to fix that would be to either spread the load or reinforce the rim, the rim is a non-starter so how about wider tyre levers or a short piece of steel tube cut lengthways over the nylon protector?

All good ideas but i decided it wasn't worth the hassle in the end.

I would only end up marking or a damaging a rim which would cost a lot more than paying someone to change the tyres. I just wanted to see if i was able to do it. At most i would be changing one set of tyres per year.

Cleaned and polished it after removing what seemed like half a farmyards worth of shite !!

Changed the front brake pads and gave the callipers a damn good clean..

I've ordered some new brake pads. I might order some new brake lines as well and do the lot in one go.

Kwacky wrote:I've ordered some new brake pads. I might order some new brake lines as well and do the lot in one go.

Are they braided on the kwack as standard?

Rubber. Or rubber coated.