Author Topic: What have you done with your bike today? (Read 323604 times)

Brockett · « **Reply #4361 on:** April 19, 2025, 20:17:40 »

Traded the V7Special for a new 660 Trident. I felt the need for a lighter bike to doodle around with and I still have the V7 Stone so all is good.

Rusty Nuts · « **Reply #4362 on:** April 19, 2025, 20:20:56 »

Brockett's revolving garage door strikes again!

2112 · « **Reply #4363 on:** April 20, 2025, 07:27:15 »

Those little Tridents pull like a train and go like a 660 has no right to ! Cracking bikes, I had one as a courtesy bike while the Tigger was getting serviced once and had a hoot riding it. It was a bit cramped for me @ 6'2" but good fun.

Brockett · « **Reply #4364 on:** April 20, 2025, 08:56:58 »

The first three hundred miles is rev limited to a top gear speed of 46.5mph and then stages until five hundred miles. I shall have to doodle about on minor roads for a while. Of course now that my grandson has gone home (

) the previous two weeks of dry sunshine will vanish as the forecast is for rain and easterly winds for a couple of weeks.

2112 · « **Reply #4365 on:** April 20, 2025, 11:12:28 »

Yes, always bad weather forecast when you've got a new bike to run in sadly...

2112 · « **Reply #4366 on:** April 20, 2025, 12:15:56 »

Today, I changed the oil on the Victory, again. This time the oil came out a lot cleaner, thinner and more 'oil like', if you know what I mean. No metallic particles that I could see and nothing on my new magnetic sump plug. Happy I'm now on clean, fresh oil for the summer. The change was much easier now I have a new bolt style sump plug rather than the sunken allen head type and the K&N oil filter with a nut on the end is an absolute godsend - why don't all oil filters come like that ?

Ianmc · « **Reply #4367 on:** April 20, 2025, 13:12:29 »

The oil filters with a nut welded onto the end are not a good thing to leave on for a long period as road salt can get in between the nut head and the filter body and rots away the filter casing,it can then weaken it enough to burst and leak oil.They were sold for years as “racing “ filters and not for prolonged use.

2112 · « **Reply #4368 on:** April 20, 2025, 13:19:32 »

The only chance of the Victory getting salt on the oil filter is if it falls off my chips ! Summer use only

Rixington43 · « **Reply #4369 on:** April 20, 2025, 14:24:10 »

I risked a small can of engine flush for my service yesterday.
Idled the bike up to full 3bar temperature and then pulled the plug.
The oil came out so thin it hit the bottom of the drain pan and lept back out again, all over my waiting forearm 🤣.
Not sure I'd use it every year but it's nice to have a good thorough reset on a second hand bike. Refill with fully synth and the gearbox is like butter again.

* Ooh chips, shake down to Matlock it is then..........

crump · « **Reply #4370 on:** April 20, 2025, 18:50:22 »

Took the 'big one' on a Fj club run from Bewdley ion some cracking roads around Worcestershire and a bit of Herefordshire.

Asmith61 · « **Reply #4371 on:** April 20, 2025, 20:38:46 »

Just got back from our week away down our caravan in Kent.
Some time on the bike and some quality family time also

I have to say the new front tyre has transformed this bike

gone has the weaving and it is now straight as as die

The cruise control works so well on this bike, just got to learn all the other stuff that is on the TFT screen

2112 · « **Reply #4372 on:** April 21, 2025, 09:43:59 »

Result

Sadly, modern bikes need at least one read of the instructions... I think I went through the Tigers about four times before I fully got to grips with everything.

Dark-Strom · « **Reply #4373 on:** April 21, 2025, 10:31:16 »

Instruction manuals...don't tend to do them. Sounds like I need to get the Mrs. more into bikes...

nigel s · « **Reply #4374 on:** April 21, 2025, 10:37:04 »

Weirdly I have just had both bikes manuals down in the garage to reset the clocks....how long ago was that.... now if I could only find the one for the car.....
I had a problem one time with my TV hard drive recorder when I accidentally changed the language to Swahili ..or summit....
Fecker of a job to get back......

Ho Hum

Brockett · « **Reply #4375 on:** April 21, 2025, 20:02:07 »

Reminds me of a time waiting in the directors office with a colleague. He got bored and levered off and switched the D with S and the L with K , keys from his PC. Knowing he was a Leeds supporter with little imagination so his password would include the word "Leeds. It took the IT department two days to sort it out. Oh how we laughed.

Steve T · « **Reply #4376 on:** April 23, 2025, 19:29:11 »

Filled an empty slot in the garage after selling the CRF250L after owning it for less than a month

. . .

Steve T

Asmith61 · « **Reply #4377 on:** April 23, 2025, 21:53:03 »

What didn’t you like about the CRF 250 Steve ?

Brockett · « **Reply #4378 on:** April 23, 2025, 22:54:17 »

I adjusted the 660's gear lever so it can be operated by a human foot. Then spent twenty minutes with the phone staring at thebikes manual PDF trying to puzzle out the kaleidescope, otherwise known as the 'display', to get it to show the trip meter. Then a 50 mile trip to see my sister via the back roads of north west Essex and Suffolk as I was subject to 47mph running in speeds. Some may call them unnamed roads but the were that bumpy that I gave then all names. At some point in the journey the Rev limiter eased and I was able to take speeds up to 55

So the return trip was a little faster. That's another 100 miles ticked off. The day was not as warm as it looked but not as cold as it could have been even though I felt like a frozen turnip when I got home. It didn't rain and I didn't throw it at the scenery. So it was good day.

nigel s · « **Reply #4379 on:** April 24, 2025, 06:04:51 »

Steve T,
Tease... no idea what the new bike IS ( If that is a pic of

... GS310 ??, just a stab in the dark ?? , not up on GSs) .....come on.. spill, what happened ? ....