What's a colony???!! Those need to be coated!Down pipes (I think you may call them headers in the colonies?) off and harpic applied
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From your favorite rebel!
TG
What you did to your Tenere today??!!
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From your favorite rebel!
TG
I have been trying to fabricate a toolbox box out of a 4" PVC pipe. First try is a fail as the end cap is to large and keeps it to tight to the bracket for the pannier. Will now try, try again...
Had aluminum sheet metal sheared at .75". Not susceptibility to cracking and easier to bend.
First bracket bent drilled and in place for a trial run. Didn't pan out. Need to drop the bracket a bit and go around the end cap.
To tight against the front pannier bolt.
Had aluminum sheet metal sheared at .75". Not susceptibility to cracking and easier to bend.
First bracket bent drilled and in place for a trial run. Didn't pan out. Need to drop the bracket a bit and go around the end cap.
To tight against the front pannier bolt.
Well, I think I about got this project whipped! More details on my thread "what TenereGUY has been up to". I will finish off the details tomorrow night. I was going to do some bracing but I may put several opposing heavy duty zip ties to quell side to side movements. It is pretty stiff right now. My first placement gave me 8.75" of clearance for suspension compression... but that’s to close. So I can move it up about an inch and that will also shorten that back bracket so it will be stiffer.
The best news of the night is that I was able to reuse the back bracket and put it on the front!
Moving it up an inch. Don't worry all bolts will be matching in the end product. I just had tose in my spare bolt can!
Slight rake back so tools don't push against the opening and fall out when I open it. Hopefully I won't need to!
Might just be in the way for a passenger... but I don't plan on having one on this trip. If my son and daughter in law come home I can remove it while they ride around.
The best news of the night is that I was able to reuse the back bracket and put it on the front!
Moving it up an inch. Don't worry all bolts will be matching in the end product. I just had tose in my spare bolt can!
Slight rake back so tools don't push against the opening and fall out when I open it. Hopefully I won't need to!
Might just be in the way for a passenger... but I don't plan on having one on this trip. If my son and daughter in law come home I can remove it while they ride around.
MattR
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Yep, toilet cleaner. But get the one in the black container , Harpic power plus
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Texas bugs are extra “juicy”
There's one, and I don't know which one, that when you hit it, it leaves a nickel to quarter sized yellow splat. And if you don't clean it off quickly, and it dries, it's hard as hell to get off.
Cycledude
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Only the inside left pad was worn much, it probably still had enough life left to make it to Alaska and back but I replaced it anyway.
The rear rotor was pretty hot after the 8 mile test ride, maybe the new pads made the brake fluid a little too full ? I opened the bleeder valve and removed 1 1/2 pumps and will probably be taking it for another test ride today.
MattR
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Did you wonder why only one pad wore?
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+1.
whisperquiet
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I spent three quality hours super cleaning and detailing my S10 after my return yesterday from a 5400 mile trip to Yellowstone, Glacier, Banff, and Jasper NPs. The bike was also treated to an oil/filter and final drive fluid change. The bike is ready to go again….I am not until I rest a few days.
Something like that comes down to how well the calliper moves when the brakes are applied. I changed my TDMs over to braided lines as the rubber lines add flexibility to the pressure and will release in the line before the calliper.
Those bikes would also wear a rear pad on one side before the other. Just by chance, I found and bought a set of pads that were too thick to go in together but when I used a thick one on the side that wore quicker, the pads wore down evenly.
RCinNC
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Way back before I made the square tool tube, I made one out of a 4" piece of ABS pipe. I would have had to contend with some clearance problems if I used the heavy thick end caps, so I made a door and a nose cap out of layered ABS sheet. It kept the tube fairly streamlined and out of the way (or at least as streamlined as a big bazooka strapped to the side of my bike could be).
RCinNC
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This was today's project: I installed my AS3 radiator hoses and did a coolant flush and fill.
I think thats when you wipe the crap off the instrument cluster to see the fuel gauge.
That's a pretty slick contraption! Like the emblem on it too.Way back before I made the square tool tube, I made one out of a 4" piece of ABS pipe. I would have had to contend with some clearance problems if I used the heavy thick end caps, so I made a door and a nose cap out of layered ABS sheet. It kept the tube fairly streamlined and out of the way (or at least as streamlined as a big bazooka strapped to the side of my bike could be).
RCinNC
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Thanks TenereGUY. The logo is actually painted on. I sprayed the tube white, made a masking tape stencil and attached it to the tube, and then sprayed the tube black.
And then I hid the whole thing with my pannier LOL.
And then I hid the whole thing with my pannier LOL.
Well, I got a Giant Loop Armadillo awhile back, and it's a quality piece of kit that I should never need to use. The Cactus Canteen was seriously tempting but I'd already had a "bulk water" solution of a Watercell X 10L bladder a handful of years ago. So I made a knockoff cactus canteen with the Watercell X as the bladder host.
I inflated it for the purposes of getting maximum dimensions.
And then I turned this pile
Into this rough draft in my lunch hour on Thursday.
And then tonight I took another half hour, after I got velcro
I wanted the ability to also have a quick filter kit but instead of having to make a pouch, I found a tiny dopp kit bag in my bin that fit the bill.
I just need to add two more things to complete it, but the plan is to run the sawyer pouch as a dirty water gravity filter into the clean water Watercell via a hydration tube. Alternatively, if I'm on the move, running the filter in-line from the Watercell via hydration tube and using the Watercell as a dirty water container. So a lot of flexibility in mind.
I inflated it for the purposes of getting maximum dimensions.
And then I turned this pile
Into this rough draft in my lunch hour on Thursday.
And then tonight I took another half hour, after I got velcro
I wanted the ability to also have a quick filter kit but instead of having to make a pouch, I found a tiny dopp kit bag in my bin that fit the bill.
I just need to add two more things to complete it, but the plan is to run the sawyer pouch as a dirty water gravity filter into the clean water Watercell via a hydration tube. Alternatively, if I'm on the move, running the filter in-line from the Watercell via hydration tube and using the Watercell as a dirty water container. So a lot of flexibility in mind.
PineLaneRider
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Mounted up a Mitas E07+ for the rear. I'm getting good at the tire change thing. My new high tech tire changing stand worked well. Also torqued the spokes. About half of them were under torqued. 
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That’s a nice looking tyre. I’ll have to check them out.
I see you're from Down Under... I just learned about MotoZ Tires from Down Under and love them.