what have you done to your bike this winter?

[OUTLAWD]

does anyone make 120/180 knobbies...what do those crazy norwegians put on their R1 dirtbikes?

[Spooph]

I think they use regular road tires with ice screws in them... The CO climate is the most difficult to ride in all year round... Never quite know what you're gonna get...

[CYCLE_MONKEY]

Picked up from powder shop yesterday !

Ummmm, I hoped you masked off all the critical ID's and OD's on all those pieces, especially where you'll press in a bearing. Powder coating is a pretty thick coating, and would be a total bitch to try and get out of all the ID's prior to pressing bearings into them. And you couldn't just file it out or sandblast it without fucking up the machined surfaces.

Of note, a hard anodize (black) looks nice (though not quite as blingy as P/C), but will actually harden the surface of the aluminum, and might fade a little compared to P/C, but it still an extremely tough coating and strengthens the metal. Also, anodizing adds essentially zero thickness as opposed to P/C adding a lot so masking is not critical.

[CYCLE_MONKEY]

I had the fork seals redone (after 10 years and 53k miles), and the fluids flushed and replaced, and NOS springs put in. I flushed the F/R brake systems and refilled them. New plugs. Cleaned and re-oiled the K&N air filter. Fixed the SET valve error code by pulling the wire out of the connector. Flushed and refilled the cooling system. New taillight lens and red LED bulbs. New grips.

[Spooph]

Now that sounds like maintenance don't by a person who rides! "Forget all the customization... Just ride the damn bike!" - I like you're attitude Monkey!

[CYCLE_MONKEY]

Now that sounds like maintenance don't by a person who rides! "Forget all the customization... Just ride the damn bike!" - I like you're attitude Monkey!

Thanks man. This was all maintenance I should have done years ago, but, the damn thing just ran so well for so long, well, I neglected it. Plus, being up in ID for almost 2 years I didn't have any tools to do it or even a good place, so........ Now to get some new tires on it if I can scrape up the $$.....

Here's pics:

[OUTLAWD]

Well...just finish plugs, air filter, fuel filter, brake fluid flush, fork oil flush (waiting on new springs), mounted some take-offs, oil change, straightened the exhaust from when I got hit, replaced some blown bulbs with LEDs

still have to find the motivation to adjust the valves...

and I haven't touched the gixxer...

[Spooph]

MO beer! The past 1.5 weeks I've been putting in about 6 hours a day on the moto to get it ready for the parade... I've killed about 3 cases of beer.... (That's a lot for a skinny light-weight like me, mmmkay?!)

[TwistyRydr]

Rebuilt the bike FRAME up!

[usmcab35]

^^ nice that is always fun!