All of the posts from all of the projects are here.
(Originally posted 10-04-11) “Project has left the building” sounds much much better than it was, but still a milestone….. I rolled her out today……..out into the Irish spring weather, which was surprisingly dry and warm by the way. I realise I am jumping a little […]
GSF 600 N Bandit 1995 Overall Width: 745 mm (29.3 in) Overall Height: 1 100 mm (43.3 in.) Seat Height : 805 mm (31,7 in) Wheelbase: 1 430 mm (56,3 in) Ground Clearance: 125 mm (4.9 in) Dry […]
Most of the time I am happy enough with the sound of my stock Bandit exhaust, but I have realised that this is because most of the time I am not riding in the company of other bikes. A lot of those times when I […]
How can a single piece of plastic be this much work… I hadn’t realised right away but the back end of the gamma was a little short. The back mudguard which by the way does a lot more than just guard against mud was about […]
It’s all about the balance. In this case how balanced your carburettors are. Early on I realised my Bandit engine wasn’t running quite right, but I mistakenly believed it was caused by less easily or cheaply fixed issue’s than carb balance. My belief went back […]
How to adjust the oil flow from the 2 stroke oil pump on an Rgr125 Gamma was the subject of a thread lately on a site I have been known to frequent. I made an attempt at an answer for them and since writing that […]
Dear God…. I’ve just bought my first bike!!! There’s a good mix of feelings going on… face splittingly happy to worry about how this will all be paid for to vomit inducing excitement. Seriously, what is going on? It’s all the sunshine’s fault – there […]
While I was first looking to start the engine I discovered that there was no oil in the gearbox. It wasn’t a surprise to me at the time because I didn’t know if there had been oil in the gearbox when it was laid up […]
Fuel filters are absolutely essential with an old bike, or to be more accurate with an old tank… As I mentioned in the carb cleaning post, some muck was getting into the fuel. Most likely it was all rust from the inside of the tank […]
When it’s still attached to the bike of coarse.. You see I was stuck for a part, namely the tail light. I only had a small piece of the original and when I asked after a new one I was told that if one was […]